Time is really flying here! I feel like I just emailed yesterday!
Not a lot of new things have happened; each day is pretty much the same. We get up at 6:30, exercise, personal/companionship study, teach a lesson, lunch, class, study, dinner, teach a lesson, class, then bed at 9:30. I feel like the days are both long and short!
We have had several funny experiences this week though. Elder Reeder dropped a quarter down the stairwell (it's only an inch wide) It goes down about 4 floors and we hear it hit the rail down there. We get down to the bottom, and Elder Talbot is there just holding his shirt with a funny look on his face. He starts feeling down his shirt, and there at the bottom is the outline of the quarter which is inside his shirt! Somehow, the quarter had bounced into his shirt! It was the funniest thing ever. We had just learned from our teacher that there are no coincidences in life, so we concluded that the Spirit had directed the quarter into his shirt, and therefore we all initialed it and gave it to Elder Talbot. :)
Another funny story. Back on Wednesday or Thursday we got back to our residence after exercise time to shower and dress. The showers and bathrooms are a seperate room from our room, and each of the dorm rooms lock. (you probably know where I'm going with this) :) So I'm hurrying really fast, and I get out of the shower first. I go back to our room and the door is shut. I knocked but no one answered. At first I just thought my roommates were just playing a joke and wouldn't answer, but as I continued to knock there was no response! "Uh oh." I thought. I went back into the shower room, and the conversation went a little like this. "Elder Reeder?.........."yes?" Elder Manfull?........."yes?" Elder Prestwich?........................"yes?" Nooooooo! We're locked out of our room!" Haha! Then we all started freaking out because we were locked out of our room in our towels! :) Luckily, the zone leaders were there, and when they were ready we sent them after the janitor to get an extra key for us. But we were waiting outside of our room for 20 minutes in our towels. :)
This week we are teaching two people from the TRC (aka two people who we don't know at all and are not our teachers and could possibly be real investigators). The first is L., who just graduated from BYU, and is looking for a teaching job. Our goal is to commit her to be baptized at our next visit. She definitely wants to learn more about our church and really likes our standards. The next person is A., who is from Japan but is studying English at BYU. In our first lesson with her yesterday we challenged her to be baptized, but she said she wasn't sure if this was the true church, and wants to learn more about Jesus Christ. We asked her to pray if this was the true church and she said she would! Committing an investigator to baptism in the first lesson is hard! Each time we're preparing to teach I get worried and nervous about it. But once we start teaching I feel fine. I know the gospel, and I know that it can help these people have better lives. It is a really cool experience!
I miss choir! The other day my district started singing Newsies, and I told them about our awesome song! I may be doing a musical number in church this Sunday, either playing the piano or singing! I love to sing! I'm sorry that B. is not feeling well! Ya everyone get sick at some point here in the MTC. My whole district got sick but with varying severity.
I love you all so much! My district asked me "does it make you homesick to see your sister here?" and I said "No, it inspires me to be even better! I love you all because you inspire me to be better!
Love,
Elder Petrie
Another funny story. Back on Wednesday or Thursday we got back to our residence after exercise time to shower and dress. The showers and bathrooms are a seperate room from our room, and each of the dorm rooms lock. (you probably know where I'm going with this) :) So I'm hurrying really fast, and I get out of the shower first. I go back to our room and the door is shut. I knocked but no one answered. At first I just thought my roommates were just playing a joke and wouldn't answer, but as I continued to knock there was no response! "Uh oh." I thought. I went back into the shower room, and the conversation went a little like this. "Elder Reeder?.........."yes?" Elder Manfull?........."yes?" Elder Prestwich?........................"yes?" Nooooooo! We're locked out of our room!" Haha! Then we all started freaking out because we were locked out of our room in our towels! :) Luckily, the zone leaders were there, and when they were ready we sent them after the janitor to get an extra key for us. But we were waiting outside of our room for 20 minutes in our towels. :)
This week we are teaching two people from the TRC (aka two people who we don't know at all and are not our teachers and could possibly be real investigators). The first is L., who just graduated from BYU, and is looking for a teaching job. Our goal is to commit her to be baptized at our next visit. She definitely wants to learn more about our church and really likes our standards. The next person is A., who is from Japan but is studying English at BYU. In our first lesson with her yesterday we challenged her to be baptized, but she said she wasn't sure if this was the true church, and wants to learn more about Jesus Christ. We asked her to pray if this was the true church and she said she would! Committing an investigator to baptism in the first lesson is hard! Each time we're preparing to teach I get worried and nervous about it. But once we start teaching I feel fine. I know the gospel, and I know that it can help these people have better lives. It is a really cool experience!
I miss choir! The other day my district started singing Newsies, and I told them about our awesome song! I may be doing a musical number in church this Sunday, either playing the piano or singing! I love to sing! I'm sorry that B. is not feeling well! Ya everyone get sick at some point here in the MTC. My whole district got sick but with varying severity.
I love you all so much! My district asked me "does it make you homesick to see your sister here?" and I said "No, it inspires me to be even better! I love you all because you inspire me to be better!
Love,
Elder Petrie
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