Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Last Email From the MTC

So I am gettin out of here finally. In 3 days! We leave the MTC on Sunday night at 830. Our flight is at 12:55 and we fly all night to arrive in Atlanta at 630 AM their time. We leave Atlanta to head straigh for Tegucigalpa at 10:30 and arrive in Tegicugalpa around 1 or 2 their time. So it will be an awesome flight. I feel like the best time to call you is at 8 or 830 Atlanta time so it would be 6 or 630 for you all. I know thats early, but at least you could all be together at that time. I won't call you right when I get there because it will be 430 in the morning, but  hope you all will be awake for a call sometime in the 6 oclock hour. Send me a Dear Elder today please to confirm that that time will be ok for you all. I am so excited to get to talk to my parents and sisters again! It hasn't been too long out here so I feel blessed to be able to have a phone call so soon. I guess everyone gets to call at the airport though. The chuches offical rule on calling at the airport is they have no rule. They say its ok, just don't call your girlfriend. So i guess its good that I don't have one of those! I have 10 Elders in my travel group and I know about 8 of them already because iv'e seen them around here, so it is going to be a fun trip. I am so excited to get to go to Honduras though!! It is here!!
This week has been completely different than others, because it is our last, and because Elder Oveson and I were selected to demonstrate teaching for a group of the new missionaries yesterday! Every wednesday when the new Elders come in they split into 8 groups, and every group has about 20 to 25 missionaries in them. In these groups they are introduced to an investigator and are told they are to teach this investigator. But to get them started, some seasoned missionaries (me and Elder Oveson) knock on the door and start the lesson off for them, because that is what we have been practicing for the past 8 weeks. So Elder Oveson and I were selected to help out with that. We must be ok teachers:) It was weird though because we had to do it in English, and I had not taught a single English Lesson in the MTC before yesterday. It was fun though and went really well. I want to tell you more about that on Monday morning.
Basicly all I have left here is Pday (today), an orientation all day tomorrow, pack and listen to stories from our teachers on Saturday, and Fast Sunday. Then I'm out of here.
I have loved it so much here though. The MTC is the most spiritual place that a person could live in on the planet. I heard a quote from our branch president that the MTC is 2nd only to the Temple in places where revalation is recieved. I have been so blessed to be able to live here and learn here for 2 whole months! I have learned a language here. Not that i'm anywhere near fluent, in fact i'm pretty sure that next month will be the toughest month of my life because of that language barrier, but i'm so excited for it. We heard from Elder Jeffery R. Holland again on Tuesday night. Thats not normal that 4 times an apostle speaks here in 2 months, and its certainly not normal that 2 of them come twice. It was such an amazing talk. Elder Holland loves the missionaries so much. I've watched like 5 of his older MTC talks since I've been here, and the one I was there for on Tuesday will be viewed by future Missionaries as Well.
This place has changed me so much and I am just so ready to get out and serve now. Thank you all for all of your support in the last 2 months and everything you have done for me. I love you all so much!


All Jordan's mail he got while in the MTC. 



The MAP. Where are you from AND Where are you going? 

Ready to leave the MTC!

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