Hiyo Momma!!
I'm sending letters in the mail whenever I get them
done, so expect stuff just randomly throughout the week. Umm, scrictpure wise
for Brother Blake, I have no clue, umm... give him the one in Doctrine and
Covenants in section 122, verse 7 I think. The one that says that if even
the very gates of hell shall open their mouth after thee, know that it shall be
for they good, and yada yada. I don't have it memorzied. :P I absolutely LOVE
that scripture. It makes me feel so good.
And I actually run into Forrester
a lot! Way more than you'd think, I usually see him at least once a day and we
stop and chat for a few minutes. It's super cool :) I don't know anyone else
here, but stinking Elder Shoell knows like half the MTC it feels like! He's
ALWAYS stopping and hugging someone or saying hi to someone, it's crazy. We're
like, "you're so dang popular Shoell Choro!!"
A normal day for me is breakfast at
6:45, personal study time from 7:15 to 8:10, class from then till lunch at
11:10, then the next few hours till dinner consist of gym or personal excersise
time, additional study time, and other random things. Then after dinner it's
more class time at 5-8, which is usually us teaching "investigators".
We aren't teaching actual investigators, we're teaching some teachers that are
playing the role of investigator. They play the role of someone they taught in
Japan, and it's CRAZY serious. You get so into it that you forget entirely that
we're roleplaying, it's crazy. And they know these investigators so well that
they can very accurately play them. It's really quite a sweet experience. The
biggest thing I've learned from doing them is that we need to have love for our
investigators. Without love we aren't going to be able to have the Spirit there
helping us, and that is the single most important thing to have, the Spirit.
The MTC is really quite amazing. There is always a Spirit here, anywhere you
go, and it's awesome being able to see thousands of missionaries here doing the
same thing I'm doing everyday, it's such a powerful testimony to me of the
marvelous work we're here to do.
You asked how the class instruction is,
which is spiritual, which is language. Well, it's both, at the same time. Often
we talk about spiritual things and what we can do to help our investigators,
all in japanese during class time. It's quite epic, if I do say so myself.
Sometimes though during classes in the evening if we're not teaching we'll have
just language study, but it's usually combined. It's the weirdest way to
teach a language, but it's really quite effective. I'm learning japanese so
fast, it's crazy. I'm talking in it all the time, I'm writing it even now
fairly proficiently, and I'm absolutely loving it. I still don't have that
large of a vocab yet, but it's coming, and with the Lord's help I know I can
get it all down. The language has three alphabets, Katakana, Hiragana, and
Kanji. Kanji has like, 50,00 - 80,000 characters in it, so we don't study that
one. ;) Hiragana and Katakana only have 71 characters a piece though, so we're
memorizing those. I can write in all Hiragana, and I'm still working on
Katakana, I can write some stuff in my letters in the characters if you like.
:) It's SUPER COOL! And so much fun :D
Elder Brandolino, my companion, got super sick the
beginning of this week. Some kind of strep or something, and he's getting the
rest of us sick!! :O Haha, we're doing all we can to stay healthy and stay
strong, but we're all getting sniffly noses and what not, yikes!! We went to
the doctor and he prescribed some HEAVY DUTY antibiotics, I mean like three
days of meds and your better kind of heavy duty. He's only taken one dose and
is already feeling tons better, it's epic. :)
Today we have TRC, which stands for Training
Resource Center, I think, and apparently during that time we teach actual
people, not our roleplaying teachers, and it's ALL in Japanese.. O_O I'm kinda
nervous, we just go in blind and wing everything, no preparation at all. I have
no idea what to expect, it'll be our first time doing it.
I absolutely love
my district by the way, they are so cool, all the Shimaitachi, sisters, and all
my Chorotachi, elders. We call ourselves District B13, it's a reference to a
movie or something, I'm not sure, but Goddard Choro thinks it's awesome. :P
Haha!! We all get along so well, and we all love each other to death. It's only
been 1 and a half weeks, and we're already SO tightly knit, I love it :) Every
morning and night we pray together in Japanese and that's so powerful. :) I
love this Elders and Sisters so much, I have the best district, I'm so blessed.
:)
If you have anything else you'd like to know just ask
me :D I love you guys so much and I miss you all dearly. :)
Ai shite imasu!! Watashi no
kazoku o ichi ban desu!! (I love you, my family is the best ;))
Love, Mike
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