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Saturday, Nov 18 The highlight of the day was a extremely frustrating yet very helpful meeting with Brother Jolley (one of my district teachers) he was acting as an investigator. As a class we were trying to teach him about the restoration and Joseph Smith. He was a christian and didn't believe in modern day prophets and we were trying to prove to him that Joseph Smith was a prophet which doesn't work at all. In that lesson, I learned that you can't force anything upon someone. They need to pray and learn for themselves if it is true or not. That day I also found something that Gordon B. Hinkley said, it is "forget yourself, and go to work". This really hit me hard because when you are on a mission you are doing the Lords work and that's the most important thing while you're out here. Sunday, Nov 19 Sunday was my first day as the zone leader. Sundays here are crazy busy. First thing in the morning, we had a zone conference for all the leaders. Then after Elder Tuttle and I taught the priesthood lesson, I wasn't sure exactly how I was supposed to teach it because we all already knew it but it turned out well and I even learned |
| from some of the elders in there. At the end of the night, we listened to a talk by Elder Bednar. The one thing that stood out or more the only thing I got out of it because I was so tired was one of his ideas. The idea is to read the whole Book of Mormon with a question or something you want to learn about in mind; mark it however you want but at the end write a summary of what you learned. Then do this over and over with anything you want to learn about and by the time you get to be his age, you'll have hundreds of them. Oh and the sisters also got the whole district to join choir. I don't know how it happened but that's okay. Monday, Nov 20 This was a great day. the whole morning we studied really hard, its amazing what you learn and how much you can learn when you have a devoted study time. for our first class we taught Franchesco our teachers "investigator"again and this lesson turned out great it made up for how bad the last one was haha. In our class that night, we |
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learned how to use our words better when teaching and for e t really helped because I've never been the best at talking and being super open. Both of my teachers teach in very different ways but they both work so well and I think it's good that they teach differently because out in Oregon not everybody will be alike. The MTC isn't easy nor did I expect it to be. The one thing I really wasn't expecting was how much and how quickly it would change me. I have become so much more social, I have learned to get along with people better and how to get my point across. I love what it is doing for me. I am also so thankful for my district, we have all grown so close so quickly and it has created an environment where we are all comfortable and open with each other. They all bring something unique and I am so thankful for that.
Tuesday, Nov 21
Not a whole lot happened this day. the biggest part of it was that Gifford Nelson of the Quorum of the 70 came and talked to us and brought along Janice Perry. Janice wrote alot of the music that we sing in church and so in choir we sang one of her songs that she wrote but never got big, this was the first time that she had ever heard a choir sing that song. she was extremely funny though and just kept cracking jokes throughout the whole thing, the MTC president was just shaking his head because he knew he couldn't do anything about it. the only thing I got out of Elder Nelson's talk was the |
| importance of the Book of Mormon and either you find scriptures or they find you. This made me reflect on how many times scriptures had found me that have impacted my life. The one that stood out to me the most that day was 2 Nephi 10:20.
Wednesday Nov 22
I think one of the reasons i haven't gone crazy yet is because of my district. they are like a family already even though I haven't known them for much over a week. It's going to be hard saying bye to them after the 4 weeks are up but we will see each other after our missions. Without being able to work on my truck all the time, its been kind of hard to get my mind off of things. One of the things that I have found that works for me is drawing people and faces. I'm not the greatest at drawing or sketching, its just kind of a mess but you can pretty well tell who it is. Maybe i'll send some pictures of them in the coming weeks. The biggest thing I learned today is that you always want to ask the investigator why they are meeting with you. This will give you so much information. It's weird because some days you learn lots of little things and other days you learn a little but they are bigger.
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| Thursday, Nov 23 Thanksgiving is a very special day here at the MTC. We had a couple of different things go on during the day. The first one was that Elder David Bednar and his wife came and spoke to us. I learned that perfect means complete, not do everything without mistake. this changed the way looked at things because we are always told to be like Jesus who is perfect. He was without sin but he was also complete and had everything he needed and what his purpose was. this changed how looked at with trying to be with Jesus. our thanksgiving dinner wasnt the greatest, the potatoes were alright, the turkey was okay, it definitely wasn't my dads smoked turkey like back at home. We also did a service project where we put together food packets for hungry children, this was a lot of fun but it was also very hot in the parking garage. For the final devotional, the national tribute band came and sang to us which we all enjoyed a lot, the choir even got to sing a couple of songs that we had been practicing in choir practice. |
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| Ahhhhh..... surprise!!!! Christmas lights:) |
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