Hey everyone! So the MTC  so far has been really amazing and I learn a lot here, but it also feels like a prison sometimes haha.  We have a really strict schedule here  from 6:30 to 9:30 we are either in class or studying or at some devotional. It’s been really tiring. There is just so much to take in and so much to learn and get used to it feels overwhelming a lot of the time. Usually we are in class for about 4 hours then we have lunch then we have another 3 hours of class then we study for an hour, then we have dinner, then we come back to class to study some more haha.  We do a lot of studying here. It was kind of rough the first couple of days here but once I started to get closer to my companion and the people in my room and zone it became easier. We all have grown really close to each other and we are great friends. We joke around all the time and just try to have fun. Sometimes we have a little too much fun though haha. Like today we had a "bowling" tournament in our residence hall because today is p-day. We used a hacky sack for the bowling ball and a bunch of soda cans from our shrine for the pins. I guess I should explain what the shrine is haha. So the elders that got there a week before us handed it down to our room. It’s been handed down for a long time in our residence I guess haha.  It’s just a ton of cactus cooler soda cans that we stack into a closet in our room. and all the elders in our zone keep contributing to it. so every time anyone drinks a cactus cooler then put it in with the shrine. When we leave we will hand it down to the next guys. It’s kinda fun haha.

           So we have the opportunity to teach investigators while we are here in the MTC. It’s been a really good experience to teach actual people that want to hear more about the gospel. I think I’ve learned more from doing that than anything else. Yesterday me and another elder in my dorm saw a lady in one of our buildings with a gold name tag, that means they are investigators and they just come here to have the missionaries teach them. So we started taking to her and set up an appointment for today. So today we talked with her and got to know her. Her name is Elsie. She is actually from Tampa but she moved down her with her husband because he is going to BYU. She was really receptive and I feel like she felt the spirit while we were teaching her. We set up another appointment for tomorrow and she seems really interested. It made me feel a bit better about myself as a missionary. We went to the temple this morning and it was kind of different going as a missionary. We have a separate place to get our clothes and a different changing room it was a really good experience and it was really nice to get away for a couple hours. I don’t have much more time but I will be leaving next week on Tuesday at 3:30 in the morning. So that should be fun. haha not. I think I will be able to write on Monday. So until then, I love all of you and thank you for your prayers and support.

love, Elder Hudson