MTC Week 3

I would say week tres, but then people would think I was using spanish, and I don't want to be associated with that, haha.  This week has been good, but the MTC is very repetitive, so I won't probably have as much stuff in this email, so sorry.   Anyways, I gave my first haircut this week to Elder Lunt, he wanted his neck shaved.  I guess I should have put my glasses on first...  It was all good though, I got most of it, and then accidentally left a little soul patch on the back.  It will probably be like the next mullet or rat tail thing to do, so he'll thank me later.  Other than that we go to a lot of classes.  I can read the book of mormon in portuguese now, and have a good understanding of what is actually happening, so that is really exciting, it does take me ten times as long, but it truly a miracle considering that I've only been here three weeks.  We lost our oldest district today, with all of my favorite elders.  This left our district as the oldest, and as such two of the elders(Walton and Copitzky) were called as ZL's.  Elder Ryan is the new DL, Elders Karl and Lunt are media specialist trainers, and I am the Priesthood greeter.  So between all of us we basically have monopolized every calling in the Zone.  I had a really cool experience this week where I go to give my first Priesthood blessing.  A sister in our district was feeling sick, and I had this overwhelming feeling to ask her if she would like a blessing.  It was kind of like the feeling you get before bearing your testimony when you know you're supposed to.  It was a really cool experience though, I was shaking so bad, but I could feel the spirit so strongly.  I am grateful for the opportunity to exercise the priesthood as a servant of the Lord.  

If you are wondering what we do for fun here in the MTC, it basically revolves around singing.  We are not supposed to listen to music in our residences, so we make our own.  At first we were killing it, we sang anything and everything.  This week though we started losing our memory of most of our lyrics.  Thankfully we still have frozen which we sing every night, and newsies.  So we are basically the real deal.  It is kind of cold up here, its been ridiculous in the morning, especially considering I packed for Africa, all of this makes me wish even more that I could get out there.  But I do have less time left than I have been here.  I guess I will share a quick experience I had this week.  We were talking about the ordinance of receiving the Holy Ghost, and I had an overwhelming feeling as I was studying, that the Holy Ghost is not just an inward change on our personal lives.  When we are worthy, the Holy Ghost can change our entire physical persona and make us happier, not only to ourselves but to others.  I encourage all of you to live worthy of the Holy Ghost, and simply by doing so, someone in your life will be touched, and want to know more about why you are who you are.  We hear so many stories of this in the field, and we need all of you to be the example.

I love all of you, Thank you for your support and prayers,

Com Amar,

Elder Anthony James Holt