I
wish I could tell you all the things that have happened so far. The
first week in the mtc is crazzzy. I don't know if I am having a
different experience than Jeremy cuz it seems everything is jam packed
in these 3 weeks that I will be here.
The first day I was pretty much overwhelmed because of the drastic
change from being a normal kid to a dedicated full time missionary. So
many things could stress you out: you are being scheduled to do
something down to the very minute, studying ALOT, always being with your
companion, sometimes lack of sleep/ lack of appetite, and the list goes
on. Just when the first day was over and just when I was getting the
hang of things, the next day I got called as district leader.... It was
a little humbling experience. So I have more duties to do. Ask
melissa, she could probably explain.
In our time here, we are in a classroom for most of the time and
are assigned 2 to 3 teachers teaching us, one male and one female. One
of the teachers (the male teacher) I swear is border line crazy (in a
funny way). He has a very bold testimony. Every teacher has to be a
return missionary and be a byu student. This guy served his mission in
Birmingham Alabama, spanish speaking. I wish I could tell you all the
things I learned from this guy. Basically, the reason he is crazy is
because he will straight up say if you said the wrong answer, growing up
in the church you find out that there aren't really wrong answers but
apparently in Hermano Wright's class, there are now wrong answers. I
never had to try so hard. I guess going to serve in the states where the
church is getting a whole lot of attention, now more than ever help is
needed because more and more questions are being answered and people
need the right answers.
I'm begining to love my district. The exercising time is far from
challenging. The mtc food goes right through. (I actually thought I had
a problem losing my appetite because of stress). I learned that stress
is good because it will drive you to work, it gets bad when there is too
much stress to balance and it becomes distress.
One big thing that brother wright told us that when dealing with
investigators, you have to be careful about teaching people and not
lessons. Half the time when teaching investigators, the main thing that
will be going through their head is "Why the blank do I care?" So he
told us to listen to them and figuring out what they are thinking.
Thinking like an investigator.
Ah man I could go on and on. I may write a letter or something later on. Computers over here get pretty crowded.
Well I love you all, and until next week
Jacob.
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