11/16/11 P-Day

 

Hey Everyone!

Its P Day finally. Everything is going good here at the MTC. Its kind of crazy that a week from today i will be in philadelphia!!

Our Second sunday here was really good. i had some leadership meetings in the morning and then priesthood meeting. After lunch i had to teach a 45 minute lesson on "Recognizing the Spirit.' i had just found out that morning that i had to teach the lesson for our district meeting, so i didnt prepare a ton for it. I had a good outline and some good scriptures. But i figured it would just be the elders in my district that i was teaching so they wouldnt really care how good my lesson was... Well turns out our District President was visiting our branch that day. (District president's are right under the MTC presidency) And he just happened to come to our district meeting along with a member of our branch presidency and his wife. I basically kind of freaked out when i walked into our classroom and saw them sitting there. Also our classroom is always soooo hot and so we always take our suit coats off. But in these kind of meetings we can't take our jackets off unless the presiding authority says we can.  Well we Asked Pres. Jenkins if we could and he said no.. Great! So i get up in front of everyone,  i'm really nervous and dying hot. So i started the lesson, i was asking some questions and no one was really answering. it was quiet and awkward. We read 2 verses from Nephi, talked about what they meant for a second and then i started to move on.  Then pres. Jenkins stopped me and said: how about we ask some more questions. I was like yeah sure... Luckily he had some questions he wanted to ask so we went into major detail of these two verses. like we spent 10 mins, looking up cross references etc. After that i continued with the lesson, and it went really well. He helped me out a lot during the lesson, by asking some questions and making some really good comments. We all learned a ton about the spirit, how we recognize it, why it's important etc. I was soo glad when it was over. President Jenkins talked in our sacrament meeting later on, and he mentioned how good my lesson was, kind of cool! That night we had a fireside. The speaker was Richard I. Heaton he is some high up dude at the MTC. He talked about why it is so important that investigators understand Tithing and that they will commit to pay tithing after they are baptized. He said they are having a big problem with converts leaving because they didn't understand what tithing was before they were baptized.

Mom here are the answers to your questions. I wake up around 6:30 usually hang out til 7 to shower. cause there is a big line if you go right at 6:30. they we have personal study til about 7:50 when we have breakfast. Then we usually have zone teaching, which is teaching other elders in our zone. they just pretend to be an investigator. we do that for about an hour. then we have class til about 12:30 when we go to lunch. then we will either go back to class for like 4 hours or have gym or study time depending on the day. but were basically in the same classroom all day everyday. it can get kind of boring, but we learn alot. we will usually practice teaching an investigator at least once or twice almost everyday. It's hard to remember everything about all of our investigators- what we taught them last, what we invited them to do etc. I got my free MTC hair cut today:) looks good! I dont think i will  be able to get all of the PG people together to take a pic. we dont see each other that often and never at the same time. I weighed 120 lbs when i came her now i weigh 125.

Jared send me some pics of what they are changing around the school, i want to see all of it. And take pics of the old Letters on the outside of the highschool, and take pics as they put the new sign up. Thanks for the package on friday. 11/11/11 was a pretty cool day!

I haven't seen Ethan Richins yet. i just saw rickey and he said he hadn't seen him either. but i will try to get a pic with him if i do see him. I am staying very busy as district leader, i pick up the mail for everyone everyday, i have to teach lessons as you know. i have to conduct all of our district meeting and lead discussions. And i also have leadership meetings on sunday and tuesday.

Ok Well tuesday night we had our MTC devotional. We really wanted to have one of the 12 apostles.  It was Tad R. Callister,  he is in the Presidency of the 70. His talk was AWESOME!!!  His talk was on the Apostasy. And how important it is that investigators understand and believe in the Apostasy. Which is soooo  true because if they dont then they will most likely have a problem believing the first vision and about joseph smith.

He had a list of ten things that prove the apostasy happenend.

1. The Apostles were killed

2. The apostasy is talked about in the Bible. Good scripture Amos 8:11 i think

3. The bible ended. If Christ's church had continued so would the bible

4. Loss of miracles/ gifts of the spirit.

5. Teaching of Christ lost

7. Prayer was changed. Satan attacked our communication between us and god.

8.Scriptures (the bible) were removed from the people. Mostly only preachers, pastors etc. had the bible

9. At the time of the restoration there was no church with Jesus Christ in its title. Jesus Christ said that his church should be named after him.

10. The priesthood was lost. No one else can trace their priesthood all the way back to Christ except us.

 

Anyways it was a way cool talk. and it helped me out a lot. I took a lot of notes.

Well i have to get off the computer. im actually 12 mins over.. :) oops.

Be safe have fun!

Less then one week!!!!

 

Love, Elder Jensen :)