Last week in the MTC!

Hey Everyone!

So this is my last week in the MTC, I actually only have 6 days left! Next week I will be in Albania!! Pretty Crazy!! This week is going to be very bitter sweet!!  I am so excited and ready to leave and go to Albania to start serving the people there, but at the same time, the MTC has been such an amazing experience! It is truly and amazing place where the Spirit can reside everywhere!  I have learned so much about myself, the gospel, and how to do missionary work!! I am so thankful for this opportunity to serve! It's also pretty intense to think that this is our only MTC experience, ever!  I am trying to get the most out of this last week, so that I can take as much as I can with me before I go out into the mission field! 

So this week is a lot of culture lessons and tomorrow I have infield orientation so I will get a better sense of the field! hahaha.  The language is coming along smoothly, but I think once I get there it'll be a bit of a shock! hahah and I won't be good until I've been there for a few weeks! hahah but I can still testify in Albanian hahah!  Hopefully I can get a TON of studying in before I leave, and even in the field! 

The teaching is going better!  I have been struggling a lot with focusing too much on what I was going to say and not enough on who I was teaching.  But Yesterday I had an amazing experience in a lesson with an "investigator"!  I didn't think at all about my self, and I testify that what it says in Doctrine and Covenants 84:85 "Neither take ye thought beforehand what ye shall say; but treasure up in your minds continually the words of life, and it shall be given you in the very hour that portion that shall be meted unto every man" is so true! I focused on my investigator, and my companion and I planned with the Spirit; I just kept my mind on him and the Spirit led me to say the things that we prepared, and he resided there to testify to the investigator that the things which we said were true! 

It has been so awesome having Emily here! I don't see her a great deal, but it is so awesome to see her going through all of the stuff I went through at the beginning of my MTC experience!  She is doing really well, but I'm sure you'll hear ALL about it in her blog, if you follow hers! haha.  I don't know when I'll have a P-Day will be so I don't know when I'll be able to email again, or send another blogpost, so sorry you may have to go a while without my awesome emails and blogposts!  Just kidding!! Bëj Shaka (I made a Joke) that’s how you say it in Albanian.  Anyways thanks to those who read my blog and are following my mission! It's going well! haha

Love,

Elder Jake Simons