Today our training centered around “teaching people and not
lessons” or in other words, really listening to a person and gauging what we
teach to what questions they may have or what they already know. Our
instructors are extremely skilled instructors themselves and have kept
everything lively and interesting. We also participated in mock teaching
sessions in which we taught a first lesson to someone who wanted to know more
about the church. This was fun and also challenging since the people we were
teaching always went in different directions than the lessons we had planned.
These “investigators” were converts to the church themselves who used their own
backgrounds and experience in the scenario. We learned a lot, and was actually
pretty fun.
To go back to my packing story--even though I thought we
were both very careful about what we packed (Frank especially J) we discovered that
one of our suitcases was very overweight. Checking extra suitcases is very
pricey, so I had resigned myself to having to sort through everything to try to
shed some suitcase pounds. THEN one of the other missionaries said, “if anyone
is flying on British Airways, they will let you check a third bag for free
since you’re a missionary.” I called to get confirmation for this (we actually
needed permission) and now we have an extra suitcase to move things to. (The
MTC bookstore offers great discounts to missionaries by the way) That will also
give us a chance to get our kids to get us some spices before we fly out. Some
people who have been there said many of the spices we use more frequently are
just not found there. They weren’t specific so I’ll have to investigate
further, but good news on the suitcase and Hooray for British Airways!
I am excited to follow your adventure! (I am Jason's wife if you didn't already know :) )
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