week 4 email
So
today i have freakin awesome story about being a Host for new
missionaries. Which just reminds me of how much God's hand is in this
work every day. This week i was asked if i would be a host for the new
missionaries who were coming in. And basically what a host does is he
takes the missioanaries around the MTC, show them where everything is at
and just make them feel welcome. So while i was getting taught about
everything i need to do i was asked to be a host for the Early arrival
missionaries, because that's what i was and i know what things they need
to hear so their second day wont be as bad as their first haha. But as i
was about to leave to host the early arrivals the man in charge stopped
me and my companion and told us that he wants the two of us to stay in a
different room, because he had a different assingment for us than he
originally planned.
So i am chillin in this room when a bunch of new
missionaries come in, and i don't pay any attention to them yet because i
was talking to my friend Elder Brusnt. Then all the new missionaries
were asked to line up against a wall and they were started to get Host
assigned to them. So i stop talking to my friend and look up to see that
i am going to end up with. And it was Elder Jace Hancock!!!! So i run
up to him and give him a HUGE hug! I was so happy to see him! And I was
freaking excited that i was assigned to Host him! So we talked for a
long time before we even started to go around the MTC. And then i took
him to his room. Which is in the building right next to mine! And i got
him all setteled and stuff. Then after we head over to my place and i
feed him a bunch of snacks and get him a Pizza thing from a vending
machine because he hadn't eaten sense he left Mesa.
And then we just
chiled in my room for almost an hour. It was legit! Even though i spent a
ton of time with him i feel like it wasn't enough. Bu i took him to his
class, which is just 4 floors above mine! And then i got a picture
with him and then left him to the ravenous spanish speaking psychopaths
hahahaha. Just kidding his teachers are super cool. They aren't aloud to
speak any English to them for the first couple of weeks so while i was
talking to his teachers him and everyone else in his class looked super
lost because none of them understand anything that we were saying. And
talking to them made e realize how far i have actually come with
everything in the 4 weeks i have been here, and i feel good for Jace too
because he will pick up on everything super quick too. I'm definitely
keep an eye on him though when i can to make sure he is doing good
because the first couple days here can be really tough, and seeing on
how we've been friends for like a million years it would be even better
for him to feel welcome. And even though i am leaving in less than a
week and a half (crazy right) he'll be doing really good by the time i
check out of here.
This week i have been working really hard at being able to teach a
lesson completely by the Spirit. It is super hard but i am getting
better at it. First i put alot of effort into preparing a good lesson,
and then when i am teaching i need to just focus on not going off of
everything that i just planned. I think the preparing the lesson is
pretty much just for showing God that i am willing to put in the effort
totach his Children, because most of the time i get taken away and start
teacing about something else that i had not originally planned (exept i
always get most of what i planned across). Last night i was doing TRC.
And basically what that is, is they throw you in a room with a volenteer
who just wants to get help from the missionaries. And the volenteer i
had last night was one of the first volenteers i had when i first
started TRC.
So we already knew eachother, and he was such a awesone
guy, we because friends super fast my first time meeting him. P.s. this
is all in spanish too. But i spent time 20 mins just catching up with
him sense we talked last. He's doing really good, and he was happy to
see that me and my companion were doing really good too (because we
weren't when we first met hahaha at least my companion wasn't) (and
that's why i was already friends with him because i had to do most of
the talking when we met) But anyways we talked for a while. I told him
the story about me Hosting Jace Hancock. And then we started our lesson,
and i was teaching him about how we can better recive revolation
through reading the book of Mormon. And so basically i wanted to read
him 1 nephi 11:1-5. And then we just talked about each of the aspects of
the things mentioned in this scripture. And i told him a cool story,
and it reminded him of a cool story from when he served a mission. And
he told it to me and it was awesome.
I really want to keep typing but i only have a couple of mins left
before i'm out of time. But our lesson went super good, the Spirit was
super strong, He said it helped him alot and there was a couple of
things i asked him to do that he said he would do when he got home. I
hope i get to see Santiago (that's his name) again he's a super cool guy
and we are pretty close. the fact that i only have one more TRC before i
leave though means that i probably wont. Which is too bad. But it's
been a sper good week learned lots. Talked with an apostle. You know how
it is hahaha It was actually freaking cool it was M. Russell Ballard.
He's probably one of the most humble people i have ever seen. But love
you all!!!!
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