I hope you all had a Merry Christmas. We definitely had a very interesting one here at the MTC. We got to hear from Elder Bednar which was super awesome. What they ended up doing in the devotional was they passed out a bunch of phones to the elders and sisters in the audience so that they could text questions to Elder Bednar. So we basically spent an hour and half having Elder Bednar answer our questions. It was awesome. I heard that Jared got his call to West Virginia! That is so awesome. Ill be long gone before he gets here but i'm excited for him to be able to experience the MTC. I think the countdown is at 17 days left for me. I leave the MTC at about 2 am on January 13. So i'm just counting down the days until then. I heard Sam is having a good time in her first area too. That's awesome for the people of Colorado. For the past week I've been on the "Korean" diet. I've been eating mainly rice for every meal. And sometimes an elder from my district gets Kim-chi so i get to eat that too. Pretty interesting food. I'm pretty sure my districts Koreans come in next week. Those are the native Koreans that come here to the Provo MTC and then leave with us once we go to Korea. So it'll be nice to hangout with them. We are at the training here at the MTC where we have to start doing street contacting in Korean. So we are starting that today. So one of us will contact some random missionary here and my companion will translate for me. I think its going to be a lot of fun. Is nice and all here at the MTC, but after a month and a half it becomes VERY routine. I'm super stoked to be able to leave in like 2 weeks. Its been an eye opening experience here at the MTC. During Elder Bednars devotional he talked about how Heavenly Father magnifies our attributes when we get called to be missionaries. And I have definitely realized an increase in help in just about everything I do here at the MTC. I'm super excited for you Jared. Just a little bit of advise is just to stay busy. But don't worry the MTC schedule will help you with that. Really the only free time you have is your meal times and the short hour at the end of each day. But just stay diligent. Its easier doing it some days than others but it'll help you in so many ways. You're gonna love it here. And be as obedient as you can. There are a lot of rules that seem unnecessary, but just follow them. It'll make your experience better. Well I only have two more Pdays until im in Korea! I'm excited. Good luck Jared! And I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I don't mean to boast but ours here at the MTC was probably better. Haha just kidding. I love you all. And have a Happy New Years!
Elder Maccarthy
P.S. we get our new missionary tags that have our names in korean next week! so cool!
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