Well .... everything you learned in seminary is great but it does not prepare you for the mission. Seminary helped me a lot with the knowledge, but actually teaching is a lot harder. You have to be able to take what you learn and make it applicable and easy for a child to understand. I also thought that testifying would bring people to Christ. It does, but I have learned you actually want your investigator to testify on their own and you use yours to back it up. They don't lie when they say that the mission is one of the hardest things to do in your life. Although it is hard, and I have learned a ton, I have also loved the MTC. I will try and answer all the questions I have received from emails the best I can.
First off, yes I am alive and well! I didn't think it took so much to make it this far, but it's awesome! The food here is pretty good. I have always been more of a quantity over quality kind of guy so that is great. My companion is... well how can I do him justice... He just makes me cry with laughter at least once a day! He has been super awesome at supporting me when I feel down about myself. He has a great testimony, and like mine, it is growing. Him and I are the district clowns. We have a problem with getting the class off topic and laughing. We are trying to reign it in though. My district is the best! We have bonded so well. It's like a family! We help each other out with the material and we can make each other die with laughter. We just had a fresh batch of newbies. Even though we have been here a week, it has felt like a year. The motto for time around here is "days are like weeks and weeks are like days" ... it is so true! It has gone so fast yet so slow at the same time. We all want to go to Nashville so bad! There are six elders and one sister going to Nashville and three sisters are going to Las Vegas. There is an on going joke in our district, it is talking lazy. That is like saying each word but only the first syllable then the rest of the word fades out. It just makes us laugh so much!
A normal day at the MTC is wake up, study, teach, eat, study, teach, learn and go to bed. We study and plan for like 6 hours of the day. It's like going to school everyday. Then comes the stressful part... actually teaching real investigators. We are getting the hang of it, but it is still so hard. We want them just to say, "I believe and baptize me!" That is never the case. We have two investigators. One of our investigators is Talia. She is super religious already. She grew up in a catholic school but she believes what we are saying and is starting to read and pray about things herself! The other is Zach. He is a BYU student that wants to feel what he has learned at BYU. He knows everything about the church just believing it is the thing we are working with him. We have to keep in our mind our purpose and all we can do is invite and help them come unto the Lord. They have to take their own journey to God and Jesus Christ. It has really taught us to find their needs and find commitments to help them come closer. Missionary work is a lot of "what ifs?" It kills me because I want one answer ... HA!
I will email next week! Wish me luck!
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