MTC-Halfway through

6/18/14

I’m half-way through my MTC experience!  We are officially considered oldies here now, hahaha.  I feel like I’ve only been here a week.  I was released from being the District Leader (they always do this at the half-way point.) 

 

 

I’m doing awesome.  I love P-days.  Today we went to the temple.  We forgot to do our laundry first, but we will have time for that later on today.  I got pockets added to two of my skirts.  Woot!  I wish I could get more, but they will only do 2 items.

We didn’t get any new people in our zone this week.

To the family:  I got your postcards from the Redwoods.  I love getting postcards!  How in the world did you coordinate all those people?  Send me more pictures of the trip.  I love getting them. 

It was pouring buckets of rain all day long yesterday.  I put on my raincoat and found your note Mom.  It made my day! 

We are losing both of our teachers and getting 2 new ones.  One is moving to the main campus and the other one got another job.  I can’t believe I’m losing Hermano Angel.  He’s the best teacher.  He has the best sense of humor and knew so much about teaching the language. 

 

Two of the hermanas in my district flew to Las Vegas to go to the Mexican consulate this past week, but on different days.  We had an awesome experience while I was in a trio.  We had an appointment with a golden tag investigator couple (they are real investigators who volunteer to be taught by us newbies.)  We aren’t supposed to teach real investigators until our last week here, but their missionaries didn’t show up.  We got there and waited for 30 minutes, but they didn’t come.  Just when we were going to leave, they came.  Jose is a 60 year old man from Guatemala.  His life growing up was horrible.  We didn’t speak a lot in Spanish because his English was so good.  I have never felt the Spirit so strongly in my life.  It was a sacred experience.  I learned so much from him.  He has a truly humble spirit.  He is a wonderful example to me of Christ-like attributes.  It’s the Lord’s work for sure.

 

 

 

Elder Ballard spoke to us this week which was awesome!  Two of the Twelve in 3 weeks.  His talk was great and we learned a lot.

We taught a really great lesson yesterday to Gilberto.  Once again, I’ve leaned that what is important in a lesson is 1) having the Spirit there and 2) your attitude.  Happiness, joy and sincerity make all the difference in the world.  We were happy to be there and not afraid of the language or of not knowing what to say.  (Or maybe I was just so nervous that it made me giddily happy.)  Here’s hoping he’ll pray and read the assigned chapter. J

I love you and miss you all!

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Paz este con ustedes, Annika