P-Day #1

Hey guys! So my first week in the MTC is over and it flew! It doesn't really feel like i have been hear as long as i have! It's amazing how much they teach you in such a short amount of time! Throughout the week me and my companion taught three investigators Luke, Anthony, and Alexandre. Luke was our first lesson we had taught and we had to teach him our first full day here! I had no clue what to say or what to do. As time has gone on i have become much more comfortable with teaching people the lessons! The main thing i learned was to teach people and not lessons. I learned that you need to get to know them and gain there trust before they will even really listen to what you have to say. When we were teaching Luke on monday he was talking about how he didn't have a job and had been looking for one for a while and as the lesson went on i had the impression that i needed to tell him that im he read the book of mormon and prayed with a sincer heart and had faith in the lord that he would know for him self the truthfulness of the gospel. I then went on to tell him that if he had trust in the lord and prayed with real intent and had faith in the lord that he would get a job if he had faith in the lord. I don't know why i needed to say that nor do i care. All i know is that it was the spirit telling me what to say so i just opened my mouth and it just came out! Me and elder walker are still getting along really well. We have a lot in commen and understand eachothers needs and wants. The MTC is amazing! I have read scriptures i didn't even know existed until i came here and started doing my scriptures more and pondering them more and looking for scriptures that people i am teaching need. Elder Harrision is in my district and is one of the funniest kids i have met in my life! We were sitting in class and he was playing with a pen and put it between is watch and pointed the pen at Elder Cowdin and said psssh spider man! You would have had to be there to realize how funny it was! He just says the most random things and it makes me laugh. I Have seen Jackson Tate, Jace Jones, Matt Gowens, Kyle Turner and many more people i know. We have been playing ball during our gym time we have some really good players in our district. Two of them are going to play for some Junior college. When i play with them i feel like i am learning how to play all over agian! Thank you for all of the pakages! Everyone freaks out when they see i have gotten another package. I got mindys package with some chocolate covered coconut thinks and a tie tack and i think i got that picture i can't remember though. Cathy sent me a package and i got it yesterday it had a bunch of good stuff in it. Thank you for always being such a good example to me. I might have to cut my letter short because i only have four more mintues before the system kicks me out. Thank You all for everything Love you.

Elder Colton Todd Ferre'