MTC - Week 1

Hey Everybody! 

Sorry its been forever, we got here on p-day and they wouldn't let us email. This place is crazy!! I kinda just put off everyone telling me how hard it was going to be and that I wouldn't have a break and now I know what they mean! Haha! I miss all of you so much! But I'm not too homesick, I just try not to think about all you guys. Every time i get a package it makes my day, so thank you for all the notes and packages!

I have been studying Korean non-stop since I got here and we are all learning a ton of stuff! I can read Korean pretty good now, and say little phrases. I did not know that the MTC was going to be like this. The spirit is here all day but we have very few gospel classes! We spend around 10 hours each day sitting in this little classroom learning Korean. A teacher speaks no English and does his best to teach us for 6 hours and then we study on our own and with our companions for four hours! Then every day but Sunday we teach a fake investigator for 30 minutes only using Korean! It's a super humbling experience, and it's hard to not feel discouraged about the lessons. My companion is Elder Dickman and he is 6 foot 3 and does not play sports. He's pretty shy but actually knows Korean really good and the teacher wants him to fast track and leave to Korea. But, he told me he wants to get better at teaching! In our investigator lessons he doesn't speak so I either tell him what to say in Korean or ask him how to say something in Korean. Hahaha I bet the fake investigator thinks it's pretty funny. But, sometimes in those lessons, even with minumum knowledge of how to speak Korean, we can still teach with the spirit. It's way cool! 

I love my district we are already like brothers, and we play beach volleyball every morning and I think by week 9 I might be good enough to walk on somewhere. Haha maybe not. But everyone is so cool. We call my companion the Dickman Dictionary because everyone asks him how to say things in Korean and he always knows how to say it! Haha I actually really care about my companion and I want him to do good. 

But I'm kinda running out of time! So I love and miss you all, and I'm doing great! 

Elder Ellis