So tomorrow is the big day! Here I come Virginia!! i cannot wait. it is going to be so much fun, and meeting the mission president and my new trainer is going to be awesome. This week in the MTC, nothing special happened. Just more class time and study time. I dont know if you remember Ryan Kleinman from freshman year baseball at higley, but i saw him here and talked to him. we see each other pretty much every day now so that is cool. I still see JT every day and he is jealous that i am already leaving. haha. I see April Jones' sister here every once in a while too, i dont know her first name other than "Sister Jones." Thank you so much for the package! how did you know i needed q-tips? i was so excited when i saw those in there, along with all of the food and candy! I dont know if you could tell in the pictures but i definitely have gained some weight here...its stupid. when i get to Virginia, im making it a goal to utilize the half hour in the morning to work out as much as i can even if its just running around the block a couple times. gym time here isnt enough. i started playing basketball when i first got here, but elders were getting hurt, so i switched to volleyball. i can serve up a good serve now. The sport is actually really fun if you know what youre doing and if youre playing with people who are somewhat decent.
anyways....about the investigators...george (the leg amputee) likes to talk a lot, so any lesson we prepared didnt get taught because he talked the whole time and we ran out of time.. we got 2 new referrals which were students from UVU that came down. I dont know what the deal is with this program they have. some elders say its fake, the trainers here that work here say some are real members that are actors, and some are real investigators. i cant tell the difference. the investigators we had must have been pretty darn good actors if they were members becuase they had a lot of good questions and were involved with the lesson a lot. i dont know. i just play it as its real because when you go in with the mind set that its legit, it is easier to invite the spirit and really start to love the person youre teaching.
Oh shoot...... the most exciting thing in the MTC was.............. so you know how i was having those sleeping problems? well the dr gave me a card that allowed me to take food out of the cafeteria, but in order to keep the food cold, They gave me a FRIDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so we had a fridge in the room for the last week!! you know i stuffed my pockets with popsicles every night and put them in the ice box! everybody was so jealous of us on our floor. and we would trade ties for popsicles haha.. so every night we would have a ham sandwich, a ice cold lemonade and a popsicle before bed. I LOVE THE MTC! haha that was pretty exciting!
I got my haircut yesterday and guess who cut it!!!!!! Christina Andreasen! we were talking about the good ol days when we lived right behind each other and we caught up on the families and stuff. she said that benjamin is now bigger that her and bigger than ricky and he is like 10 yrs old!!! i saw eliza too, she was carrying my fridge to the room when i was walking down the hall one day haha.. i took it from her and said thank you ma'am :) neither of them recognized me, i had to be the one to tell them who i was and where i know them from. haha so that was fun. it definitely makes if easier here when you see people you know and you have people to talk to.
So Joe Paterno died? what the heck?! he went through all that with him getting fired and then he died a few months later? that is too bad.
Everything is well here, next weeks email will be a lot better describing the area im in, the people of the ward, the investigators, my companion, etc! I love you all, and i will be sending my memory card home with the MTC pics on it. Enjoy and everyone should write me :)
LOVE,
Elder Baldwin
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