Sounds like y'all are having fun back home! That's awesome that the 67th ward dissolved, well they might not feel that way but that'd be a huge blessing for every other ward. How's the shed coming along? How's everyone in the fam doing? Yeah we get to go to the temple every p-day, so we went today and last week at 7 am.  I love the temple so much! So many of the things in there can be related to missions and how we are to serve them. 
Anyways, so my companion, Elder Simmons, is pretty bold.  While we were waiting in line for lunch he got up on the wall, he's a crazy good rock climber, and he basically got everyones attention then bore his testimony and expressed his appreciation for all the other elders and sisters for coming on missions. 
In the past week we watched a devotional given in 2000 by Elder Holland called "The Miracle of a Mission". It was basically the greatest thing I've ever heard and I guess you can only watch it here in the MTC. He talked about how much his mission blessed his life and basically said "Dont you dare go home!" ha I love Elder Holland. We've had a bunch of awesome speakers and I'm loving it.
I've had many spiritual experiences teaching lessons and even contacting. We did our first contact in spanish in a place called the Teaching Resource Center, TRC, and basically the people are volunteers from the community. We contacted her in spanish and we were talking about families and I kinda started getting a little teary eyed and just happy when I testified that families could be together forever. Then we taught a missionary companionship. Elder Schneider, from Scottsdale, was playing his friend Paul as the investigator and his comp. was the member present. We started teaching the first lesson and he had some very good questions that were kinda hard to answer but we told him we'd answer them next time. Then we were talking about the Book of Mormon some how (it was an out of order lesson). I started talking about Joseph Smith and I started to recite the First Vision, the spirit was sooo strong! About halfway through Paul started crying, then we invited to read and pray and then a soft commitment to baptism.  After the lesson was over Elder Schneider told us he was about to end the lesson by saying he had to go to work because he was uninterested but right as I shared the First Vision he just couldnt deny the spirit. So it was really a testimony to me of how we need to rely on the spirit to convert the person. 
Yesterday we had mission conference and then a fireside by the managing director of the missionary department, Stephen B. Allen, it was way awesome and inspiring.
I'm pretty excited for general conference next week and cant wait to learn! If I had come into the MTC a week earlier I would have had the opportunity to be in the choir that will sing at priesthood session but I was too late. It's kind of a bummer, but oh well. One of my zone leaders and other elders in my zone are in it and it'll be cool to see them up there.
My favorite scripture of the week is 2 Nephi 33:1. It's a good one.
Anyways my time is up and I will write again in a week! Also I'll probably send some pictures this week, so be prepared. I know the Lord will bless you all as you strive to be obedient, every blessing comes from obedience.
-Elder Mark Cooley