I have been in the MTC for 3 days now and I have learn so much, a lot more than I could imagine. My testimony grew insanely and I love the Gospel. On the first day my companions which are of 6 including myself for the first 2 days woke up at 6am thinking that it would be a great idea because we all wanted to exercise and study a little before breakfast but after we had the meeting with our mission president we realized that the schedule that was given to us had a purpose and the we MUST follow it by the minute. President Marion is our branch president and I love him even though he scares me at times but he's such a spiritual person and I love him. I love being at the MTC Yesterday we found out who our companion was and my companion is Elder Sabando from Ecuador and He's lovely! He's going to Houston Texas, Spanish Speaking! He speaks english great for the fact that he just came on Tuesday. I hope to learn a little bit more spanish from him but he speaks so fast! He has great testimony. I forgot to mention at the branch meeting last night we had to share our testimony and a little background about ourselves and I have to say that I was touched by EVERY Elders and Sisters. But the one person that got me crying was Elder Cohen. I was emotional sharing my own testimony but right after me it was Elder Cohen's turn. Elder Cohen's from California and going to serve a mission in Japan. He speaks Japanese because his mother is Japanese. That's a little breif information about him but the one thing that elder Cohen and I had in common was that we goofed off in High School, Doing things we know we shouldn't have done and should have spent time drawing closer to the Lord. When Elder Cohen shared his testimony that he did stupid thing that he shouldn't have done and that his gradma was the one who always told him that he doesn't need to know everything about Christ or know everything about the scriptures and that he will do great just by sharing he's testimony which I strongly agree with. However after all the positive things he shared about the gospel he concluded by saying that his grandma past away 2 days before his mission call. and My just couldn't hold my tears in and burst out crying. It was just a big built up of spiritual influences up to the last missionary who bare her testimony. If I can remember correctly we have 26 missionaries in our branch all from different part of the world and all are going different places. I love this church and I love you guys. I miss you guys but I know that the Lord has a plan for me and that there are people in Indiana who's waiting for me! and I can't wait to go out there and exercise my obedience and invite others to come unto Christ. I want you to know that I pray at least 6 times a day and I always pray for the family! I hope Jared is doing well and I hope that he knows I love him and that Heavenly Father loves him even more. I want to share with you that the Church is True and Christ is our savior and that God lives.
I forgot to mentioned that my first day here I had to bare my testimony infront of everybody the hour i got to the MTC because I was a convert.. I was the "youngest" in the church so it was a blessing that I got to talk. I have to prepare a talk about recognizing the spirit for this sunday but i feel good about it so i think it'll be okay. Pres. Marion said that anyone could be called so we have to be ready but we may not use notes. So I guess It'll be interesting to see how it goes. I love You Mom and I love you Dad and Jared and Becca! I hope everything is going well back home!
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