Hey there Everyone!
Hows everyone doing at home? We just got back from the temple for our last time here at the MTC. It was great as it always is. Our zone did a session together and all said our final goodbyes to the ones me might not see again before we leave. Oh yeah ha well i got my travel plans and im leaving this coming monday to chicago at like 4 in the mourning! im so super excited! We fly out of saltlake at 7:30 i believe and fly to minnesota. Then we have an hour layover and then we fly to Chicago. Crazy how time has flown by! Im going to miss going to the temple every week and i hope we will be able to go on our p-days out in the field!
So this past week was awesome and it was great! We had fast and testimony meeting on sunday and it was awesome to listen to everyone share thier testimonies in spanish/spanglish haha. It was good and me and my companion were going to go up but we ran our of time haha. On sunday night devotional we got a suprise....Chad Lewis came and spoke to us. He played for BYU and then was drafted to play in the NFL for the Eagles. He got up and the whole dovotional was like a pep talk to us to get us pumped for the field. It was so awesome! he searved a mission in China and he had to learn mandarin. When he got back from his mission the China embasy asked him to narrarate the Super Bowl in Mandrin. Ha he said when you learn a language for your mission you learn the gospel part of the language. He said he tried to learn football talk in the language but it just wasnt happening. He made us all laugh when he said he was on national tv and all he knew how to say was gospel talk during the superbowl. He said i was testifying that the quaterback would make this pass and testifying that the call was a good call. Haha we were all laughing so dang hard. He was a big guy and after the devotional we went out and i had him sign my white bible(Missionary Handbook) hah.
So this is my last couple days here at the MTC and im a little nervous to get out into the real world and be tested of how much spanish i know ha. I know the lord will help us and im excited to be in the real world preaching the truth to all sorts of people. We got a letter in the mail from our mission pres and he said because of the new missionary age we are going to be swamped with missonaries. And that it could be possible in our mission to be switched to just speak english! i heard this at first and im was like YES!!! but i hope know i dont get switched because i have been here for six weeks learning the language and dont want to have done all that for nothing. But i will go and do what the lord has planned for me!
Well next time i write all of you i will be in chicago and i dont know when my p-days are so i might not email for a week or jus until i get settled in. Well thanks everyone for all the help and for all the letters. I got in the mail a couple letters from the primary and tell the primary thanks and that they are all awesome! I miss you guys and cant wait to be our baptizing the world!!!!! love you all and please keep in touch!!! Until Next time....
Elder Banta
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