Elder Byron's Mission: Tyler's Fifth Week

Hello Friends! I thought I would take this message to describe a typical week in the MTC, especially because this is one of my last emails from the MTC. The week here starts on a Monday and ends on Sunday. Monday we wake up at 6:30 and go pick up a sack breakfast from behind the cafeteria, then go straight to Gym. At Gym you can play basketball, volleyball(my personal favorite), four square, soccer, sand volleyball(outside) or run the track and lift weights. After Gym we go TALL which is an online language learning program. Then we have lunch(11:00-11:45), go to our classroom and study for about an hour, have a 3 hour language learning class(we learn a ton) and the go to lunch(4:00-4:45). Then we go back to the classroom for additional study for about an hour and have another 3 hour class for language and gospel study(9:30 when class is out). Then we go back to our residences and go to bed at 10:30 This is a pretty typical day but sometimes stuff happens in a different order, like class before breakfast and Gym before dinner. The only different days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday. Tuesday is P-Day which means we have until Dinner to do all of our chores such as laundry and cleaning our room or getting a haircut(I get mine today!). Then after Dinner i go to choir, than we have a devotional given by a really great speaker(still no Monson) Wednesday, instead of Gym and TALL in the morning we have a service project(usually cleaning bathrooms) and personal exercise time to just work out in your residence hall. Sunday is completely different than any other day. It is our day to rest from our language studies and center our days on Christ. Everything we do is centered on him. We go to priesthood meeting and sacrament meeting(if you have any more in depth questions, feel free to email me). Everything else is pretty much personal study time to read the scriptures. Than at the end of the day i got to choir again and have another amazing devotional by a speaker that usually makes you want to be more Christlike than the last. It's amazing. That's pretty much a weekly schedule here, it's a lot of language learning so i can know the basics before going to Brazil. Oh speaking of which, i get my reassignment on Thursday so I will have my mom post it to Facebook Thursday night. I'm super excited to serve where ever the Lord wants me to serve while i wait for my Visa! Well that's it until next week!

email me tyler.byron@myldsmail.net

-Elder Byron of course!