Felt, Michael PT

I can't believe I've been gone for almost 8 weeks. Time is just flying by. Days feel like weeks and weeks feel like days, literally. I love the mission more than anything. I can't think of anything that I'd rather be doing in my life right now. I'M LIVING THE DREAM.     On Wednesday evening, I was saying my personal prayers before bed when our bunk bed started shaking. I jumped up and looked around, I was very confused. My comp was in the other room. At first I assumed that he had slammed a door on accident but nope, my bed just randomly shook. Trying not to be creeped out and just forget about it, I continued my prayer. A minute later, the bunk bed started shaking again but this time it was way more intense. I ran out of the room to find EVERYTHING shaking. The ground below my feet was moving. It was an EARTHQUAKE!! My first one! It was so much fun. I also tried cow tongue this week, it was very interesting.     So this week has been quite miraculous. We had 5 inve...

Hello everybody!!     So I am officially in the mission field and I couldn't be happier. It's a little town about 45 minutes outside of San Jose. It's in the middle of nowhere haha it's surrounded by never ending fields and hills. It's quite gorgeous. Our area is half bike and half car, I love riding bikes and being the typical missionary everyone always sees haha. So my companion is Elder Hunt. He is a STUD. I seriously got so lucky. He was serving in El Salvador at first for 8 months but got a disease from a certain mosquito so he switched into the San Jose mission about 6 months ago. I am so blessed to have him as my trainer, I'm going to learn so much. We are teaching about 5 families right now and about 8 other people. They are all really different and have different needs, but I love them all the same. We are inviting a lot of them to be baptized this week so hopefully it all works out. Whenever I'm feeling down or unqualified, I think about my investi...

Wow, I can't believe how fast time flies. I feel like I just arrived here yesterday. For the past couple weeks, my district got to welcome all the new missionaries!! It was way fun. It was kind of funny to see all their faces and notice how stressed/freaked out they were because I remember being exactly like that! It's about to happen all over again as I enter into the field. AHHHH I'M SO PUMPED!! I can't wait to be living the dream on the west coast, reeling in the Lord's sheep and serving the people.     So Halloween here was insane. The city didn't sleep for about 3 days. Cannons and fireworks were going off like crazy, I loved it. But the day after Halloween is quite different. They call it "Diá de Muertos' ' which means day of the dead. It's a very sacred time for the natives. Cemeteries all over the city are decorated with flowers and lights. They set up little memorial decorations all over their home. They do this to remember their dead. ...