Well today is my halfway mark. 1 month down 23 to go. It kinda made me sad when I thought if it. I only have 2 years to serve a mission. And I would never say that I wasted a month or 2 here at the MTC. But that 2 less months that I couldn't go out and do what I was called on a mission to do. So I've decided to work as hard as I possibly can here at the MTC. So that I can do the most work I can possibly do in the field. Learning here at the MTC is great. We were able to hear from Elder Cook of the twelve last Tuesday. He talked a lot about preparation to enter the field. When your entire 15 hour day is centered around learning the gospel, you learn so much. I could barely stand 5 hours of school for 5 days. But I now spend anywhere from 9 to 10 hours for 7 days inside a classroom about the size of my bedroom. And it all goes by so fast. There's not enough time in the day anymore to study. Only in 6 of the 10 hours do you have a teacher. The rest of the time you basically are supposed to teach yourself. At first it didn't make sense to me. I thought how do they expect me to learn Korean or learn how to Teach in those 4 or 5 hours without anyone to guide me. And the first few weeks I just went with it. And it was hard but it got easier. And it wasn't until I completely focused on what I was doing, whether it was reading from my PMG, learning vocab, or preparing for my lesson, that I realized that the whole time I was being taught. I realized that the spirit was teaching me. He was giving me more insight than any teacher, or bishop, or branch president, or district/ zone leader could. Not that they don't teach me a lot of things, but the spirit knows me better than anyone else, and knows who i'm going to be teaching in the field. He knows what I need to know. And I look forward to those few short hours to myself when i get to read the scriptures. Because I know that the spirit is guiding and preparing me to do a marvelous work among the children of men. My teacher gave us an awesome lesson last night. He went around the classroom asking us how many companions we had (in Korean though so we didn't really know what he was saying). We all said 1 of course. But he said no you are all wrong, you all have to companions. One is the one you've been called to serve with and the other is the Holy Ghost. How awesome is that. I've never realized or appreciated really how important that is until I came here. I know I still have a long way to go, but i'm so excited to be able to serve a mission. I'm so blessed to have the spirit in my life to teach me and be with me. I can't wait to get out into the streets of Busan. I know that I AM being the best missionary i can be. I guess it still hasn't sunk in yet. But its going to hit me soon. And its going to hit me like a bus. But come what may, and ill love it.
저는 상야사 임니다. 저는 상 신을 인도하겠슴니다 압니다.
I love you all! Stay awesome!
Elder Maccarthy
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