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Christmas in the MTC

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This is my and my companion (from New Zealand) first white Christmas 6'5, 6'2, 6'3, 6'7  Two midgets between giants Steele, Gemmel, Packard, MacKay The elders in my district are from Payson Utah, SLC Utah, and my companion is from New Zealand. He knows Elder Hemi. We will be out of here on January 26 . However, they are moving us Dutchies to a different branch in a few days. We will be with the Albanians, Hungarians and Turkish. I hope they don't move us to a different living space. There are only 6 elders on our whole floor. The other changes that will be happening are that we no longer have a scheduled time for laundry and that we have not time limit or schedule for emailing on p day, and we can also email during our additional study times on any day. That will be  in 5 days . This is how much snow we got on Christmas day The Dutch is coming along really well. For only two week, I am actually beginning to be able to almost spea

Arrival in the MTC

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On September 16, 2015, after many months of waiting, Connely embarked upon a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,  and an adventure of the highest sort. This blog is the story of his adventures. The thumbs up with Coleton Coleton flew to the MTC in Provo, Utah, with one of his childhood friends Coleton, (who will hereafter be referred to as Elder Paolacci) I am on the left. The next two elders are Danish. Elder Brown, Elder Kennedy, Elder Gemmell, Elder Mackay, Elder Steele . Upon arrival, Connely was paired with a companion, Elder Gemmell. Elder Gemmell is from New Zealand. From here on out, the blog will be written in Connely's own words. How is it going? P-day is Wednesday but they let us send an email today to let you know that we are alive. There are 3 other Elders. Elder Steele and Elder Mackay are both from Utah and are huge. They both play basketball. One is 6'5" and 230 lbs and the other 6&#