My first week MTC!

January 18, 2018.

Today was long! It seems like it’s always dark.It’s dark when I wake up, light for lunch, dark again for dinner. I’m still super tired. I’m starting to see all the potential of learning in the MTC as well as the whole mission. I’ve learned so much today, nothing really explainable, but I really liked the calmness of the Spirit (when I wasn’t fighting sleep). I read 1 Corinthians 2:4 [And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power]
and really felt that this is how I need to teach and be a missionary. I need to continue studying and learning more to further my own conversion so I can have the Spirit stronger to teach others.

Day one in the MTC and they’ve already got us teaching investigators, I think my companion and I did OK-ish. There’s a lot of role-playing with fake investigators and I am liking it.

January 19, 2018

Another tired day! Jet lag is the worst. I feel so bad when I start dozing off during someone’s lesson. Last night all of the district leaders were called. My companion, Elder Hick, was called. He’s kind of a shy guy who really didn’t want to be the leader but I’m really glad he was picked because I know it will help him so much with management skills.

Today I spent a lot of time studying about the “restoration“ and why it was so important.

Socially, it’s really “new“ here, we all talk about religion openly. It’s really hard not to talk with everyone and bring myself back to the real reason I’m here. There’s a lot of really cool elders and sisters that I want to spend a lot of time with hanging out and _____.

Speaking of being off-topic (Brandon) there’s a sister that sits next to me in class named Sister Nillson from Sweden and she’s going to Pennsylvania. Anyway, she’s teaching me Swedish so I can talk with Brittany. Swedish is hard and has a bunch of weird sounds that I can’t make, even counting 1 to 10 seems impossible.

January 20, 2018

Jet lag is finally over-ish.... I think since I didn't fall asleep during anyones lesson today.. I read John 7:17 [“If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.”] today and really liked it. We have to liv/act the way we want to live. Righteously or not . I really like the social aspect here at the MTC, we can talk about anything all day as we study. There's a lot of cool people here. It's a little weird how unlike highschool it is. The classes are more free and there's no gossip because we all love each other. I also love the time slots (except for waking up at 6:30am) but we just read the scriptures and chill all day. During our last class we practiced asking someone in our district to be baptized but they had to say "no" for some reason. I asked the teacher what to say if they said they don't believe in a God and he said that whoever I go with has to say that's their reason.... It was hard but once the spirit stated talking there was no way she could've said no. (I made her cry a little)