Hey y'all!!  Well, it's been a crazy week and a lot has happened so I'm sure this email might get pretty hefty but I promise if you make it to the end I'll have some beautiful & entertaining photos.  It started out with saying goodbye to the family on monday morning and I was off to texas, me and 11 other missionaries stayed the first night in the mission home where we got additional training and I love my president, he's hilarious. Super great guy.  The next morning we got up, met at the stake center where we would be getting our trainers. My trainers name is Elder Gaviria who is originally from Peru but lived in florida most of his life. He's one of the funniest people I've ever met, also one of the most humble. We're in a spanish area!!!! We happen to be opening the area so me and Elder G have no idea where anything is but the work's still moving forward! Since it's a Spanish area, it's a massive area because everybody is really spre...

  Hello everybody!! I leave for Dallas in 5 days! After these two weeks of a limbo in between me finishing the Home MTC and leaving for Dallas I am extremely eager and excited to get out to the field. Overall the Home MTC was a good experience, I'm sure it would've been much more ideal being in person but I was really able to develop and increase my own personal testimony as well as working on personal obedience. These are things that I can seriously thank and attribute to being in this unique situation.  I'm sure you're all anxiously wondering what I did during these past two weeks and I can assure you it was very action packed. Just kidding, but it went a lot faster than I thought! One thing I did do that was actually super sweet is that I was able to go through the temple today! Definitely a very interesting and cool experience and I'm looking forward to my next visit. Luckily there are temples in both of my missions in Dallas and in Paraguay so I'm very bles...