Well I guess the brothers were satisfied that my brain worked well enough last night, since they approved my proficiency in the MM degree and passed me! Now that this part of my Masonic labor is over I am reflecting on where my study should focus next.
So, brothers....what are your recommendations? Truly master the EA degree material? Learn lodge operations? Where should a newly-raised MM focus his attention in the first year?
I appreciate your insights!
My thoughts are that you sit back and see what the lodge needs. Does it need someone to put together presentations to give at lodge? does it need fresh blood in the line? on committes? Ask what you can do for your lodge, not what your lodge can do for you! And at the same time start memorizing parts for the degrees. If your GL awards certificates like many do for being proficient in sections of ritual start there, the Fellowcraft obligation is probably the easiest to get down. Maybe its easier for you to start at the beginning and work to the end...EA opening and closing, EA obligation, EA Conferral, ect ect.
As you do this it will create questions for you to see the answers too, don't just ask a brother in your lodge cause you will get the answer he was told, go search it out. Come here and ask, google, Wikipedia ect ect. Don't limit yourself to one area as when you start doing research you will find info on other things you wondered about! Researching Masonry is like trying to deRoot a tree, the branches go everywhere and they are all interconnected!