The Grind has Begun! (Week 1)

Well I'm a flippin MISSIONARY now. I can't believe how fast time flies! My first week was really fast. The days didn't feel crazy long to me or even long at all. The mission is the grind (of course it'll be more of the grind when I'm in the field), up at 6:30 and then I'm constantly learning and studying then I go to bed. My schedule right now looks a little like this-  6:30-8:00 Wake up, Pray, workout, shower, get ready  -  8-9 devotional from the MTC , 9-11:15-45ish Daily planning, personal study, companionship study - 12-12:45 Class or teaching or studying something  -  12:45-1:30    Lunch Break - 1:30-4:30 First class 1:30-4:30 -  4:30-5:15 Dinner break -  5:15-8:15 Second class  -  8:15-9:30 watch a safety training video or something like that and do scripture study with the fam - 9:30-10:30 get ready for bed, write in my journal and pray. 

Elder Farr and Elder Shockley

The Setup

Super funny missionary meme

My companion is Elder Walker from Las Vegas and he is one smart guy, religiously he knows so much and knows a ton of scriptures and he's so chill. It's something about the Hawaii missionaries, they're just so chill. My district has a lot of solid missionaries in it and I'm always laughing a lot because they can't hear me but they just say or do something that gets me and I laugh.

The District

My teachers are Sister Butcherite and Sister Svenson and they are such good teachers; they're so kind and patient, and so pumped up about the gospel. I love it, haha. I feel like I've been waiting for this moment for a while now, to just go and serve the Lord and learn and study the gospel. I love giving this time to the Lord. 

Jesus Christ is King and The Book of Mormon is true. If you don't know for yourself, read it with faith and real intent and ask God with faith and real intent if it's true, and He will answer you with a confirmation that it is TRUE. In 3 Nephi 13:19-20 Jesus tells us to lay up the treasures upon the Earth because those will go away one day. He tells us instead to lay up treasures in Heaven because those treasures will never go away. 

-Elder (Alec) Shockley