Elder Tommy Hatfield

Week 2, all the days are getting mushed together so i really cant tell what happened each day but ill try to explain some good jokes and cool things. Last week we went to the Lima temple. It was so tiny, like we stayed in one room the whole time, and it fit like 25 people in it. It was so tiny, and beautiful. Everything was in English, but we did everything in spanish. Super cool stuff. Later that night we were all kind of exhausted, so during daily planning we were all just chilling and laughing, because in the mission daily planning is a big deal, but we really don’t have much to do during daily planning at the mtc. Turns out one of our teachers was watching us through the window the whole time, we got a little grilled for that the next day. There is this one latino elder, he is like my best friend. He goes around yelling , GO TO SLEEP. He cant say his s very good so it sounds like GO TO LEEP. That kid is 90 percent of the reason my spanish is good. I have late night chats with him every night. Last night he tried to convince me that he had a girl friend that he just met at the mtc. Hahahhaha this kid is so funny. There is also another latino that just yells, donde esta mis gringos. He is pretty funny too. My favorite time of day is meals, cuz we just sit next to latinos and we chat, and they are so funny. We are getting to the point where we laugh at things that really aren’t that funny. But we laugh so hard them. One of the teachers here asked me where I was from and I said Mesa, and she said, wait really.. turns out she had served her mission in mesa, and her areas were on like lindsey and mckellips. We totally reminisced about los favs and tia rosas. That was pretty cool. Apparently the Peruvian first lady visited the mtc. So perus michelle Obama was all up in our business. I never saw her, but still awesome. They opened up the bball courts this week. It was not very fun. The diameter of the rims are tiny, and the hoops were slanted, and the court was slippery, but it felt good not look uncoordinated like I do in soccer. I look so dumb when I play soccer. Probably one of my coolest homies here in the mtc is Elder Ruekart, we were talking about dogs, and I was talking about penni cuz penni rules. And Then Ruekart says, my dog was a shitzu named dodeger. I freaked out. I KNOW A SHITZU NAMED DODGER. Pretty funny coincidence. Elder Bever is also one of my favorites. He is like half the jokes in our district. Every time something goes wrong, everyone gets mad at Bever. He takes it like a champ. Me and my companion have been killing our fake investigator lessons. I talk 95 percent of the time because my companion seriously struggles with the language. He works so stinkin hard but nothing is cliquing yet. He has got a lot of faith and patience, and he gets better everytime. I have gotten to the point where I just look at him and make him say something during the lessons. Cant get better if you don’t try. Sunday was pretty cool. We had an awesome atonement lesson from the prez, and then we watched a david a Bednar mtc devotional. It was so cool. He was talking about the question, how do I know if it’s the holy ghost is telling me , or just my own thoughts. He quickly responded, QUIT worrying about it, be a good boy and the lord will make it happen. Later that night the choir sang Armys of helamans mashed with called to serve. I had chills everywhere. Anyways I am loving it here, Its totally good times. Love the people I get to hang with, and love learning and doing work. Good times. Keep it real.