Gringo in Nashville

February 23, 2019

Woke up to a text on google hangouts at 7:00 am asking if I would send him a photo....this is so weird!! We can converse so much faster!!  I sent him the photo over text and he face timed around 9:00.

It was good to talk to him as usual.  He was doing laundry and getting ready to soak in his last p-day at the MTC.  

que tal todos!

this past week was my last full week in the MTC! so crazy! im so stoked to get out into the field! my mtc experience has been so good! ive learned so much, im so grateful for this awesome opportunity!! 

DOMINGO y LUNES 

sunday and monday were pretty uneventful, sunday we had choir practice. we sang "be still my soul" it is an awesome song especially when its sung by a choir! monday i cant remember anything significant that happened

MARTES

tuesday was awesome we had a TRC lesson with David, my spanish is coming along its so fun to communicate with people and teach! tuesday night was the TND before we have choir practice to sing in the devo. during the practice the go through all the camera shots of the choir they are going to do in the devo. During practice i looked up and saw a solo shot of myself hahahha so that meant they were gonna show my singing face during the devo!! i was so stressed lol but its chill. The devotional was so good!! the speaker was Elder Bangerter of the 70 he did awesome! Singing was so fun! i could tell when the camera switched to me with my peripheral vision hahahah i could see myself out of the corner of my eye haha 

MIERCOLES

wednesday is when all the newbies come in hahha i got to host that day! host is so much fun! so many new people came in that i know like sister iverson, sister kezos, and elder marshall. its always good to see familiar faces! :) en la noche we had a Skype TRC, we got to skype a sister that is a member and lives in mexico!! she was so nice and its was awesome to talk with her!!

JUEVES y VIERNES 

these days, like the rest of the week are kind of a blurr just studies and class we had our last TRC lesson on thursday! TRC has been such a good experience, its been so fun to do! the elders in our district have our special "sanctuary" room we go to for studies(small zone room on floor 5), when we study we listen to classical music at this point any music is a blessing hahaha i particularly love the song "Claire De Lune" while im studying shout out to Jake Anderson hahhaha ! 

overall: this week has gone by so fast, lots of packing and studies! Our zone has become better friends with each other! Im am so grateful for the MTC and the church of Jesus Christ. especially the Book of Mormon! I would highly recommend that all of you read it every day! its a great read hahaha. Im so excited to share what i know with the people of Nashville in spanish!! te amo y te extrano a todos! nos vemos!!

Peace out to the MTC jumping selfie

Drew and Elder Richins

Drew, David, and Elder Israelsen

ELDER TREVOR MARSHALL and Drew.  So great to see familiar faces.

Another familiar face from back home.  ELDER KALER IMLAY

Drew and Kaler

Its official...Drew's mission plaque.

Drew and Hermana Chupitaz (same teacher Jake had)

Drew and Hermano Bates

Missionaries in his district doing the infamous pose.

Hold up...I'll be right back.  I'm focusing on telling the people of Nashville about he Book of Mormon.

Elders in the zone wearing floral ties.

Elder Bowen and Drew

Wearing the same tie.

His obsession with Ice cream heath bars.

A friend snapped a pic of him singing in the choir on the big screen.  It was broadcasted to all the other MTC's throughout the world.  Singing in the choir was one of Drew's favorite things in the MTC.