Hi Everyone!!
I´ve officially been at the mtc and in missionary mode now for two full weeks and boy i tell ya it feels like two months! Our days our long, starting at 6:30am and we go to bed ontime at 10:30pm if we write in our journals pretty fast. I'm pretty proud of myself being able to keep a daily record so far, it's been a challange to remember what i've done that day so i know if i don't write it down that night the next day would be tragic! Anyways me and my companions are having a blast, probably too much fun! We work together and they are super considerate of helping me out if im running late or have forgotten something back at the rooms and need to go back. It's still weird having to stick together to do EVERYTHING, well everything but the bathroom of course. I hinds sight though it really makes me more considerate of others and helps us organize our day so we arn't running back and forth to the same buildings all the time.
My teaching experiences this week at the mtc have been AMAZING! We have two opportunities to teach a week volunteers from utah who come and act as investigators for our church. They, like us, listen to the spirit and ask us questions in character. We have been teaching a mom of 6 named Kris and an older woman from Nevada named Sue. They are both wonderful and i just love teaching them. Through our lessons our companionship have been able to practice teaching with unity and that has come through discussing needing to follow the spirit. We tend to babble and get off topic so.... what we do now is listen to when the spirit prompts us to speak or share a scripture or testify of our companions words. As we've done this the spirit has been so strong and thoughts and stories and scriptures have come to me from my seminary days and times in my youth that i really have thought of since! Our investigator kris after our last teaching discussion had to break character at the end and just started to cry. She thanked us and said that she has been a memeber her whole life and that our insights on the Book of Mormon (as we read through the introduction to her) were so powerful that she learned things she's never seen before and felt the spirit so strongly! It was so rewarding to know that we fulfilled our purpose there.... to bring others unto christ whether that's investigators or members of the church we are all constantly learning and growing and i feel so blessed to be apart of that!
Our days our busy and we've been ble to hear from some amazing speakers one of them being the Missionary Department manageing director who gaves the insight that we should trust in the Lord with everything we have! that the waves and turbulance in our lives may be unknown and difficult but as the savior guides our lives through the spirit he may be protecting us from the rocks on the sea floor that would destroy us! A lovely thought that really touched me! For devotional Elder Edgley First counselor in the Presiding Bishopric spoke to us yesterday night and his message was that as missionaries we represent the Lord and are all equal in that calling no matter where we have come from! Everyone deserves to hear his message and we should feel no intimidation when sharring that to others. I feel that applies to all memebers of the church! we need to share! we have taken on us the name of the Lord, and he will open their hearts and bring the spirit the convince, we need not convince!
Anyways enough of my preaching, i hope you see past the words and notice my desire and love for missionary work! nothing too exciting i'm sure to the outside world at the mtc but everyday i feel as if i've grown to a new level i never knew i could reach. I'm so excited to get to edmonton on tuesday (even though i leave at 3am!!!) and thank you everyone for you support, love, letters and packages. They make my day!!!! Love you all and keep in touch! :)
Sister Wotherspoon
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