Michael's Mission: Week 2 of the MTC

Well our flight got delayed another day so we will be leaving on Wednesday.. we are not happy at all about that.. We really wanted to leave... My ride leaves at 3:30am now which is basically the same time so no biggie there and our flight out of SLC leaves at 7:30... Anyway, so my past week has been kinda weird, crazy, weird, interesting, weird, and FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well where do I begin... just so you know, I myself have not changed in any way except for in the church and in how I am spiritually... so just imagine Michael from AZ in a MTC.. things have been SOOOO FUNNN!!!! (well I made it fun) So we found a short cut through a building that we use every morning since we always hit the snooze button at least 5 times in the morning.. The alarm is set for 6:15 but we usually roll out of bed at about 6:50-7. haha We suck at getting up on time.. So we use the short cut we found and we always make it to breakfast on time!! I cant say we make personal study every morning.. but it's the thought and effort that counts right? Well in true Michael manner we have tried photo bombing every picture and when asked to take pictures for other people, we take selfies with their camera cause that's just the thing to do. And recently we did a world class photo bomb... So we were in a devotional and it was all being recorded on cameras and such, in typical church fashion. A sister in front of us raised her hand to speak and say something so I immediately turned to Elder Jenson and Elder Reed (my companions) and was like 'alright guys when that tv turns on with the camera pointing at us, we need to make the best photo bomb faces ever...' Well guess what... we did such a good job that they removed that camera angle immediately as it went up! We all had the funniest faces and were being completely immature but I think it was a record that we got to photo bomb for 5 seconds since the last church photo bomb only lasted 4 seconds at General Conference! hahahaha We were dieing and I could totally see President Trost and his wife directly staring me down!!! We also had a salsa party! We have so much junk food in our dorms that we decided to bring it all out to the tables and invite the Sisters to come join us for a little party! Along with that we just left it all at the table for free game since we didn't want to bring it back in the room with us! Anyway.. on to a more serious note... So we have 4 sisters in our district, Sister Charlesworth, Sister Hatch, and my personal two favorites, Sister Hanks and Sister Young! They're so awesome! But, two days ago we gave Sister Hanks a blessing because she is struggling with something. So being the good guy I am, I wrote a little encouraging note to her about how she has taught me a lot and should stay strong and the Lord will bless her. Well I didn't know that it would leave such a huge impact... I wrote like a 10 line note and she in turn wrote me a 2 page thank you note! So that was nice, it built our relationship and we have become really good friends! Along with becoming really good friends... I talked about Lake Powell and invited them all to Lake Powell when we get back. Soooo, better start reserving a week for the RM's, because they made it clear that if I disappointed them there would be consequences.. haha I also challenged Sister Hanks to a rowing competition during gym time.. I beat her pretty bad.. haha But other than that we have been having a really good week! We taught our first investigator in TRC (that's just some fancy lettering for some fancy program that we go to). We really connected to him and did an amazing job teaching him! We really loved him and we saw so much growth in him! It's interesting to actually teach them, since we don't know if they're members or not, which really makes it a lot easier! Unlike in class, we suck at teaching because we know our teachers are just role playing, so we don't really care if we mess up haha! It also snowed today and hearing everyone say how much they wanted to go skiing reminded me of wakeboarding and how much I miss it... Oh well, in two years when Garrett gets back, as well, I'll get back out there and shred the water again.. I love you guys a lot! and miss you like crazy!