Nicholas Fernhout in the Belgium/Netherlands Mission: First Week in the MTC

After a delayed flight out of Lethbridge, lost luggage, and a night in Calgary, Elder Fernhout finally made it to the MTC on Thursday December 29th. (His Uncle Mike found his luggage at the SLC airport). He had a nice visit with his aunt, uncle, and cousins before Mike drove him to the MTC where he started into mission life right away, no time to waste!

Questions for him:
1. Where is your companion from and do you have a lot in common?
2. How is the Dutch coming along?
3. What is your favourite thing about the MTC so far?
4. Do you need anything, did you forget anything?

From Elder Fernhout:
Hey mum, so my companion lives about 30 minutes away his first name is Keaton, he is easy going and we get along good. Dutch is going really well, i can say a short prayer and a little testimony and a few other random phrases. They teach you so much every day, classes are 9 hours. My favourite thing would have to be the language classes because they are fun, but i also like being with all these other guys and having fun and learning with them. I would like about 3 hangers. If you write my a dear elder on the computer they will print it off and bring it to me, we check the mail everyday to i will get it that day. I might have more computer time later so i can respond to another email if you write back soon. Ask me all kinds of questions and ill answer them!

Interesting comments from our Hangouts chat:
1. His companion, Elder Tanner, is from Utah. Other missionaries are from Ohio (2 of them), Oregon, Taiwan, and Calgary; so 2 Canadians out of 7! There is only 1 zuster (her companion is in the Hungarian district they are paired with). There is only 1 Dutch district in the MTC.
2. There are approximately 1500 missionaries in residence at the MTC currently and about half are sisters.
3. He gets up at 6:00 am everyday and breakfast is at 7:00 am. A lot of hours are spent in the classroom so he is grateful for gym time.