Congrats, Bro Woods. I, too, am a new Mason and will pass to the FC degree later this month.
If it hasn't already, your Masonic education will begin soon where you commit to memory a large part of what you experienced in the First Degree. If your lodge is like mine, you won't be given any materials to study: You've got to memorize it all based on a verbal exchange you will have with your mentor/coach. I find these "memory sessions" to be very meaningful and a microcosm of true Masonic fellowship. (IMHO, the lodges that just hand a new Entered Apprentice a copy of the ritual and tell them to memorize it are doing a grave disservice to both the brother and the Craft.)
(BTW, since you are in Louisiana, did you join a red lodge or a blue lodge?)
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