Elder Tanner Rogers: That's Not Candy, That's a Scrub Daddy

It's crazy to think that I'm already a third of the way done with my MTC experience. I really have enjoyed living with my grandma, although I really don't see her a ton because I'm really busy.

The MTC can be a mental grind at times, but I love it. I really like Elder Sahagun, he's a great companion. I also really like my two teachers. After I sent the email last week I realized that I sent two pictures of Hermano Nieves, and none of Hermano Guitierrez. Hermano Guitierrez makes me laugh every day. His English is good, but not perfect, but he always tries to talk like he's an American teenager. "Muy fuego" or "muy fire" have become catchphrases in the district because he says it all the time. He also frequently says "easy money". When we watched a safety video in class where a sister missionary backed over her companion he laughed so hard and dropped an XD in the chat. Once an elder had to do something because he lost a coin toss, and Hermano Guitierrez just straight faced replies with "democracy bro". I died laughing that time. Anyway, both my teachers are awesome.

Another fun thing is gym class. We have it once a week. The gym teacher doesn't speak very good English, and so he just leads us through a bunch of random exercises and stretches in Spanglish. It makes me laugh so hard for some reason. I'm sitting in my grandma's basement being lead through squats and neck stretches by a Mexican, and some poor Elder or Hermana who got chosen to count out the exercise. The exercises are pretty easy, but I get a good workout from laughing so hard.

Running with John is still going well. Saturday I slept in and so Grandma and I went to Fremont's track where I did 40 laps. I changed direction every 4 to keep it interesting. I ran the ten miles in under an hour so I haven't gotten out of shape yet.

On Sunday my mom brought up one of the greatest things of all time for me - a Scrub Daddy. If you don't know what that is you need to watch the Shark Tank pitch and then get yourself to Walmart to buy one. They are literally the greatest kitchen tool of all time, and I was so happy when my mom brought it up. The next day Grandma made baked apples for breakfast, and there was some Cinnamon baked onto the bowl. It couldn't come out with her normal dish thing, but 30 seconds of me and the Scrub Daddy and that bowl was shiny and sparkly clean.

I absolutely love being a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I'm so excited to hear from the prophet of the Lord at general conference this weekend!!

Keep Grinding

Elder Rogers