August 29, 2025

Salut tous le monde!! 

It is a good day! P-day is always a good day. This week has been pretty wild. I've been getting some exercise in when I can; like last p-day, me and my district went and played basketball, then Saturday we went to the soccer fields and played some soccer. For some reason we had 4 hours to spare on Tuesday and went to the gym to play some basketball again. It's kind of hard to fit in some time to go everyday, but even just going some of the days is keeping my sanity. The schedule is growing on me, I've been here a week to know that this is going to be the next two years of my life. I'm headed to the temple right now and am going to do some endowments in the Mt. Timp temple for the first time. 

Yesterday was SUPPOSED to be the start of our immersion class. Where the classes become only taught in french, but the teacher teaching us didn't know French. So yesterday was almost a complete waste except for when we mixed with another district and spoke French to each other. Other things to note, I'm moving districts again. I got notified about this on like Monday or Tuesday. It sucks, like a lot, but it will be exciting to meet some new people. They told me the switch was because I'm getting put into the advanced French class. I get switched the 3rd of September to district 19 E. My comp will be Elder Zackrison. So, I'm excited and really sad at the same time. Also turns out, one of my friends is going to be in my district. Haha, I just found that out, that's going to be so fun.

But here's the basic rundown of the week:

Friday; was p-day and got to play some basketball after the temple.

Saturday; got our classes out early and had the evening off. Played some soccer and Spikeball

Sunday; joined the choir for the weekly devotional, and we had sacrament, priests quorum, and the Go and Do experience. Where we had a topic and were able to study for an hour and a half. But really it was chill and went by a lot faster than I thought

Monday; found out I'm getting reassigned, and we had two classes and we did our laundry for the week

Tuesday; we had another choir practice where after was the devotional. We heard from one of the new set apart seventy. I'm not even going to try and spell his name but he's from Germany. 

Wednesday; after my tutoring class, my schedule had 4 hours to spare. Which is unheard of for the MTC. During that time I was able to play some basketball

Thursday; this was the day we were supposed to start immersion, but it flopped...

Sorry, there's some doubles stuff in there, but next week will be more organized.

Spiritual thought: we've been talking about lot about christ-like attributes here lately, so I thought that each week I will focus on one. This week, we've looked a lot at integrity. So this attributes was not in the original preaching my gospel. But it truly is what Jesus exemplified. So basically, if you don't fully understand the word, or have just heard it around, I can hopefully clear things up. There's a good thought paired to the word that really helps me understand integrity. It says, integrity is the things you do, think, or say when you BELIEVE no one is watching. So how do you act when no one is around or in a sense, no consequences can be enforced. Do you hold yourself accountable when there is no one else around to do that? I feel like a lot of the missionaries here fall apart quickly at this. As soon as the leaders are going to bed, or they think no one is watching, they choose to do things that draw the spirit away. Not big things that break commandments or anything, but small things like being a little too rowdy at the wrong time. Or to say some things that maybe didn't have the best intention. In the preaching my gospel it says 

"When you have integrity, you understand that there is right and wrong" which says that you know when you aren't doing the right thing. How do we know, we know because every one of us has the light of christ, which some people understand as our consciousness. If we think of integrity as Jesus did, we see that our own personal actions are very important to God. He knows that what you do in the quiet moments really matter, either for good or for bad. I leave this with you all with my love and gratitude, amen.

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