The Perfect Life

I can't believe it's already been another week.  People said time flies in the mtc but I didn't believe them until now.  All I do everyday is learn of Christ, eat, learn of Christ, play sports and have a blast with my district,  learn of Christ in spanish, eat, and learn of Christ again.  How could life get any better than that?


As an mtc, we seem to be really focusing on prayer.  It's really powerful when you start praying like you are God's servant, not praying like God is your servant.  Your prayers turn from "Please bless my companion" to "Please bless me to know how I can bless my companion."  Praying with faith and intent to act really helps you be a better person and more focus on how you can be more christlike.


Every morning there is cereal in the cafeteria, so every morning I eat either corn pops or fruit loops, because that's all they offer.  But I don't think they have real milk, they only have milk in boxes like it's apple juice.  It claims to be 100% leche, but I got skeptical when I got one that expired May of 2024.  But hey, I haven't been sick yet.  I just avoid the leftovers from the day before and I've been fine.  


The Spanish is going really well.  I've been working on understanding past tense and future tense, and I'm able to mostly talk in both now, it's just pretty slow with small vocabulary.  That's 4 tenses down and only like 12 more to go (like for real, Spanish has about 16 tenses). 


Yep that's about it.  God be with you.  Talk to y'all next week


Élder Blacker 


Pics of my district and a Lego man graveyard (They are actually giant towers right outside the mtc, but they look like big Lego hands coming out of the ground.  No idea what they are for.)




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