First email home from the MTC!

Hello Family!

Okay so first day:

Arrived, got shown my room, took me to my class, and I met my companion, Elder Trevor Morgan. He is great! We like a lot of the same things and get along really well. We started learning rules and such, then just went to lunch (by the way the food here tastes okay, but makes my stomach hurt sooooo bad). So I just started to eat sandwiches. Anyways, pretty much just orientation and study.

Day two:

Get up at 5:45 (My comp and I chose this for early morning study, because we are that awesomely dedicated), shower, study, breakfast, classes (the teachers are awesome, and are also pretending to be the investigators we teach), lunch, study, comp study, study, class, get ready for bed, sleep.

So pretty much that's how days are.

Our first time teaching our teachers, was a beast, but not in a good way. It was a kick in the face of how much MORE studying and prep we need. Or so we thought. After a ton of prayer (we usually pray at least 8 times a day), study, and asking questions, we realized while study is good, we need to focus more on helping the investigator with our lesson, rather than teaching them the planned lesson.

On Monday, we had our first TRC Progressing Investigator (volunteers, some LDS som non-members, who come in and our taught by us). He is so wonderful! He first off said that he loved my handshake because it reminded him of his childhood friend, who got bitten by a rattle snake and had his fingers amputated. I was surprised that something as random as my hand helped us to gain his trust so that we were able to talk to him. As our first lesson, we spent most of them time getting to know him. He is from Italy and is a very loving, and caring person. He even took our picture! I am so excited to go back and teach him!

Today, Tuesday, me and Elder Morgan went to the temple. Grandtasterful!! It was lovely, although Salt Lake is still my favorite. Laundry is cool, because they have a Hot Pocket vending machine in there :D

Well I have no more time left (there is literally a timer at the top of the email that closes you out when the time is done.)

Hope you are all having so much fun, and working hard, and being loving, and all that good stuff!

Stay LDS!!

Elder Joshua Blaine Jorgensen