Hey there family! 
How is everyone? I am doing absolutely fantastic! Loving the MTC and learning Spanish and everything. So I've had some requests for photos so I will send some next week :) Sorry but my camera is in the classroom and honestly I need to take more pictures. But everything is going really really well. So as I've been here at the MTC I've been pondering a lot. When you have 3-4 hours of required study time you have a lot of time to ponder :) But as I have thought about life I've come to realize what life is really all about. Pretty crazy right? But this is what I have decided life is all about: progression. Everything we do, everything we are is centered around our own eternal progression. So a few things you need for progression, first is a direction. Our obvious direction is to get back to our Father in Heaven and live with him again in Celestial Glory, but how do we do that? I'd submit that it is this. The best way to go through life is straight down the straight and narrow. You don't move from side to side, you go right down the middle and make it to that tree of life. But sadly we are all human and we make mistakes. A lot of times we are going in the middle of the straight and narrow. We are doing what we are supposed to and really are just living really good lives, but then we sin. Now when we sin, people always say that we go off the straight and narrow. I disagree. I think that when we sin we make an angle. We angle ourselves to the right or the left and as we continue sinning we eventually move off that straight and narrow. So how do we stop this? We stop by changing our direction and progressing forward. We are always moving on the path to the tree of life. We never stop and rest, we continuously continue onward. And it's the same if we are off the path. We are continuously moving further and further off the path unless we change our direction. I wish I could draw a picture of this, it makes so much more sense if you can see it. But the important part is, we can always change our angle. No matter how far off the path we get we can always angle ourselves back to the path. And we must do so. Repentance is the only way back to our Father in Heaven, it is the secret to progression. If you move off the path, turn back. It is as simple as that. Just repent, just change, just do it. It's so simple that often we take it for granted. It is one of the most precious gifts our Heavenly Father has given us, now we need to use it. 
One more thought before I go. Just remember that you are all eagles. You were all born eagles. You are all children of a King, you are all princes and princesses of the skies. Everyone on this earth is an eagle. We all have inherited that from our Father. We all have the potential to soar in the heavens, high above the clouds. But so often we stay glued to the earth, pecking and scratching in the dust like chickens. You are eagles, there are no chickens in the world, just eagles who have forgotten who they are. Remember that. You can soar. You ARE eagles.