Q: Where did you serve your mission?
A: I served my mission in Columbia South Carolina.
Q:When did you know you wanted to go on a mission?
A:Probably middle of my senior year of high school.
Q: What made you want to go?
A: To this day I don't really know, it seemed like a good idea at the time so I did.
Q: Who really helped you prepare to go on a mission.
A: Probably my Bishop, Bishop Esplin, my parents, and my brothers. They didn't tell me specifically how to prepare, they just told me what I encountered, which was pretty nice.
Q: What was the MTC like for you.
A: The MTC, to be completely honest I hated it, I hated it to start because it is the structure of a very intense school, but with the gospel. Which is an experience everyone needs to go through because it teaches what you need to learn to be a missionary, but the way they do it is almost military status, to where you are up a lot, you have to follow a very specific schedule,and you have to learn very quickly. It can be a negative experience if you have never done something like that before. I found it to be very difficult, and I didn't get a lot of sleep.
Q: What is your favorite experience that you have had on your mission?
A: My favorite experience was going to this guy's baptism, he was a guy we met in Columbia, which is the most ghetto are that I served in. He was for the longest time a Crack addict, and he was blind. His baptism was probably one of my favorite moments on my mission because I showed up right when they started teaching him, and I was there for most of the process of teaching him, and he eventually got baptized, and a recent convert who had gone through the same struggles he did had baptized him. It was just special to see someone who had gone through the same things he had baptize him.
Q:How did your testimony grow on your mission?
A: I would say I gained my testimony on my mission, I wouldn't say my testimony was at a zero before, I believed in the church but I didn't have any experiences that gave me a testimony before.
Q: Was it gradually or was there a certain moment when it hit you?
A:There was a moment in the MTC where I remember thinking, this isn't just a church this is the true church that I believe in.
Q:How have you applied what you learned on your mission to life now?
A:In a very small way everything applies. As a missionary you pray a lot you study your scriptures, but more than that you have to plan,you have to learn how to talk to people, you have to learn how to basically do hard things. People look at missions as increasing your spiritual knowledge and your testimony, and that is not really true because it teaches you real life adult skills.
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