PSA: I think I receive everyone's DearElders, if I don't I wouldn't know -hehe but I try writing everyone back so hopefully you're getting my letters. And thank you for writing me, my time at the provo mtc is quickly coming to an end. I leave Monday so if any of you want to get your last DearElders in, do it! I love reading them.
These last two weeks here have been awesome.
The Language: I think I was more fluent in the language at the start of my mtc experience than I am now. Not actually (that's a bit dramatic) but learning a language is super cool. I know a lot of words but I'm so grammatically incorrect that what I say doesn't make sense. It's awesome though because I was never good at memorizing things prior to being at the mtc and now random words will stick in my memory.
The Weeks Experiences:
Tuesday: Elder Anderson 1 of the 12 apostles spoke to us on the topic of temples last Tuesday.
Friday: I taught a Filipino lady in Wisconsin over skype about our life on earth. She was so nice and I have my second skype lesson tonight at 8:15 pm.
Saturday: My district hosted "the ratties" which if any of you have watched the office is like the Dunddies because a part of our district was leaving that Monday. It was hilarious. Everyone in the district was given an certificate for being something. For example my award was "The blind (and deaf) faith award" because my name is Helen and I'm super faithful hahaha or I hope the faith part was included.
Monday: The zone leaders left and set an alarm on the stl phone for 2 am. It goes off and my companion (who's on the lower bunk) rushes to her clock to turn it off. She's so dazed she doesn't know where its coming from I tell her it's the phone she grabs that opens it up and reads "gotcha". Those same leaders set 3 alarm clocks at 30 minute incriments starting at 1 and hid them around the room of the elders that were leaving. The recounting of that story was hilarious. They went so far as to place an alarm in a drawer and lock it.
Spiritual Thought:
I love the message of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It's truly a message of love. I really felt this as I read and pondered 3 Ne 17. Love can and should be the motivation for everything we do. Jesus Christ suffered the sins of the world because he loves us. My teacher said that overbearance is not possible if there is love. I think often times we hold back from checking up on people or doing things because we don't want to bother them but I think that when we do those things with love as our motivation then it's impossible for it to be overbearing. And if it's a good thought then it's from God and we should follow it. Which leads me to another point made in my Sunday class. When we receive promptings from the Spirit often times Satan will follow the prompting with a sentence of logic. For example: we may be prompted to go hug somebody but then think "no they're busy they don't want to be hugged". So we ignore it but I challenge you to ignore the second thought.
Love and miss everyone!
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