Saturday, March 9, 2013

First Day in the Mission Field

(Email sent to Dad from the mission home or office.)

So I just got to Ogden today and have already done one hour of practice tracting. It was really scary but really cool too. Hopefully someday soon I will be a little less shy and more confident in sharing the gospel. 

I will get my new companion/trainer tomorrow and find out where in the mission I will be going to. My P-day is officially going to be Tuesdays here in the field. 

In the MTC my testimony has grown tremendously and specifically my testimony on prayer. I never really prayed a lot before but now I feel like I pray a hundred times a day and I know that I am being blessed by doing that. For example, one day in the MTC I forgot to pray before teaching an "investigator" and me and my companion bombed that lesson. Another night I forgot to pray before going to bed and I was like I'll just miss one night and pray in the morning. Bad choice I stayed up for an hour before finally giving up and praying and soon after I was asleep. :)

My companion in the MTC was Elder Ervin and he is from Mesa, Arizona. Do you know where it is? Im not sure but I think its near pheonix ;)

The biggest thing I learned at the MTC while I was there was the power of the Holy Ghost when teaching. Without the Holy Ghost missionaries are nothing and they wont teach anybody. When we teach the Holy Ghost tells us what we need to say and then he will help confirm to the investigator that what we are teaching is true. I have a testimony of that as well. 

The transition to MTC time and schedule wasnt that difficult. Except for this morning because I had to stay up last night to finish packing and then wake up at 4:00AM for my train ride.
The schedule there at the MTC was crazy. It was class, class, and more class for 12 days and then they threw me out to the world. I was there less than 2 weeks but I walked out feeling like I had a lifetime of knowledge. I know that this is the true church because no other church could even dream of doing something like that and we do it every week now. I know that the Lord loves everyone and that I need to help the word of His gospel and that they will be blessed for letting the Lord into there lives.

I love and miss y'all more,
    Elder James Curtis

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