Week 4

Hola :)

We'll start out with matters of business. Shorts. Basketball shorts. It'll basically be too late for gym and stuff but I could use them for sleeping or something. Much appreciated. If you could also toss in a t-shirt that would be great too.. I have like no clothes for gym and pday and sleeping and stuff. But it's okay. And mom, did you pay my tithing for me by chance? Also, yes Hermana Carlson is going to the same mission as me, and we are roomies. It is just us and the other two Hermanas in our district in our room, and yes it is on the MTC campus.  And my shoes are treating me well. No blisters, just getting sick of the same shoes every day. Also! guess who I met on tuesday.. Ryan Reynold's brother.. he looks just like him, just shorter and not as attractive!! I was so excited about that one. Also, I met another Hermana Wilde that is going to Argentina. We are totally related. Actually I have no idea, but probably :) Another fun fact: we have the privelege of having Hermana Eyring as teacher for quite a few days. She is President Eyrings granddaughter. She went to Buenas Aires on her mission. She's seriously the cutest thing ever, and makes us all love life. All the Elders love her, and say that they are going to marry her. I ran into Emily Mendenhall yesterday and Matt Easton today. it's so fun!! I love seeing my friends here :)

Sounds like all of you are just having a dandy summer!! sounds like Jax had a good birthday! I still want some pictures!! Send me a family picture or something.. I want pictures of anything!!! Haha but as for me and everything else, the MTC is just dandy. I'm really starting to love this place, and it's becoming home for me. Which kind of scares me to go out into the field! I'm starting to freak out! I don't feel like I'll be good enough to go out and teach real people in a week and a half or whatever it is!! Hopefully it's stateside spanish speaking, otherwise I will lose all my spanish before I get to Argentina. Apparently Cam Stowell who got called to Buenas Aires and left in Feb or March, just BARELY got his visa this week... So it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out. I should get my reassignment like next Friday or something. 

Our lessons with our investigators are getting better and better each time I feel like, and I am learning how to teach better. I learned yesterday the importance of just listening to the investigator and my companion, and most importantly the spirit. Before, we would just like think in our heads what we were going to say next and stuff. But yesterday I really tried to just listen, and to ask better questions so I can really understand what their thoughts are. Although my spanish was not as good, and it took me longer to figure out what I was saying, it really meant more to the investigator and teaching by the spirit really works and is a miracle!! I'm learning so much each day, and am loving seeing my progress. Our devotional on Tuesday was so wonderful. Elder Richards, a former seventy spoke to us, and talked to us about our legacy and stuff. But the thing that stood out to a lot of us was the clip he showed of Elder Holland, speaking at the MTC several years ago. He said "salvation does not come at a cheap expense". We all are going to have hard times. We all have to spend a fraction of a time in Gethsemani. When we wish things weren't so hard sometimes, we need to remember that we aren't the only ones to ask God if there is an easier way. Estoy muy agradecido por mi Salvador Jesucristo, y por la Expiacion. Yo se que el Evangelio es verdadero y Dios es nuestro amoroso Padre Celestial. Yo se que el Libro de Mormon es verdadero y me ayuda mucho en mi vida. Estoy agradacido por el conocimiento que familias son eterna. Les amo mucho!!!! xoxOXoXoxOX

Hermana Wilde