Matt's email 4/26/2010

So I can't believe that I am sitting at the computers in the laundry room again. This week went by so fast. It's hard to explain how time works here but it isn't normal that's for sure. I am getting my flight plans this Thursday and I'm pretty sure I am leaving the 11th or sometime around there. So I have about 2 weeks left. It is crazy. I'm super excited to leave though. I have loved every minute of it but I'm definitely getting sick of doing the exact same things every day. The only thing I get to choose is whether I want to play softball or frisbee. It will be nice to get out and be able to eat real food and see real people. I have to keep working for these next 2 weeks though. Whenever I look forward I get too anxious and we all know I'm not the most patient person so I try to focus on what I'm doing at the moment. Saturday I took this language quiz deal and the teachers "grade" it and out of 7 I got like a 6.3 which means that I have learned and can use about everything they teach at the MTC. The next two weeks will be good for polishing everything that I have learned here and then Argentina will be a whole new learning experience. I was pretty excited about it and it gave me a confidence boost for sure. We have the opportunity to talk with natives learning english every week and I can have a legit conversation with them about things other than the Gospel and that is really cool. They wanted Elder Easley and I to do a contact in English so they could see how we do it and it was the hardest thing. Every contact I ever do is in Spanish and it was super dificult trying to do it in English. It's pretty hard to explain too. But everything is going great here. I have a goal to finish the Book of Mormon by the end of April and I only have like 100 pages left. That's a piece of cake! I started it about 4 weeks ago so I figured if I go at the same pace I can finish it. When I'm done I'm going to get into D&C and I'm really looking forward to that.

My testimony is strengthened every day out here and despite the hard times I have had it has definitely been a life changer.