First Week at the MTC - Conquered!

"I am having a blast here and I feel like I am growing tremendously here both spiritually and with my understanding of portugues and I know that I'm where I am supposed to be. I'm doing my absolute best to follow all the rules and its rewarding."

Dallin is doing really well at the MTC. He has survived most of his first week there and already we can tell he has grown a lot. Dallin says they study Portuguese upwards of 12 hours a day and by the end of the day he is T-I-R-E-D! He has started playing volleyball and he says that he is actually turning out to be pretty good at it. Dallin got the bottom bunk (which is a good thing considering how tall he is) and he is getting along really well with his companion. He has expressed multiple times his excitement at being on a mission and the reassurance he feels daily that he is where he needs to be. Dallin loves his district (as everyone in it is waiting for their visas) and he says that when they work together they all excel in their studies.

So far so good!

He Survived

Dallin got to send an email out to the parents tonight to let them know 1. he is in the right place and 2. that he is okay and surviving. His new companion is Elder Gagon from Sandy, UT and Dallin says he is "pretty chill". He says life is good so far and that he will send a longer email on his P-Day (by then he will be moved in and functioning on more than 4 hours of sleep).

Another random tid-bit he mentioned in his email: Dallin will be known as ELDER Marx because even in Portugese it is "elder". Apparently they can't translate "elder" properly so they got lazy and so now he is "just rolling with the ingles version".

(Elder Marx sounds so good anyways!)

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First Day

Dallin officially reported into the Provo MTC today. We (the siblings and their spouses) dropped him off around 1pm. Although he was very tired from his early morning, plane flight, car rides, and the excitement of the day, he was very excited for this new experience. We fed him Cafe Rio, took pictures, and sent him on his way. He will be emailing the family either today or tomorrow on how he is doing, his mailing address, and any other tidbits he feels like sharing.