Half Way Through the MTC

With one more week down, and half way through the MTC, Sam updates us on his progress:

"This week was good and it was really quick!

Sam is caught by surprise in a moment of reflection.

Yeah the language is getting better and the whole structure of spanish is making sense now! I finally got down NC PIG, Evan and Ray will know what that is! [Editor's note: I have no idea what he's talking about] It is basically the thing that helps you with the structure of any sentence in spanish! But it's still really tough, I don't think I have every studied so hard for anything!

3 weeks down 2 1/2 to go! It is crazy that next week will be my first month of my mission down! Only 23 more to go! Actually they gave me a card the first day that said I will be coming home March 7 2017. I don't know how accurate that actually is! I am so excited to go to the airport in 3 weeks and eat food there, sometimes the meals here are alright. And yes Ray the biscuits and gravy are good, but it is totally messing up my body haha! Last night I woke up at like 11:30 and I felt so crappy, I thought crap I'm gonna throw up. So I got off of the top bunk in the pitch black and almost killed my self and went into the bathroom and threw up so much, It was just coming out (tmi? [Editor's note: Yes]). Anyways I felt great after and I feel totally fine this morning, it was really weird but that is what this food is doing to me! Yesterday they served salmon with hotdogs, not the best combination!

Sam and his companion just relaxing next to their book buckets.

Ray and Boz probably know this but it pretty dang cold today and last wednesday, it snowed a little and so my jacket that I brought is really nice to have!

The first week with actual sacrament meeting was pretty crazy, they randomly called 3 missionaries to give talks in spanish, and I didn't get called up it was awesome, it's kind of scary though! I did have to teach priesthood though, luckily that is all in english!

We had a teacher come teach us a lesson one night and he went to Mendoza Argentina on his mission ( same as Zane) and he had the craziest accent. It sounded so Italian it was awesome, it was so crazy and we were told if you are going to Buenos Aires than you are going top have that Italian accent and so that will be really awesome.I am just so excited to get down there and speak castellano. I think that is how you spell it! They said I will be "Elder Mi(sh)ar" down there so that will be kind of weird.

"I love all you guys and I do know that God loves each of us so much, I was thinking this week how lucky we are to be a part of the only true church in the world! What are the chances that we were born into the church and have the knowledge of the truth! We are so lucky!"

Sam does his best Manu Ginobili impression.