MTC Week 3: Time

Caleb's email address: caleb.figgin@myldsmail.net

Keep on writing to him! He loves it. Here are some excerpts of his letter:

I'm not writing you some fancy letter,  I'm talking to my family and friends.  This is the one day a week I'm allowed to relax a little so I'm taking advantage of it in any way possible haha.  So anyway... this week was alright.  Everything sorta mixes together so I don't even know what to talk about.  As far as class... we still sit in the same room for 16 hours a day... it all sorta just blurs together haha.  "I've become comfortably numb"- Pink Floyd.

Spanish is going good... I'm picking up more and more.  Understanding is getting way better. I don't have to strain to figure out what people are saying... usually... I'm able to talk in Spanish more.  In lessons I don't have a script anymore,  I just say what I wanna say.. but I totally sound like an autistic caveman.  So it's mas o menos, but está bien.  It makes for lots of really funny jokes.  I told a guy that I am God,  in stead of I know God..(whatever it was I  was saying.  Can't remember)

We found a piano this week so every meal we eat as fast as we can and go play.  Elder Lang and I have figured out how to play a bunch of songs... hotel California (the Eagles),  Layla (Eric Clapton),  three little birds (Bob Marley), da**it (blink 182), miss you(blink 18),  stairway to heaven (led zeppelin), wish you were here (pink Floyd), and tons of other stuff... it's pretty great.  Gives us a release before it's back to the classroom for more Spanish haha.

We found out that my companero,  Elder dyerly talks in his sleep and it is the most hilarious thing in the whole world! He falls asleep in class sometimes and we can talk to him and he is a total savage haha.  He totally roasts everyone and it's great.  It happens every time he falls asleep too. It's pretty great. 

One night we got into some crazy science and math topics and had this huge discussion about everything crazy... like quantum physics,  string theory,  crazy calculus concepts... it was super fun,  and it was a good break from the usual topics of girls and poop. I feel like that needs some explaining.. the food here messes. You.  Up.  So it has made for a ton of interesting bathroom conversations... basically we have All reverted back to being in fourth grade.  And girls... well.... we're around a bunch of guys 24/7 so of course we talk about girls all the time. 

Oh yes,  I'm going to be sending home a song of the week (if you haven't noticed, music is kind of a huge deal to me and it's literally constantly playing in my head. It is definitely my biggest distraction but I'm not complaining.  The fact that I can totally listen to a song in my head helps me survive) so for the first week,  the song was people are strange by the doors because when we got here every missionary that was already here seemed crazy. Week two: I'll be here a while by 311. Pretty self explanatory. This week,  the song is time by pink Floyd.  "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day... fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way" it is pretty fitting.  I do get a ton of work done on the mission,  and I work really hard but sometimes I also feel like I'm the stress reliever of the district.  I'm the one that makes everyone laugh and I am more laid back than anyone else in the district and I definitely fritter and waste a lot of time in an offhand way... not sure if that's a good thing but it's my personality and I don't know how to change that haha

Anyway,  the mtc is a very different place... still not used to it in the slightest but I'm making the best of it! Sorry I don't share a ton of spiritual experiences... I do have them.. a ton... but every missionary in the history of ever has lots of spiritual experiences.  We all know it and we've all heard it all from every missionary we know.  So besides some really cool stuff that happens in my mission,  I'm gonna be keeping this a little more fun to read.  Sorry if anyone doesn't like that but that's how I feel.  So until next week! I love you All thank you for being so supportive!

Pictures:  The ones with all of us are back at the dorms... all the other elders just left our zone to go to their missions so we inherited a ton of stuff and had a party.  We had a mini basketball hoop,  tons of candy and food,  and even got a mini fridge! Pretty dope.  That was a fun night.  The one of me on the floor was Sunday night and marley hadn't sent me a selfie and the wifi turned off for the night so everyone was roasting me for half an hour about how she is gonna dear John me now.  It was a long half hour;)