have already done for Hermana Johnson! I guess I am like the barber with the bad haircut because I
do computers for a living, but this is the very first blog post I have ever created! My apologies to
Mollie for not doing this before now. :o)
Now, on to the posting!!
February 13, 2014
Family!!!!! and friends and to whoever else reads this!!! i cannot
believe it is already p-day! and please feel free to ignore all my typos... i am
a terrible typer and speller and i want to get as much down in my limited time
as i possible can!!!
Okay yay i'm alive! the wait was pretty hard but p-day came and i made it
through!! oh and i totally guessed it... i am in an ALL sister district! ha! 8
total.
Okay so i guess i will just go through each day and the highlights from
them and then i will talk about the big stuff like class and my zone/ district
and companion.
Day 1
Alright so basically the first thing we did was get a giant bag FULL of
books and stuff so that was scary... i am going to need to send home a lot of
stuff haha. okay and then we basically went right to class! ha! dad i just
thought of you and how you said you doubted we would do that but we did and it
was crazy! our teacher pretty much only spoke to us in Spanish the first day so
i wanted to cry but it was okay.
That night we had this meeting with all the new missionaries on west campus
and it was like a giant missionary lesson with one investigator. it felt so
real and was just incredible to see everyone trying so hard to help the people
with the troubles they were having, using the gospel. the coolest part was in
our last room (we worked with 3 different people) and he asked us how do we
receive answers from God and we kept trying to explain it but it wasn't coming
across so then finally he asked if we could say a prayer with him. he asked
this sweet little sister in the front and then everyone all at once got down on
our knees to pray with this man. it was so incredible and i was overwhelmed
with love for the lords children.
later that night we met our zone leaders and our sister training leader.
(they are great) and we just had a little get to know you meeting and then they
took us on a mini campus tour. One of the Hermanas took 4 years of German....
crazy right!! so she was really great to talk to and she helped me a lot. she
leaves this coming Monday and i'm so sad to see the older district leave!!
Day 2
things only got harder... but we had a district meeting with the Branch
presidency and they are the sweetest!!! it really helped to lift me up and to
remember that this is not about me and that i need to just remember that the Lord
called me to do this work. Also i learned that our worst days are actually some
of our best because they give us the opportunity to come closer to
Christ.
Day 3
okay so this was my break down day... after dinner we were all studying
trying to plan a lesson for our investigator and i couldn't feel the spirit at
all. i was so lost and confused and just really down. I felt like alll people
said about the mtc was how close you come to the lord and i had been feeling the
furthest from him then i ever had in my life. so when i broke down mi hermanas
tried to help me but they quickly realized i needed a priesthood blessing. so
Hna. Naut went and got our Zone leaders and they took me into an empty room to
get a blessing. okay so these Elders have only been here for 4 weeks and the
Zone leader is a convert of two years. They were so sweet and kind to me and
just listened to me and what i was feeling so they could give me a blessing.
The blessing was probably one of the best i have ever gotten. I knew it was the
lord speaking to me through that elder. there was no doubt in my mind. he
assured me that i was doing all that i needed to be doing and that by being in
the mtc i was proving myself worthy of my calling. he answered all my fears and
doubts. it gave me the strength i needed to keep going. the next night i
realized that the lord put me through that to teach me something. So there is
this talk called "Sunday will come" and i kept thinking about it because
everyone says once you make it to Sunday all will be okay. so you need to read
the talk to get this because i don't have time to explain it all. but the lord
set up a parallel with my experience and the experience of Christs apostles. so
Christ was killed on a Friday and his apostles had there darkest hours that day
and they had never felt so far from him. my break down was on a Friday. and i
still struggled through Saturday but when Sunday came everything was better. and
when Sunday came for the apostles Christ was resurrected. now that may seem a
bit of an extreme comparison BUT i know that the Lord did that on purpose. I
NEEDED to know what that felt like (being cut off from the lord) even though it
was only a few hours. I needed to feel that so i could better understand the
people i meet who are far from him themselves. it was really amazing and i will
treasure that experience forever.
Sunday
Sunday was amazing and i will have to hand-write a letter about all the
amazing things i learned cuz time is short!
Monday
i realized that things really do work out! not when we expect and usually
not when or how we want them to but they do!
Tuesday we had a normal day but we got to come to main campus for dinner
and devotional! and i realized that i really do love our little west campus! it
is so open and free and we get to walk a lot which is nice cuz it is so hard to
sit in a class room for 9 hours a day!!
Yesterday we finished teaching our investigator Andrea. we taught her FIVE
lessons in all Spanish... it is crazy here. and no i am not fluent yet and i
know i wont be in 5 more weeks but it is coming! line upon line, slowly but
surly. it is shoking how much i can understand. i definitely understand more
then i can speak. but i just need to trust in the lord and his timing!!!
okay so i'm sure you are dying to here about my companion! she is super
adorable and she is from Utah! she is the only sis. in our district not going to
Mexico Cuer. she is going to.... SCOTTSDALE!!! say what!! you have to meet
her!! how crazy right! she is awesome. we are total opposites which is good in a
lot of ways but hard in others. but hey we cant learn if everything is just
peachy all the time! our strengths definitely compliment each other so i know we
are meant to be comps for this time in the mtc!
my district is a bit crazy because putting 8 girls in a tiny class room for
9 hours each day is a bit much. but i am learning a lot from them.
we have gym time everyday after lunch and i thought i would hate it but i
actually really love it!! we always play volleyball and it is actually really
fun! it is definitely a much needed break during our long days of study!
meal time is kind of boring but that's okay. there is always plenty to each
and the food is fine. it's not moms cooking but it will do.
our zone is really great and a bunch of them are leaving this Monday so
that is really sad but i know it will be our time to leave soon enough!!
we laugh a lot and have lots of fun. but it is very hard. i didn't believe
people when they said how hard this would be but i do now. i know that if i was
doing this for myself or just because other people wanted me to i would have
already came home. but this is not for me and it is not about me. i am so
thankful for my conversion to the lord and to Christ. I love this gospel and i
know it will get harder from here but i also know that the lord is on my side
and that we literally can do all things through Christ!
much love and Blessings-
Hermana Johnson
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