Welp, this is it! I leave the MTC tomorrow at 3:45 am to go to New Hampshire!! It's crazy how fast the time goes here! I feel like I just barely met everyone in my district, but I love them all so much and I am sad to see them all go :(
Tuesday we were the Ushers at the devotional which was fun, we got to sit really close to the front and Craig C. Christensen spoke. It was pretty cool!
Wednesday was 7/11 so I hope y'all all got free slurpee/slushie/icee's!! We taught our TRC and I really connected with her over Down's kids and I thought the lesson went really well! Wednesday evening we were able to show the new missionaries how to begin teaching by asking questions. It was really cool to see how far I've come and how much I've grown since I've been here.
Thursday was really long. We got up at 6:30 and immediately went to exercise time, so we were finished with our whole morning routine by like 10am and we didn't have anything else scheduled until 1:30 so it was just long haha. Later we went to a workshop called working with members. They put on a "play" for us and it was really funny. After dinner though I was just exhausted, so my brain and my mouth were not working but neither was anyone else's haha! We were role playing teaching with the people in our district and we were supposed to be teaching the Word of Wisdom to a blind lady whose job was wine tasting. So anyways, while we were teaching the sister I was teaching with was like "so can you read this for me?" and I looked at her and we just burst out laughing because she asked a blind lady to read the pamphlet... then the elder we were teaching with accidentally said "Heavenly Farmer" instead of Heavenly Father and that made us all burst out laughing again haha, and then I was teaching and I couldn't form a sentence so I said "um" about 25 times in the span of 30 seconds and once again we couldn't stop laughing! So anyways we all had the giggles that evening, but it was fun XD
Friday was full of drama haha! The morning was good, we played volleyball and did service, but by dinner everyone was tired and not having that great of a day and so anyways there was some drama that ended in one sister leaving and crying and an elder feeling really bad. Then later that night we had a spiritual bomb type of lesson that left everyone mind blown and afterwards we were all chatting about it and one of the sisters and I got into a semi-argument. It ended up fine but by the end of the day I was just tired of all the drama.
Saturday was another good day. I had a lot of good personal study time and it was just a day full of great learning and fun!! Something that I've been working on is just speaking my mind when I feel like I'm being prompted and so that sometimes ends in me saying really stupid things haha. In our lesson our teacher asked us what "worship" means to us and the first thought that popped into my head was in the Spongebob movie when everyone in bikini bottom has the buckets on their heads and they're like "All hail Plankton, All hail Plankton!" so I said it and then we all had a good laugh.
Sunday we had church and my oh my was that rough! haha! So I'm one of the branch music coordinators, and we have to pick the songs for sacrament meeting, lead the music and find someone to play the piano. Apparently all our parents failed us and we a just a sad bunch of Mormons because nobody in my ENTIRE branch knows how to play the piano. Not even the branch presidency and their wives! How on earth did we manage to get a room of 30 Mormons and not one of them play the piano? Anyways, so I figured that we could just play the music off of lds.org and through the TV. So we're sitting in sacrament meeting and the opening hymn is supposed to be playing, but alas it does not work, so I have to try to figure out how to make it work and then I find out that the piano can play the hymns itself, but you have to press play for every verse. So there I am everyone waiting and staring at me as I try to make it all work, but we figured it out eventually and finished the sacrament meeting unscathed haha XD
Yesterday was very long. From breakfast to bedtime felt like 4 days in one haha! It was awesome tho!! We had to take pictures with our district an say goodbye to everyone because two of the sisters in my district left early this morning and one Elder left around 8. It was a good day full of the spirit and fun and laughter!
Anyways, it was another great week!
One day, as I was studying in my personal study, I came across an article from the New Era, and this one line really stuck out to me that said, "I was painfully shy. Terribly, awfully shy. I didn’t feel comfortable talking to new people, because I didn’t feel confident in who I was." As I read this, I realized that at some point along the timeline of my life I had forgotten who I was. I had lost that essential piece of me that allowed me to be confident in myself. I had let Satan convince me (subtly and by degrees) that I was not a daughter of God, an heir to His kingdom, someone to be treasured, respected, and loved. Being here in the MTC I have come closer to Jesus Christ then ever before and I have begun to regain that piece of me that was lost. I know who I am, and I know who you are. We are all literal children of God. How incredible is that?! God has given us all specific characteristics and talents to bless us and to help us serve others. I don't want anyone to wonder why someone would want to be their friend. I want everyone too KNOW that they are loved and unique and special! Anyways, rant over. Know that you're loved, by me and especially by God! :D
I love you all so much!!
Love,
Sister Warburton :)
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