Hola!
So I guess first off I need to tell you that we cannot call home on Mothers day here in the MTC, but on the bright side I should be able to call from the airport when I leave on June 6. Another item of housekeeping, yes I can get attatched pictures from email. I can just view them or I can print them out in poor quality black and white. The prospect of tranfering them digitally is out of the question due to the half of an operating system that these computers run on.
(Q. from Dad) Are you still in a threesome. I noticed that Hermana Jonescheit is solo. how does that work. Why leave you three together and have a solo. Do you have to stay with her all the time anyway?
Hermana Jonescheit is a solo sister because her companion moved up to the intermediate spanish zone. However, solo sisters are quite common especially with really obscure languages. The reason that we don't just split my threesome companionship so that she have a companion is because her district is two weeks ahead of mine. Solo sisters just have to be with two elders from their district at all times. The exceptions are the bathroom, of course, but then for gym, temple, and some other obscure things she has to be with us. Which makes our threesome a little more convenient because we can split two and two.
So not a whole lot happenned this week. Apparently my instructors believed that I needed some serious help with Spanish though. I was pulled out of class by the tutor for our zone who pretty much told me in a very tactful way that I needed not just one tutoring session but at least two for the next couple of weeks. My first tutoring session went pretty well though. I was a little bit nervous because I've never really been tutored for anything thus far in my life. But then again, I've never really struggled with anything so bad as I am with Spanish.
I am not really extremely worried about my lack of Spanish though, because I know that if I work and study as hard as I can the Lord will make up the difference. It is also a blessing that I am going out of the country, unlike most of my district, because my investigators probably won't know any spanish at all, whereas their investigators will probably know some English just because they live in the United States. So I will be forced to use and learn Spanish quite rapidly, which I consider to be an immense blessing.
So I want to tell you a little bit about my progressive investigators. We teach both of our instructors as a companionship at least once a day. Our instructors leave the room and go into an empty room and become one of their investigators from their own mission. Our two investigators right now are Refugio and Maria. Very exciting news, yesterday my companions and I commited Refugio to get baptized in three weeks.
I know it may sound a little silly to be so excited about a fake investigator, but to us we really do treat them as real investigators because our instructors act and respond just as they would. The spirit in our lessons is real, and the gift of tongues is so incredibly real as well. Our progressive investigators are the very best part of our entire MTC experience. They are so cool, and I really do love both Maria and Refugio. I admire the change that the real people really did make in their life.
Things have been much smoother with my companionship. We have learned what works best each of us. One silly thing that we have changed, is that I cannot sit in between them during classes. Sitting on the edge eases our tensions immensely, just because it means that I don't have to hear every single thought that comes into both of their heads. They both just like to share their feelings and talk a lot, which is great and wonderful, but I just could not handle it. Especially for both of them at the same time. Anyways after we became aware of this as a companionship we were able to make changes accordingly and things have been much better. Dad, I know that you will be a little bit disappointed that I was the commencer of problems, but in my defense I don't think I have ever had to digest as many thoughts and feelings that I have had the opportunity to hear of from my companions. I blame most of that on only having brothers and no sisters.
So I would like to bear my testimony that I know that this church is true. I know that Jesus Christ was sent to earth to establish his church and to redeem us from the fall. I know that Joseph Smith was called of God and that this is God's church in these latter days. En el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
I love and miss you all. I hope all is going well.
Much love!
Hermana Evans
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