Wednesday- My first day in the MTC! So overwhelming at times but I got the hang of it! I started off the day after dropping off all of my stuff in my resident and headed strait to my Samoan class. I was the only one int here for like 10 minutes and my teacher started going off in Samoan and I had no idea what she was talking about! So the first ten minutes of my class was me looking at her with huge eyes and hoping that my guessing skills were as good as my normal skills! Finally after an excruciating time my companion Elder Barton came in and she turned her focus on him! It was so nice! But as the other Elders and sisters came walking in she kept turning to me and Soa to help teach them what we had learned so far to catch them up which was super sketchy but it was so awesome to help myself learn to speak and teach the language. After that we went to the welcoming conference and holy cow if you didn't know what the spirit feels like and then walk into our room of new elders and sisters then it was so beautiful to hear all of us sing! We went to lunch next and I found Elder Burgman! He is so happy with life and being on the mission it is awesome! Next we went and talked with a couple of investigators that was an amazing experience! WE first talked with a woman named Marabell. She is so awesome she moved here from Mexico a couple of years ago and she has some questions on how to get her 23 year old daughter to believe that Christ is real. So many missionaries tried to get to her but finally one Elder asked if he could pray for her and after he did she was in tears and she said that she will definitely want to know about what she was feeling at that moment. The room was so full of the spirit I loved every moment of that meeting. Next we met with a man named Bubba. He was a gang member that needed to know what we believed. The whole time it was hard to get through to him because he knew how some of the members of our religion were super judge mental and that was hard for him to join because everyone was so judge mental towards him. He wasn't super receptive of our message and that was hard to understand. Then we had a district meeting.
Thursday- Today started my very first full day int he MTC. It was crazy waking up and slapping on a name tag! I love this work and love the idea of doing this for the next two years! We started the day like any other day by doing our P.C.L.'s. It was very different studying with a companion. But the funny thing was is we got in trouble because I had no idea we couldn't study in our residents! So our zone leaders told us to move back to either outside or in the classroom. So that was crazy! Anyway we learned last night that today we would be finding out who our district leader would be in the conference tonight with the zone. But anyway after our P.C.L.'s we had an online course had to do. But we had no idea where we were supossed to go. So we spent so long just looking for the computer room and just jumped in one and hopped on a course and did it. We ended up just doing it in the classroom because there was a mix up in the arrangments. So me and Elder Barton ended up falling asleep during that because we had already done the right one. Finally we got to samoan class and that led up to the huge bomb of we were teaching an investigator in the language we were supposed to learn in the mtc and that is all he understands and that is so scary! Finally after stressing over what to teach I ended up in the Zone conference and had an interview and now im the District leader over District 14 F. So humbling and I love the idea of helping my elders and sisters and learning to love them.
Thank you for all of the love. Pictures will be coming next week I still have to get a Card reader because i dont have a usb cord yet!
Alofa Atu!
Elder Bethea
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