3 weeks left at the MTC

Hola familia y amigos!

Three weeks left in the MTC... A place where days feel like weeks and
the weeks feel like days...
The MTC is a great place with a super good spirit and very organized! But
it gets tiring after a while And you get really anxious for the
field!

The teachers here in the MTC are inspired! Most of them are recently
returned missionaries and are perfect teachers. Hermano See is my
teacher and just got back from Guatemala. Our district is pretty sure
that he is one of the three Nephites. Like 87% sure. He is amazing at
teaching Spanish but even better at teaching the gospel. He taught us
about the plan of salvation and all I wanted to do was go preach the
gospel to the whole world. The plan of salvation is perfect. It is the
plan of God to allow us to be happy and bring families together
forever.

I am super blessed to have my companion! He works hard and loves the
gospel. Even though he can get inpatient at times, I love him. Our
district gets along super well! Sometimes too well. We can get
sidetracked at times. Also, we got our new districts on Wednesday and
they are doing great! We got an intermediate district so they speak
better Spanish than us, which can be depressing. Hahaha

We were blessed to hear from Elder Oaks this week! He is awesome and I
love how he lists everything when he talks!! He talked about preach my
gospel and the importance of (1) The Plan of Salvation (2) not
assuming too much and (3) making commitments when teaching the
gospel! I'm glad he talked about this but It's hard to do all these
things when you are speaking another language! We were also blessed to
hear an old talk given In 2009 by Elder Bednar. His talk was called
"Recognizing the Spirit".  Basically he says that if you are good, follow
the commandments and keep your covenants, then any good inspiration you
receive is from God. Don't sit and try to decide if it is you or the
Lord. Just do it! I guess Nike is more spiritual than you think. Haha

Well I'm close to the end here at the MTC.  I love you all, I encourage you to be good in all you
do. Love your God and love your neighbor and the rest will fall in its
place. I'm super happy to be serving a mission and I wouldn't trade
it for the world.  The Plan of Salvation is real and perfect and the
Atonement is the greatest thing in this earth and could only be done
through Christ the only begotten Son, who was perfect. This life is
short, make it count!

Love, Elder Owens
owens.christopher@myldsmail.net
My prep day is Tuesdays.  It's great to hear from friends and family.