Elder Ethan Ellsworth - Bangkok, Thailand

Hello everybody!! Week three is here, and all the days and weeks are starting to blend together. Time is finally starting to speed up, and I am excited to get to Thailand, as much fun as it is here in the MTC. Last weeks devo was on spiritual gifts, or mostly anyway. Elder Koelliker jumped around alot in his talk. But he discussed how to be effective missionaries, and how to use the talents we have to bring people to Christ. He discussed at length spiritual gifts and encouraged us to find ours and to read D&C 88 in the next week. I took that advice and made it part of my personal study this week and it was sooo worth it. It's a great section. So awesome. One of my favorite verses is 73 which says simply "Behold I will hasten my work in its time." This week it really hit me that that is what I'm apart of and how quickly the work really is moving, and how word is being spread across the whole world. Every day, I meet someone here that is going to a differe...

Hello everybody! This week has sure been great! Of course you can't go wrong when you're in the MTC. To be perfectly honest, there isn't much to report on this week, it's pretty much the same as last week, and every other day I've been here. We get up, study, go to class, eat and go to sleep, in different orders different days. So basically pday and Sunday is the best because it breaks up the rut of Groundhog day at the MTC haha. Here are some experiences at the MTC from this week. Last Tuesday, we had an excellent devo about faith and how to keep it in a world that is growing more and more doubting, and cynical. It was really instructive. On Wednesday, Elder McDonald and I had a rough lesson. We couldn't understand what our investigator Phii Faa was saying and we didn't have the spirit with us and that was pretty sad. Having the spirit with you is soooo important when you are teaching lessons. Thursday's lesson was much better, the s...

Saweedii khab khrobbhrua l3? phxan, Life here at the MTC is great!! I've really enjoyed my time here so far. It's definitely been one of the longest weeks of my life, if not the longest, but pretty awesome as well. So I got in the classroom Wednesday and the teacher only spoke Thai for about the first 2 hours. My district used the translations on the board to some of the words he used, and got really good at charades. Interpretive dance is a good way to communicate when you have no idea how to speak the language. There was lots of hand motions going on. Thursday was the longest ever. Lots of class time, and studying. It's good though. We literally have a full time job (40+ hours a week literally) studying the language. It's good though, we need all the help we can get haha. But the gift of tongues is soooo real. We've taught 3 lessons to an investigator already and we've been exposed to the language for a solid 5 days. How awesome is that?? The...