I am alive. Just so you know. Portuguese is muito dificil. I've been having about as average a week as you can in the MTC. Just learning gospel principles, having a language shoved down my throat and eating not so great food. Recently, as a companionship, we've been doing some "street contacts" where we talk to people on the street in Portuguese like a real one except someone translates to English. The people are very nice. Other than that, lots of studying and lots of class but it's good. I do have a suggestion for you, it's a talk by Elder Bednar. I don't know if you'll be able to find it but it's titled "Character of Christ" and it's really, really good. I also have two pieces of advice that I heard this past week that I would like to share with you. First: "Don't count the days, make the days count." I really want to lose myself in the work so much so that I'll just be working one day and get a phone call from the mission president saying, "Your flight leaves tomorrow, are you packed?" And I'll have no idea what he's talking about. The second one: "Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right." It's so true, we need to believe in ourselves. We can do amazing and difficult things. I know that the Lord is strengthening me every day and that I'm learning so much because of Him and the Holy Ghost. It's really amazing.
-Elder Michael Carlson
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