P day e-mail (2)
Brayden Jackman
To Me
Jul 26 2014 (Saturday)
Hello everyone.
I was glad to get messages from all of you this week. It was fun
to read about how everyone is doing. In answer to Mom's
question, which I keep forgetting to answer, I can go to Brigham's Landing on P
days and if you were to send a gift card I am sure that I could make use of
it.
I am glad that everyone had fun this Pioneer day. The devotional
last Sunday was given by T.C. Christiansen and he showed clips from several of
his movies, including Ephraim's Rescue and 17 Miracles, then explained the
background and importance of the clips and what we could learn from these
pioneers to apply to our lives.
I won the first round of "El Nativo" by the way.
This week has been fairly busy, what with preparing lessons for two
investigators, preparing a talk for Sunday, learning daily grammar concepts,
and studying how to teach the various lessons. We took a language
assessment last night on the computers. The computer would generate
various prompts that you would have to answer by speaking into a microphone.
The responses were recorded and are sent to be assessed.
The
initial questions deal with conversational Spanish. Tell about yourself, what
you like to do, where you are from, etc. Then it asks you to find out
about someone by coming up with your own questions. Then, you were given
various teaching situations were you had to explain different parts of the
gospel (the Restoration, the First Vision, the Great Apostasy, etc).
Afterwards, the situation became that you are trying to answer an
investigator's concerns (ex. has read part of the Book of Mormon and prayed but
has yet to receive and answer). You had about thirty seconds to prepare
for each question and 30-45 seconds to give your answer. I don't have the
scores back yet. I will let you know how I did.
The district was very grateful for the donuts and would like me to
convey their thanks.
I have received several answers to prayers that have served to
strengthen my testimony of the Gospel while I have been here. One
night, when feeling particularly frustrated and inadequate, I prayed for
strength and the words "peace be still" from that one hymn (they all
shall sweetly obey thy will, peace be still...) went clearly through my mind.
Then, the other day when I was somewhat frustrated with my companions,
for various reasons, I decided to pray for God to help me be less prideful and
to help me to feel love for my companions. I felt instantly better and
went on to have a wonderful evening with them.
For Ashlyn and Madilyn, know that I love you both and that your prayers
for me are felt.
Brooklyn, I have sent you a personal e-mail on your account.
Camden, your letter is in the mail.
Thank you all for the support. The packages are very thoughtful,
always full of some of my favorite things. I love getting letters from
you all and I hope that if any of you ever need anything you should always feel
free to e-mail me.
I will e-mail again next Saturday.
Love,
Elder Jackman
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