This week has been such a faith builder and my testimony has grown so much. Right from the start we learned of the gift of tongues and how as we work hard and struggle to learn the language we will be blessed with knowledge and know what to say. I have already seen that here. Elder Brewer and I have made a habit of talking to some Latino Elders every day and they’ve become some of our best friends here! They’re always so willing to help us and I know they are great missionaries.
So last Thursday (2nd day at CCM) we had to teach for the first time. IN
SPANISH. It was so stressful and hard and we bombed it so hard. We got some
background info on the investigator (one of our teachers) and we wanted to
teach the plan of salvation to her, but we didn’t really have a great plan,
aaaand we don’t speak spanish. It was tough and we came out really discouraged
and were down for the rest of the night until we had comp study and planning
and me and Elder Brewer talked about how we're feeling about everything and felt
a little bit better.
Sundays here are fantastic! it is a lot of meetings throughout
the day, but we don’t have to learn or study or memorize stuff. This Sunday was
especially good for me because I had my first real revelation here. It was during sacrament meeting and after I had
taken the bread I decided to give a prayer of thanks. As I was praying I said I
was grateful for the homesickness. It was almost like I didn’t say it. I kept
praying and then realized that I was grateful for those feelings because it
shows me how much of a sacrifice I’m making to be here and how much more
meaningful it is for me to be here. I don’t know if that makes sense but it
does to me.
Monday was a roller coaster. I was feeling really unconfident
about my Spanish and was kinda down about everything. we went to plan our
lessons and I was feeling really discouraged and overwhelmed and I didn’t think
we were getting through to our investigator. My companion saw this and tried to
cheer me up. I prayed myself before we went in and said the opening prayer in
our lesson and right there everything changed. I felt the spirit so strongly
and literally had words put into my mouth as I taught. we weren’t planning on
it but we asked our investigator Amelia if she wanted to be baptized and she
said yes!!! it was such a great reassurance to me that Heavenly Father answers
personal prayers and knows my needs.
the days are starting to go by really fast here and I’m
excited to hear about how everyone else is doing! love you all!
