A.J. is alive and well at the MTC! Here is his first mass email!
Dear Family,
I miss all of you so
much! So here is kind of has been going on with me: Day one was not
the best... I felt really homesick and I was so busy. I started to
think that I wasn't going to be able to do this for a whole 2 years.
Everything has changed since then. My Branch President took me into a
room to get to know me and see how things are going. I told him I was
homesick and he told me not to worry about that. He read me a scripture
in D&C that said that not only will you receive blessings from
being on a mission, but your family will receive blessings from my going
on a mission. That made me feel a lot better.
My district has made this entire experience awesome! We
have really grown close and have encouraged each other when we are
feeling down. We are the best district here! My companions name is
Elder Mitchell. He is in the National Guard so it is really nice to
have a nice organized companion haha he keeps me in check. But he is
awesome! We have two investigators here. One of them is just one of
our teachers playing a friend that they have. The other is called a TRC
investigator. We don't know if the TRC is a recent convert just
playing a role or an actuall person looking in to the church. Our first
visit with our TRC went horrible! We mentioned some goals that we had
like what we wanted to teach her and we just mentioned baptism.... she
snapped at us and told us she was offended that we brought it up so
soon. After that the spirit just was not there at all. We were really
depressed that night and for most of the next day. My companion took it
really hard and was ready to go home. I prayed for him and was trying
to think of ways to build him up. My prayer was answered because he got
some great advice from our teachers and branch president. When we met
with Sarah (Our investigator) again, we just talked to her and asked her
what she wanted to accomplish while meeting with us. We had a really
nice discussion and we were able to answer a lot of questions she had
about the church. It went so well and it really made my companion and I
feel awesome again.
I am so happy here and hope that y'all are doing awesome!
There is so much left to say about my mission so far but I am running
out of time. I love all of you and miss you but I am so grateful to be
here and don't want to be anywhere else!
Elder Whetten
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