MTC 1st week

This is my awesome companion, Elder Steeples. We really got along together and had a lot in common.

There is so much amazingly beautiful artwork in the MTC. I had to share these pictures with everyone. 

Elders and Sister missionaries walking to a fireside.

Mitchell in front of the flags representing the countries where governments allow the Church to operate at the MTC. 

Joe up on the stand.

Me and childhood friend Joe Stepan! He's one week a head of me..off to Honduras! Good luck Joe.

Our first correspondence from Mitchell in the MTC:

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Hi! I'm here! My P day is on Thursday but since I just got here it will not be tomorrow so I'll be able to talk to you in 8 days, love you all!
- Elder Nehorai


Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 5:45 am he wrote:
Hi! This isn't going to be the email that I send, I have to go to the temple until about 10:30 but then more stuff so I won't be able to call until about 3:30-4, yes please order the pants, Van Heusen 38x30, the socks and deodorant came, thank you. Have Matthew download Google hangouts and send me his information so I can call him when he gets back from school. I think that's it for the information side. I'm having an amazing time here and I love it. I'll tell you more about it when I call, until then, Byeee
-Elder Nehorai

Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 12:14 pm

Hello all! This has been my first week at the MTC (I got here on Wednesday, August 21st) and this is my first P day. I have been learning so much about this gospel and making so many friends along the way. My companion's name is Elder Teeples and he is an amazing missionary, he is from Cash Valley Utah and is going to serve in the Ventura California Mission. We also have quite a bit in common, we both like the trades and our personalities are pretty similar. Even though he's younger than me, he's gone to college at BYUI and studied construction management. He was homeschooled and graduated early. For those of you who don't know or frankly forgot ha, I am going to be serving in the Layton Utah mission about an hour and a half north from here. The first day here we went to a workshop and taught, or gave comfort to, a random person who could be a member, non-member, or inactive. It was a really good and interesting experience, especially since it was our first day and we're already teaching people about Jesus.
            The cafeteria is crazy! There are so many people, and everyone has a different assigned time to come in increments of usually 15 minutes. It's all you can eat and there are a lot of options. BUT I have been controlling myself, it's a miracle. Unlike the people who eat 6 sausage dogs for breakfast with 3 glasses of chocolate milk.  I am amazed and sickened at the same time hahaha.
            Our district is quite special, in a very good way, we're all very spiritual and have a lot of respect but we also know how to have fun, I love them all, every single one. There are 8 sisters and 6 Elders in our district, which is very unusual because Joe's district (for those who don't know Joe, he is the stake president's second son and we went to preschool together) has 2 sisters and 12 Elders, and his whole branch has 6 sisters. A branch is about as big as 5 districts. You could say they keep the Elders in shape!
          I have been able to play the piano a lot while I've been here and my companion luckily puts up with me when I say I want to go and play piano during our white space (basically free time we have between activities, it ranges from 5-75 minutes sometimes), I have been learning new songs and since I've been playing a lot. I'm learning them very quickly, or it's the spirit, I'm going to say it's the spirit. I've gotten the opportunity to anoint and give a blessing to people. It was a very spiritual experience and I'm glad I'm learning how to in the MTC instead of in the mission field. Elder Teeples was called as the district leader which is cool because I get to experience it as well because I'm with him almost all the time except his meetings. It's been pretty hot here but not too bad because it's really dry which helps. It's gotten up to 99 and has stayed around 93 all week.
          I got the opportunity to be in the choir which was such an amazing experience. We not only sing but he tells us a very, very in-depth lesson about the song we are singing. We sang Hope Of Israel, and the lesson he gave was on the history of Joseph basically and I can't say anything else than the fact that it was great. I sang Tenor 1 because I have a high voice and think it's awesome! Not so much my companion and the people I convinced to do it hahaha! If I can give any advice to you at home, it is to follow promptings. It will bless your life and nothing bad will ever come from following the promptings of the spirit.
              On Tuesday we had a devotional, that's when we sang, and Bishop Causse and his wife were the speakers. It was a very good talk about being a bold missionary and how to be a good missionary in general. After he played a piano solo it was Come Come Ye Saints. It was in a minor key and pretty amazing, I went up to him and his wife after it was over (even though you're not supposed
too, oops) and shook his and his wife's hand, and got the composer of the piece! So hopefully I can get a copy.
                   The last thing that I want to say is that I got to go to the temple today and it is just awesome experiencing different temples, and all of them are super spiritual and beautiful. That's basically how my past 8 days have been.  If you have anyone that wants to be on this email list just let me know or if someone doesn't want too also let me know. I hope that you all have a great next week and can't wait to email you all again!

-Elder Nehorai