"First Few Days"

Holy Toledo, I love the Missionary Training Center!

(A classroom with a view!)

(Nate in his MTC classroom)

Yes it's hard, yes it's frustrating and like nothing else I've ever experienced.  But man, the spirit is so strong. My testimony has grown so much about the spirit and being able to feel it and most importantly listen to and obey it. I was assigned to serve with two other missionaries, Ældste Mckinnon and Ældste Christensen. They are absolutely wonderful.

(Ældste Haruch, Ældste Mckinnon and Ældste Christensen in front of the Provo, Utah Temple)

We are all really confused of how exactly how to be a missionary. Our first day, we walked into the classroom and the teachers were only speaking in Danish. I had no idea what they were saying.. still hardly do, but i'm improving. My testimony of the gift of tongues is increasing. We pray consistently to obtain it. It is a promise that if we pray, having faith and desire, and ask in the name of Jesus Christ, we will be given what it is we needed according to God's timing.

(Nate's District Learning Danish at the MTC)

I know that we are nothing without our Savior.  The mission is undoubtedly difficult and I hardly know what I am doing... I do know, that as we put our effort into learning and growing, step by step, we will become the missionaries that God needs us to be. We must persist in growing our faith through prayer and scripture study.

(Nate and his fellow missionaries assigned to serve in Denmark)

* Click to watch A Day in the Life of a Mormon Missionary at the Missionary Training Center *

I know this is true. In the name of Jesus Christ amen. Love you all!

Ældste Haruch