Here we go for week 2/3

Wednesday, May 22, 2012

I don't really understand weeks here. Tomorrow marks two full weeks here, but everybody says it's my third week. Just a tad weird. Just so everyone knows - you are all so amazing and I love each and every one of you! Heavenly Father does to! I have been studying His love and have realized that is the gospel - Heavenly Father's love for us. That is why He has provided us with the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Temples, Churches, Modern day prophets, and most importantly FAMILIES!! He loves us all SOOO much! Don't forget that!

 

Moving right along in my time here at the MTC - well today I got up and wrote as many letters as I could - sorry if I didn't get one out to any of you - but send me one and I'll get back ASAP! PS -- Timmy Hodges -- it has been a few weeks so I suspect you are out of school by now so I'm looking forward to a letter from you! and everyone else ;D Then I did sooo very much laundry (okay - two loads - but it is way more than everyone else so I'm not sure how that happens).

 

Any who - back to my week! First - after I wrote you last week, we got to go to the Temple! Amazing! I've never been to the Provo temple before - absolutely gorgeous! Every  Sunday we have an hour to ourselves and so as a Zone we go to the temple and take a bunch of pictures (I do any way) So gorgeous! OH - btw - i can't send pictures til I'm in the field now...sorry!! They closed down the photo printing machines from here on out and I don't think I can upload to MTC computers. Back to the Temple - the LORD LOVES US!!! and Temples are amazing! That is all I can say! OH and then Tuesday night we had a devo - as we do every tuesday...wait for it.... L. TOM PERRY of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles came!!! I was overwhelmed with the Spirit just being in His presence. He is truly one of the Lord's anointed! He spoke of the Priesthood and the work that we are doing here and preparing to do and that IT IS TRUE WORK! THIS GOSPEL IS TRUE! He had so much conviction in the words he was saying it was amazing. Also - see if you can find the story about Martin Harris and a Boy named Willie - he told us that and he heard it from Willie himself when He was a boy, and Willie talked to Martin Harris - a witness of the Book of Mormon! Everyone in that room was 5th removed from Joseph Smith that night! Amazing!

 

The work is moving along - I have decided that if I fall asleep during my scripture study that I will get up and stand as I study. Working so far. And we taught a lesson in Spanish yesterday with no script of what we would say - only by the Spirit and our learning is that possible. Still need to work on forming questions and understanding the investigator better but I'm getting there.

 

Any who - I have to get going...sorry not as much in depth this week but I will love you all and I know that I am here for a purpose!! Thank you for all your prayers - they help soo much!! Keep up the good work! Oh - and President Richards - thank you for respecting your calling, heard you gave an amazing talk at Stake Conference - would love to hear it sometime! Keep up the Good work, I know the Lord is grateful for you!

 

Con Amor!!

-Hermana Word (2)

I made it!!!

Wednesday, May 15, 2012

Hola Familia y amigos!

 

So my p-days are tuesday and I've still been going all day long :P I got up today and started out with snail mail, then did some laundry and now I have 30 minutes to write...here I go!!

 

For starters - when I got to the MTC we just went. After the Elders bring you to your residence, you stand in a line until another sister who has been here a little longer talks you around campus (to drop you bags off, get mission books, and take you to your first class where you meet your companion, one of your teachers, and your district. My district is pretty big! We have the most sisters in the zone/ i think in any district in the MTC (thats  6 including me - 2 leave in 2 weeks and finish training in the Spain MTC). My companions name is Hermana Brown. Shes awesome. quick stats -- 24, been teaching elementary school for the past three years, and she is the best at helping me get out of  rut. She has a very positive outlook on life and is really uber smart. She was a presidential scholar at BYU (aka - they pay for her school, plus pay her a little bit every month to have her and her super talented brain at BYU). She met her husband there. They dated for 5 years before they got married...he past away due to cancer and she decided that she had another mission in life as well. So her missionary is serving in the Lord's kingdom and she is too! Truly amazing! Oh - and she's going to Richmond,VA on her mission! Muy Bueno! (use that phrase alot)

 

K - what else. OH - taught in spanish friday...my teacher Hermana Eyring (pres Eyring's Grandaughter) is role playing as one of her investigators from her mission and we just blew into our role play, spouted off some words we wrote in a script and left. Next lesson was saturday - still had a script, but i memorized it a little better. Only problem was I didn't feel the spirit. So i proceeded to have a breakdown an hermana brown helped me work through it...then for the rest of the day - we heard that we need to know the gospel first, and have the Holy Ghost put it in our hearts, and the language will come later..but only the Holy Ghost can put what we learned into the heart of our investigators. So our third lesson on monday was better - i couldn't remember much spanish except my testimony but the spirit was there! AMAZING! we even got Lilian (our "invetigator" to pray)  - Sweet blessings!

 

I'm struggling with studyin in english - which makes spanish harder because if I don't know the gospel I can't testify of it.. So I'm getting a TUTOR to find better ways for me to study and really learn when i read - always been a problem for me but now i have to face it head on and with all i've got. OH _ and I HAVE ALLERGIES!! great, right? yeah - i got them thursday and treated it like a cold and nothing changed. Then My companion told me that if i was sneezing clear it was probably allergies, so i started taking allergy medicine (after i saw the doctor- cause i was told i had to..only 10$).. but i've been much more clear in my sinuses today that it's been awesome! so it's managable but if anyone wants to send me zyrtec - feel free cause I won't have enough for the time i'm here. OH - and im here til July 17th if anyone was wondering it says your departure date in the MTC address they send you right before you get here in the line for your mission (out of 12 people in my whole district -- im here the longest and Muy agradacia (very grateful) for it!

 

Other stuff - our schedules aren't in the same order every day but they always include 6 hours of class (3 hours per class - everyday except Sundays), hour of personal study where we study in English what we will teach our investigator, and hour of Language where we usually do extra work (homework :P ) or work on the things we want to say in our lesson and learn them in spanish, Sometimes TALL lab - computer program for learning spanish / just for missionaries (only and hour of that but it's like twice a week). Then extra study for whatever we think we need (about 40 mins). Our teaching of investigators is always during class time. and then journal writing at night.. plus eating and stuff like that. We go from 6 am to 10.30pm trying to be as obidient as we possibly can to get all the blessings from it! Our district is way awesome!

 

Well the computers blinking red at me to get off in 3 mins but I hope you all have an amazing week!

Yo se que Jesucristo es el Salvador of la tierra y por medio la Expiacion nostros vida de Dios a traves. En el nombre de Jesucristo, Amen.

KAITY -translate that cause I'm out of time...pictures next week when I have my chord (less words, I promise.)

 

Yo Amo!!

-HERMANA WORD (dos)!