Jacob and his own Mr.Miyagi

So far the MTC has been pretty sweet, when i'm not studying crazy hard I'm hanging out with Elder Grange and Elder Wilson playing basketball and other games. A couple days ago we had to teach a Japanese guy named Junichi at first my companion was trying to teach him the gospel but i knew that all he wanted was to just talk so thats what i did. My companion was frustrated because he wanted to teach him except the guy didn't want to learn about the church yet and just wanted to get to know each other. After the lesson i told my companion that you should first get to know the person you are teaching and get to know there needs and concerns about life instead just making him listen to us. yesterday we had to try and teach Junichi again and this time he was willing to listen to what we had to say and he seems little bit interested in the church (by the way Junichi is just a pretend investigator to help us practice). I called Junichi my Mr.Miyagi because just like in the movie "the karate kid" the boy wanted to learn karate and dive right into but his karate master Mr.Miyagi told him to do "the wax on wax off" technique and the boy was frustrated because he wasn't learning karate but in acutality he was teaching the boy the basics and the boy just didn't know it yet. thats what i thought when me and my companion were trying to teach him, he taught us that its important get to know your investigator and become great friends with them and that will help when you try to teach them because they will be more willing to listen to you. other than that my days have been normal, I have gym everyday for an hour and me and my district play alot of basketball.

when I woke up today I had a stuffy nose and I started to cough so i took some medicine and now im doing fine, hopefully this will go away soon. tonight me and Elder Grange are going to pull a prank on the new Elders and make there alarm clock go off at 3 am haha, i will tell you how that turns out. I leave around 9am from salt lake to fresno and I should be getting there around 11am and so I will try and call you and mom when I get to the aiport. I got to go my time is almost up. tell everyone that I love them very much and miss them. 

Love,
Elder Jacob DeMarco