Last week we got a group of new missionaries in our branch. Mi companion and I are the only sisters....so by default we are the 'coordinating sisters' for our branch. All that means is that we help train the newbies and go to a LOT of meetings. Its been a good experience though. On my 7th day here I got to share my testimony in one of the training meetings for the new missionaries and well....it was an awesome experience:)
The first 'investigator' that we were teaching, just became our 2nd teacher. It was a good learning experience to teach someone that became our teacher because he was able to see what we need to focus on the most in spanish....which is pretty much everything. haha. But I learned how important it is to have the spirit with you as you teach a lesson...even if they are fake investigators. It was a good experience. Tonight we start teaching in the TRC. Its where members volunteer and come in and and just speak about the gospel in spanish with us. We have a little lesson prepared, but mostly we are just supposed to try to go with the flow.......that should be interesting. Haha.
One super funny thing that happened is that in class, we were learning about vowel sounds. Hermano Angel had a, e, i, o, u written on the board and we were just practicing prouncing them in spanish. I started laughing and everyone was like what the heck.....But in the Movie Tarzan, when jane desides to stay behind and she is telling the apes that she is saying she says' a e i o u' spanish style. Everyone just laughed. If you don't know what I am talking about, I bet cristy can fill you in.
Devotional on Tuesday was by Jenny Oaks Baker, Elder Oaks daughter. She is a famous violinist so she shared some family stories and played her violin, it was so GOOD! Sunday devotional was by Vaughn J Featherstone. He talked about how 'no other talent exceeds spirituality.' He also shared a story about how an senior couple had put in mission papers. They were expecting to get a service mission call or something along those lines...because that's what senior missionaries usually get. But they got a proslyting mission call to Alaska of all places. They were hesitant to accept the call for obvious reasons, but they did it. One day they were walking through a blizzard and were getting ready to head back home because it was getting pretty bad. But they saw a light on at the top of a big hill, so they decided one more house. They got to the house knocked, and their long lost son of 14 years opened the door. HOW COOL IS THAT? Well I am not expecting anything like that to happen.....mainly beacuse I don't have kids....haha...... BUT I know that missionaries get called to where they need to serve. Whether it is for their own benefit or for the specific beniefit of others. Cool huh?
Another REALLY super cool thing that happened. Our district was having a meeting with one of the branch presidency members. We had about 10 extra minutes to spare, so he decided to call one of the missionaries that served with him when he was a mission president to see if he had any advice for us. He also mentioned that the person he was calling was the grandson of President Monson. So we were all excited. So Brother S. called him up and asked if he had any advice for the missionaries and he said that he remembered some things his grandfather had told him. He said to study like crazy, learn all you can, follow the rules, Don't go faster than you can, and give all the credit to the Savior. I thought that it was really good advice.
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