MTC Week 2
9/17/14
Hola todos!!
Ok so last week I felt like I was sending a bunch of
little fragmented emails, so I'm gonna try and get everything into one this
week to make it more efficient. Hope this works haha
First things first. Idk who the heck did the study that says
that 8 hours of sleep is enough cause for real its not I'm so tired all the
time. Which I'm kinda used to but still.
Another good thing. I've learned the Spanish equivalent to
"fetch" so guess what word I say all the time now ;) I've also
learned, garbage, straight garbage, total garbage, and seriously garbage. All
useful. I also accidentally swore in class the other day, I was trying to
conjugate a verb and practice saying it out loud and I did it wrong and the one
Hermana in my district who is basically fluent looked at me like I killed the
prophet. Whoops lol
We got a new teacher this week, and he is seriously the man,
like if I could grow up to be him that would be the dream. The first day, he
pulled us out one by one and interviewed us, and he talked to me a lot about
charity and prayer. Direct quote from that meeting, "If we aren't praying
for other people, why the hell are we praying at all?" That was on
Thursday, so I've been thinking about it a lot this week. And then last night,
Elder Richard G. Scott came to give a devotional, and he talked about prayer.
It was so amazing, The one thing he said that made me think a lot is how all of
us, even him, are so insignificant compared to God, but he has still given us
the power to speak directly to him, and has provided a way to give us specific
answers. So then we went to the temple this morning, and let me just say that
sitting in the celestial room surrounded by other elders, all with their heads
bowed, pleading with our Father in Heaven for whatever they needed, is one of
the single most incredible spirits that I have ever felt. Nothing compares.
Also, on Sunday, Elder Sanchez and I got home from church
and went over to our "classroom" to get ready for district meeting,
and when we got there, Brother Wolfert was waiting for us. He interviewed each
of us and then we all waited for the Hermanas to get back from Relief Society.
But they were taking way longer than usual, so after a while he invited Elder
Sanchez and I into our investigator room to teach him the first discussion. The
only problem is that he doesn't speak Spanish, so we had to do it in English.
Somehow that was way harder. I kept having to translate what I wanted to say
from Spanish back into English. And then we got to the first vision and out of
habit, I said the first couple of lines in Spanish before my companion stopped
me haha. He did say that the spirit was very strong when we taught, that we
taught with strong unity, and that if he were the mission president in the
missions where we are serving, he would be so happy to have Elders as prepared
as we are. So that's a good thing.
Another cool thing: right now it looks like there will be an
MTC choir for at least one session of General Conference, which means that I
have a decent chance of going, especially if it's preisthood session because
then they can basically take every single elder with them. So that's exciting.
All in all, the MTC is just great, just great.
Love you all, hope you're doing just fabulous.
Elder Rawlings
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