Elder Spencer Halls

Well everybody my time at the MTC is pretty much over! We have less days left than we have had weeks here and it's getting super real! The excitement in the zone about getting to our fields of labor is through the roof! We're going to be sad to say goodbye to everyone but it is crazy that this moment is here and this time next week I'll be doing the real thing somewhere out in Ukraine!  Now to this week! We've been having a great week we are putting in lots of hard work trying to make this last week the best we can and it has been super amazing so far! We've had a strong spirit with us and our Russian has been coming along really well also!! On friday we got our flight plans and I will be leaving the MTC on monday to go to PARIS and then from Paris we fly to Ukraine! We lucked out with our flight plans others in our zone have to leave pretty early but we'll each lunch here at the MTC or (the last supper) and then from there we'll all head out to the ...

Another amazing week!! It's crazy to me that my time here at the MTC is almost up! I only have one more P-day where I'll right you and then my weekly email after that will be from Ukraine! Many different things and experiences in the past week have been getting me excited to get to Ukraine and begin to serve the people there and share the message of the gospel with them! I love to serve and I love this work and I love the people of Ukraine. A few things that happened from this week! The Russian is coming along really well I feel like there is a break through everyday when I sit back and realize how far I've come it really is super amazing! I know it is only through the hand of the Lord and the gift of tongues that I have been able to learn as much as I have! I just am so excited about the language I love to speak it and study it and talk about it with others haha! I wish everyone knew a little Russian because then a lot more things I find funny and exciting about it wou...

Another week down here at the MTC and it's crazy to think that I'll only have two more p-days here in the MTC and then I will be off to Ukraine joining all my fellow missionaries!! I'm really excited about getting there and beginning to invite the Ukrainians to come unto Christ! I have been blessed to have been raised in the gospel and always have it be a part of my life and I'm beyond grateful for the opportunity I have to bring that to others and gather scattered Israel! A little update on myself and how I'm doing it has been a really amazing week for me I'm finding out a lot about how I can be and instrument in the Lord's hands and what recognizing the spirit and following promptings that I receive really means. As I've worked and got better at it I really feel myself building that connection with the spirit and growing closer to the Savior and it gets me so happy and excited! I find great joy in serving others and always had, I'm happy to have ...

Another week is down at the MTC and this has been an exciting one! There is a lot of anticipation building for conference and everyone is getting really excited! I have never been so pumped about getting to hear from our leaders of the church and I'm so ready to hear from them and also learn for them! It's so important that we prepare ourselves for conference in a way that we can maximize what we learn from our leaders. When I say this I mean preparing ourselves spiritual to receive revelation for ourselves, coming with questions that we want answered, and being prepared to pay attention and listen to the messages that will be given! I would encourage everyone to get ready and be excited for conference! I know that if we will do this we can have an amazing experience! A little bit about my week now... We've been practicing every morning for choir so we wake up early before everyone else at 5:45 and get ready quietly and go over to what we call the...

Another week down at the MTC!! It's super awesome but all the days kind of melt together and everything goes really fast so when P-days hit it's always a challenge to remember what happened and what stories I can or was planning on sharing with everyone but I always seem to get through it so here it goes.. We had the opportunity again to go to the temple! Which is one of my favorite moments of the week! One thing that makes it so special is because our P-day is on wednesday and our temple time starts at 12:30 we always go to the temple when the weeks incoming missionaries are taking pictures with their families in front of the temple and saying there goodbyes! Sometimes we see people who we know and if we don't it's always so great anyway! Because it reminds us of the love we have for our families and that this gospel is here to bless us and the gospel in the home really strengthens those family relationships and is so amazing and that's a message I am exci...

Another week in the MTC down and it seems like I was sending my last weekly email just yesterday so it's all kinda a little bit crazy and fast at the same time but that is just because being a missionary is so awesome!!  This week was filled with so many highlights but also so sad things that were hard as well! I'm doing totally okay so now worries about that! I'm gonna jump right in and tell all of you about my week!! Thursday I had some great strides I have started to make in the language! Some times on the mission and in life it is hard for us to see the progress that we are making even when it is there and when we are progressing. This is because sometimes those little difference don't feel like much to us. But when we take moments to look back and reflect we can really see how well we are doing! We had TRC on Thursday where you basically teach members of the Church lessons but you do it all in Russian! So it's super fun because there isn't as much w...

Another great week at the MTC down! I'll kind of give you all a little recap and maybe hit on some of the highlights! After I emailed on Wednesday we went to the temple as a district and that was a super great experience! We all look forward to being able to go and being there the spirit is so strong and it is just always a great experience.  I thought I'd share a little bit about what are schedule is like during the normal days here at the MTC like the non P-day or devotional day. It's different for every zone but here is ours. We get up at 6:30 and get ready for the day have breakfast and a little time to study language or the scriptures. Then by 8:30 our first class starts and it is usually half Russian and half teaching skills or gospel discussion, sometimes we teach lessons it just all kind of depends. after that we usually have lunch and then exercise time. Elder Gardiner likes to go lift at the gym so we go on splits and I play basketball with...