Its P-Dar already? I promise you time works differently here at the MTC. Another week down and sadly not much has changed but I love it here.
Wednesday: it was a fairly normal day, when we went to the temple we did initiatories and during it, I was thinking about the significants of olive oil. This is what I came up with, during the time of Jesus olive oil had many uses, for food and others and the atonement has many uses as well, healing, cleaning and self improvement; the performance of the atonement is called the 'olive press' and the result of an olive press is olive oil or the atonement; therefore the olive oil is symbolic of the atonement. Before the day ended and we all went back to the residency, we began our splits and I got paired up with Haroldsen 長老.
Thursday: today was the beginning of splits and to describe Haroldsen 長老 in a nut shell I would say he is a ball of energy, this elder literarily could not sit down for 10 minutes straight but he was a ton of fun. We taught both of his investigators today and they bot went pretty well.
Here is Haroldsen 長老
Friday: thank you so much mom for sending me the "Book of Mormon Made Easier" books, I love them and they have really cool insights. We also taught Yoko today and it did go well, I just need to work on my listening.
Saturday: we had a super good lesson with Nakahara san. We here teaching her more about baptism so we had her reading the scripture talking about how baptism is the gate we must enter and the I drew on the board to help illustrate and she did commit to baptism which made me super happy. The second best part is I was using Bunpo (Bunpo means grammar pattern Tango is vocabulary) that I'm not super familiar with and the sentences made sense, gift of tongues all the way.
Sunday: today was not my most Christ like day. It started during our Priesthood meeting, Jensen 長老 was giving the lesson and one had the first councilor, Brother Turpin, in supervising and right from the get go, he hijacked Jenson 長老'S lesson so that he can talk about Greek words. What he had to say was insight and cool but he was saying it instead of Jenson 長老 being able to give his lesson. Jenson 長老 did say this one quote that I really like fro the Count of Monte Cirisuto, or something like that, "I don't believe in God" "That is alright because God believes in you". Our devotional speaker tonight talked a little bit about the atonement and it was super cool.
Monday: Happy Halloween Family and Friends. Me and Campbell 長老 taught Yoko san today about the Word of Wisdom and it went pretty well considering the fact that it wasn't well prepared and we got her to commit but I'm pretty sure we're going to have to recommit her ever time we meet. The night ended with a ton of せんきょうし going around the classroom halls trick or treating, I didn't participate but I couldn't doing much because it was so loud and at the residency hall, there was a parade missionaries in costumes and they were even louder..
Tuesday: we had a weird schedule today because we had choir practice at 4 pm as a posed to it's usually 5:15, it was because the speaker wanted an hour before the devotional to get any kinks worked out. The special speaker turned out to be President Russell M Nelson and I loved his talk. Being it the choir I got to sing Praise to the Manarranged by Mack Wilberg and it was some much fun.
i am well, learning Japanese and the Doctrine. I love getting mail from you guys, its a break in the same old rotation. I leave on November 14, and that is less that 2 weeks away and I get my flight plans on Friday. We got our Japanese name tags last week and that made me super happy.
Love you all
-Brinkerhoff 長老
No comments:
Post a Comment