Dear loved ones!
Crazy to me that yet another p day has come and I am emailing again! can you believe that i have been here 6 weeks already and just about to start my 7th? haha it is beyond crazy to me to think that it has been this long already. But it is so good! It has been a really good week! I started this week off really setting some goals with the language, and our investigators and different things and i was really able to hit my goals. they talk alot about that here in the mtc..how goal making is so important in the mission and i can really see why now. it really forced me to reallly focus this week and make sure i was doing everything i could to learn what i need to learn to fulfil my purpose, which is to invite others to come unto christ, and to become the best missionary i can be.
Things are really good here though! i am now officially a veteran..and our group is now the oldest in the entire mtc, well on monday we are. it is so weird cause it seems like yesterday that i was the one who was all new and didn't know how to do everything here and people were always helping me out and now..im the one helping people out and telling them where stuff is..its crazy! it is crazy to me how fast time moves when you get so busy. we are just thrown straight into this work, and even though its hard, it is so much fun to watch yourself grow, and see the potential you really have as a missionary. I think back to where i was when i first got here, and where i am now spiritually, and with the gengo(language) and it literally is just amazing i can not believe the difference. the mtc truly is an amazing place.
So not a lot changed this last week..i have to apologize because the in the mtc you just don't have a lot of different things happen..it is VERY routine, and it is good! i love it here i really do, but just not a lot to send home every week! however this last sunday, after our devotional we were able to watch the joseph smith movie(the new one) in nihongo!(japanese) it was such a neat experience! i love that movie, and i was kinda nervous to watch it in japanese because i didn't think i would be able to understand, and i would be more frusturated than anything but that wasn't the case! it was so amazing to watch it in the language i would be teaching in! the spirit was so strong..and well you all know how good that movie is..but the best part was i actually could understand a lot of it! it made me feel so good about things and i really felt like the lord was showing me you know yes cottle choro you are getting this, and this is possible, and you are improving even when you might think that you are struggling. it was really a great way to start this week off and i was so grateful for that. the other thing that stood out to me was yesterday we did a ego daniji(english fast). and that was humbling. our teachers were saying that we should try to SYL(speak your language) more and someone offered the idea and we decided we would do it friday. that meant that we would not speak english, at all, alllll daayyyyy loonnnggg. i was nervous. but our teachers said that it was a good way to show your faith to the lord and show your dedication. so we woke up friday morningand it was 100% japanese all day. it was cool to see that there were definitely things that i can say in japanese that i usually say in english and it was good to see that i can definitely speak more than i think. however it also humbled me in a way of showing me that i have a long ways to go..and that i need to continue to try and work even harder than i am to try and get my japanese to where i want it to be when i leave for japan.
Well..i hope that everyone is doing good and that things are great at home! i am so blessed by the amazing support i have back home..its kind of unbelievable. i love you all so very very much! keep sending the love in dear elder form..:) i love hearing how you all are doing! i pray for you everynight and i know that this church is true! i am so grateful for this opportunity!
Talk to you soon!
With all my love,
Logan
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