Georgia on my mind

(Justin is the one in the middle)  

Well, it's my last P-day in the MTC. It's gone super fast but I've enjoyed it for the most part.

Some stuff I forgot to mention last week. Dallin H. Oakes came for the Tuesday night devotional and gave an awesome talk about Preach My Gospel. I don't remember anything specific that he said because he mostly quoted out of the Book. But it was cool nonetheless.

I need to be better about keeping my journal because the days here all run together and you can't remember what happened on what days. Our Tuesday night Devotional was Elder Kearon of the presidency of the seventy came and spoke to us. His talk was super awesome, he shared his conversion story and spoke about how important missionary work is. I don't know if you guys can find the devotionals on lds.org but if you can I'd watch that one. Afterwards our district got to discuss it with our branch President. President Samuelin is absolutely amazing. He is super in tune with the spirit and always knows exactly what to say to the branch. I hope I can be that cool one day. 

I got sick this week. Not too terribly bad but I had an awful headache and cough when I woke up and so did 2 of the other Elders in my room. So we stayed in that morning and rested until the afternoon class. But other than that it's been great. I found out that I'm a beast at 4 square and I was kicking all the other Elders butts. So that was fun. On Wednesday we got to host the new Elders and it was really interesting to be on the non-crying end of dropping off missionaries. But I got to reassure their moms that they were in a great place.

I also got what is quite possibly the best package I have ever received in my life. Fun fact about the MTC: there is no caffeinated soda. It's sort of like BYU, except we CAN'T LEAVE TO GET IT. You can imagine my joy to find 2 cases of Dr. Pepper waiting for me. There was Taco Bell as well, but they threw that away because it would have gone bad by the time I could get to it. It's okay, I'll get some at the airport.

Pictures:

1. Provo Temple

2 and 3. Some District squad pics

4 and 5. Elder Driscoll from the other district. He got a hold of my tablet.

6. Familiar faces

7. A bad selfie to show off my super short haircut.

Also heres a picture of our district throwin back a few cold ones.