I made it to the MTC

All I can say is WOW. The mtc is so awesome! Everyone here is super friendly! So i guess since ive only been here a day and a half ill start from the beginning. So lori and brad took me and their kids, steven, amber, and megan to olive garden. Ive never been there and i loved it! great breadsticks. (Ethan and Char that is where you will go when you go on your mission to continue the tradition that Courtney and i started!) So then they dropped me off and I cried a little! Then my host Elder mcceary ( i think) going to japan, he took me to get my nametags and they cut the pocket out on my suit. Then i got my room key and debit card and meal card. On your nametag is an orangeish dot and you keep that on your first day, so everyone knows you are new! "They all say Welcome to the MTC!!" I cant wait to welcome new missionaries in the coming weeks. So he took me to my dorm and i was the last one there. Which meant i got the last top bunk! Dropped all my stuff off and then went to my first class. My class is all the way on the 5th floor in the 18m building. Which means i will hopefully have raging calves by the time i leave. I had to do some gym rules and etiquitte and such on the computer then went into class to begin! WOW i was mind blown. I know from everyone that has served that they throw you right into SYL (speak your language). It all stared coming back to me. I met my copmanion Elder Hearne (silent e) He is from valencia CA. Hes a Great guy and has such a great spirit about him! There are 6 of us elders and 4 sister. ELder Turchard is from menifee ca and is going to Fort worth TX. Elder Hess is from sacramento area and going to seattle. Elder gordon is from Denton TX and is going to Anaheim. Elder Sandkamp is from Minnesota and is going to missiouri (He knows our cousin Steven from efy. Small world). MY teachers are Brother featherstone (the deaf guy i texted from back home, he has a cochlear but doenst always wear it) and sister Pendelton (like Camp Pendelton) They are very prepared to teach how to serve to lord.We went to a big meeting and met the Mission president here. Good stuff. We as district are so close and i am learning to love everyone!. It truly is like a large efy here except the part where you get to sit in classes basically all day, but i love it! THe food is for the masses. Ethan, it is kind of like as plentiful as provo efy was but as tasty as logan efy was. It is so weird for me being here and knowing absolutley nobody. Ive always been places where i know at least one person but here that is different! So there was a sister form menifee on the plane with me going to russia after the mtc. There are alot of Russina Missionarie. I learned how to say Elder in russian and am obeseed with how cool it is. That language would be intense to learn. So yesterday we learned how to pray in sign and i made a goal to be an excellent prayer person by next wednesday. So we meet our first investigator yesterday and we will teach her tomorrow! please pray for elder Hearne and I! Oh i forgot to mention that every building here looks the same basically. So the first night we were supposed to meet our Zone leaders, and elder Hearne and I got lost.... for like 20 minutes and we couldnt find our building. Then we came across Elder Truchard and Hess teaching this investigator from madagascar who was supposed to meet missionaries but they were not there yet so they taught her! Then we all got lost together and finally made it to the classromm but couldnt find anyone cause they left without us for the mtc tour. So we asked some peple who work there and they didnt know so they suggested we wait and see ift hey would return. So we did. Turns out the room we were supposed to be in was written on the white board. What a bunch of dinguses we were! But they werent even at that room because we were so late. Anyways this is so great and i know this is what im supposed to be doing despite how hard it is and not being able to sleep much because i am so mind blown!!! I love you all and wish you all luck this next week. May the force be with you all. (Oh yeah we all decided as a district 31d we would dress up as missionaries for halloween!)

With love,

Elder Stotts