The main thing of note is that this week was the Mission President training. That means every new mission president as well as the Quorum of the Twelve and pretty much every other General Authority was at the MTC. Funnily enough, almost everyone else in my district got to meet and/or shake hands with one or more of the apostles, but I didn’t see any of them. Pretty disappointing.
Other than that, French is coming along; slowly but surely. Teaching the gospel is actually pretty difficult, especially when your amis d’église won’t keep their commitments. It’s impossible to grow your faith if you don’t put in some effort.
Hopefully I’ll have more to report next week,
Elder Wood
On an average day, we wake up at 6:30 and get ready for the day. We head over to breakfast and then we have about 3 hours before exercise time. Those are ideally used for an hour each of Personal Study, Companion Study (during which we plan our lessons for the day), and Language Study (following the Plan-Study-Teach cycle they've taught us here). We also have to spend time planning, so it's hit or miss whether everything gets done before 11. After exercise we have lunch and get ready for class where we teach our investigator a 20 min (usually more...) lesson. After class we eat dinner and sometimes do some more language studying with this computer program, TALL (Technology Assisted Language Learning I believe). Then we have another class and head back to our residence. There we socialize and write in our journals until about 10:30, then we go to sleep.
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| Close-up of the Provo Temple |
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| With Elder Bunker. They needed to vacuum their classroom, and looked too cool as Ghostbusters, so had to take a picture. |
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| This is Michael with Elder Skinner, someone he met at HEFY in 2016. You can see Michael's "New Missionary Host" sticker indicating that he's been there long enough to be able to show new arrivals the ropes. |
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