Week 5~Visa arrived!

Well I don't think I really have a ton to talk about this week, there's only so much that can happen in the MTC when all you do is study and eat and sleep haha. But it has been another great week! It has been kind of crazy because my original date to leave was November 14th or this saturday, but up until yesterday I hadn't received any word on if or when I would actually leave for Argentina and I was convinced that I would be going stateside for a while because I only submitted my visa stuff like a week before coming in. So yeah pretty much everyone else had their paperwork and travel plans already except for Elder Hansen and I.. So everyone made guesses of where we were going to get reassigned to in the states and we had a little chart on the board with our guesses, but then yesterday morning we got a message saying we needed to go to the travel office and they gave us OUR FLIGHT PLANS. I was so dang excited. Possibly more excited than when I got my mission call.. maybe. I don't know.. Because now it's actually real. I'm pretty sure I did like five really aggressive fist pumps. So yeah.. you know I was excited. That was definitely the highlight of the week. 

We got to hear from another Apostle this past tuesday (Quentin L. Cook) which is always such a special opportunity because their testimonies are so powerful and you just know that they truly know Jesus Christ. I love how they always close their testimony by saying, " I bear solemn witness of Jesus Christ" or something along those lines. It's a lot different to me from saying I know Jesus Christ lives or I have a testimony of Jesus Christ. They are saying that they know him. They lead this church under the direction of our Savior and it's so clear when you listen to them speak and you feel the Spirit that they bring. I love how happy they are. They are not caught up in the problems and concerns of the world because they have an eternal perspective and they know that this life is so small in the grand scheme of things.. Not to belittle the importance of this life. I am going on too long, but I think that is something that has really changed in me as I have been here in the MTC. The more I have gained this understanding, the more I desire to do good and serve others.

I know I have a long way to go and a lot to learn. I also know that I need to be humbled. But better than being compelled to be humble is to humble ourselves, so I am striving to do that. In return I know that Heavenly Father will guide and direct me in all things. 

Sorry I got super preachy, but I guess that's my fall back when I don't have any funny stories. It has been like zero degrees all week here and the weather in argentina is getting as high as 100 degrees so in one day we could be potentially changing 100 degrees in weather, so that will be interesting. I am so excited to go! Life is super good. I am happier than I have ever been.

Elder Herzog

Please tell the Marzarella family thank you so much for the sweet Christmas package they sent me. That was super unexpected and very kind of them. I plan on sending them a letter to say thanks, but just wanted them to know about that. 

Kenna has also sent me some awesome stuff in the mail! She sent me these cute little turkey cookies for thanksgiving and then for Christmas she sent me a super awesome blanket and some cookies! She made little like elder name tag cookies,they're sweet. She has been awesome. 

So yes I am definitely feeling the love and am receiving way more than I deserve or ever expected. So thank you.

They were called "los chicos perdidos" 

The lost boys haha