Carter's Mission

Salut tous le monde!!  It is a good day! P-day is always a good day. This week has been pretty wild. I've been getting some exercise in when I can; like last p-day, me and my district went and played basketball, then Saturday we went to the soccer fields and played some soccer. For some reason we had 4 hours to spare on Tuesday and went to the gym to play some basketball again. It's kind of hard to fit in some time to go everyday, but even just going some of the days is keeping my sanity. The schedule is growing on me, I've been here a week to know that this is going to be the next two years of my life. I'm headed to the temple right now and am going to do some endowments in the Mt. Timp temple for the first time.  Yesterday was SUPPOSED to be the start of our immersion class. Where the classes become only taught in french, but the teacher teaching us didn't know French. So yesterday was almost a complete waste except for when we mixed with another district and spok...

Bonjour tous le monde!!  The French is coming along. Not a whole lot of opportunities to push me in French right now but I am getting a lot of opportunities to teach French to my district outside the classroom. It's been amazing, I'm in a trio and they are both asking a lot of questions about French and it's so cool. I try to keep it simple and think it's amazing that I am getting the opportunity to teach.  But any ways, it's crazy to think that it's only my third day here. Our district is so amazing and we bonded so fast. Sorry, this email will be really short as it is pretty late. But I promise I will give you a rundown next week of all I've done so far. Spiritual thought: But my spiritual thought for today is about the words we say to each other. I invite you to listen to the talk by Jeffrey R Holland called the tongue of angels. It's such an amazing talk and is also kinda long. So I think the important part of the talk is in the second half of what h...

  We got Carter all sent off to the Provo MTC where he'll be for the next 6 weeks!  Afterwards, he'll fly straight to his mission in The Ivory Coast.  It was a good day, even though we are going to miss this guy! He looks so cute in his straw hat! So proud of you Carter! You're going to make a great missionary and the people of The Ivory Coast are lucky to have you!

Hey guys!!  First week of home MTC is almost in the bag. It’s been a long week but it’s also been a really cool one. I’ve run into a lot of problems this week with companions and stuff. Things where my companion was in a different district, but I’m sure it will all work out. I’m so excited to get started in the Provo MTC. The plan is, I’ll be doing 3 weeks in standard French classes, then finish with 3 weeks in advanced French classes. There’s only one other elder going to be in that class so it will be a Par-tay. It’s been great getting to know my district.  Spiritual thought:  Alma 5: 13-14, and if says  ”a mighty change was also wrought in their hearts, and they humbled themselves and put their trust in the true and living God⁠. And behold, they were faithful until the end⁠; therefore they were saved. 14 And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God⁠? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienc...