Jesse is in the MTC

Not enough time!

Hey everyone! Hola!

Holy smokes there's not enough time here to say what I want to and to get everything done! We only have a half hour on the computers and you have to be able to read the old email and respond within that time! Well today was my first preparation day and I sure needed it. It's been the longest week of my entire life, but I also enjoy it and feel like I've already learned SOOO much. My companion, Elder Twitchell, is from Florida and we get along great. He is a really motivational guy and we have no problems. I do have exciting news though!! I'm the new district leader :) I got called last Sunday so now I get to exercise some leadership skills and better serve my fellow missionaries here. The Spanish is already coming along and I never knew I had so much to learn!! It's definitely a humble but exciting experience. I'm kind of nervous because I'm teaching my first legitimate discussion tonight and we'll see how it goes. We have to do all this contacting and introductory stuff in Spanish and then teach the whole first lesson to an investigator in English. I'll be praying really hard to do good.

Oh, and I also got to give a sister a blessing yesterday. My first one! She's been really struggling with the decision to stay here or go home because she is already so miserable. She's in my district and has really looked up to me so Iwas able to give her a blessing and she has now decided to stay and finish her mission! That made me feel good. And I also got to talk to this sister from Mexico, who was struggling a little bit, and a little unconfident with her English. I thought she was doing so good and we asked all these questions about Mexican culture and how we should do things when we're teaching them. She was su[per friendly and I think we were led to her, because she just really needed someone to talk to.

Well I feel like I've never come so close to the Lord and to Jesus Christ as I have the past few days. We really do dedicate ALL of our time to the work and I'm sure we will be blessed for it. We are definitely blessed with an abundance of the Spirit and that's an amazing feeling! Well I hope I will be able to tell you more later but time really is short here and I need to go. The first while was pretty rough and super long but I'm doing SOOO good now :) It just takes awhile to adjust to the fact that you have no time to yourself because it all needs to go to the Lord, and to preparing ourselves to serve Him. Thank you for your support!