May 17-I Will Go and Do

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My first Pday! It feels like I've been in the mtc my entire life. The first few days were super slow but now they fly by. My teachers brother Dutson and sister linford are amazing, I look forward to their lessons everyday! I love my district,  it feels like an efy group! My companion and I were made zone leaders the second day,  which was pretty overwhelming, but now we're cool with it. We've had a lot of classes about how to use our technology to the best of our ability, and there are so many more things I can do on my mission phone than I thought. 

We also had or first PI where we taught or teacher sister linford pretending to be an investigator. She really started to understand the lover God has for her. Our second PI with or other teacher brother Dutson is not going as well. He doesn't seem to grasp why the gospel is so important. We teach our last lesson with him tomorrow so hopefully it goes well. 

We also teach PRC which is another fake investigator,  but she seems more real than the others. Her name is Debi and or first lesson was a total disaster. She asked so many questions we couldn't answer, and when we did answer one, it brought up ten more questions. The spirit was just not in the lesson. Our second lesson wad fantastic though, she started to understand how God doesn't always answer our prayers in the way we want, but we have to look for the mini miracles. She stated crying after that so we aimed it was because she felt the spirit and not because or lesson was so terrible. She doesn't really understand God's love for her yet, so we hope to make her understand in or last lesson tomorrow. 

My zone is gong to the temple this afternoon and I'm super excited about it. 

I've learned so much while being here and I can't wait to go to California. 

Love, Elder Judd





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