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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Day in the Life of the MTC

6:15: Alarm goes off
6:30: Wake up, pray, brush teeth, go put on shorts and shoes to work out.
7:00: Usually we just go up to the field and play volleyball or run around the field.
7:40: Showers, get dressed, put on nametag, walk to cafeteria.
8:10: Eat breakfast in cafeteria, usually cereal, milk, and a banana
8:30: Start "Ciclo" which is 1 hour personal study, 1 hour companionship study, and 1 hour language study.  Usually studying scriptures and language guides.
12:50: go to lunch in cafeteria/get mail because I am the DL.
1:30: Head back to classroom and either have Hermana Barlow or Hermano Wooden teach us for the next 3 hours.  We pray, sing a hymn, and recite Our Purpose, a Baptismal Invitation, and Joseph Smith's first vision from memory in Spanish.  The three hours are usually split up into 1 hour of grammar study, 1 hour of Preach My Gospel study, and 1 hour of teaching a lesson. 
5:00: go get mail again, and then go to dinner. 
5:45: Head back to the classroom again, and whoever didn't teach in the afternoon will teach us following the same format as before. 
9:00: plan for 15-30 minutes for the next day in classroom.
9:30: Get back to room, take off shirt and tie and shoes and write in journal, write letters, read some scriptures, or hang out with the homies on my floor for an hour before bedtime. 
10:30: Lights out. Brush teeth, say prayers, Elder Roderick says "Buenas Noches"  and lay in bed until I can sleep.