August 11th 2016 First Week at the Missionary Training Center

Hey everyone! Hope you are all doing good. My first week at the MTC has been awesome. My district is so awesome and I've made so many good friends. The days can sometimes be long, but I absolutely love it here. The spirit is so strong always and I have learned so much. 

I am excited to get to Kansas but I'm loving it here. The food is eh.. but they've got SODA, so all is well. I love teaching people about the gospel. We do TRC's which are when we teach investigators, some of them are real investigators and some are not real investigators, but they don't tell us who is who so it's a really cool experience. I love the people that I teach so much. 

Me and my best friend in the MTC Elder Crane pull a lot of pranks on people, last night we both got our flashlights and knocked on the new Elders rooms and told them we had to inspect their rooms, it was so funny because they took us dead serious hahaha, probably doesn't sound that funny but if you were there you would've laughed too. 

Neil A. Anderson came and talked to us on Tuesday, my district is in the choir so we got to be pretty close when he talked, also on Sunday Elder Holland's son came and talked to us about Joseph Smith and that was an amazing talk that really strengthened my testimony. 

I've seen a lot of friends from AFHS such as Elder Hughes, Elder Madsen, Elder Condie, and Elder Brimhall. So that's really fun. We play basketball for our exercise time and I love balling out against some nerdy elders. My district has some cool guys and some nerdy guys but I love them all, you'll probably be able to tell who is who from my pictures haha. 

One thing that has really stuck out to me this week is how much God loves us, I haven't felt his love more than this week, and it makes me want to share it with anyone I can so that they can feel that love. I LOVE YOU GUYS  AND MISS YOU ALL! Hope you guys are all doing good.

-Elder Christensen