Days seem like weeks and weeks seem like days.

27 September 2013

So this was my first full week at the MTC. And it's a pretty weird and special place to be. It's strange how the time flows, at the end of every day we have time to write in our journal. And it's a struggle to know what to write. The days seem so long it takes focus to remember all that’s happened in one day. Most nights someone in the room will bring up an event and even though it happened that morning it would seem like it happened three days ago. At the same time though, the week flies by. To think about Monday just seems like hours ago. You hear the expression a lot here "days seem like weeks and weeks seem like days" and I can't think of a better way to express it.

My roommates are awesome. There’s only four of us in a room meant for six so there's a lot of room. There's Quilter, Sawyer, and Bunker. We're all really relaxed people and we get along well. We make up stupid competitions in our free time, the most important of them is who can get on top of the bed. This involves starting from lying down on the bottom bunk and then holding yourself up and crawling onto the top from the bottom side. It's actually fairly hard because once you start you can't touch the bottom part of the bunk again. We also make it harder on ourselves by putting two mattresses on the top to get over or only being allowed three appendages. We also have currently a system for slowly removing some of our vocabulary. We have a list and every day we add five words to the list. if we ever use a word on that list in English at the end of the day we get a punishment. And the punishments add up. The first day I had 13, today so far I only have 4 so it seems to be working. The punishments are just some sort of physical exercise, 70 crunches, 25 push ups, 7 pull ups, 4 dips, or holding a plank for 1:30, any of those can count as one punishment.

Watanabe who was our pretend investigator is no longer Watanabe but Murray Sensei. We got two more investigators with the loss of Watanabe though, these two investigators we'll have until we leave the MTC so I expect that it will be much harder than Watanabe. I find my self really looking forward to Sundays. In the evening we have a chance to watch past talks given at the MTC and a couple of other movies. Last Sunday we watched a talk by Elder Bednar called "Character of Christ.” If you haven't seen/read it before I highly recommend it, he also does a really good cookie monster impression. The language is coming along awesome, I think I'm learning the grammar better than I ever have. 

I love you all very much and miss you,

Elder Davies