MTC - Week 5... Travel Plans and Phone Calls

Alright, I have my travel plans. I'm flying Delta to Atlanta, I have just under a 3 hour layover there, then I'm flying Delta down to Argentina. It's an 11 hour flight to Buenos Aires. My group (which has 5 people) will meet up with a travel agent down there, then we'll get on a bus that will probs be around 14 hours. So yeah... it's gonna be an experience for sure haha! I'm leaving the MTC at 9:20am on Monday, May 9th. I can't remember when my flight is. I'm super pumped for Cafe Rio at the airport... (I read on one Elder's blog from Alex's mission that he left the MTC Monday morning and arrived in his area on Friday! It looks like Alex is on the same travel time frame... He won't even arrive in his mission until Wednesday!)

Tell Sofia and Kevin that I wish them good luck! Tell Nikki that she's nuts. 

As for the prepaid phone, I don't think it's gonna be necessary, they'll have a computer that I call you from (not Skype) here at the MTC. For the Mother's Day call, they actually only give us 30 minutes. My district will be calling from 3:15 to 3:45pm. I'm also gonna buy a calling card for the airport. Unless you want to get a prepaid phone, because then I could talk to you guys for a long time. If I use the calling card, I'll have to share a payphone with the other elders and sisters at the airport.

As for cool stuff that happened this week... my companion and I finished up with a couple of investigators. The saddest one was Nicholas. He was soooo awesome! He gave Elder Thomas and I his email and Facebook though, and told us to write him, so that's cool. Spanish is going fine. I'm trying to read the BOM all the way through, and I'm halfway through 3rd Nephi, so that's legit. Bonnie L. Oscarson came last night, which was cool, but the review that my district had after was even cooler, the spirit was really strong. 

There's a bunch of people I know here from random places, so that's always fun. 

For gym time, Elder Thomas and I have started playing vollyball with our zone, and it gets pretty heated, so that's awesome. I've grown to love the MTC, but I'm really excited to leave. When the travel plans came, the desire to be gone hit me like a wall. 

For breaking the fast on Sunday, my zone was written into MTC legend. We decided to see how many bowls of cereal we could eat. There are 21 people. 2 didn't participate. We ate 118 bowls of cereal. #ESQUADRON Anyways, this week was good, I get to call you on Sunday and Monday, so that will be fun. I'm really excited to talk to you! 

Tell the family I love em a ton. I love you Mom! Thank you sooo much for all you do! 
- Elder Jiménez

MTC Zone

After he told me he was excited for Cafe Rio at the SLC airport, I checked Altanta, and they have two Chick-fil-A's, so he'll get another treat there.  He's excited, but here's his response... As for Chick-fil-a, THATS GONNA BE SWEET! I'll probably spill though...