Well...there is no system of time here in the MTC. It seems like just yesterday I was writing my last email, and yet, the days are so long here that I also feel like I have been here for an eternity!This week was probably a lot more normal than the last one. Most of my district is now feeling better and we are getting healthy. We also lost most of our zone today because they were shipped off to Chile. So my district is now the 2nd oldest in the zone, though I still feel like the babies! Our district will be cut down to 10/12 on Tuesday when 2 of them head out to the Guatemala MTC for 6 weeks. We will miss them very much, but now we might actually have some space in the classroom to breathe!

Last Tuesday, the day after I last wrote, the devotional was Richard C. Edgley of the Presiding Bishopric. His talk was pretty interesting. But there are so many devotionals that it is hard to remember what they all talked about. But I do know this, this week all of the new mission presidents are coming to the MTC for a training seminar. The Tuesday devotional has been switched to this upcoming Friday, and I am almost positive a member of the First Presidency will be here, I can't wait! Also my new mission president should be here as well.

This last Thursday I had my first experience at the Referral Center. The Referral Center is a place where missionaries go and take outbound or make inbound calls to people who ordered free items from mormon.org. I don't particularly like making calls, but I do like the chat feature. We are also permitted to get online and chat with people on mormon.org who have questions about our church. Most of them are jokers and people that like to waste our time, but my companion and I had the opportunity to help out a girl named Alexandra who had a lot of questions (she was a recent convert). It was a really cool experience.

But, Sundays are by far the best things here in the MTC. There are opportunities to feel the spirit all day long. Every week in sacrament meeting they pick random people from our zone (usually people that are leaving) to give talks in Spanish. So all of us have to prepare a Spanish talk every week. It was a very spiritual Sunday (by the way, last Sunday I sang a musical number in church, Oh Elderes De Israel). The weekly fireside was very good, and I got an opportunity to watch a movie called The Testaments that I had never seen before. It was a great movie, especially when it showed the Savior coming to the Americas at the end, I loved it.

Things around here are starting to get more and more routine. Though its hard to believe, I'm turning into a veteran here. It may seem like I haven't been gone long, but the days are long here. We learn so much so quickly, it really is a miraculous place. I am truly starting to realize my purpose as a missionary here. My purpose is to: Invitar a las personas a venir a Cristo a fin de que reciban el Evangelio Restaurado mediante la fe, el bautismo, el arrepentimiente, la recepcion del don del Espiritu Santo, y perseverar hasta el fin. Refer to the 1st page of Preach MY Gospel, I think I got it all but I'm not sure. Thank you all for your wonderful support, I love you and miss you.

Love,Elder Tyler Tinkham