Week #5 June 28, 2016
Hola,
This week was another great week! We
taught a lot of lessons and the spirit was really strong in each one. I really
feel like my Spanish is improving everyday. I have been speaking Spanish like
all the time now, which is really helping!
I forgot to tell you guys that I gave a
talk in sacrament meeting just over a week ago in Spanish! I thought it was
rough but i got a lot of compliments on it! Funny story actually, so I wrote a
whole talk and put it in my Spanish bible (cause I was going to read a
scripture from John) but then accidentally left my bible AND my talk in the
classroom. So I totally winged my talk. good thing i had an idea of what i
wanted to say and have been preparing to teach the gospel in Spanish for the
past 5 weeks cause otherwise that would have been so terrible. The way that
talks work here is that everyone in the zone writes a talk and you find out who
is speaking after the sacrament has already been blessed and passed. so they
announced that i was speaking and then 30 seconds later, I was up giving a
talk.
If any of you wanted to know about my
soda experience...it was awful haha. Soda...is NOT my friend. So at dinner I
had like 7 sodas in front of me and I would have to close my eyes and drink one
and guess what kind of soda it was. Lets just say that 4 of the 7 were
"sprite" and only guessed 3 of them right. I thought Diet Coke was
sprite...and that orange soda was sprite...but I did guess sprite when I drank
sprite. Because I’m not used to all the carbonation and everything, I literally
felt sick all the rest of the night and was throwing up from like 3am-5am...ya
so I’m not drinking soda anymore. Throwing it up was no bueno.
So this week we got 22 new elders and 4
new Hermana in our zone...its so many people but they are all really fun and
super sweet. a lot of them are struggling with homesickness so we have been
helping out with that a lot. There was a devotional on Sunday about good/bad
reasons to go home from a mission early and i think that it really helped
them.
The trickiest thing for me right now is
finding the needs of my investigator. To help this, my companion and I are
going to practice asking each other "get to know you" type questions
in Spanish as a role play for different investigators. I think this practice
will help because so often I want to ask more questions, but I run out of
questions that I know how to say within the first 60 seconds of a lesson.
My best experience from this week was
yesterday at TRC. Hermana M and I were in a trio with Hermana J,
but our investigator didn't show up. J (an investigator of TRC) came out to
the hall and starting talking to us because his missionaries haven't come the
last three times. We decided to just teach him instead of our investigator.
When we started off Hermana J asked him some normal get to know you
questions (she is much better at getting to know people in Spanish than Hermana
M and me), and he just kept talking and talking about one of his big
struggles right now. As he was talking, I had no idea how the gospel could help
him in his situation, but towards the end of the story what I needed to say
came so clearly to me. Because I had shared what I did, Hermana J was
able to share a related experience and testify of the principle. The lesson
continued and I was able to also share an experience and testify, and Hermana
M was able to share an experience and testify. The spirit was so strong! I
know that in real life J is a member, but I think that we were able to help
him in his real, current circumstances. I came to love J in just that short
amount of time. At the end, Hermana J encouraged him to say the closing
prayer, and after some convincing, he gave the most beautiful prayer.
Also! This was great! I taught my
teacher Hno C as himself. and I had no idea what to teach him! He is so
righteous and perfect, but he said his dad is struggling a little bit. While
M and I were preparing, I got a clear impression that we should use Jacob 5 to help him. It ended up working out so well! We likened the parable of
the vineyard to him personally. The lord= Lord. Servant= Hno C. Tree= his
dad. The servant has to cut back the branches because they have overgrown the
good roots of the tree. after the tree has been cut back and focused on it's
roots, it brings forth good fruit and the servant is blessed with joy for his
diligence. It was actually so beautiful.
It’s been a great week! Love and miss
you all!
Hermana Greenwood
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