MTC Week 5

I AM GOING TO ARGENTINA!!!!!!!!!  I GOT MY VISA!!! I am so so so so so so excited!! And so so nervous!! We leave Monday morning at 6:00 our flight is at 11:00 to Atlanta GA! Flight number 1912! We get there 4:45 I am thinking that that is GA time but I don't know for sure! And then our flight for Argentina leaves at 7:51 and we get to Argentina at 7:55 a.m.! Flight number 101 both on delta! It is going to be such a long day and then we have to get to Salta because we fly into Buenos Aires! I still can't believe that I am going straight to Argentina but I am so excited! We don't know how we are getting to Salta all we know is that we are going to the MTC and that is where they will pick us up! Might be a bus might be a plane might be a train we have no idea! But I am so pumped! This week has been good it has just been normal! Teaching is so much fun now because I can talk so I can actually but input into the lesson! I don't know a lot of Spanish but it is for sure coming! It is so great! I am pretty sure that I only have a travelers visa which means I will have to leave the country every six months! But hey another adventure! And I am so excited! There is about 8 of us that are headed to Salta but about 50 of us going to Argentina! A plane full of missionaries! Yesterday L Tom Perry came and talked with us it was super good and it was so much fun to be with a prophet of God! He talked about the importance of always being with our companions! It was super good! Last night after the devotional week and a devo review with our branch president and it was so good! He talked about how we can all do a lot more then we think that we can! Honestly we are children of God! Our heavenly father is a God and he can do anything and we can do anything with his help! Everyone keeps asking for more info about my district so I will talk a little bit about them! We have 4 elders and 4 hermanas! It is so much fun we all get along really well and have the best time! Elder Delgato is from Cali! He played volleyball in high school which is so much fun! Elder Holmes and Elder Correy are both from Utah! And they are super funny really they make me laugh so hard! They call everyone perro susio haha which means dirty dog! Haha just our really funny joke! My comp Hermana Hanks is from Bountiful Hermana Rallison is from Arizona and Hermana Stuaffer is from Sandy! They are all so much fun! Our district can have so much fun but then we can all be so spiritual at the same time! Really we are so close! I am so grateful for all of them because we really have become a little family! Just all cute brothers and sisters! We always play volleyball during gym and we have a ton of good volleyball players so really it is like the best think of my life! Haha I love volleyball way too much! Haha I almost forgot one of the elders, Elder Anderson is from Idaho Falls he is super nice! Haha a big nerd but great! We have two teachers they are both great teachers one is better then the other but they both have such a great view of the gospel I love it so much! I am so grateful for all of the learning that I have gained here! Really it is crazy how much I have learned about the gospel and about myself! Both of our teachers are an investigator for us! Their "names" are Rolando and Daniel.  Rolando doesn't believe in God but we have gotten him to pray and he says that he really feels the love of God while he prays! And Daniel has had a hard life recently his family has moved out so he lives alone but he is committed to baptism! We are the only companionship that has gotten though to him everyone else has been dropped so it is a really good feeling!  I really can't believe that I will be leaving Utah for 17 months in 5 days! It is so crazy but I really can't wait to get out and serve and teach! Really it is the coolest thing ever! Thank you all for the prayers I feel them everyday! You are all so amazing! Find the missionaries and help them! You don't realize how much the members help the work! Love you all so much!! Talk to you when I am in Argentina!!!:)

 My zone!!

 For veterans day we dressed up in red white and blue! 

 My favorite teacher Hermano Fonda! 

Hermana Ricks in my zone! My family - She is related to Thomas E Ricks!


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Not a part of Courtney's email, but once she jetted off to Argentina this week we got this fun surprise picture! The person sitting next to her on the airplane text it to us! It was a fun surprise to see her and know that she was on her way! :)