Hey y'all how ya doing? I hope everything is going well in the outside world and that y'all are staying safe and doing well.
I
basically just finished up my first week of the Home MTC and it was
actually amazing. Going into this week, my expectations were not set
very high. I thought I would struggle to stay awake and pay attention
like I had when I did school online my sophomore and parts of my junior
year. However, I've been able to stay awake for the most part. I will
admit that I have dozed off a couple of times during giant workshops
with 300+ people in them, and during some of the videos that Bro
Zimmerman and Sis. Lamb put on, but they don't need to know about that
if they didn't already. But considering I have 6+ hours of zoom classes a
day I'd say that the average is still pretty good and way better than I
was expecting to do if I'm being honest. Another thing that's low key
keeping me sane are those little propel packets that you mix in with
your water. I go through at least 3 per class period. I've probably gone
through like 4 boxes at this point but we don't need to talk about
that.
But on a more serious note I actually
have loved doing the MTC. I've never felt the spirit more in my entire
life. The teachers, and the other members in the district have been
doing amazing jobs at making the spirit so prevalent and strong at
basically all times. I love my district so much and my companion (shout
out Elder McDavitt) is literally the coolest dude ever. He turns 20
years old sometime in the next week or so and already has his bachelor's
degree, ran D1 track, and literally has some of the most profound and
interesting comments in class and in comp study. I don't remember what
we were talking about the other day but he randomly just starts relating
a scripture to Avatar the Last Airbender about something that Uncle
Iroh said during the show and I literally love him so much for stuff
like that. We get along so well and I can't wait to meet him in person
next week!
Other than all of that stuff
life has been pretty bland, I don't have any super cool stories that
missionaries usually have yet, but I'll hopefully get some soon. I've
just been going on a lot of walks with my parents and driving them
crazy. I'm pretty sure my madre, or mother for you non spanish people,
is more ready for me to leave than I am. I don't really blame her though
because there isn't really too much more that I can do once I get off
zoom now that I a) can't go anywhere by myself, and b) can't do any of
the stuff I used to do, like scroll through social media, play video
games, etc. So in my defense my literal only other option is to just go
bug the crap out of her, which I have been enjoying quite a lot. She's
gonna miss it in the next couple weeks after I'm gone though and she'll
come crawling back.
One last thing before I end
this first email. I just wanted to bear witness of the Holy Ghost. I
thought I knew what a strong feeling of the spirit was before I started
MTC, but boy was I wrong. The burning of the bosom is real and I feel it
constantly and I'm literally in love with it. I know that he bears
witness of truth and that if you do what it says in Moroni 10:3-5 that
you will be able to gain the same witness that I have over the course of
my life, but especially in the last week.
I love yall, hope you aren't having too much fun without me!!
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