Hey everyone :)
Well i have officially survived one month here at the MTC! It's sooo crazy to me that i've been here for a whole month. Sometimes it feels like i got here just yesterday, and other times it feels like i've been here for at least 3 years. Like i've said many times, time here is weird. Haha but it's great!
This week was just like all my other weeks here. 10 hours of class everyday with little breaks stuffed in the middle. Towards the end of the week it was getting kinda rough... class would drag on and i was getting so tired of sitting in my little desk all day. But then i realized that this experience is a once in a life time opportunity. To spend so much time preparing and working as hard as i can for people i haven't even met yet, but have soo much love for. So I decided to just forget about how hard it is and enjoy it. Plus my district and I are all soooo close. They are literally my second family and so i am going to enjoy my time with them before it's gone since most of them are going to Mexico.
So i have 3 investigators that i'm teaching right now, which are all fake, but this week Hermana Larsen and I committed 2 of them to be baptized and they accepted! Yayay:) haha it's so fake but it's such an amazing feeling that i can't wait to have for reals someday!
As we were preparing for one of our lessons with Mateo (one of our investigators that is getting baptized) we were trying to figure out what we wanted to teach him. It was after he had already committed to be baptized so we figured we will just teach him about the commandments or something. So we started to plan it and were almost done when we remember something he had said in our last lesson. We had asked him what we can do to help him and he told us that he wanted to have a spiritual experience. So then we scratched our current lesson plan and planned a whole new one. We decided that we would sing him a hymn and then share a personal experience and a scripture. I was searching for the right one to share and thought i found on but then decided to look up one more which was D&C 6:22-23 and decided to share that. So we started our lesson by singing Sweet Hour of Prayer (in spanish of course) which brought the spirit in stronger than any other song i've ever sang. So that was a very solid start, and then we shared our experiences and then that scripture. As Mateo was reading the scripture, he paused and looked up with tears in his eyes and then slowly finished it off. He then told us that is exactly what he needed to hear. It is amazing how much the spirit can work through us if you will just open our hearts to it. And it is incredible that these investigators can understand me. But it is because the gift of tongues works both ways. it helps me speak and it also helps my investigators understand. It's amazing.
The other day Hermana Larsen and I were talking about my Spanish. She told me that she is so impressed with how quickly i've learned and how much i've learned (since she already knew like everything). then the said, "but the most amazing thing has been watching you in the lessons." She told me that it's crazy how the spirit can truly testify through my broken spanish. And that through my little sentences that i use like 3 words instead of like 10, and don't conjugate anything, and yet it is perfectly understood. She said i shove my whole heart out in my broken spanish, and my point is made. And this is ALL because of the spirit. When we are in the right frame of mind and are working to have the spirit with us, all things are possible. Even speaking spanish. Oh and isn't my companion the nicest? i wuv her :)
Oh and i got my first calling this week... Music Coordinator :) haha basically i just get the music ready for sundays! My district and i are all doing a musical number next week and it's going to be soo cool. We are singing an arrangement of I'll go where you want me to go that me teacher Hermano Ream wrote. It's so pretty. We do some in english and some in spanish. I'm so excited :)
Well I love you all and will try to send some pictures real quick :)
Love,
Hermana Peters
D&C 6:36- doubt not, fear not. :)
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