I asked him about his daily schedule because one of my friends has a son who is currently in the Mexico MTC and he describes his day like this: “Honestly my schedule is wake up, go to breakfast, go to class and study for an hour, practice teaching, learn something about Spanish then the Gospel, then study for 30 minutes, then lunch, then study the language for an hour, then gym, then language for an hour, then study for 30 min and plan for 30 min, then dinner, then practice teaching, learn Spanish and the gospel, then go home and get ready for bed and go to bed. every. day. its pretty much all I do every day. and nothing too exciting happens, especially because nobody can come or go besides newbies.” I sent him this description and I asked him if his schedule was similar?
Josh's Response: Yeah it is really monotonous here so I can´t wait to leave.
I have seen a lot of Budge (he´s in my zone) but not Garrett as much. I asked him about his Gym time every day and what he does. Gym time is when we get to do whatever we want to exercise. I usually just play volleyball or basketball. I´m actually really loving volleyball lately! I have also been doing 100 push-ups and 150 sit-ups every night so I´m getting some exercise in :)
I really have been studying the character of Christ in Jesus the Christ and the New Testament lately and I love it! It really interests me and I pray morning and night to have the gift of charity towards ALL men. I really want to be able to work towards that and become more like Christ. I think that would really help on my mission.
My Spanish is coming along great. I love talking to the Latino elders here. They´re all so friendly and funny and it helps with my Spanish as well. One of my teachers even offered to move me to an all Latino district about a week ago because my Spanish is coming along so great, but I decided to stay with my district because I've really grown to love all these elders and sisters so much!
On Saturday we had something called TRC. Not really sure what it stands for, but we actually got to teach REAL PEOPLE!!! They said that some people were actually going to be real investigators, some members, and some less-active. We taught a couple of members. One of them we taught the lesson of the restoration and it went really well and I was able to recite the first vision from memory and the spirit was so strong. Then she asked us how to prepare for a mission because she has a call and is going to Argentina in December and it was really cool!
We were prepared to teach the second person about the restoration as well, but then she asked us to teach about repentance. It kind of caught us off guard, but we were able to give a pretty good lesson. It was a great experience!
That´s so fun that Dad and Zach are going deer hunting! I would love that! I love you all so much and I pray for you always! Thank you for your prayers and your support!
Love Elder Thayne
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| OK...Josh is the one in the lower bunk...his companion Elder Seegmiller is in the top bunk, I stole this from his mom's facebook page. I love how Josh is all scrunched up in there reading his Book of Mormon! |
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| Elder Josh Thayne and his District at one of the Elder's birthday Party |
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| Elder Garrett Phlillips (Manila 4th Ward) and Elder Josh Thayne |
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