Well I am officially half way done with the CCM (MTC)

Well I am officially half way done with the CCM (MTC) the time has flown by like the wind. We have a cafeteria which is amazing way better than main campus. I’m defiantly going to put on weight I’m guessing I’ve put on at least 7 pounds I’m going to weigh myself this afternoon. The language is the language its hard but when I relax I speak very well and I don’t sound too much like a gringo. Elder Johnson told me that Monday night he woke up to go to the bath room and he heard me talk Spanish in my sleep. Maybe I just need to relaxed more and just let the Spanish out. The doctrine is coming along too, our teachers want us to go deep into the doctrine of Christ, and making sure we have our purpose down as a missionary.

 

Yesterday we did TRC which is when members, inactive, or non-members come in to help us practice our language. We teach a lesson that has to be 20 min long and we don’t really get time to prepare the lesson. We had an amazing time we taught how to receive revelation from prayer. We made it into 5 steps: be humble, ask, listen, answer, ponder we had scriptures that went along with all the steps it felt soo good the lesson i hope the people got something out of it. the two people we taught were both members but one was a mission president in Mexico and another was on in Belize they were both very fun to talk to once we were done. Both lessons we went over the time limit but it was awesome. The MTC is so awesome we just had I think 1000 elders and sisters join west campus. Most are crazy languages so that will be fun on speak your language day.

 

Other than that I can’t think of anything new. We haven’t had a general authority speech yet but I’m really hoping this Sunday we have one or Tuesday night devo. so far we have had some emeritus (retired) members of the 70 the last one was really good Jay Jensen he gave a very good take about study techniques and the depth of the scriptures and always be feasting upon the scriptures. Oh, if you could just print out some small quotes from prophets about anything I would love it I’m gonna stick them into my scriptures. I hope everything is well in Idaho. I will check my email again at 300 before I go to evening class. So if you write me back I should be able to write you back one last time before next Thursday.

Here in the West campus of the MTC letters are truly a blessing for us. The campus has around 600 elders and sisters, we are getting around 1000 new elders and sisters this next Wednesday it will be super packed after that. The language is coming along super well, I have a lot of afternoons where I have to go on walks with my companion to cool off cuz it gets frustrating some times specially with the investigators. My companion is a great guy really quiet and reserved he is perfect for me. The main highlight of p-days is going to main campus and eating some hot food instead of cereal or sandwiches. Thanks for being a great uncle feel free to write me as much as you want.  I will try to write back every preparation day

 

Love
Elder Ashworth