Smythe, Jackson PT

Well folks I'm writing to you from the mission field for the first time. In advance, sorry for the length... Saying goodbye to my best friends in Mexico City was so hard. I am going to miss them so much and am forever grateful for the impact they have had on me.    My final Sunday in Mexico was so spiritual. My district of all Elders gave a musical number in sacrament meeting, and while our voices were awful, we felt the spirit so strongly.    Monday and Tuesday could not have dragged on any longer. It took an eternity for the days to end and I kept wondering why everyone else got to get into the field, and I didn't. Tuesday night, I found out. We had a devotional and I had a slightly bad attitude about going. It turns out we had the opportunity to hear from a member of the 70. The talk he gave was so spiritual, I wanted to sit there and cry all night hahaha. I learned to love Christ even more, and continue to grow closer to him. He let us shake his hand after which ...

How are we doing?? I apologize for the video at the top. This phone is so hard to work it should be at the bottom:) but here we go!   Next time you all hear from me I'll be in the field, which is alarming and quite frankly terrifying and exciting at the same time. I am so excited to teach people and give them the opportunity I have to live again with Heavenly Father.   This week has been pretty average, nothing really big happened to be honest. However, I do love the MTC so much. Elder Woodson referred to it as the "Fortnite Lobby" in real life which is honestly true. I am kind of sick of the repetitiveness of it. The 4 hour classes can be long. I love everyone here so much though. I have met some of my best friends here and I love seeing them every day. The next few days are what's really going to be hard, but be so special and spiritual all at the same time. Saying bye to our teachers is going to be so sad and then saying bye to each other is going to be the worst. ...

What's up again friends and fam!! It's so crazy to think I have been a missionary for a month now! I love it so much and wouldn't trade this opportunity for anything.    This week was another banger, I love the MTC so much. To be completely honest, there has only been 1 time where I was homesick and that was last Saturday knowing my fam was gettin to watch college football but luckily there were hundreds of Elders here that missed it too so that helped a lot. Go cougs and I heard those fraud Utes lost in Florida:)   On Saturday Night though I had a special moment where I heard the piano being played and I knew it was familiar so I hurried to find it and it turns out one of the guys in my district was playing a Coldplay song Noah used to play 24/7 at home. It was a special moment for me to know the Lord is always watching over us.    As weird as it sounds for me, choir is by far one of my favorite parts of the week. We get to leave class and all of the Elders and...

What up!!!   Finally I have my first P day at the Mexico MTC. It felt like forever with class all the time and little breaks, but I have been loving it so much. My district has the most amazing 12 people and I would do anything for any one of them.    Saying bye to the family was hard, and it definitely sucked, but having all of the people here that I know has made the transition so easy. I knew that there were going to be some missionaries on my plane, but there turned out to be over 150. It was such a powerful and spiritual experience to see all of these missionaries willing to join God's army and serve. We all played poker on the little TV screens and it got heated so it made things fun.    The first night here they kind of tricked us and fed us Costco pizza and made us think the food would be good....it is actually awful. I stash up on any frosted flakes I see on the rare occasion. Our entire house, and basically the whole MTC, was up late last night sick be...