MTC Week 4

Hello everyone!

Wow less than 2 weeks left, so crazy. I am kind of glad but not at the same time haha. I want to learn as much Danish as I can, but it has been a long time at the MTC. I feel I will learn the Danish language faster if I'm in Denmark. So tomorrow I find out if my Visa has came in and I recieve my itinerary also. We're still crossing our fingers for our visa's. Oh before I forget, on everyones next copy of the Ensign I believe they will have a picture of us in the Marriot Center. They had a MTC Broadcast by Richard G. Hinkley. Such an awesome talk, I loved it the most because I could here our past prophet's voice, President Gordon B. Hinkley. I'm not exactly sure where he falls under the relation of President Hinkley but it was amazing to catch it. Anyways the picture, after the end of the talk they had us stay in our seats for an MTC picture. This was a historical event, as we were told, because the Provo MTC has only had the missionary pictures done 2 other times. So our picture goes up on the wall as the 3rd picture ever to be taken. You will notice the choir on the left handed side. A whole column of sisters and a whole column of Elders. I was sitting in the column left of the Right of the Elders. I was about 15ish rows up from the bottom. So here's your game of eye spy when it comes in.

We have had swedish and norwegian teachers Monday thru Thursday last week and Yesterday for a Dutch in the mornings. Because our teacher had an emergency and left unexpectedly. So we have been doing English in the morning because thier languange is weird to understand. Not as cool as our language haha. We have a new group of Dutchies that came in. We lost about 30 and we gained about 30. Crazy. The Dutch teacher yesterday said that they have doubled thier mission and it has grown more than when he was out there in the Netherlands. The mission is so big that they are having missionaries go to places in the Netherlands that have not been visited in almost 20 years. Amazing how this work is beening done.

We had the opportunity to Skype actual Danish people yesterday. Such a cool expierernce. We had two Danish women in their 20's talk to us. One girl was named Heidi she lives in Copenhagen and she served in the temple square mission. The other was Natalie and I'm not even going to try to say where she lives haha. Our objective was to share a message with them. We shared our message on Fatih and coming unto Christ. By the end of the lesson we asked them how we did, were they able to understand us? They said that they could understand us just fine and that they were very impressed on how much we know the language. That built our confiedence but there is still alot to learn. I know the Lord has helped me the most with this language. There is no way I could do this on my own.

I want to thank those who sent me that package. I loved reading each of those letters. I'm so glad to have everyone I know as a friend. You all are amazing!

We thanks again everyone. I love you all and miss each one of you. I am so glad though that I can be apart of this amazing work. My testimony has grown so much since this past 4 weeks. Always keep your faith in God and Jesus Christ. Search those promptings and feelings from the spirit. And cherish those moments. Until next week, for the last time you will hear from me at the MTC. Man that's crazy. Have a good one!

-Elder Jantzen Richard Read