Week 1

first week got better as time went on. first 3 or 4 days were rough. but the last couple have been pretty good.

Yeah when i first got here all of the instructors recognized me as Bryce's brother and they were all asking about him and stuff.

um I think you forgot the Mio cause i cant find any in my bags. hopefully you put some in the package you sent me hahaha. 

My comp is Elder Walker from Gilbert Arizona. He is pretty cool and normal. My whole district is super sick cause we have 12 people and we are all guys. its super fun.

The flight sucked lol, there were like 40 missionaries on our flight to Atlanta and then like 30 missionaries on the flight to Peru.

I found the cookies you made for me but not the note.

Week 2

So this week was pretty decent haha. idk it's basically like my sophomore year of high school all over again. i have class all day, spanish, seminary, and then all the teachers recognize me from Bryce haha.

Everyday its basically just wake up, breakfast, study, class, eat, study, work out, study, dinner, class. so yeah its super exciting as you can see. some days are better than others. It seems like this last week flew by. so that's good haha. 

Yesterday we had a service activity. so we were all waiting outside for the guy to give us instruction when all the sudden i just hear "Mortenson! Elder Mortenson! si? Elder Mortenson si?" so i look over at was like who the fetch is yelling at me. then i see this white looking dude that i didn't recognize so then i was super confused, and he had a weird accent. so then i just said yes si I'm elder Mortenson. then he comes over to me and is super happy and gives me a hug. then he starts talking about Bryce and stuff and i am still so confused. then i finally look at his name-tag and see that it is Pres. Amato, Bryce's Mission President! So then i was like ohhhhhh lol that explains it. Then he is like "here here we have to take a picture for me to send to Bryce right now!" so then we took a selfie together and idk if he sent it to Bryce or not. Then he said how Bryce told him I was coming and stuff and ya, so that was interesting. All of the other missionaries out there were super confused at what was happening, so that was cool.

Also today at the temple, after i came out of the celestial room this white dude that was a temple worker came up to me and asked what my name was, so i told him and then he said i looked familiar. so then i told him how Bryce had been there just a couple months ago and then told him Bryce was super tall and then he was like "yeah yeah i know, you look just like him!". lol so yeah that was interesting as well.

In my district there is a kid from Ridgeline that plays baseball and is actually good friends with Shawn Triplett. His name is Jaxon Nichols. He is pretty cool. also there is a kid from Logan and a kid from Mtn Crest here but they are 3 weeks ahead of us.

lol so i came into the MTC with pretty low expectations because of Bryce, Brett and Burger hahaha and i think that helped, because it's actually been above my expectations! hahahaha.

Also, the most amazing thing happened on Monday and today; the sun came out!! idk if Bryce ever told any of you this but in the winter the sun never comes out cause of the clouds and the fog and stuff haha. But yeah, on Monday it came out for like 3 whole hours it was amazing. And then today as we were walking over to the computer labs the sun came out for a bit haha it's so nice. I hadn't seen the sun for 12 days until it came out on Monday hahaha.

Anyways yeah next week all the new kids will be getting here so that'll be fun. Isn't cake from basketball coming here? I think he is, that would be dope. 

Also i still haven't gotten your package. 

But yeah that is pretty much it. its going well!

Love, Elder Mortenson