AYYYYYYYEEEE PEOPLE IT YOUR BOI ELDER MACLAY COMIN AT YOU FROM THE MTC.
The first week of the mtc has been AMAZING and long and spiritual and hilarious and fun and eye opening and the best. but at the same time i miss home and my family and friends!
So first things first is my companion. his name is elder millburn from utah and he is SO awesome. he is 6 foot 3 and super blond (both his hair and intelligence). sounds like someone you know am i right. we have way too much fun together. as a joke earlier today we told our district that the mtc president said the wifi was down and we would not be able to email our families until next week. we literally made two people cry and felt terrible. hahaha. i felt so bad but it was hilarious. but my companion is so awesome. we are pretty dang popular because we are the tallest and whitest and blondest kids here and probably the most outgoing americans
the rest of my district is absolutely amazing! best district ever. a bunch of instructors and branch presidents talk about how special our district is. everybody is so awesome. once again we have too much fun but we are learning much faster than the other districts so its ok
theres one dood in my district who basically has the missioanry handbook memorized. he has chastized me for playing full court basketball (which i kick brazilian butt at) and for wearing socks that dont match my slacks. haha but i shouldnt complain because hes one of the most spiritual and amazing people ive ever met.
The language is coming very well! its only been a week but ive been able to have some good conversations with brazilians. the brazilians are the coolest people ever. i almost cried today when i had to say bye to a brazilian friend named elder brito this morning. he was one of the funniest people ive ever met and we had the dopest handshake. he barely spoke any english but we got so close in such a short amount of time. he had these three doods who followed him everywhere. we called them brito and the boys. he pretty much ran this place so now its up to me and millburn to take this place over.
I've been learning how simple the gospel is and how important the spirit is! the spirit has helped us learn so much and theres no way i could learn a language without it. ive learned more portugese in the last week than i learned spanish in the 2 years of it i took in high school.
Sadly we cant send pics in the mtc! i have some awesome pics of sao paulo, my district, elder brito, etc. but ill send those in 5 weeks once i get out of here.
A te mais amigos! boa noite from sao paulo. send an email my way if you want a funny story on the background behind the subject of this email. my email is payton.maclay@missionary.
Couldnt be happier to be here! everybody is so so so awesome. there is only one person in the entire mtc who is not super happy to be here and we call him elder pessimist. haha.
see ya next week!
te amo 3000!
<3 elder maclay
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