MTC Week 3 - Half Way Through the Training

Minha Querido Familia,

 

Picture of our Room and Elder Phipps, my companhiero who got his Visa, and has left for Brazil already.

 

I want videos for me to watch of Corbin on goofy meds when I get home from Brazil.  (Referring to Corbin's tonsil surgery today.)

I have plenty of food. Good job, those where the exact shorts and pants I wanted.  And I love the Wasabi Nuts.

Keep your eye out to see if they make a MoTab and Lindsey Stirling recording

I haven't heard any news about doing missionary work through facebook yet.
 

I found out that we have a couple rooms of international missionaries on our floor. Very cool, I like to practice my Portuguese with the Native Brazilians who live there. The are also Elders from Tonga, Chile, Mexico, Tahiti, Micronesia, Hong Kong and Tonga on our from. I got to help  an Elder from Belgium write a letter in English to his family.
 

I am doing pretty well, my sore throat is going away. Just studying hard.

Tell Corbin that I love him. And if you could remind him to download the Free Xbox game for this month to my account that would be cool.

Tell Weston that I love him too, I hope he has fun with my computer.

Arden knows I love her.

Amor,

Elder Gibb.

Second Week at the MTC

I am doing very well; the indigestion from the cafeteria food has seems to have subsided. I did start getting sick on Thursday night; I got a blessing from Elder Phipps on Saturday and started to feel better the next morning. My ears were still plugged up yesterday so I went to the Doctor and he gave me some antibiotics from my ear infection. I am doing pretty well now.  (Oops....Mom is feeling very guilty about that, she had untreated strep when Nolan left.)

Elder Phipps got his Visa last Friday and left last night for Sao Paulo.  Elder Phipps entered the MTC same day as I did.  I am now companions with my other two roommates, Elder Foster and Elder Blalock.

Elder Blackners' class is right down the hall from mine, he is in the same class with an Elder from my BYU ward.

Music is working just fine. If you guys would find a recording of The MoTab Choir with Lindsey Stirling (Violin), that would be top notch.

Care package is great just what I needed. The days are starting to melt together when we are this busy, at least I am not bored.

Oh, if you find an Elder Lowe in the Seattle Mission. I know him from BYU summer. 

I might not be able to send pictures this week.

Love, Elder Nolan Gibb

My First P-Day

Dear Family,

My P-day is Tuesday. I'll usually email about this time, (12:45 MDT)

If you guys could send some snacks in the mail, that would be pretty cool, the Brazilian district has dinner at 4 so I am hungry again by 9. (Almonds)  (Mom’s note: he finally sent the snail mail address.  It is on the right side of the blog.)

Good news, my BYU Signature card works on the vending machines (hint hint)  (mom’s note:  I got the hint and added $ to his account.)

First week at the MTC has been pretty cool.  I recognized a bunch of people from my BYU ward.

The first few days of the MTC had a lot of information but after Monday it has started to mellow down and we are getting used to things.

The food in the cafeteria is decent; I am allowed to eat as much as I want. The food does kind-of do weird things to your stomach, but I think I am getting used to it.

We had started learning Portuguese on the first day. We have been teaching a fake investigator. Our first lesson was on the second full day of being in the MTC. We had to teach the full lesson 30 minute in Portuguese. We have had two more lessons with the Fake Investigator since then, they went much better then the first lesson.

Portuguese has been coming along pretty well.  We have learned to pray and bear testimony and some other talking stuff. I think Portuguese is easier then Spanish. It is a lot like Spanish, some of the letters are pronounced differently and words are slightly different but all of the conjunctions are the same.

My companion is Elder Phipps, he is from Kansas. He cool person and very nice. He sleep-walks. We have some very funny stories about him. 

My roommates are pretty neat. 

I didn't take any pictures, haven't had a lot of time to.

Love, Elder Nolan Gibb