Elder Carter and Elder Quick-MTC companions

If I have to sing "Called to Serve" in Spanish one more time...

Hola familia!! This has been such a stressful week!! So we started out by going to a bunch of new missionary meetings and those were a complete waste of time. They just told us to follow all the rules and stay with your companion like 50 times. Anyway. The language is coming along. My companion is Elder Quick from Washington State and he´s pretty chill. We started teaching an investigator (Pedro) on the 19th and it was and still is so rough. I know a little bit more Spanish than Elder Quick, so i kind of have to take lead in the lessons. We don´t always understand each other, but we do feel the spirit. I pretty much get one good, spiritual sentence out each lesson. haha but everything is going well! I´m super stressed out all the time, but it’s okay. I´m a missionary and I can handle it. So my district is amazing. Everyone gets along and loves each other. In my apartment, there´s 6 of us. Two native elders that aren´t in our district and 2 that are. The two that are, are Elder Scott from Salem Hills, UT and Elder Cabanatan from Fresno. The two other elders in my district are Elder Johnson from Mesa and Elder Howlett from Alaska. Then we have 3 sets of hermanas. Hermana Dean is from Clearfield and her companion is Hermana Singer. She´s from Houston. They´re both going state side. Hermana Cook is from Orange County and Hermana Hogge is from Kaysville. They´re both going to Tegucigalpa. And the Hermana Morgan and Hermana Walker. Hermana Morgan is going to Tegucigalpa and Hermana Walker is going to Nicaragua. We´re all so tight and district meeting was the best. So every Sunday and Tuesday we get to hear a devotional. Of course they´re streamed live From Provo, but it´s still cool. On Sunday we heard from Elder Bednar and his talk was the BEST. My favorite quote from his talk is ¨Proclaiming the Gospel is missionary WORK.¨ haha I love it. And then on Tuesday we listened to Elder Ballard give a talk. His was very personal. He said he didn´t want to talk as an apostle, but as a grandfather to his grandchildren. So Elder Scott came to me one night and asked if I could give him a blessing of comfort. It was so amazing. The Lord promised him so many things. I feel just as blessed as he was. This Gospel is so amazing and I hate being trapped here in this prison for 5 more weeks!! haha No, the CCM is actually teaching me so much. Not only the language, but also about planning out everything we do. (Even though 90%of what we plan gets changed.) Well I love you guys so much! Everyone has been such an inspiration for me to keep moving forward.

P.S. There´s a lot of tan suits and nice watches here.

Elder Carter and his district at MTC.

I'm Alive!

Okay first of all this keyboard is in a spanish layout and I´m totally confused. Anyway! I made it! Ther flight was rough. Super long and we had to wait about 2 hours for the next group of missionaries to come through. I only have a couple minutes to write this, so Mom, when was my last tetnis shot? it says 96 and I hope that´s not right. My pdays are  on Thursdays, so that´s when my next letter will be. My companion is Elder Quick. I haven´t met him yet, but I will after I send this. I got my tags! so I really need to go, I´ll let you know how everything is going next week!

Love you all, Elder Carter.

He's on his way!!

We left the house at 3:45 am for a 6 am flight. Go give 'em heaven McKay!

Last Family Dinner!

We went out for Elder Carter's last dinner with his family. Of course the only picture we got of him, he was looking away from the camera! 3 More Days!!

Sending Letters To The MTC

If you would like to send letters to Elder Carter in the MTC, the address is

Elder McKay Douglas Carter
Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission
Mexico Missionary Training Center
Carretera Tenayuca-Chalmita #828
Colonia Zona Escolar, Gustavo A. Madero
07230 Mexico, Distrito Federal
Mexico

You can also email him at mckay.carter@myldsmail.net

4 More Days!

We went out and took Elder Carter's mission pictures a few days ago! We just got them in and here are a few of the ones we liked!