Dear Everyone,
   

Time is flying by here at the Provo MTC. The computer was glitching so I lost almost half my  email time so this one is going to be a little short.
 

 It seems like yesterday that I got here and it has been seven weeks. If I got my visa this week, they would probably send me straight to the field. I am ready and not ready. The language is tough but every time I get discouraged I look at how far I have come. Seven weeks ago, I didn't know how to say anything in Portuguese and now I can teach lessons in that language. The Lord is in this work and that is why I have been able to make the progress that I have made. Yesterday, Elder Christensen and I were reading "Pregar Meu Evangello" (Preach My Gospel). We read nearly a whole chapter and we understood almost everything. Afterward, we looked at each other and were freaking out. Learning a language good enough to share the gospel in seven weeks seems impossible, but nothing is impossible when the Lord is on your side.

Our MTC president is the great great grandson of Hyrum Smith. He is a neat guy.

Elder Christensen got some warts removed a few weeks ago. They injected this stuff they use for chemo therapy into his skin under the wart. They told him to come back when the skin was charcoal black. Well, it is pretty black and gross looking so today we are making the trip back to the foot doctor and he is going to scrape the skin off.

I can't believe how much I have learned and how much I have to learn/want to learn. I want to soak it all up but it is going by so fast. I'm going to learn so much about church work and I can't wait to apply what I learn for the rest of my life.
   
CONGRATULATIONS SPENCER AND BRITTANY. YOU ARE AWESOME AND I'M SO HAPPY/PROUD OF YOU!

    Com Amor,
             Elder Nothum