This week has been good! Seems like its been an eternity,
but it really hasn't been that long
This week I had the opportunity to give a blessing to a
Sister in our district who had been sick for about a week or so. Maybe it just
felt like a week... not really sure. But anyway, that was a cool experience.
Our whole district (all the Elders, I mean) participated in the blessing, but I
got to give it. It was a cool experience, and I definitely felt the Spirit
working through me. And she is feeling better now, so that's good too.
Like I said, we got to welcome 2 new districts this week,
with a combined 20 new missionaries - 10 new Elders and 10 Sisters. It's nice
to be zone leader and be able to get to know them a little better. They seem to
be doing well right now.
This week was the first time we taught TRC (I actually
forget what that stands for). But it is really cool because you have people
come from BYU or UVU or something that speak Portuguese and they don't try to
act like an investigator, you just teach them like real people. They have real
problems, and you try to help them with what you can. You teach twice, for 20
minutes each, and it was cool. Elder Lowe and I taught about trying to invite
the Spirit more into our lives, and how we recognize it when we do that. It
went fairly well. Those two lessons were half of the 4 lessons that we taught
on Friday. It wasn't a normal day because some schedules had been thrown off,
but that was lots of teaching for one day. But overall, it went well.
The teachers at the MTC are crazy good and definitely
inspired. I love our teachers a lot. Irmao (brother) Sears and Irma (sister)
Wells are both super great, and always tell us that they love us. And we love
them. Another really cool thing is that when we teach them, they pretend to be
investigators. It's kinda strange, but cool. And yesterday Irmao Sears told us
that the people he pretends to be are real people that he knows from Brazil.
And if in our lessons he feels the Spirit and feels there is something that the
real people could do to strengthen and deepen their own conversions, he emails
them and tells them. So even though it's a member and our teacher that we know
isn't an investigator, we are kinda teaching real people through him. I thought
that was really cool.
Elder Harris - left for
Fiji yesterday. I saw him at breakfast I think, or lunch, and had to say
goodbye for two years. It was sad, but I'm really excited for him. He will do
great. I've also seen a few other guys from BYU here, and that is kinda fun. A
lot of my friends from BYU are getting mission calls right now.. Missions are
pretty cool, I think haha..
I will finish this email with a little taste of our
devotional from Sunday night. Brother Kelly Mills, the director of all
international MTCs, spoke. He talked about how important it is to lose yourself
in the service of others. He told a cool story about one time in woodshop class
or something when he was sanding a piece of wood. He was kinda daydreaming, and
was only sanding the middle of it. His teacher, who was also his bishop or
something like that, came over and told him that "if you focus on the
edges, the middle takes care of itself" (because logically, on a small
piece of wood, if you sand the edges, you are also sanding the middle. If you
only sand the middle, you still have all the edges to do). So if you focus on
other people and not on yourself, everything will work out for you too. It was
a good reminder to forget ourselves and get to work serving others.
Anyway, I love you all and appreciate all the love and
support you give me!!
Love,
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