So hey everybody! So many amazing things have happened this week, and yet to be honest it has been very hard. To start off, mom I forgot to tell you some of the people I've met here that I know! I met Jordan Hacke(??) I can't remember how to spell her name, but she was here for about a week before she left for Costa Rica. Also, to Aunt Marcy, Holly Castleton is here to and I recognized her from when I was with Trevon. I also met a few snowflake people, and some different kids from Texas but know one that I knew. And thank you so much to Mom and Aunt Marcy for the packages!!! Much appreciated by me, and also my roommates. All I can say is to keep them coming!;) Thanks to everyone for the Dear Elders also, they just put a bright spot at the end of the day. To Camdon- my basic day at the MTC...wake up, study, eat, study and teach, eat, study and teach, eat, study and teach, then go to sleep. That is all that we do here. Me and my companion love to go outside any chance we get. You are inside this one classroom all the time, so whenever it's study time, we book it outside to sit on the grass. I have found out that companion study ends up being some of my favorite. It's neat to hear things from his perspective, and to ponder on those things that Elder Sant brings up. Also, here at the MTC they say that the days are long, and the weeks are short. SO TRUE! I can't believe I've already been here this long.
So we finished teaching our investigator Thiago, who's real name Brother Nore. Those lessons went great! All kinds of spiritual experiences and opportunities to teach by the spirit.
We now have two brand new teachers Sister Sandholtz and Brother Alves. Sister Sandholtz is awesome, she speaks slowly and she's really easy to understand. She lives right by the temple here in Provo. Brother Alves is a different story...He is from Brazil and speaks very quickly, and is very hard to understand. But, the blessing of having him as a teacher is that he really focuses on the pronunciation of our words, and learning to speak the words more clearly and quickly. I love both of them and they are now our new investigators also. We teach them every other day and they trade off, so we now have to prepare a lesson and translate it everyday. It's really helping to improve my language abilities. They have also helped all of us in the district set language study plans, which help make my study so much more effective.
So, hard things this week, I will just briefly explain because some of it I'd just rather not dwell on. First off, the MTC is an incubator for sickness, and I have not felt to great the past few days, so anyway, it kind of makes it hard to focus in class sometimes, but I am absolutely doing my best. Everyone in our zone is sick, so anyway, figured it was my turn anyway! The other thing is, as district leader I get to deal with any problems that the district may have. I've been holding little district study meetings every now and then at nights and we're studying christlike attributes. We also had a "District Inventory Meeting" and talked over our problems. I really do love my district, they are all outstanding missionaries, and men in general, and they help me everyday to learn and to grow. My companion is probably the best out of all of them and helps to keep me focused and on a rigorous schedule of spiritual in take. Things improve everyday in my life, and I hope that I can always report to you mom and dad that everyday I felt like I got a little better, and deepened my conversion just a little bit more.
For news on speakers, we had the Missionary department head guy speak, Stephen something, I feel bad for not remembering his last name, but he was amazing! He always speaks on repentance and comes like once a month apparently...his job is to make sure everyone that is here is here for the right reasons. He apparently spoke the Sunday before we all arrived. And last Tuesday Elder Echo Hawk of the seventy spoke and he spoke on the importance of the work that we are doing, he had an amazing story, and he's a Pawnee Indian btw. And I'm not sure of this is true, but word on the street is that an Apostle will be here tonight, and I really hope so, but I guess we'll see. There's almost always rumors that an apostle is coming anyway!
To end on a more spiritual note, going to the temple every Tuesday is such a huge blessing! I went in there today with a very specific question and I was able to have it answered. Also, I wanted to share a quick scripture I found, and it's only just and excerpt, haha, and honestly i found so much this week, but this I feel like pertains to us all, and not just missionaries. It's in Alma 41:7 and the part I like it "thus they stand of fall" It then goes on to talk about we are our own judges, Every decision, and every shortcoming or highest achievement is on our own shoulders. But how wonderfully is it that we do get to choose? We are the deciders and all of Amla 41 is about how our choices in this life will determine who we will be in the next. Will we be restored to righteousness, or wickedness? It must be one or the other. Will we stand on the wall like Samuel the Lamanite did, or just to fall short of our divine potentials. I leave you with this quote, "And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God." (Mosiah 2:41) Keep the commandments of God, and he will prosper you, as it says over and over in the Book of Mormon.
Elder Caden Wyatt
P.S. Love you, and thank you so much for the package. tell the kids I love them, and that I loved the pictures and letters from all of them. I also want to ask you to print out all of my emails and mail them to grandma beeman please. I couldn't find where my cameras was today so I'll find it and send you extra pictures next week.
So we finished teaching our investigator Thiago, who's real name Brother Nore. Those lessons went great! All kinds of spiritual experiences and opportunities to teach by the spirit.
We now have two brand new teachers Sister Sandholtz and Brother Alves. Sister Sandholtz is awesome, she speaks slowly and she's really easy to understand. She lives right by the temple here in Provo. Brother Alves is a different story...He is from Brazil and speaks very quickly, and is very hard to understand. But, the blessing of having him as a teacher is that he really focuses on the pronunciation of our words, and learning to speak the words more clearly and quickly. I love both of them and they are now our new investigators also. We teach them every other day and they trade off, so we now have to prepare a lesson and translate it everyday. It's really helping to improve my language abilities. They have also helped all of us in the district set language study plans, which help make my study so much more effective.
So, hard things this week, I will just briefly explain because some of it I'd just rather not dwell on. First off, the MTC is an incubator for sickness, and I have not felt to great the past few days, so anyway, it kind of makes it hard to focus in class sometimes, but I am absolutely doing my best. Everyone in our zone is sick, so anyway, figured it was my turn anyway! The other thing is, as district leader I get to deal with any problems that the district may have. I've been holding little district study meetings every now and then at nights and we're studying christlike attributes. We also had a "District Inventory Meeting" and talked over our problems. I really do love my district, they are all outstanding missionaries, and men in general, and they help me everyday to learn and to grow. My companion is probably the best out of all of them and helps to keep me focused and on a rigorous schedule of spiritual in take. Things improve everyday in my life, and I hope that I can always report to you mom and dad that everyday I felt like I got a little better, and deepened my conversion just a little bit more.
For news on speakers, we had the Missionary department head guy speak, Stephen something, I feel bad for not remembering his last name, but he was amazing! He always speaks on repentance and comes like once a month apparently...his job is to make sure everyone that is here is here for the right reasons. He apparently spoke the Sunday before we all arrived. And last Tuesday Elder Echo Hawk of the seventy spoke and he spoke on the importance of the work that we are doing, he had an amazing story, and he's a Pawnee Indian btw. And I'm not sure of this is true, but word on the street is that an Apostle will be here tonight, and I really hope so, but I guess we'll see. There's almost always rumors that an apostle is coming anyway!
To end on a more spiritual note, going to the temple every Tuesday is such a huge blessing! I went in there today with a very specific question and I was able to have it answered. Also, I wanted to share a quick scripture I found, and it's only just and excerpt, haha, and honestly i found so much this week, but this I feel like pertains to us all, and not just missionaries. It's in Alma 41:7 and the part I like it "thus they stand of fall" It then goes on to talk about we are our own judges, Every decision, and every shortcoming or highest achievement is on our own shoulders. But how wonderfully is it that we do get to choose? We are the deciders and all of Amla 41 is about how our choices in this life will determine who we will be in the next. Will we be restored to righteousness, or wickedness? It must be one or the other. Will we stand on the wall like Samuel the Lamanite did, or just to fall short of our divine potentials. I leave you with this quote, "And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God." (Mosiah 2:41) Keep the commandments of God, and he will prosper you, as it says over and over in the Book of Mormon.
Elder Caden Wyatt
P.S. Love you, and thank you so much for the package. tell the kids I love them, and that I loved the pictures and letters from all of them. I also want to ask you to print out all of my emails and mail them to grandma beeman please. I couldn't find where my cameras was today so I'll find it and send you extra pictures next week.
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