So last week I wasn't able to write as much as I wanted to, because it
was my first p-day and we were all just figuring everything out, so today I'll
give you every nitty gritty detail! And btw, there is handwritten mail coming
your way! (Spanish to Dad)
So here's a rundown more or less of my weekly schedule! Mondays are
good, nothing too special on Mondays. Instead of going to the gym for exercise
though, we stay back and do whatever we want, which is called personal
exercise. Me and elder Ellis from my district usually go running 3ish miles,
which is keeping me from not getting too fat from all the food! On Mondays we
also have something called TRC, but I'll talk a little bit about that a little
more later. Not sure if that was happening back when you were in the MTC dad,
but it's awesome! Later we have TALL, which I'll talk about more too, and then
the rest is classes and preparation time. Every day, we have 16 hour work days,
and there are no breaks. It is work for 16 hours.
Tuesday is pretty neat because we get a general authority to speak to
us. We have had 2 from the seventy come so far. Off the top of my head, I
can't remember their names, but they are always amazing! I mean one of the
seventy talking to us directly....it's pretty cool! Also, our whole district,
all 6 of us, have joined the choir! It is super fun! It is also a nice hour
break on Sundays and Tuesdays during our long days. We also go the gym, which
is awesome, because we play volleyball every day :) Other than that, Tuesday's
are too different then any other day.
Wednesdays...now this is our P.day, our break/preparation day! Every
P.day, Wednesday, we get to go to the temple early in the morning and do
whatever we want. Today and last week we went and did boys sealing to parents!
It is SO amazing! I never knew what the marriage inside the temple would be
like, but now I have seen it done for the dead. The man there said the living
ordinance of marriage is a little bit different, like an extra sentence or two,
but it's super cool! I love being in the temple! It just takes all the stress
of the week away!!! Also on P.day we have our hour to email anyone, which we do
as our laundry is going. There are computers in the laundry room which is
really nice! So a rule in the MTC is that you can write to anyone any day, but
only email people on P.day, but our Branch President added his own rules, and
that includes only writing letters on P.day as well! Sometimes I question, but
then I realize he is a man called of God and that it is for our benefit. We
don't have gym time on Wednesdays, but can work out if we want with all our
extra free time.
Thursdays aren't too special, they're literally just a normal day at the
MTC, not bad of course, but busy and the whole time is filled with classes and
what not.
Fridays are also normal, but at we have gym at night! Friday night is
the best gym time because we get to go the a field between the temple and the
MTC grounds and play soccer :) Man are those some good times!!! Soccer with a
bunch of missionaries, oh yeah!!!!
Saturdays are also good, but they are the same as Thursdays, nothing in
particular that make them stand out.
Sundays are the big different day, because of the fact that we go to
sacrament and also to priesthood meeting! Me, another elder, and one more elder
in our zone can play the piano, so last Sunday I got to play the hymns for
Sacrament meeting, and I get to play the hymns for Priesthood meeting next
Sunday! The Branch President's wife is SO nice, and she got me the Spanish
version of the hymn book, spiral bound, with my name on it! It is super great,
but yeah! So also on Sunday nights we have a speaker, not usually from the
seventy though, just other people that are in the MTC program. And that's a
normal week!
So I don't know if my visa is fine yet, one elder in our district is
going in tomorrow to get his visa, but the rest of us haven't heard anything
yet. It should be fine though because we still have like 4 weeks.
The CCM has been super great so far!!! I feel the food is getting to me
though, because it is soooo good and unlimited, so I have refrained from eating
so much!!! I surprisingly haven't really gained weight though.....I guess my
metabolism is just that cool!!! So about the TALL program, it is pretty much
like rosetta stone, but better because it teaches us how to teach lessons in
spanish!!! It is really great!!
So cool story time........and it's about the TRC I was talking about.
So sometimes here at the CCM I feel that the spirit isn't as strong, because
whenever our teachers try to use the spirit for stories and such, our minds are
just trying to translate the whole thing so the spirit doesn't work as well. So
in a TRC, you and your companion go into a small room and, in a way, home teach
a member of the church. So me and Elder Beifuss went in to this lady and had
prepared our lesson about the Plan De Salvacion. Within 5 minutes of talking I
messed up on a sentence, and was about to correct it, when she stopped me and
said,"recuerda. La idioma del espiritu santo es mas importante que el Espanol."
(remember, the language of the spirit is more important than the Spanish) That
touched me so much!!! From then on in the lesson the spirit directed
everything. I felt the spirit more then ever before!!! At the end, all of us on
the verge of tears, (the sisters name was sister Applegate) sister Applegate
told us," Puedo ver la luz en sus ojos! Ustedes seran finaminal misioneros!" (I
can see the light in your eyes. You will be phenominal missionaries.) After the
lesson me and Elder biefuss looked at eachother and all we could do was smile!!!
We know how it's done now!!! Our Spanish is not great, but we have the universal
language of the spirit which is most important thing!!!
So our investigators aren't real...he is just our teacher, hermano
rios. We actually got a new investigator named Pedro, and he is living with his
girlfriend and they have 3 kids. Sooooo now we have to teach him about the law
of chastity, so we've been praying for days our lesson with him tomorrow goes
well!!
This work is great and I continue to love more and more being here!!! I
love the MTC!!! It is definitely going to be sad leaving this place, but it
will be OK, we still have 4 weeks here!!! It gets hard, but the fact that the
lord loves me and helps me through everything is the best feeling ever!!! You
all are always in my prayers, and keep all the missionaries in your prayers, cuz
now that we've gotten a little more into it, there are a lot of missionaries
that just don't care very much. But it's okay!!
Yo se que El Libro de Mormon es verdarero, y es Dios. Yo se que
JesuCristo fue crucifico para nosotros. Yo se que las familias son juntos para
siempre. Yo se que Jose Smith fue un profeta de Dios. Yo se que JesuCristo es
nuestro salvador. Yo se que Presidente Monson es el profeta verdarero en la
tierra ahora, y yo se que mediante la fe en JesuCristo y su Expiacion, algo es
possible!
Love you all, and there are letters on their way! (thanks for the
Spanish email dad, I'm sending a handwritten letter all in Spanish to
you)
-Elder Amormenos
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