Hello Family and Friends! I survived my (almost) first
week in the MTC. It's been amazing and exhausting, we go nonstop from 6:30am to
9:30pm, my companion is Elder Lemon he's an awesome guy and super chill, we get
along great except we have nothing in common. The second day here I was
assigned to be the district leader, so I have responsibilities now, the elders
in my district are great, there's a few odd ducks but we all get along really
well. Everyone kept telling us to make it to Sunday, so I made it so Sunday and
it was the longest day of my life, seriously. The spirit here is amazing, we've
had the opportunity to teach three lessons already and the whole time I just
kept having scriptures pop into my head which has never happened before.
Yesterday we taught Sam, who is an actual investigator, here in the MTC during
TRC we teach "investigators" but it doesn't matter because the spirit
is the same. Sam however is a real investigator, he was going to school in
Japan then his visa expired and he lost all his credits and was deported. He
was taking lessons from the missionaries and was going to be baptized but got
deported first. For the past few months he felt like God abandoned him, me and
Elder Lemon had the opportunity to testify to him about faith, and shared a few
scriptures with him my favorite was ether 12:27 and especially the line about
acting with even a particle of faith. Then we shared the Mormon Message
Mountains to Climb and we invited him to remember the invitation to be baptized
and that God grows closer to us as we grow closer to him. It was powerful.
Sunday night we had a devotional and the director of the missionary department
talked to us about being committed to our mission, then we watched a video of
Elder Bednar at an MTC devotional about a year ago called Character of Christ,
and it was probably the most spiritual and the best talk ever. They only show
it in the MTC but it just talks about that when hard things happen Christ turns
out to help others when we would turn into ourselves and be selfish. That's all
for now thanks for the emails and letters the support is awesome love you
all, Elder McArthur
Our STL's hard at work
Elder Dorius
Me and the other Elder McArthur
Elder Ford
Some of my District
