This week went by so fast! It's crazy how fast time goes by here. The
days are some what long and the weeks are short. I'm half way done with
the MTC! My zone and district are amazing. All of them are super cool!
My district is amazing because we are best friends and just love each
other. The other day was pretty sad though. Someone in my zone was
called to the travel office and they gave him flight plans and said
that he was flying to the Guatemala City MTC. Its super sad cause he
is just the best and a dear friend! His name is Elder Solomon. I love
him, he's so cool! So that sucked.
This week me and my comp got a new investigator to teach! Her name is
Diana Hernandez. She is from El Salvador, I think, I'm pretty sure
that's it. Anyway she is so amazing. She has been here for a year for
school. She's going to school here at BYU and starts class in
September. This will be her second year at BYU. She's only studying
English. But yeah my comp and I teach her 3 days a week and it's kinda
rough cause we don't know Spanish very well but we are still able to
communicate and we can understand her pretty well. Kinda. But yeah we
can't get out point across and help her understand. Yesterday we spent
35 min just teaching her about the Book of Mormon and tried to help
her understand it and about Joseph Smith and stuff. But it's going
good. When we aren't teaching her we teach our teacher. Usually we
will have two lessons a day, one with Diana and one with our teacher.
His back story is pretty cool. His name is Ronald, he's from Bolivia,
he knows no English, and is a taxi driver now here in Provo, and is a
Catholic. There's more but yeah that's the main idea. It's fun. We
only teach him for 20 min but we usually go over the time.
All is well. The Spanish is coming along but very very very slowly.
I'm getting better at understanding but it's still hard to talk. Last
Sunday David A. Bednar came to our Sunday night devotional and it was
amazing!! He pretty much just did a question and answer thing like he
usually does and it was pretty cool. All the things he said was so
powerful. The moment he walked in the spirit was just super strong! I
loved it! At the end he bore his testimony and it was so powerful and
amazing to hear one of the 12 apostles testimony.
So this week we did some in class teaching things where one person
would act as an investigator and the other would give them the
baptismal invitation. The investigator says no and then you talk about
why and stuff like that. So I was paired up with one of my teachers. I
was the investigator and he asked me the invitation and I said no and
he said Why? I told him why and that I was scared and didn't know a
lot about the church and I didn't think I could do and stuff. And he
made me feel so comforted and said that God loves me and his love is a
perfect love and stuff like that. Then he said, "I don't know where
the scripture is at, but it says this. A perfect love casteth away all
fear." And then the roll play stuff ended and the timer went off but
the spirit was so strong. Even though it was a fake little thing the
spirit was so strong and I will always remember that. It's awesome
because God is perfect and he has perfect love and he loves us so much
it's incomprehensible. But yeah that's just one of the little
spiritual stories.
Anyway I know that I'm suppose to be here. I love it more and more
every day! It's amazing how much you will see the Lords hand in your
every day life if you will just stop and look. If you pray and ask God
to show you then he will show you. I definitely would not be doing so
well without his help. There's also another thing I heard earlier this
week that I really loved. It says "Pray as if everything depends on
the Lord and then work as if everything depends on you."
Jim and Anny's Family with Grandma and Jett Johnson and his mom Michelle went through the MTC open house and saw Jackson and Max. We got to see pictures and Jim FaceTime with us so we could see him too. :) So fun!
Elder Solomon
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