Elder Jacob Fisher : Everything Is the Same, Just More Complicated

July 24, 2019

Everything Is The Same, Just More Complicated

July 24, 2019

Բարեւ Ձեզ! ==> "Hello" in Armenian

We have created some great inside joke within the district and created new one. One of them is the subject line. Others are of the topic of four square, going to choir, screws, the Armenian word for wife, the Georgian word for lobster, Cuban sandwiches, Bad melon, etc. We are now six weeks in the MTC. This makes us more experienced than every person here, other than the really hard languages. That's kinda cool. Anywho, I have received requests to have an outline of my schedule for the week. My apologies to those of you that have recently been in the MTC.

Sunday

Wake up-- 6:30

Breakfast--?

Sacrament Meeting--8:30

Priesthood Meeting--9:30

District Council Meeting--10:30; We council as a district to determine goals and ways to improve ourselves and our group. We have a short discussion on a Christlike attribute and read a page from Appendix B of the Missionary Handbook

Lunch--11:50

District Doctrinal Discussion--2:45; We discuss a piece of doctrine determined from the week before by the Zone leadership

Choir--3:45

Dinner--5:00

Devotional--6:45; Usually a general authority of The Church along their spouse will address us. Sometimes we hear from the MTC presidency's family or the presidency themselves.

Films--7:55; They show different General conference addresses and MTC addresses by general authorities of The Church

Doors closed/District Hugs/Zone Hugs--9:45; We prepare for the next day. We are a hugging district and a hugging zone, so the leadership comes and gives hugs.

Lights Out--10:30

M,Th,F

Wake up-- 6:30

Breakfast-- 7:30

Class-- 8:30; I go to class by myself for three hours. I am not distracted by the silly Armenians, so I learn soooo much by myself.

Lunch--11:30

Giant Break--12:10; During this time we have Exercise Time. What a good part of the day. The Armenians will play volleyball because Elder Crook is CRAZY AMAZING at it. I play four square. This is a meme. Every single story we tell starts out, "So, I playing four square..." It's a good meme. During this time we also do our personal, companion and language studies.

Dinner--5:00

Class--6:15; I go to class by myself for three hours. I am not distracted by the silly Armenians, so I learn soooo much by myself. Previously, on Thursday we had TRCs. We teach a lesson to a return missionary in our language. they always went really well and were really fun.

Doors closed/District Hugs/Zone Hugs--9:45; We prepare for the next day. We are a hugging district and a hugging zone, so the leadership comes and gives hugs.

Lights Out--10:30

Tuesday

Wake up-- 6:10

Service--6:25; We go to another residence and clean it for 75 minutes.

Snack Line--7:40; Since we have to be in mission attire to go to the cafeteria, we get snack line which usually consists of Cookies N' Cream Milk, Bagels, Cream Cheese, Muffins, etc.

Class--8:40; We now have Skype TRCs. This is where we Skype member in Georgia/Armenia. It was terrible. The connection was bad. She kept speaking really fast. I don't know this language.

Lunch--11:30

Giant Break--12:10

Dinner--4:30

Choir--5:15

Devotional--6:45

Devotional Review--7:55; We go have a doctrinal discussion about the devotional.

Doors closed/District Hugs/Zone Hugs--9:45; We prepare for the next day. We are a hugging district and a hugging zone, so the leadership comes and gives hugs.

Lights Out--10:30

Saturday

Saturday is similar to all other days, but we do snack line in the morning and we have class in the afternoon as opposed to the morning.

As a spiritual thought today I would like to share a great story that Sister Maisey has shared several times. (See the next post.) Shout out to Sister Maisey for resending it recently so I could share it will you all in addition to my district. I really like this story, but I have grown to appreciate it more, recently. It is important for us to allow Christ to enter into our lives. We need to accept his atonement and embrace His love. Likewise, we need to live in a way to be more like Him. Anyway, have a good week, everyone. And remember: Everything's the same, just more complicated.

ნახვამდის!

--უხუცესი ფიშერი

A plan for an Armenian to stop smoking.