Hola familia y amigos,
The MTC is most excellent.  I'm enjoying it thoroughly now.  After the first weekend things have really flown.  We've had our first "normal" week as far as scheduling goes and it is very nice.  My teachers are very awesome.  They are extremely good and really know what it takes to be a good missionary and have given me a ton of excellent advice. 
I admit that my last e-mail expressed some naivety and some impatience.  I really appreciate the advice that has been sent back to me.  I'm learning to be much more patient and to do my best.  The MTC and the Spirit are teaching me a lot of important skills socially, mentally, and spiritually.  It's been really great.  I have thoroughly enjoyed the meetings I have been able to attend so far.  They are very inspiring.  I have not felt the power, and spirit of the gospel this strongly before.  Right from the beginning they've been having us get out of our comfort zones and teach.  My companion is really awesome to work with.  We have gotten a lot of excellent feedback from teachers, and fellow missionaries on ways to improve our teaching and we have taken them to heart.  This is all of course in English, so it'll be a fun game when I get to teach lessons and try to answer difficult gospel questions in espanol.  ha ha.  The elders in my district have come up with a fun way to practice our Spanish.  We play a game where were  one person reads a phrase or word in Spanish and whoever gets it right first doesn't have to do a push up.  It's pretty fun, plus we practice our vocab, plus we get in shape from having to suffer for our wrong answers.  There's a lot of creativity that goes on here.  Sequestering does that to people I think. 
We got to watch the Joseph Smith movie last night after our Sunday night fireside (you know, the one they show at the Joseph Smith building) and it was awesome.  That and a lot of other things is deeping my conviction of the importance of the restoration and why people need it.  You get to feel the spirit very strongly a lot here.  It's great.  No one looks at you funny when you just kneel down and pray in the middle of anywhere.
There's a cool thing that they've started here.  Some of you may have heard of the Referral Center where people can call and talk to missionaries about the church.  They still have that, but they've also added a chatting section.  My district and I can get on the internet and chat with people about the gospel.  On mormon.org you can click "ask a question" and chat with the missionaries here at the MTC.  How cool!  some people get on just to mess around, but there are some serious investigators that get on.  I got to talk to one yesterday (Sunday) and it was so cool.  It was a girl who wanted to increase her understanding of the churches around her (she was a Lutheran) and was asking some legitimate questions.  I was getting around to talking about the basic restoration lesson, when we had to leave to go to mission conference (happens every fast Sunday).  I had to transfer her to another missionary and I was sad, cuz it was so fun. 
Fast Sunday is great because you get to hear a bunch of missionaries bear their testimonies.  There was a district leaving today, so most of them got up and bore their testimonies and it was really powerful.  Some of them were in Spanish (I could actually understand most of them), and some were in English.  Either way you could really feel their love for the gospel, and you were excited that you got to be a part of this great work with them. 
I'm really grateful to be a part of this, and I thank you all for supporting me.  I can only write letters and e-mails on Mondays so I will try my best to communicate despite the slowness.  Anyways, the gospel is true, and we can all know it for ourselves.  It is really a "marvelous work and a wonder."  Good luck in the real world and write me letters:
 

Elder