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1 month down, 23 to go

Hola everyone! Today marks one month of my mission completed. It's a little crazy how fast the time has gone by for me. Supposedly it goes even faster when we get out in the field. Only a week and a half until me, Elder Powers, and Elder Johansen leave for Monterrey. I'm excited to get out there and start finding people to teach! 

The MTC has been amazing! I love our teachers, I love the food, and I love my district. The director of the MTC Elder Castaneda comes into our classroom every day and has us recite the scriptures that he gave us to memorize the day before and then gives us new scriptures to memorize. He is an area 70 too. Our teachers and the MTC President (President Bennet) say that we are the only district he has ever done that with and he says we're his favorite. It's super awesome! 

Spanish gets easier and easier as the days go by. I had to give a talk last Sunday completely in Spanish so that was cool. I bore my testimony at the end without having to read anything from notes and I spoke my best Spanish when I was just speaking from the heart.

The spirit here is strong and can be felt everywhere. We had an awesome experience during TRC this week! We got to teach this Man named Isaac and his 12 year old son who's name was also Isaac. Our lesson was about how we can better receive revelation through the Book of Mormon and it went really well. Little Isaac said he couldn't wait to get on his Mission. 

We got to go to the temple today again which was great! It's super cool doing an endowment session in Spanish. We didn't get much of a P day though. We got back around 3 and P day ends at 5. Oh I am singing Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing in Spanish  next week on Tuesday during our devotional with the entire MTC. I'm pretty excited about it! Love you all! Keep on keeping on! 

Love 
Elder Hoyt 







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