Week 7- June 12, 2012

June 12, 2012

Hey everyone,

This week went great.

The language is progressing well and I’m learning tons about the gospel.

I don’t really know what to talk about because not much has changed or happened that I didn’t talk about in the previous weeks. So I guess I’ll just tell you a tiny bit about a filmed talk by Jeffrey R. Holland that I watched. He talked about how we should go out into the mission field and astonish somebody’s life. This church and gospel is sooo vital and will without a doubt change someone’s life for eternity. So we need to be sure to teach with that kind of conviction and power. The gospel is so important to us missionaries, so we need to be sure to convey that in our teaching. It was an incredible talk!  It is my favorite one that I have watched here.

So on Sunday, the MTC president was sitting by me and companion at dinner. He just sits in random places at dinner. So anyways, he was talking to me and was like “what’s your name?” I said “Elder Chatman.”  He was like, “Oh, there used to be a really great basketball player from BYU named Chatman.” I was like, “Yeah, that’s my dad.”  He was astonished and keeping saying how good dad was at basketball. So then today, I get a call to come to his office with my companions. We go there and he tells me that he wanted to hook me up because I was a son of a BYU basketball player. So anyways, in 2 Sundays (the one before I leave), the apostles orientate the new mission presidents and they have a sacrament meeting with just the new mission presidents and the apostles. So because it is sacrament meeting, there needs to be the passing of the sacrament. So 36 elders got chosen to pass and then stay for the sacrament meeting. So me and my companions get to do that.  So we are part of the 36 elders that get to go to the apostle led sacrament meeting! Pretty cool, huh?!

Anyways, hope everyone is doing well.

-Jordan Chatman