Week #2 June 7, 2016
Hey Fam!
Just finished another great week at the
MTC!
Hermana M and I have gotten a
couple new "investigators" and each lesson seems to be getting better
and better. So the investigator that we taught for the first week and a half is
now our teacher, so that's cool because he knows exactly what to help us with
in our lessons. We taught our first TRC investigator yesterday and she was
really tough. She literally showed no emotion and we would try and ask her a
bunch of questions to get her more involved but it didn't work as well as we
hoped. We teach her again on Thursday so hopefully that will be better. We also
started teaching Pablo 2.0 yesterday and that went SO well! We went in there
with an outline of what we wanted to talk about but based on some of his
questions, we ended up not even looking at our plan and just tried to bear a
lot of testimony and it went really well! Because Pablo 2.0 is our teacher too,
he gave us a bunch of feedback about our lesson and told us that we were the
only group who "taught a person and not a lesson". He said that he
felt the spirit in our lesson and that we're the only companionship that he was
happy with. It was also probably my best Spanish yet so that was a huge
blessing!
We have devotionals every Sunday and
Tuesday night and they are incredible. On Sunday, Sheri Dew came and spoke to
us about how we need to be willing to engage in the "spiritual
wrestle". She also said that it’s important for us to pray and ask what
the spirit feels like to you. It was really good.
We have another devotional tonight and
everyone suspects that it will be Elder Bednar but we won't find out until we
get in there. The choir is singing a song that Bednar wrote and his grandchild
is singing a solo, so that's why we think he is coming to talk to us. So
excited.
We've been doing a lot better at
actually studying during CICLO (study time) and that has been super helpful. I
really feel like my Spanish is improving and that my testimony is being
strengthened through personal and companionship study. Its hard work but its
helpful.
I'm getting to know the people in my
zone and district more and more each day! We are all really close and I already
feel like we are a family. These Elders and Hermana's are literally incredibly
and so much fun to be around. We have a lot of competitions. Like today, during
exercise time, we had a district volleyball tournament and did a draft for
teams and everything. Of course my team won every game. There are only 10 of
us, 5 on each team, so its not that great of an accomplishment but it was
really fun!
I've still been running pretty much
everyday around the indoor track and its actually pretty terrible cause it
takes 10 laps to run a mile but I’m just working with what I’ve been given. Sometimes
I run with my companion, Hermana M, but I’ve also starting running with an
actual runner and he has had a crazy life. To summarize, he was in a car
accident when he was 14 and literally broke like everything and should have
died. He was in a coma for 9 days and everyone else in the car passed away but
somehow he woke up from the coma and has healed completely. It’s insane
actually.
Sounds like you guys had a great time in
Florida and I wish that I could have been there with you guys! I loved seeing
the pictures of you guys holding an alligator...so scary but so cool! That's
awesome that Jason got to do Fly Sport or whatever its called. It looks really
fun and I would love to do that! I hope that Jason had a great birthday and
that you all had fun on the trip! I'm sure that it was great to see where
Jorden grew up and do all those fun things!
Thanks for everything! I love and miss
you all so much!
Hermana Greenwood
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