Just to let you know, I am having the time of my life! I am so grateful for your constant encouragement for me to go on a mission. It has already changed the way I look upon the gospel and life in general.
To start off, my companion is Elder Skousen. He is from draper utah and he went to Corner Canyon high school. He is SO awesome! He has so much energy and loves to learn korean so we mesh very well together. He is more hyper then me which is saying A LOT so we keep the classroom interesting haha. The rest of our district and zone are super nice and fun people! I am very grateful to them and all they have done to help me feel comfortable and at home.
The first day was pretty hecktic! I got once I said goodbye, it was 110% GO GO GO! We walked fast everywhere and I was so excited. This means I sweat a lot the first day! At the end of the day, you could definitley call me the stinky kid:) We met with the MTC presidency at the very beginning to have a devotional to welcome us. It was super exciting to hear them speak! Very good men and their wives are all a little sassy and spitfire which makes the meetings super funny. Oh but before that I went to my classroom and had a few hours of class. Of course she only spoke korean to us, but I was so excited that I didn't even care. We learned the alphabet the first day so it wasn't too hard.
The rest of the week has been so much fun! The second day I got asked to get a haircut by my branch president(who is like the most strict branch president in the entire MTC) and asked to be the district leader in the next second. I guess hair doesn't signify spirituality right;). Super fun time eating with all my new friends and stuff too! They are such a blast and it is never a dull moment when elder Skousen is around.
It has been super spiritual to study the scriptures so much this week. I already am falling in love with them and can't wait for study time. We have been reading the white bible as much as we can as a companionship because we want to be as prepared as possible and we want to test the promises by the MTC that exact obedience will bring miracles. The language study is SUPER hard and is totally going to be a challenge until the end of my mission. I can already decently pray and stuff so that is super awesome! I can't wait to learn more and more!
We played volleyball as a zone on Saturday which was SOOOOOOOOOO fun. Everyone was having a good time and it really helped us new missionaries feel better about the first week cuz it was harddddddd.
Sunday was by far the longest day. We had meetings from 7:20am to 9:00pm with only choir and dinner as our break time because it was fast Sunday. It was really cool to see how President Facer(our branch President) conducted the meetings with a calm and peaceful spirituality that really helped us focus on the meaning of Sunday, which is Jesus Christ. The entire zone bore their testimony in sacrament meeting and it was so cool to see how each one of the missionaries came out for different reasons, but all have focused in on Jesus Christ and embodying his true character. I LOVED the movie that we watch by the end of the night. It was a devotional given by Elder Bednar at the MTC and it is called "Christlike Character". Literally changed my whole outlook on missionary work! I had a few ugly cries watching it for sure.
I am going to include a lot of this stuff in my main email, but just wanted to share with you all of my experiences!
I love you mom! Hope you had an amazing week! Tell me all about it!
Elder Meeks
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