Hello,
This is my first email from the MTC so I don't know how long or spiritual it'll be but it's whatever! These past 6 days have felt like 6 weeks because we go to class for like 12 out of the 16 hours that we're up and going! Anyways... the spirit here is like nothing I've ever felt. The amount of change happening to my testimony is dramatic. I've read stuff hundreds of times but now that I'm here my thoughts are different and scriptures mean way different than they ever have! It's a really neat and sometimes entertaining place.
I absolutely love my companion. He unfortunately is going to the Atlanta mission. We are like the exact same person except for the fact that he's from Utah and plays water polo. His name is Elder Stead, you pronounce it like homestead, he's a really great Elder and brings a dynamic to a place, that's designed to just about stress you out, that most Elders or Sisters would show after like a year. He loves the gospel as much, if not more, than I do and I'm really glad I got him as a companion. From left to right: Elder Richman, Elder Lemon, Me, Elder Stead
So once the day is all said and done with there's not a whole lot to do here so I finally decided to use the rubber bands around my garments and crumpled up some paper and now we have a ball. So we have a paper ball with rubber bands holding it together, we take the teach bag out of the can and play "LDS" which is like "PIG" but gospel related. Yeah I know we're lame! But when you get bored, you go stuff that seems fun to you.I do have a question for dad or any scripture master... I've been reading in Mark 3 verse 25 and 26, it says "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end." And so I guess my question is how can Satan rise up again himself? And does that mean Satan is in a way like Darth Vader or something and is just waiting for a reason to switch from bad to Good? This has been running through my mind ever since Thursday when I read it.I'm not really homesick but I'm kind of MTC sick. I learned on Sunday that,I leave to my mission field on the 13th of August so Yeah! I'm not gonna lie I think I miss Hercules more than anything right now.On Monday Elder Stead and I started our TRC lessons. This is where anyone, members, non-members, new converts, literally anyone with or without ties to our church comes in and hers taught by the MTC missionarys. Our persons name is Amsley. I'm suppose to keep most things confidential so there's not much I can tell you except: she seems pretty cool! Like she's spent like her whole like overseas. The lesson went well. We didnt really prepare much except for like a 10 minute speel about prayer and Gods love for us! We kinda just did small talk for the majority of the disscussion just to create a sense of friendship and trust. She had a few questions anf we couldnt answer all of them so we told her to pray with that question in her mind. After that we let the spirit teach through us. the speel we prepared was more like topics we'd love to get to but today wasn't really about that. It's more important to make someone feel like they can talk to you as a familiar face rather than a complete stranger. I think the hardest part for me is letting the spirit work through me instead of me planning a fantastic lesson and doing everything I planned.We found a cat and now we have claimed that cat as district 36 F's cat. His name is cinnamon toast. I hope all is well back in Missouri. The Elder that helped me with my luggage on Wednesday is actually going to the Arkansas, Bentonville mission. I wish I could remember his name but if you get a new missionary ask him if he helped a kid from his mission. I wish I could've been there to see the the Kenning kids but I'm sure they had fun at wonders of wildlife. Your hand written notes are taking their time to get to me! I got your note that talked about my first full day here on Monday so Yeah! I'm sorry but I don't know what else to write.
Till next Tuesday, with all my love,Elder Grandon
