Second Letter from Cody- July 13, 2011.

I cant believe i am almost out of the the MTC!!!!!!!!!!!!! after the first week time goes by so fast here!!!!! my distrcit got our travel itinery this week and we are scheduled to leave the MTC monday morning at 5 for the SLC airport and then im off to texas!!!!!!! i am so stoked to get to texas but im also kinda sad about leaving the MTC cause i have become so close with my district, they are all so great and we have become good friends!!!!! we are all still trying to learn to love my companion but i only have five more days with him. Also i probably have like 100 mosquito bites on me right now!!! i did not know that utah has so many mosquitoes but its really annoying cause mosquitoes love me so i hope there arent that many in texas!!!!  the sunday before you leave the mtc your district gets to sing a hymn in front of everyone at sacrament meeting and my district is going to sing "come thou fount" which i am so stoked for. we have been practicing and it sounds so good.  The wife of our branch president told our district that we are all wimpy singers but we are going to BLOW HER MIND on sunday, im stoked!!!!!!!!!! we have gym everyday which i love so much cause we get to go outside and play on the fields by the provo temple, we havent gotten a chance to go in the provo temple on our p-days cause the temple is closed for cleaning so i wont get to do temple work until i get to dallas. i play sand volleyball and i have gotten so good at it!!!!! we all get so hyper while we play and we do the funniest things and we all just laugh the whole time. my district thinks im the funniest kid and they all call me elder popular haha cause i get so much mail!!!!!!! I see mark and thomas and other friends from byu a lot which is so great!!!!!! i love class here and i learn so much, my teachers are so great and im gonna miss them a lot!!!! they love me cause i am always so enthusiastic and positive about everything!!!!!!! one of my teachers is a convert and we have almost exactly the same conversion stories. we have to prepare a 5 minute talk every week for sacrament meeting and then they randomly call two people up from our branch to give the talks, i havent been called up yet, but i definitely have been preparing the talks. i get to leave the mtc today cause my companion hurt his shoulder so he needs to go and see a specialist so itll be interesting going to the outside world wearing a black name tag and being a missionary, maybe i'll get to teach some people!!!!! at the mtc we get "investigators" which are just people that volunteer and pretend that they are interested in the church. two of my investigators have commited to getting baptized which is good!!!! Our devotional last night was about Jesus Christ and the atonement and they showed videos of everything that he went through. it just made me love him even more and made me even more grateful for everything that He did for me.  It also made me realize that i am an actual representative of Jesus and that I wear his name!!!! i am so blessed to be on a mission right now and i know that its going to be great once i get to texas!!!!!!!! they keep us really busy at the mtc which is nice, we are always moving around all day!!!!! and i learn a bunch of new things everyday. this week we are learning about teaching the word of wisdom and the law of chastity to people which are kinda awkward subjects but if you teach with the words of the spirit then it isnt awkward at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss everyone and i hope you all are doing well and enjoying your summer, it is so hot here but i know its even hotter in dallas. my time on the computer is running out and the red thing is flashing!!!!! ill get more time on the computer once im out in texas!!!!! this will be my last email from the mtc!!!!!!!!!! TEXAS HERE I COME!!!!!!! FIND TEACH BAPTIZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!