Week 2 -- Oct. 12, 2019

Hola mis amigos! 
It's been a long week, but nonetheless a great one!! 

General Conference was seriously amazing! My favorite talks were by Elder Uchtdorf and Elder Johnson! And no, Uchtdorf's talk having the topic of Bilbo Baggin's adventure in the Hobbit was not the only reason I liked it believe it or not. I really liked so many of the things they said. I loved the quote from Uchtdorf saying, "Never forget that we chose to be here on Earth." and, "God loves me when I struggle and when I triumph!" Elder Johnson had all the missionaries pumped up and ready to convert after his talk! As a missionary something that he said really caught my ear, "The adversary will use deception, distractions, and discouragement to ruin your divine potential." I have found that it's not hard to get discouraged when I am practicing and learning Spanish, so it was kind of a reminder that The Lord will help me, and Satan truly is doing everything he can to discourage me from serving my mission! 

I really felt like conference had a focus on, Joy, Centering our lives on Christ, and Loving everyone. What talks did you all like??
So shoutout to Elder Christenson (A friend I met at BYU this past term), for being the coolest missionary ever! He left the MTC two days before I entered, and right before I was set apart, I got an email from him saying he left me a scavenger hunt! He gave me the name of a sister here and told me she had the first clue that would have the name of another missionary to find. Well seems easy right?? NO!!! There are 2000 missionaries here!!! Well after a week of searching, i was standing in line at dinner, and guess who was right behind me in line?! It was the sister!!! She gave me the note and it was such a cool note and it said i had to find an Elder. Yeah um the next morning i was cleaning the bathroom and he was one of the Elders happening to clean right next to me!!! Except he literally LOST THE NOTE!!!! ahha it's okay though, it was still awesome!!

We watched a video that showed when Elder Bednar came to the MTC a few years ago. It was really cool hearing an apostle speak to missionaries!! He basically chewed missionaries out for not being good enough. And it was actually amazing. His point was that having a testimony isn't enough anymore, we must be completely selfless and convert ourselves unto the Lord. It was a long talk but i loved it and at the end he shared with us how when he has a question, he will get a cheap BOM and read it all the way through with just that question in mind, highlighting everything in it that relates to the question. He says if you keep doing that, that by the time you are his age, you will have a bookshelf of around 400 Book of Mormons!!!! He challenged us to start that by reading the BOM lookng for charecteristics of Christ and how to be converted unto the Lord. I just started that, and literally have like 10 highlights per page! I have never been more excited to read, and i've never gotten so much out of it, I love it!!!

The language is coming! Slowly but surely! I do love Spanish! And i am beyond excited to actually be able to speak it!! My district gets along so well and it's always a party with them! I love my companion too! 

I love the MTC and i can't wait to be in Spain!!

Yo se que Jesucristo es mi Salvador y el Hijo de Dios, Yo se que el don de lenguas es muy real. El Espiritu aqui es increible!!! Amo a mi Salvador y mi Padre Celestial!!! Yo digo estas cosas en el nombre de Jesucristo, Amen.


Pictures!
1. The line for dinner when it's Pizza Night!

2. Shantel told me i need to take more selfies

3. THE NOTEEE

4. Beautiful Provo!!!

5. I guess if you write in your email that you miss your mom's cinnamon rolls, your awesome mom will send you her cinnamon rolls!!

6. My awesome District!!

7. We had to take these stickers off our nametags becuase some lame missionaries were selling or trading them to eachother which i don't understnad at all😂🤔

8. The dryer didn't work very well...


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