Pretty Much The Greatest Place Ever

Dear Mom and Everyone else,

     What up yall? So yeah there's three things that I learned the first day really quickly at the MTC 1 work hard or youll be bored. 2 Don't drink the orange juice... Lets just say it's basically like swallowing a hand grenade. 3 If one of the Elders in your district wants to give you a live demonstration of how to waterbend you let him because youll laugh about it for the next week. I hope all is going well, So the MTC is pretty much the greatest place ever. I learn so much every day that I'll probably be smarter than Einstein ever was by the end of my mission. The Spirit taught me Hmoob in 7 days so that was pretty cool. I guess you could say that I'm actually smarter than Einstein already because God is on my side and He knows everything. For real though, if I work hard and am obedient the Lord helps me out so much. I've learned more Hmoob in the MTC in seven days than I did from taking two years of Spanish but I guess that's because the Spirit is a lot better teacher than Mr.Long(no offense to him) These past couple days have been amazing and I have felt the Spirit so strongly. My companion and I work hard everyday and we're progressing really fast. I got really lucky when they assigned me Elder Pratt as a companion we get along really well and we have a lot in common. It's nice because most of the guys in my district are a little different than me and so sometimes it can be hard to have a conversation with them... (Lets just say that they could easily tell you every rule in Dungeons and Dragons and that tells you all you need to know.) But I actually do like all of them and we all get along pretty well. We all help each other out with the language and with all the other stuff so that's good. We had a district meeting last night(there's ten of us in my district) and we all bore our testimonies and the Spirit was so strong. We all laugh a ton and these guys are starting to become some of my best friends. In our meeting we talked about hard work and it really inspired me to work harder and to give it all I've got. I stood up when it was my turn to bear my testimony and I talked about how sometimes I'm afraid to work as hard as I can. It's kind of a scary thought that I have to study the language for 6-7 hours a day study my scrips for 2 hours a day and class and meetings the rest of the time. I told them a quote I heard which says "You'll never know the edge of your limits until you've gone there." so I'm excited to see how hard I can truly work. I can't wait to put my faith in the Lord and trust that if I do my best He will give me strength and make up the rest.This morning we got to go to the temple and it was seriously awesome. There's something about going through with a group of missionaries that just multiplies the strength of the Spirit by like a thousand. Also I saw one of the Elders that I went through with my first time so that was super duper neat. Also as I was walking out of the temple there was this lady who thanked us like a billion times for serving the Lord and just how grateful she was for the missionaries. But anyways so it turns out the Hmoob language is like the coolest hardest thing ever. There's nine tones but you really only use eight and so far that's been the hardest part for me is just pronouncing the words right. I feel like things are going well though I can already say a pretty long prayer and bear my testimony and also teach a short lesson. My teacher didn't say one word of English to us until Monday and even then he didn't say a full sentence. It's crazy because half the time he'll be talking and I have no idea what he's saying and then all of a sudden the Spirit just explodes into my brain and I can understand everything that he is saying. One piece of advice to everyone about to go on a mission, be prepared to be tired all the time. I feel like I never sleep here. My eyes close and then the next second the alarm goes off and it's time to get right back to work. But I'm adjusted to the schedule now so it's definitely a lot easier. Today a bunch of new elders came in and it was so weird to look back and say wow that was me a week ago it seems so much longer than a week that I've been here but in a good way. The time goes by so fast when I work hard and am obedient. I love it here and I seriously love my mission. It's the bomb.com. Mom and dad and j dub thanks for the letters they were great also tanner still hasn't written me so tell him to get on that. The church is true and I love you all, TTFN(ta ta for now)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Elder Henrie

P.S. Here's a little Hmoob for you

tus neeg uas raug xa mus tshej kev ntseeg ntuj nyob txawv teb chaws los yog nyob lwm qhov chaw xyaum hauv plawv ua ob txoj kab lig ntiaj teb uas yog txoj 23degrees 27minutesnyob sab quam teb thiab txoj 23 degrees 27 minutes noyb sab qab teb ntawm txoj kab lig ntiaj teb hauv plawv uas nyob rau cheeg tsam ntawm ob txoj kab no ces lub haub ziab tau ncaj qha ntseg ntseg los ib thooj au hu ua phleb nem nyob hauv lub qab ntuj no. kws tshawb fawb nrhiav pom tias nws muaj cuaj thooj aw plheb nem nyob rau hauv lub qab ntuj khwb no. lub ntiaj teb earth uas peb nyob no yog ib lub ntawm cuaj lub no cuaj thooj au no muaj npe As Kiv li no.

You might not believe me but I promise that means ( The MTC is a tropical planet.) Yeah I know.

Also here are some pictures but I might have accidentally put a couple on from home.

P.P.S. For everyone besides my family letters work best but I'll try and send you a short email if I have time.e is