- Elder Baird's #BLESSED Mission: WEEK 2 MTC: Be Homesick

Now I get to truly know who reads my emails. For those who don't will now think I'm sad and depressed and miss my home. But if you actually read this then you'll find out the subject is just the subject. (And yes guys, obviously I miss y'all, but like also, I'm having a party so like...)

The term homesick comes from my interview with my stake president before I got set apart. He asked me if I got homesick. I told him no. And he's like ohh you will, and you are. And im like I doubt that. He then goes on to say that I am homesick and that's why im serving a mission. We are homesick to get back to our father in heaven. My goal as a missionary is to help people know that they're homesick. So it's okay to be homesick. When he told me that it was kinda cool, cus it put it into a different perspective for me. Then a few days later, I was looking up the Chinese word for convert. And it's 归信。In Chinese it stands for having faith in going back. Then 归心 stands for homesickness. To be a convert to the church means to be homesick and having faith in returning to our loving Heavnlu Father. So id invite yall to be homesick. And no one finna judge you for it.

Now im are the MTC, and I've been here for a couple months. I think the biggest struggle I have is fighting battles everyday to keep my eyes open in classes, devotionals, and workshops. So I think the only time I'm not it dream world is when I'm eating. And yes I've drinkin way to much chocolate milk. But it's been amazing. We may be slightly living in poverty, but I'm blessed. I got the dopest companion and the greatest district. My companion just graduated with a degree in archeology and so he's been all over the world and has so pretty litty stories. The MTC is great and probably the home of the spirit cus I've felt it a lot while im here. Chinese is soooo fun... yea not really. But the gift of tongues is real, so like I guess I can speak the language pretty decently. Other than that just lots of cool stuff.

My spiritual thought I got from yesterday. I was listening to Kalani Satakis devotional that he gave a little while ago, and id definitely recommend listening to it. GOD KNOWS! That's what learned. God knows. He knows our struggles, he knows our desires, he knows our gratitudes, he knows our questions. He knows who we are. All we need to is just turn to him. Be homesick. Let Jesus pull your yoke. Then all will be chilly.

I'm keeping it short, but I love y'all go do some crazy stuff and listen to music for me!