Hola!!
This week has been super crazy just like every week has been here. We literally don't have a spare second all day long to do anything. We're in class for hours every day and whenever we're not in class, we're teaching. We finished our week of perfection and it's helped so much! We are doing great with the language and speaking Spanish so much better than we thought we could at this point. Our "week of perfection" has now turned into "la vision" and we're supposed to have 10 contacts and 30 lessons each week. We're teaching a ton and as of today we have already taught 20 lessons this week. We still have until Monday! One of the good things about teaching in another lesson is that you have to teach pretty simply because you have no choice! You basically have to. We also started something that I think is a pretty good way of starting off a meeting. We start each lesson by singing a verse of a hymn in Spanish, and it's really cool. These songs really do have an immense amount of power, and they can always bring the Spirit.
Oh and I have exciting news!! As of Sunday I am a zone leader here so I get to be in charge of 40-ish elders here in the MTC. I love the opportunity to serve here and I’m growing so much as a leader and as a missionary. My comp and I have been getting trained in that all we need to do.
Our lesson last Wednesday in the TRC was so good! We ended up teaching a teacher that works here, but it has been our best lesson so far! We were teaching about the plan of salvation and he was asking a couple pretty tough questions. I was surprised when i answered them far more logically and simply than I ever have before. I made connections in my mind that I had never made before, and I know that I was being taught by the Spirit as well in that lesson. He committed to being baptized and stopping drinking and smoking. All of this teaching makes everything so much more exciting and it really does make the time fly by! I can't believe its Wednesday again. All the weeks are starting to run together.
We had a really really cool devotional on Sunday and Dallin H. Oak's daughter played the violin throughout it. She talked and performed, and she was so amazing! The Spirit was crazy strong there, and apparently she's a super distinguished violinist, so that was perfect. Plus we don't get to listen to music here, so it was a very welcome sound.
We did have an "investigator" here that really humbled us and made us think. She kept saying, "I don't know if I believe in God" and was almost refusing to do anything. We started to kind of feel how missionaries feel when they get discouraged that people won't accept this wonderful gospel in their life. We're determined to bring the Spirit with us this week and let her know how important it is, so we look forward to that.
I've been getting a lot more confident about walking up and talking to random people. I haven't always been one to do it, but we're definitely getting in the habit of that here. We really do have an urgent message to share with the world, and it's so vitally important that everyone has it in their lives!! I can't wait to get out there and spread the Gospel like crazy!
Well I'm doing super good and staying incredibly busy! Loving it here, learning a ridiculous amount of Spanish, and learning a lot about being a leader!
Nos vemos! Estoy aprendiendo todo el tiempo. El Evangelio es maravilloso!
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