WEEK NUMBERO DOS!

Hey family! How ya been? I've been pretty great here. Not much to complain about. Here's a quick overview of the week. Tuesday- P days are sooo busy. My goodness. We are always doing something. We had a nice devotional given by Elder Evans from the first quorum of the seventy (who also happens to be Parker's uncle). He did a really good job. Wednesday- Always a great day when you start off with morning volleyball. It's the best. I found out that our teacher, Brother Seitz, and Sister Rebentisch in my district had a class together over the summer, so that was funny. Thursday- Had a nice chat with an elder that's been here for about 7 weeks and he's gone bonkers. Mad. Mental. Whatever you want to call it. He's crazy.  Friday- Talked to Elder Sant from Elder Davis' district, he played lacrosse up in Colorado, near Denver. Convert of two years. He's really nice and super cool. Friday morning service at the Barbershop was fun. We learned that our "investigator" is really one of our teachers. He went to Russia, I really like him as well. Saturday- Can't go wrong with more beach volleyball. Oh yeah. I had a nice long interview with the zone leaders about sacrifice and just to see how I was doing. I really like them. They're such awesome Elders. That was the day of the storm, that was nuts. The rain was coming sideways and sometimes even up at our balcony. The next day it looked like a war zone, and according to our teachers all of Provo looked like that. We could hear the BYU cheers and announcements loud and clear. I started tuning them out becuase it was really distracting. Another funny thing on Saturday... Elder Jorgenson (been here about 6 weeks, going to Somara) was teaching a lesson and was trying to describe the Holy Ghost using a scripture. He wanted to use Helaman 5:30, but in Russian told the investigator to look up Helaman 6:30. Man it's classic. Soo worth a lookup. Sunday- Sundays are the best. Really. They're just so relaxing. I love em. A few interesting things from the day: Elder Hale's (from Elder Davis' district, man I wish I was with them) dad owns Hires Big H, so that's pretty sweet. I saw Elder Davis' dad driving around our domes. We were walking to sacrament meeting and he yelled at me to tell Zach hello. Geez. Please don't do that. Elder Davis was so glad that he didn't see them. There is an Elder here from the UK who is going to Boise. Ha.  A Sister in our district played the flute at the Sunday Night Devotional this week, she's going to be a pro... she's on scholarship at BYU for performing arts. You should all look up "Character of Christ" by Elder Bednar. It's a devotional that was given here at Christmas a few years ago, it's awesome. Best hour of screen time ever. Look it up and please send me a PDF of what he says... I want it :) Monday- I realized that I've got the greatest teachers ever. They're just so cool and I love em. A terrible terrible thing did happen last night though. As I'm sure you know, during gym time the Russians play volleyball. It's our thing. Well last week there were some Mexican Elders who wanted to play with us, so we reluctantly agreed. They were SOOO serious about it we were sad. We play becuase it's easy and we all get to crack jokes and laugh. They wanted to have teams of four, games to eleven and winner stays, loser leaves. We said no way so they all left really huffy and puffy like. So last night we showed up and they had a floodlight on the volleyball court (which is nice, it gets dark by our gym time) and we were so excited. But they had shown up THIRTY MINUTES EARLY to play volleyball and not let us join. So they left class all for forty-five minutes of competitive volleyball. What a joke. Well, I don't really have much more to say. Same old MTC grind. I'll have more interesting stories when I leave the bubble that is Provo. Love you all. Mutchers.

Andrew Gwilliam

Oh ps, the days are FLYING by now. It's sweet.