Elder Houghton's Blog: Pictures from the MTC

Here's the latest from Scott...

He's still loving it!

Email received 7/12/12:

Hey Everyone!!!! So everything's going pretty great here still!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw Allen {Allen Black is one of Scott's really good friends he's grown up with.} yesterday. His classroom is kiddi-corner from mine so i'll be seeing him all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also my friends Dalyn and Kevin {friends from SUU} came in yesterday and it was really good to see them. Like I said everything is going pretty dang good!!!!!!! One of the Elders in my district going to Madrid left the other day for the Madrid MTC (he was the only one out of the 4 that got his visa) so I took his bed and now I have a bottom bunk and it's SUPER delux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't have to jump down off of my bed every morning and murder my feet!!!!!! Ha ha anyways, like I said everything is going SUPER great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll tell you more in my letter but they don't give us enough time to write out super long e-mails. Oh and I'll also be sending pictures. I'm not allowed to send anything except for on p-days so I haven't had the chance to send them. But I'll send them today. Anyways I love you guys and miss you guys so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Letter from 7/12/12

Hey Everyone!!!!!!

It sounded like your 4th of July was SUPER cool!!!!! That's nuts you had to go out there at 9am on the 3rd. That's like 3 hours earlier than we normally go out there!!! But it sounded fun! Yeah, my 4th was pretty good. They let us watch the fireworks which was super cool!!! And they had a program which I figure was kind of awkward for the British people here :) but I guess it was alright because they tied it into the Gospel and because of Independence Day and the freedom of religion, the Church was able to come about. It was pretty good. Oh, and there was this part where they got the International missionaries to come and carry a flag from their countries. It was cool!!!! But there's this elder in my district (Elder Rockwood) who moved to Germany 6 months before he came on his mission because his dad works for some travel thing for the Church or something, but anyway, he put in his papers from Germany so the MTC thinks he's German even though he 's lived in Colorado pretty much his whole life. Well, they made him carry the German flag and all the real Germans got all made at him. It was pretty funny!!!!

Allen came in yesterday. It was funny because I didn't see him come in because I was eating but after lunch I went around to all the classrooms in my building and looked in all the "peep holes" trying to find him and I finally found him!!! It was pretty sweet!!!! Also my friends Dalyn and Kevincame in yesterday and it was super good to see them too!!!! Anyway, nothing else too crazy has happened. It's still pretty GREAT here!!!!!! I'm learning so much!!!!!!!

I love and miss you all so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our neighbor, Suvinia Purcell, works at the MTC and gives us updates when she see's Scott. She told us that she recently got to talk to him for a few minutes and he is so happy! She said that he looks just like what you would expect a missionary to look. He's happy and healthy and excited to be learning so much. (I have to say that it is comforting to know that she is there!) Thanks Suvinia!

Scott finally sent some pictures!

It's good to see he's doing well!

His room. The rooms are made for 4 elders but they have 6 elders in one room. They are really crammed in there!

This is his classroom that he spends much of his day in. There are 12 elders in his district that he is with all day.

His study materials.

Elder Houghton and his companion Elder Tukia

I think these are the elders he shares a room with. I know Elder Seegmiller (the one on the far right) is his friend from SUU that got his call to Panama the same day and reported the same day as Scott.