Week 2  MTC

 

Hello family!!

Thanks mom and Ash for sending me dearelders. They made my day. They really are the best to get here, because then you get a little lovin' from home during the week, and not just on Thursday. And I can look back on them when I'm feeling down or something. Okay, first to answer your questions mom: My companion is from Orem and could basically just run home from here if she wanted to. Haha. We have lots of fun together. Sometimes we get really sidetracked and are not focused because we just laugh and tell stories. 

And yes, Elder Barth is Simon. We're basically BFFs now. Haha. But the language is getting better each day, slowly but surely. We are supposed to speak it all the time, and say whatever we know how to say in Spanish. I need to get better at that.. But our study time is pretty spaced out. We have class/ teaching investigators, an hour of personal study, which is in English, and focused on the needs of our investigator, then an hour of companion study where we come together telling about our personal study and plan a lesson, an hour of language study, and some additional study time for whatever. It's just a lot!!! If we stay focused and study hard, it goes by way fast.

 

The food here isn't toooo bad! Yeah I get gassy.. but then again I don't eat very healthy at all. When they serve brownies, it's bad news for me.. I eat like two or three.. MMmmm.

 

We started teaching two new investigators this week (they are really our teachers) named Isaac and one named Maria. So we have to plan a new lesson each day, switching off between the two. Keeps us busy for sure!! It is very important to use our personal study time to find things that will help them. To receive revelation for them. That's one thing I am learning how to do. The spirit is an amazing tool, and is what makes missionary work possible. We would all be failures without it. It's just a matter of putting in the effort! I haven't really been working as hard as I know I can up until this point, but Tuesday night changed that! We had our Tuesday night devotional, and then after that we had a district meeting, where sister and brother Doman talked to us. One thing that hit me hard was that the second my suitcase hit the MTC sidewalk, my mission time clock started ticking. I need to live up every moment, and not live with regrets. I don't want to return wishing I did something differently. I want to be 100% happy with how I did and know that I did all I can do for my investigators and bringing others unto Christ.

 

When we first got here, people said to just make it until the first Sunday. That was kind of true for me, but honestly it took me a good week. This week has been going by much faster and I am learning so much. The first week, they kind of just let us do whatever we want, and teach however, not really explaining how things should be done. But we have now learned how to plan our studies, know what to study, how to manage stress and things like that. Why didn't they just tell us that at the beginning?! It's probably because people wouldnt' have listened then. It's a pretty humbling experience, and I still have so much to learn. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what to study and stuff. It's hard for me not to just sit down and read the scriptures for me, but we were told yesterday that everything we do on our missions, focusing on our investigators, is ultimately for us as well. It builds our testimonies and helps our conversion to Christ as well. Being converted to Christ and having a testimony are two different things. If we are converted to Christ, we will never fall away. When we are completely converted to Christ, we look outward, and not inward. That was a huge wake up call for me, and I have so much room to improve!!! Well I don't have any more time, but i'll send you all a letter too if i think of more to say!! I'll actually send pictures this time too. Just a little later today!! I LOVE YOU ALL :) keep CTRing and working hard!!! The church is true and God loves you!! Show you love him back by loving others :) Have a great week!!!

Hermana Wilde