Hola familia!!
This week has been crazy busy, I had no idea how packed our schedules would be. It's like Oakcrest with Spanish and less fun activities hahaha.
I've found two people I had Spanish classes with in high school, Morgan.... something and Jordan Hall. He told me today while I was exchanging some cash into pesos that this is the 15th consecutive week that there's been a BHS grad there. Super funny. Great day to be a Miner xP
The food and house situation is great. They take good care of us here tongue emoticon There are two other sister companionships in our our casa (house) but we have a room to ourselves thank heavens. We might have some sisters join us though, sooooo hopefully not. There's hardly any time to get ready in the bathroom in the morning as it as haha
Ok, the 4 biggest things from this week are spiritual stuff though so brace yourselves.
On Thursday we watched a companionship teach a girl from LA that spoke English, and afterwards, we (a semi circle group of about 60 missionaries who got there the day before) got to talk to her and teach and testify etc. During her talk with the elders before hand though, she said she didn't believe that God was actually real, though she was raised Catholic, and that she was engaged to someone with a short temper who sometimes took out his anger on her physically and that killed me inside, but the elders didn't seem too affected by it... ??? After Elder Grossman in my district taught about the Spirit a little bit, I remembered she said she knew how to pray. I raised my hand to comment next and asked her, that since she knew how to pray, if she had ever prayed to feel God's love for her? She said no, so I then told her that God is our Heavenly Father and loves her, because she's His daughter, and that all she had to do was ask, having hope that He was there, and He would hear her and show her through the Spirit that Elder Grossman talked about that He was there for her. She started crying and said she'd never been called a daughter of God before. Oakcrest instilled that phrase so hard into my vocabulary that it was one of the only things I said to her, and through the 6 or 7 testimonies shared by the 1-day missionaries she was able to feel the spirit. And that was the one day that I would have had the opportunity to tell her that. Good thing I didn't wait until Sierra got home or skip Oakcrest, right???
Our District (Hna. Conteh and 3 sets of Elders) have an investigator named Enia that only speaks Spanish. Our first lesson with her was on the 2nd. We taught first and then the Elders. Her husband is inactive and she wants him involved with the church again because she said it made him happy. Before the lesson, Hna. Conteh asked me to ask her why her husband left the church. I translated, and she said that someone offended him in the ward. Lesson plan went askew as I shifted the lesson from asking her to simply pray with her husband to feel the desire to return to church and feel the spirit to pray for the power to forgive those who had offended him and to feel of God's love. She agreed to try. Elders taught after us and gave her a book of Mormon. Our second set of lessons with her yesterday, we were a bit more prepared. All the Elders went first and then us. They taught different sections in lesson 2, the plan of salvation, and we covered Faith, Repentance, and Baptism from lesson 3. And then committed her to baptism. Mwuahahaha. I talked in Spanish, twice, within a few days of being here, about the gosepl, non stop, for about 20 minutes. I cannot believe this is real.
Conference was so good. I may or may not have nodded off every session for at least 2 minutes because I keep waking up to the sounds of Mexico City at like 4 or 5 in the morning, but yeah. Still got the gist of everything and it was awesome!!
Went to the temple today, hence the late email and not much time left to chat now that I've told you about those things that were the best....
Quick other details:
Hermana Conteh is from Virginia, the first missionary from her family, and the 2nd member with her mom. She's the youngest of 8 kids.
My district is awesome and our teacher is Hermana Vidrio ("glass") and she's so sweet. She served a mission in Mexico I believe and she's a native.
Church is true, God loves you!
***Hermana Martin II
~Sister Laurel Martin
Below is a question and answer exchange from Laurel. I sent her the questions in her email:
How long were you at your gate before you started boarding?
idk i was chatting with missionaries the whole time so i wasn't bored though.
So it sounds like you sat by a different sister missionary on the plane?
Hermana Olsen. yup. assigned seats couldn't remember her name before though
Did all the missionaries on the plane go to the MTC together on a bus/van?
yes
Tell me about your first evening - what did you do when you first got there? How was it seeing Meow (fellow Oakcrest counselor)? Had she come looking for you or was it by accident you ran into each other that quick?
She kept looking for me like crazy. The first day we had some medical stuff to check and then we went to our casa after finding our companion. it was kind of a blur haha.
Tell us about your companion. When did you finally meet her? Is she going to Alabama with you?
Oh yes we're going to Birmingham together the same day so I gave her the necklace. we're comps the whole 6 weeks here. She's senior now and in two weeks it will switch to me not that it changes anything.
What is your room like? Send us pictures of your surroundings. Is your quilt on your bed?
Yes. I can't find a memory card port though so I might have to mail it and buy another at the tienda.
How is the food so far? Is your stomach doing ok?
Yeah I got a virus from that sore throat from before but it's doing way better now after I got some medicine from the enfermeria.
How did things work with General Conference? I heard they have a room for English and a room for Spanish? Is that the case? Also, did you see Corban singing in the kids’ choir Saturday afternoon? Hayley and Clark said he was on camera like 3 times.
We watched it in Spanish, the latinos joined us with headphones because of tech difficulties.
How long do you have for emailing on Tuesdays?
1 hr
Tell us about a typical day for you at the MTC.
This week has been crazy busy, I had no idea how packed our schedules would be. It's like Oakcrest with Spanish and less fun activities hahaha.
I've found two people I had Spanish classes with in high school, Morgan.... something and Jordan Hall. He told me today while I was exchanging some cash into pesos that this is the 15th consecutive week that there's been a BHS grad there. Super funny. Great day to be a Miner xP
The food and house situation is great. They take good care of us here tongue emoticon There are two other sister companionships in our our casa (house) but we have a room to ourselves thank heavens. We might have some sisters join us though, sooooo hopefully not. There's hardly any time to get ready in the bathroom in the morning as it as haha
Ok, the 4 biggest things from this week are spiritual stuff though so brace yourselves.
On Thursday we watched a companionship teach a girl from LA that spoke English, and afterwards, we (a semi circle group of about 60 missionaries who got there the day before) got to talk to her and teach and testify etc. During her talk with the elders before hand though, she said she didn't believe that God was actually real, though she was raised Catholic, and that she was engaged to someone with a short temper who sometimes took out his anger on her physically and that killed me inside, but the elders didn't seem too affected by it... ??? After Elder Grossman in my district taught about the Spirit a little bit, I remembered she said she knew how to pray. I raised my hand to comment next and asked her, that since she knew how to pray, if she had ever prayed to feel God's love for her? She said no, so I then told her that God is our Heavenly Father and loves her, because she's His daughter, and that all she had to do was ask, having hope that He was there, and He would hear her and show her through the Spirit that Elder Grossman talked about that He was there for her. She started crying and said she'd never been called a daughter of God before. Oakcrest instilled that phrase so hard into my vocabulary that it was one of the only things I said to her, and through the 6 or 7 testimonies shared by the 1-day missionaries she was able to feel the spirit. And that was the one day that I would have had the opportunity to tell her that. Good thing I didn't wait until Sierra got home or skip Oakcrest, right???
Our District (Hna. Conteh and 3 sets of Elders) have an investigator named Enia that only speaks Spanish. Our first lesson with her was on the 2nd. We taught first and then the Elders. Her husband is inactive and she wants him involved with the church again because she said it made him happy. Before the lesson, Hna. Conteh asked me to ask her why her husband left the church. I translated, and she said that someone offended him in the ward. Lesson plan went askew as I shifted the lesson from asking her to simply pray with her husband to feel the desire to return to church and feel the spirit to pray for the power to forgive those who had offended him and to feel of God's love. She agreed to try. Elders taught after us and gave her a book of Mormon. Our second set of lessons with her yesterday, we were a bit more prepared. All the Elders went first and then us. They taught different sections in lesson 2, the plan of salvation, and we covered Faith, Repentance, and Baptism from lesson 3. And then committed her to baptism. Mwuahahaha. I talked in Spanish, twice, within a few days of being here, about the gosepl, non stop, for about 20 minutes. I cannot believe this is real.
Conference was so good. I may or may not have nodded off every session for at least 2 minutes because I keep waking up to the sounds of Mexico City at like 4 or 5 in the morning, but yeah. Still got the gist of everything and it was awesome!!
Went to the temple today, hence the late email and not much time left to chat now that I've told you about those things that were the best....
Quick other details:
Hermana Conteh is from Virginia, the first missionary from her family, and the 2nd member with her mom. She's the youngest of 8 kids.
My district is awesome and our teacher is Hermana Vidrio ("glass") and she's so sweet. She served a mission in Mexico I believe and she's a native.
Church is true, God loves you!
***Hermana Martin II
~Sister Laurel Martin
Below is a question and answer exchange from Laurel. I sent her the questions in her email:
How long were you at your gate before you started boarding?
idk i was chatting with missionaries the whole time so i wasn't bored though.
So it sounds like you sat by a different sister missionary on the plane?
Hermana Olsen. yup. assigned seats couldn't remember her name before though
Did all the missionaries on the plane go to the MTC together on a bus/van?
yes
Tell me about your first evening - what did you do when you first got there? How was it seeing Meow (fellow Oakcrest counselor)? Had she come looking for you or was it by accident you ran into each other that quick?
She kept looking for me like crazy. The first day we had some medical stuff to check and then we went to our casa after finding our companion. it was kind of a blur haha.
Tell us about your companion. When did you finally meet her? Is she going to Alabama with you?
Oh yes we're going to Birmingham together the same day so I gave her the necklace. we're comps the whole 6 weeks here. She's senior now and in two weeks it will switch to me not that it changes anything.
What is your room like? Send us pictures of your surroundings. Is your quilt on your bed?
Yes. I can't find a memory card port though so I might have to mail it and buy another at the tienda.
How is the food so far? Is your stomach doing ok?
Yeah I got a virus from that sore throat from before but it's doing way better now after I got some medicine from the enfermeria.
How did things work with General Conference? I heard they have a room for English and a room for Spanish? Is that the case? Also, did you see Corban singing in the kids’ choir Saturday afternoon? Hayley and Clark said he was on camera like 3 times.
We watched it in Spanish, the latinos joined us with headphones because of tech difficulties.
How long do you have for emailing on Tuesdays?
1 hr
Tell us about a typical day for you at the MTC.
Classes that are either with Hna. Vidrio or interrupted by other districts who pretend to help us but just end up distracting us. I'm kinda done with distracted and wish they would just leave us alone to study because we learn nothing with them there. Essentially though, food, class, study, teach, class, study, food, class, study, class, food, class and study. Did I mention class and study??
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