I have officially survived my first few days at the MTC! It has been quite an adjustment and I am still adjusting but I am truly loving it here. You really do feel like a "deer in the headlights" almost all of the time so I can't wait for when that goes away haha. In my district there are 8 elders (including myself) and 4 hermanas. There are 5 of us going to the Costa Rica San Jose West mission (4 elders and 1 hermana), 2 elders and 1 hermana going to Los Angeles, 2 hermanas going to Posadas Argentina, and 2 elders going to Rosario Argentina. I have such a great district and I actually got assigned to be the District Leader last night!! I was already feeling like I don't have enough time to do all the things we have to do in a day, so it will be an interesting experience to say the least to be a District Leader. I'm so grateful to serve as a leader though and I'm sure it will be a really great thing for me. I think I know quite a bit more spanish than the rest of my district so I'm able to help them a lot. My companion's name is Elder Millward and he's from St. George, Utah. He's just out of high school but he's awesome. Also... Me and Elder Kimberling (Alex) are in the same zone!! I think there are about 2400 missionaries in the MTC right now so it's amazing that we're in the same zone, live in the same building, and live on the same floor. It has been and will be so great to see him every day, especially since I'm still adjusting to the missionary lifestyle haha.
Today, our 3rd day, we taught an entire 30 minute lesson in spanish to our investigator Sophia. I could not believe it when I heard we were going to do that but we were able to do it. It didn't go amazing but me and my companion were at least able to hold a conversation with her for the entire time which was a miracle in itself. I did a lot of the talking from our companionship so I think my companion was a little scared because he doesn't know spanish as well. He knows more than he thinks though so I need to try to help him speak up more. I'm sure I made a ton of grammatical mistakes but I think for my first lesson, it was pretty good.
I don't have a ton of time to say much else but my P day is on Tuesdays so I will email more then. I love and miss you all!
Pura Vida!
Elder Smith
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