Last Week at the MTC

Hey everyone,

Well, i've reached my last week here at the MTC. It's crazy. I can't believe i've come to this point already. Time is flying so fast. Anyways, big important info that I need to talk about. I have my flight plans. I have to leave for the airport at 5am in the morning for my 8:30am flight to Fortworth, Texas. I get to call all you guys before 8:30, my time here in Utah. I hope you guys will be awake so I can talk to you for a while. I then stop at Fortworth, Texas around 12:30pm and have to take a connecting flight to McAllen, Texas at 3:30pm. So that leaves me with about 3 hours to call home again. If you do not answer when i call in the morning, i hope you answer in the afternoon. This is the only time I get to call everyone until Christmas. Please be alert. If i don't have time in the morning to call you, im sorry. I have no idea how long its gonna take me at the airport. But I will FOR SURE call in the afternoon. If I don't get the chance to talk to some of you, sorry. Just wait till Christmas. It's not the end of the world, but i'd love to hear your voices again.

I hope everyone is doing well still. I can't believe it's almost october. Enjoy General Conference because it's going to be great, like always. Oh, and before I mentioned how we could have been in the choir, but the MTC did not get chosen to sing for general conference this year. Darn! Oh well. Anyways, life is doing pretty good here at the MTC. I'm going crazy right now trying to get everything done and stuff. Oh, and mom, i may be sending you stuff like books that I may not need on my mission. I'm only doing this because I have a 90% feeling that my luggage may be overweight. So when you receive it, just put it somewhere or whatever. Don't lose it. Well, I think thats about it. I'll talk to you all hopefully on the phone. If not, my next email will be the email i send from Texas. WOO!!! I'm soo excited.

Ligia....please read Preach my Gospel. It contains so much stuff that you could do for service and talking to others about the church. It's amazing. I read it before the mission and never really quite take it IN my soul until now. lol. Everyone else should do this too. Maybe for family home evenings you could read a chapter and just talk about it and do the activities in it.

I know everyone will benefit from this. Thanks everyone for the letters and emails. Remember if you need to send me something, start sending them to the Texas McAllen mission office. I don't want to risk stuff at the MTC cuz im leaving soon. I'll let you all know ASAP once i get my apartment address and stuff. I love you all. Take care.

Love always,
-Elder Mauricio Velez :)