Dear Family,
This was another excellent week!! It is so great to be here at the MTC. There is such a strong power and spirit here, it truly is incredible. It's basically like a lemon water cleansing diet for the soul. Seriously, it's awesome. Also, it has been double awesome lately because the new mission presidents were on campus today being trained! So the spirit-o-meter is just off the charts high right now.
Okay, this week has kind of been slightly uneventful in a good way because we now have two teachers instead of one. Which means we have double the class time. So basically all I do is sit in class and try to learn some Spanish. Our teachers are Hermana Cabello and Hermana Rasmussen. They're pretty awesome women! We are lucky to have them.
So, our old "investigator" Josue committed to baptism!! Yay! It was really scary asking him if he would like to get baptized. "Seguira el ejemplo de JesuCristo al ser bautizara por alguien de posea del sacerdocio del Dios?..." and then waiting for his answer...eek! It felt like we were proposing to him or something. It was really scary. But he said yes! ...That's basically the end of our story with Josue. He was going to be our new teacher but is instead going to main campus for a different job so that's the story with him.
We got two new investigators though. Gabby and Iris. (They are really just our two maestras.) Gabby is from Mexico and her son who is thirteen got baptized a year ago. Her husband had a run-in with the law and might get deported. Also, they told their previous missionaries to never come back and talk to them because for some reason they offended Gabby's husband. Her life is really complicated. I just know the gospel would make it better. And then Iris, Iris seems to be so prepared to hear the gospel. She doesn't like a lot of things about Catholism and she gets so excited when we talk about how families can be sealed forever. She also already really loves the Book of Mormon. We have another lesson with her tonight.
For our Sunday devotional Sister Janice Kapp Perry and her husband came! They are really old and SO SO adorable. Janice Kapp Perry wrote basically all of my very favorite primary songs and I just think she is the coolest cat ever. Her husband is adorable. When he first got up to the stand he said, "It is an honor to be Brother Janice Kapp Perry." It was precious. Janice Kapp Perry gave such a fun talk. She sang us her family song which was adorable! And then she had us all sing a medley of some of the songs she wrote. The last song was kind of the EFY anthem but missionary style. The song for "As Sisters in Zion" had changed words here is the first verse that I had time to write down:
The Sisters of Zion are called to God's labor
We willingly serve Him with spirit and might
We go to the nations with truth everlasting
We teach of the Savior, our Lord, Jesus Christ
And then when the Elders sang "Armies of Helaman" the lyrics had been changed to "we are NOW the armies of Helaman" it was AWESOME. The spirit was SO strong. Amongst the strongest I have ever felt it. The Elders next to me were crying. (I think it important for my pride to note that I didn't cry because I'm a cool cat. Just kidding, cool people cry too.) Anyways, it was just really great.
Our district likes to play kickball on Tuesdays with another district in our zone. We split into teams and it is SO much fun. My favorite exercise time of the week. :) We aren't allowed to keep score to prevent us from getting into fights but I'll just assume for the story's sake I was one the winning team. ;) I also caught a fly ball and got someone out. Yay for not being completely helpless!
This week is the anniversary of the day Joseph Smith was martyred so I've been reading "Our Heritage" and JS History. I know there are a mistakes Joseph Smith made that people like to point out sometimes to try and demean him and his message, but he really is an amazing man. I am so grateful that the restored true gospel was returned to the earth through him. He did amazing things for our salvation. (That sounded dramatic but I don't want to retype it. Don't make fun of me!)
Also, I've been studying the Christlike attribute of charity this week. Wow! Charity is so important!! I mean, I always knew that, but I think I learned of it's importance on a whole new level this week. I really liked 1 Corinthians 13:1 it says something along the lines of "Though you may speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity you are as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." That's pretty intense, that if you don't have charity your entire message won't be carried to people's hearts, even if you are a great orator. You'll be like a tinkling cymbal! Like that image of a cymbal only making a small tinkling sound is so sad, it is not living up to it's full potential because it lacks charity, and because the cymbal lacks charity, so many people will not hear the beautiful sound the cymbal has to share. Pretty great metaphor.
And for my final paragraph... drum roll please.... Tuesday devotional! The best part of the CCM! We got to hear from Elder D Todd Christoffereson. And that is so cool, but if you can even believe it, it gets better!! We were in the presence of FIVE apostles at once!! (Dallin H Oaks, David A Bednar, M Russell Ballard, Russel M Nelson and D Todd Christofferson). It was INSANE. The spirit was SO strong. He talked about how every soul is great in the eyes of God. Which went along so well with me studying charity this week! Lovely how that works out. I don't have enough time to type up all my notes because I wrote like two pages. It was just incredible.
Okay, well it feels like I wrote a lot so I'm going to say my adieus now. I love you! I hope you have an amazing amazing amazing week!! (My companeras always make fun of me because I guess when I get excited I say things in threes. Good thing we're a trio! I just say it once for each person! haha)
I love you all so much!
Love always,
Hermana Wood
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