Week 6

Hi everyone,

 

Another great week in the MTC. This was week 7 of the MTC and I only have 2 more weeks! So exciting as I get closer to actually being in Korea! It was a really great week though. On Sunday it was fast sunday and we had missionary conference. Mission conference is always so amazing! It was 2 hours long and we had like 6 speakers who all talked about different things so it would take too long for me to explain all of them but one thing that was really amazing to me was the talk given by James L. Hacking, he talked about prayer. He said that with prayer, ALL things are POSSIBLE. He told a story about when he went to college and didn't know if he would be made fun of for kneeling down and praying every night and morning. It kinda reminded me of Bishop Andrews? I think he had somewhat of a similar experience. Let me know if this is wrong. Since then, he has prayed every single day and has learned for himself that we all must pray. "The Lord will not steer a parked Car". We also can't just ask for things, but we need to act, that is the only way the Lord will direct us. This was our first week where we weren't allowed to go into a lesson with a script of any kind, just some vocab or small notes. Our first lesson on monday went well for Elder Hansen. We were going to teach our investigator about our life on earth so I prepared a whole section about trials and how they are given to us to help teach us. The lesson started out well and then we just jumped from being sent to earth to everyone making mistakes and sinning so that's why we need the atonement. I didn't really know what to say since I mostly studied for trials and we skipped over that part... It still went ok haha Tuesday night Devotional was also great. L. Lionel Kendrick talked about the spirit and how its companionship can lead us to the will of the Lord. He said, "The Lord doesn't use a floodlight if a flashlight will do." concerning revelation of promptings of the spirit. I know for myself I haven't had a floodlight of revelation, its always been those small whispers of a flashlight that lead me. It was a very cool talk! The rest of the week went as usual with our lessons and classes. My Korean seems to be getting better but it's still a struggle everyday with the language. One cool thing during one of our lessons was that we were going to teach about the atonement and how we can become clean through it. After maybe one or two sentences, our investigator asked what would happen to people that haven't heard of Jesus Christ or that didn't believe in Him. It was a cool experience because I felt like we should talk about the afterlife and how people go to spirit prison to learn of Jesus Christ and they have their agency and free will to accept Him as their Savior. I looked up a few words but the spirit really helped me out and Me and Elder Hansen were able to answer his questions. Today (Friday) we will be teaching a 40 min lesson to volunteers from BYU. Wish us luck! haha Thank you everyone for the love and support. May the Lord bless all of you!

 

- Elder Carter

With Elder Im from Korea