Elder Cache Troy Johnson

Just like that, my time at the MTC has come to an end. I am so grateful for my companion and everyone in my district. I am also so grateful for all the friends from Idaho I have seen. I am so grateful for this gospel and the opportunity I have to be serving this mission. I am grateful for all the highs and the lows in the MTC that have prepared me as I leave to Ecuador. Just as things always come to an end, I am so grateful for the time I had with my district and I know that we're all about to go do some good. This is only the beginning, and I can't wait to see how everything turns out. "Keep moving forward" -Meet The Robinsons

  Buenos Dias!  This is going to be my last email that I send from the MTC! Which is so weird to think about. We get our flight plans later today but I'm pretty sure I'm leaving next thursday. ALSO, once I get to Ecuador my P-day is going to switch from friday to monday. So the next email yall get might be in 10 days... Muy triste.  This week has been a fun week so far. Elder Strong and I got to go introduce ourselves to the new district on wednesday. One of the kids is a fellow Idahoan from Meridian so shoutout to him. This last sunday, my companion and I had the pleasure of planning sacrament meeting AND 2 separate elders quorum meetings. It wasn't too bad tho, we just had to assign prayers and who did the sacrament. Ok, my spanish is getting better except I realized how much gringo spanish I speak. I have done a good job at memorizing flashcards but my sentence structure is pretty bad and I still need to work on conjugations. HOWEVER, at the time of writing t...

 ¡Buenos días a todos!  I swear time goes by way faster while in the MTC. The days are long but the weeks are short. This week has kind of been the same with waking up, working out, eating and going to class. All my days are relatively the same so it's hard to remember what I did each day lol.  On a high note though, my Spanish is getting a lot better! It's still not the best but while in class I can roughly say what I want to say in very broken spanish. Yesterday my district did, Hablar Su Idioma, (which translates to, "speak your language") Hablar su Idioma is where you put colored tags on your mission tag and you have to only speak your mission language. We aren't supposed to start until next week but we decided it would be fun to practice beforehand. IT IS TOUGH. My district and I found 5 Spanish phrases and jokes, and have been repeating them constantly which probably isn't a good way to learn lol. Kind of random this week, but Bonnie Cordon showed up to ...

  ¡Buenos dias!  This week has been a really good week! We started immersion last friday which was tough but it was kind of fun to listen to all of our teachers talking in only spanish. MY SPANISH IS GETTING BETTER, Last week I was stressed out because I knew little to no Spanish before starting immersion. But in order to learn, you've got to start somewhere. So I started studying super hard, I made flash cards, played duolingo, used the church language learner. Now, instead of not knowing 100% of the Spanish being spoken, I now dont know 95% percent of the Spanish being spoken! Hey, everyones gotta start somewhere.  I think I have some of the most interesting people in my group. First off there is Elder Robrecht, He's a good guy but he will not stop talking to every Hermana he sees. (We call him Rizzbrecht) He's got to learn to lock up his heart sooner than later. Next is Elder Cabrera, He is in the same dorm room as me and he is one of the funniest people I've...

Que onda todos! This week has been a super fun week. My district has gotten into a routine which includes waking up at 6:20 and then playing soccer and spikeball at the fields until 7:30. After that we go get breakfast and then do personal and companion study. At 10 we have a Spanish class for an hour. and then we have lunch and 2 more 3 hour classes in the afternoon and evening.  Last Tuesday I was able to go to Phoenix Arizona to pick up my visa! We had to wake up at 4am to get to the airport. Once we got to Phoenix I instantly loved it. The palm trees, heat, cactus, you name it. Once I got to the consulate office to pick up my visa, the other 4 missionaries and I had to wait for 3 hours before we finally got our visas. It was brutal. When we left the consulate office a homeless lady approached us and told us that she just got robbed and needed help from the missionaries or a bishop. Since we were not the normal missionaries we gave her a number so that she can get in c...