Ola como estas??? (Hello how are you?) It’s Tuesday and that means it’s my P-day :) Oh my gosh I’m so excited I get to e-mail you guys now. I’m having so much fun here at the MTC. I just love my companion his name is Elder Lee, he is from Ephraim Utah. We get along very well; we are basically best friends now. I also love my district we have 8 people total 6 Elders and 2 Sisters. Everyone is going to Portugal except for 2 Elders. They are going to Brazil. In fact one of them left for the Brazil MTC this morning, he got his visa so my companion and I woke up at 5:00 am to help him get all his stuff together. He had to report to the travel office at 6:00 in the morning. The MTC is just great and so is the food. Don’t worry I won’t get fat I’m getting plenty of vegetables and exercise. Oh and really big news I’m cutting down on the cheese haha :) I have class every day, 3 times a day, my teacher is awesome I love him his name is Elder Croskrey, he speaks English and Portuguese but only speaks Portuguese to us so that we can learn it faster. I’m learning the language and its going well. It’s a little hard though because everyone in my district took Spanish in school so they can already speak the language because it is similar to Portuguese and that’s tough on me. I’m the only one who can’t speak it yet and so I get frustrated a lot, but I know that it will come to me in time. Sundays here are absolutely amazing we have our own little sacrament meeting with just our zone that has about 20 people. We also get to go on temple walks and walk around the temple which is really nice and peaceful. We also get to have a devotional with the whole MTC and listen to amazing speakers. After our devotional we got to watch the new Joseph Smith movie. I’m having a lot of fun down here and am really good friends with everyone. Speaking of friends I have seen a lot of people from Davis High here and have also seen some of my old friends and have gotten pictures with them. I miss you guys a lot and think and pray for you every day. Thanks for the package I loved all the yummy treats and letters you guys gave me. Thanks for the awesome drawing mom I love it. Hey idk if you guys know this but there is a website called DearElder.com and it’s where you can type a letter to me on the computer and send it to me and I get it that day, it’s really cool. You should tell all my friends and family about it :) because letters are a lot better than E-mails cuz I have more time to write a letter and send it then to wait for p-day and send an e-mail. Yesterday I got the package from you guys along with a letter from Sierra. It was a pretty good day yesterday haha :) Today for p-day we basically get to do whatever we want do, our laundry, go on our e-mail, workout, write letters, etc. we also get to go to the temple every p-day which is really neat. I’m excited for that. I miss you guys and hope to get letters and e-mails from you soon :) I would also like it if Jordan or Lauren wrote to me more I miss them and really enjoy hearing from them. I want to know what’s going on in their lives the ups and downs they are going through. I love you guys so much and think of you every day. You guys are the world to me and I wish you the best. Till next e-mail this is Elder Rusnell saying Tchah (goodbye).
With all my love,
Elder Rusnell