Into the Field!

Today Tyson woke up bright and early (5:15am his time or 10:15pm our time) to get ready to leave the MTC. He said in his email Tuesday that he will be sad to leave, he has loved his time there and met so many great friends, .a lot who are not in his mission. He was looking forward to getting into the field and hopes he has a great trainer. Thats what I hope too! I can't wait to hear where his first area is! Here is his email from this week!

Elder Bourne and his Companion Elder Mauerhan.

Elder Bourne with Elder Bevans

Elder Bourne with his room mate Elder Clabaux

 Hello everyone!

So this week has flown past... It seems like I was just emailing and

boom. Here I am again haha. So this week as a whole MTC we went on a

church history tour! We went into Preston and toured the city where

the first apostles arrived and where they began preaching. That was

such a cool experience to see how the places haven't changed all that

much. One balcony where they preached is still there! We visited a

house where those early apostles stayed, and they had an account with

the devil, I think it was Heber C. Kimball gave another guy a blessing

and was thrown across the room. Then they could all see the "Devils"

in the room and they used their priesthood to get rid of them. Next we

went to the River Ribble, where the first baptisms happened in

England. The city of Preston has made a park and it has a sign that

talks about how significant this place is the the LDS church! After

that we walked through the park and came onto a street, just some

random street we all thought, but then we stopped in front of this

house and our guide told us that this was the house President Hinckley

lived in while he served his mission, that is also the same place

where he received the letter from his dad stating "forget yourself and

go to work." So that was super cool!! After that we visited a little

town called Downam (I have no idea how it is spelt) and it was this

little village in the English country side where this family legit

bought every house in the 1600 and if anyone wanted to do anything

they had to go through this family to change the house and such. This

is also a spot Elder Holland has been know to come to ponder. He

received revelation on where to build a temple in this area, and got

the answer Chorley or better know as the Preston temple.

We went on splits yesterday and I actually got to talk in the lesson

haha, the teacher who we were teaching came running after me and Elder

Gago and told me that was the best I had ever taught and I needed to

talk to Elder Mauerhan and tell him he needs to stop talking so much

and let me talk because I have a spirit about me and I know my stuff..

So that was super reassuring!

I've actually loved the MTC. I could not imagine going to Provo and

seeing new people all the time.. I can say I've talked to every single

person here at least once! I love love love having a small MTC because

you just feel like a huge family! It's so awesome! The time here has

flown past, it doesn't seem like I've been here for 3 weeks.. I'm

nervous and excited to get out of here. Mostly nervous because I don't

wanna be in the city right of the bat haha.

So they feed us a lot of lamb here, and I actually really enjoy it!

Yorkshire pudding is to die for.. Those are the best thing ever on

Sunday! We have a TON of potatoes. Legit almost every meal. Soo

everyone has been constipated 😂😂 we've all been taking stool

softener because we don't poop for like 3 days hahahah. One elder said

it best "I push for a mile and I get an inch! This is definitely me

learning patience and perseverance!"

Anyways that's all for this week!

Elder Bourne