You got a wonderful machine. You will learn to appreciate that bobbin loading in front when you are doing an embroidery design and the bobbin runs out.
When I took my mastery classes the dealer simply followed some of the lessons in the mastery book. I found a site where you can download the mastery book for free, and there is a separate one for the embroidery unit:
http://www.byrnesewing.com/mastery.html
That should have you up and going in no time!