Friday, August 19, 2016

Week 2

 Hey! today pretty much marks 2 weeks in the MTC. I love it but i also i hate it. There are so many reasons why the MTC is great. im surrounded by guys my age, so we all get along pretty great save a few bad eggs. I room with some fun and awesome guys!  the guys in my Zone are so funny. Our Zone is basically a circus, thats all i can describe it as haha. We can get so crazy sometimes at our residences. What really sucks about the MTC, is that youre in a classroom from 7 A.M to 9 P.M. i hate studying so ive been dying when we are not doing something interactive or doing ciclo(study schedule). Also, getting up at 6:30 sucks enough, but in the mornings you have to wake up earlier to get a shower. Still the food is not great, but at least its not horrible right?

     My teachers here are great. our investigator from last week was actually a teacher. we found this out on the last day we were supposed to teach her. Another sister here (sister and elder are titles you are called as a missionary) came and shut our door, so that sister Hadfield, our "investigator" could slip through and teach her class before we taught her. We didnt have any of that! We have had a long suspicion of her being a teacher so we switched the peep hole so we could see out into the hall way. As soon as she came down the hall one of the sisters in my district came out from the stairwell and confronted her. Meanwhile i yanked opened the door and yelled " WE KNEW YOU WERE A FAKE!!". it was great to expose her, because we were all pretty embarrassed because our lessons and spanish sucked just a bit...

   So our Other teacher, Hermano Frampton, has been keeping his first names secret from our whole class. We tried to guess it and we tried to snoop around apporpriatley, but we just couldnt find it out. However, the greatest thing happened! One of the other teachers popped into our room looking for him or something, so of course we were going to try to get info out of him. Come to find out, he served in the same mission as Hermano Frampton :). So we got his full name *insert smirking emoji*. but thats not even the best part! His wife's cousin came looking for him, and some how we got back onto the subject of Hermano Frampton's Name. WE FOUND OUT HIS NICKNAME. We had struck gold. My class decided we wanted to bring all this up some how, sothe next day we knelled down to pray aloud before the class started, like always. So i decided that during the prayer, I would thank God for our teacher Hermano HUMMER (his nickname). This was probably inappropriate to do, because the WHOLE class bursted out laughing, and i was battling to keep myself composed lol. oh it was just so funny becsuse he was wondering how we figured it all out

     Remember in my last one where i said i learned a lesson about preparation? Well, for our next lesson after that, me and elder Honda tried preparing for the next lesson, so we wouldnt make a fool of ourselves again. oh, well, it didnt go as planned. it just didnt feel good, it was forced and i could speak spanish as well as i could have, my and elder honda's synergy was off. coming back to class after was brutal, because i just didnt feel like doing anything. And to make it worse, everyone had success in their lessons. i was in such an annoyed mood after hearing about how they got so far with the "investgator". it took me till that night to get back to normal, its just so hard to want to study, or prepare for another lesson when youre down. However there is was a good side to this story. the next time we went to teach it went really well! we were able to get good progress and that put me into a happy mood.

     So every sunday, we can watch a talk or church movie for the last hour before we return to our residences. This week i watched a devotional by Elder jeffery R Holland, an apostle of our church from a couple years ago. He spoke straight fire!!!! However one point he said made me humble myself a bit. he started to talk about how alot of missionaries talk about how they cant wait to get off their mission so they can wear their stylish clothes and grow out their hair and beard. He explained that we should have that thought process. We need to remember why we went out and that its our scared duty and PRIVILEGE to serve a mission. i take that to heart now, however its hard not to think about those things. But it think what it meant was that we should let that consume our thoughts.

    Also I found the best scripture ever. its Jeremiah 4:19-21. if you know me well enough, you will know why this is so applicable to me haha.

     Ok, i know this is getting long so just hold on for me. Now, i have 3 people to teach. 2 are characters based on real people that my teachers taught. one seems like an actual investigator of our church. we Taught him for the first time yesterday, and i think it went pretty well! We were able to get him to commit to some things, and our spanish wasnt so bad! But man could he talk fast, and it wasnt as clear as i wished it could but it still went well.

Well i think this is long enough, if i have forgot any good stories ill make sure to include them!

I love and miss you all back in TN!

Elder Bailey

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