The Power of a Pause: WEEK 3
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Dec 11 (6 days ago)
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will get to the subject line a little later :)
This
week went by so fast holy cow!! The first week here felt like a month! But it
feels like just yesterday it was Pday haha!
Last
friday the new batch of missionaries came in, so now there is more then just 12
missiononaries in the entire MTC haha. we got about 17 new langauge training
missionaries and 100 ish regualr training missionaries so it was a big batch,
but still small compared to the provo
Saturday-
Today we got a new "inverstigator" she is a less active. Oh my
goodness the lesson was so powerful. I love how as missionaries we just
testify what we know is true, the lesson was all about families, so it was
really easy for me to tell her what a blessing they are to me and how it is
beacuse of the gosepl of Jesus Christ that we are a happy eternal family. The
love and apprection for my family and freidns gives the spritit through me a
chance to make the investigators feel our Heavenly fathers love through his
familes. ( i dont know if that made sence but, yeah haha)
For
one of my classes we went to the MAnila temple, right across the street and
tried to teach people that were walking around outside. It is when we go out of
the MTC that I realize how little Tagalog I know! everything that i have
learned just escapes my mouth, so I am just left standing there smilling trying
to figure out how to say hello to these wonderful people but nothing comes out!
ahh I know its only my 3rd week but i want so badly to be able to speak taglod
alreay! but I need to be patient and work hard and i know the langauge will
come :)
Oh
my goodness, for dinner I had a little peice of home. Bananna bread! absoutlely
no ones banana bread can compare to my moms but this one comes in 2nd, haha
proably beacuse it was something other then rice ;)
I
got to play the piano for the missionaries, it was awesome! I was a little
nervouse, but it was great :)
Sunday-
here in the MTC you always need to be prepared for anything,last week I was
called on to give a talk and this week I was called to conduct the music for
sacrement haha I didnt know until I looked at the program. But it is always
fun, I love it, we just always have to be preapared haha. Sundays are such a
treat!! We finally have a diffrent scedual from the rest of the week! and its
always sooo spritual! One of the MTC leaders bore his testimony, about how much
he loves his wife. he said that "she is my passport to the celetrail
kingdom" ahhh it was so cute! and it is so very true :) Later in the
evening we got to listen to a devotinal given by Elder Bednar "the
charcters of christ" holy cow everyone go listen to that talk its amazgng!
beacuse
it was fast sunday that evening the cooks served a feast! well everyday is a
feast but today was speacial beacuse we got ice cream for dessert! yumm :)
At
the very end of the evening a Filipino Skake Choir (Tatay Stake) came to give
the missionaries a specal christmas program. they sang the entire time, it was
so amazing and peaceful!! It totally made me homesick! haha but its all good it
was such a beautiful program :)
Its
hard to even rememer its christmas beacause it is soooooo hot here, mostly just
humid but its so werid that its hot! but thats not very diffrent from AZ huh?
;)
Monday-
nothing to exciting happened today but we were walking back to our rooms after
gym and my gurro (teacher) sister abalota, comes to me and wraps her arms
around my waist beacuse she is so tiny and i am so tall ( for the first time
ever, i love filipinos they make me feel tall) anyway, she was asking me how i
felt being the only american sister here. she goes on to say " you are the
cream of the crap" haha i start dying laughing!! she gets so confused and
then i tell her that is not a compliment hahaha its "the cream of the
CROP" hahah and she started laughing! oh my goondesss it was sooo funny!
and it was even funnier with her filipino accident.
Tuesday-
I read the Book of mormon almost all day long, I couldnt put it down! Reading
the BOM now means so much more to me beacuse im not only reading it for myself
but I am reading to for my inverstifgators, the spirit is defintly wanting
these investigators to feel something and that is through the truthfullness of
the BOM. I love it :)
Tonight
Elder Ferdnand Pangan from the aera 70 came to the MTC to give a devotianl, wow
it was sooo good and powerful! we all got to shake his hand
Wednesday-
We had fish again!! with the scales, fins, and eye balls still on it haha i am
used to it now. in fact it is super delicious! :) We got to study at the
temple, I love how close it is to the MTC! just right across the street!
Thursday- The Power of the
Pause! In lessons my kasamas and I just want to talk the entire time and tell
the investigator everything we know and feel but we have never really given the
Holy Ghost a chance to teach the investigator, who is really the true teacher.
Once we paused in our lesson and gave the ourselves the missionaries a chance
to feel the spirit and to guve the investoagiatores time to reconize the spirit
that is when the whole lesson changed. Hearts were changed beacuse the Holy
Ghost was so stong! I wish i could accuratly describe how i felt at that
moment, it was just so amazing i cant put it into words!
I
learned the power of a pause. take a moment and LESTIN to the Holy Ghost. The
spirit is sooooo powerful it is also very sensitive. I always pray to be worthy
of the compainoship of the Holy Ghost, there is a big diffrence when the spirit
isnt present and when it is. I love that feeling and I never want it to leave!
I want so bdaly for others to feel that same way. So i chalenge each of you to
PAUSE and let the Holy Ghost touch your heart and let is teach you something
incredible that will impact your life forevrer! :)
Friday-
PDAAAY! this morning we got to go to the temple agian
Well,
my lovely family adn friends! I love you all so much! I appreciate your
prayers, not just for me but for all the missioanries thougout the world. We
feel your prayers and support and we love it! I know I couldnt do this work
without each one of you by my side! I cant explain how grateful I am to be
apart of Heavely Fathers work! I am honored to be a representive of Jesus
Christ and have the privlege of wearing his name on my chest and bringing
happiness to all those that I can teach! I love this gospel, i know it is true,
with my whole heart! I love my family adn friends, each of you are in my every
prayer!
ps
sorry for all the miss spelt words haha hopefully it all still makes sence! and
anyone who really knows me, knows there is no fixing this problem of mine haha
We
get to proselyting on Wednesday! wish me luck! I have to sepak Tagalog to real
life people now haha
I
love you all!!
Mahal
Kita
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