Como Estan?
Yesterday we gave a lesson in Spanish in the TRC (Teaching Resource Center)! Elder Martell had a migraine earlier in the day so we went to the MTC nurse's office in the morning. They gave him a shot and he slept for a few hours so I was thinking he wasn't going to be up for the lesson but he woke up before lunch and was feeling fine! An hour after lunch we went to our lesson and I feel that the investigators felt the Spirit. We had to ask them to repeat themselves a few times and we had to simplify our sentences to the vocabulary we know but overall, we taught according to what the Spirit told us they needed to hear.
Wednesdays are when the new missionaries come and my district was picked to be host missionaries for the new ones. We show them around to their rooms, go to get their books, then to their classroom. It's funny to see that sort of overwhelmed look they have and thinking that was me only five weeks ago! I'm going to have that overwhelmed look again I'm sure once I step foot in Chile in a short 3 1/2 weeks and can't understand anybody! But, I'm so excited!
One of our teachers, Hermana Allen, took a trip to Spain for a week so we have had a different teacher, Hermano Burkholtz, for this past week. He's awesome! Well, all the teachers are amazing actually! Either learning from the scriptures in my personal study time and class with the maestros (teachers) are the highlight of the day.
On Sundays we have firesides where a person in the MTC presidency (or high up in leadership at the MTC) speak to us. Tuesday's are when we have the oppurtunity to hear apostles and Bretheren from the Seventy. We had a fireside last Sunday definentely different from the rest. The executive secretary (Brother Richard Beeson) and his wife, Sister Beeson, spoke to us. Actually, they sang to us with a little bit of talking mixed in! Sister Beeson sang in the Mormon Tab. Choir so she has a really pretty voice and she made up all these songs to sing. One of them was about a missionary's day in the MTC, which she sang from the pulpit. Then she played and sang a song about a section in Doctrine and Covenents and then she had us all singing another song she wrote. Honestly, I'm not exactly sure what the message of the fireside was but the music sounded good. I'm still getting used to this Utah Mormon culture! A couple Elders from my district are from Utah and said that that night wasn't all that unusual for a fireside in Utah!
Thanks everyone for your letters! There's really not a whole lot to report on now but once I get in the field I'm sure there will be tons to email about. Right now its all about studying and preparing so I'll leave y'all with a scripture I read a few days ago.
Este escritura es en ETER capitulo doce(12), versiculo seis (6). Moroni habla sobre fe y la importancia de fe en neustras vidas. Moroni dice...
"And now I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye recieve no witness until after the trial of your faith."
I'll add my testimony that we need to show faith and through faith, we will be assured of the truthfulness. Faith in Jesus Christ is why I'm serving. I've already seen evidence after "a trial of my faith" how the Lord helps me to learn the Spanish language. With prayer, faith, and the Spirit, I'm able to learn phrases and vocab two or three times quicker than I ever had previously. I know I'm in the Lord's work and he is working miracles everyday here in the MTC. If we show faith in the Lord, we will recieve a peace and assurance that he IS the Son of God and through him we can have eternal life and be with our families for eternity.
Love,
Elder Gregory
