2/20/2003

"Well, my second day at the MTC was definitely better than my first. The food here has been very good. There main meal always involves beef and some kind of potato thing. They have like six different fruit drinks. We started the day off with a 3 hour class on the Plan of Salvation. It was pretty boring but I managed to stay awake. President, who used to serve in Manaus, which is in the Amazon, showed us a picture of this huge Anaconda that had a 13 year old boy in it. He showed us a picture of when they cut the snake open and the lower half of the boys body. Today we started learning the language. It's coming along pretty well. I have a little advantage over the other elders because I know a little bit of Spanish and pronunciation. Spanish is very similar to Portuguese. I only missed 1 question on the quiz which was better than any of my roommates. Today me and my companions were called as the District Leaders foe our district which is 8-B!!"