It's so crazy that I've been here four weeks. Part of me feels like it has been 3 months and the other part feels like I just got here. Time is super weird in the mtc. Pretty sure the past four weeks have just been one reallyyyyy long day with a few 45 minute naps and a lot of mediocre food. Speaking of food, we discovered last week the beauty of eating at the temple. It's the best thing that has happened to us (sort of) something about eating somewhere other than here is very exciting.
Today, my companeras and I get to go on a field trip! :) actually we are just going to the sister missionary mall cause hma shumway needs some shoes...but we are peeing our pants of excitement. Yesterday I was thinking about how in four weeks of the mtc I have learned more spanish than I did of 4 years in school. It is pretty wild. Plus, the spanish I learned then was useless stuff like "where is the library?" and "I walk my dog to the park" but now the spanish I know is the kind that can change people's lives...for eternity. and bring them to christ. So amazing.
That's pretty sweet that pres. kimball came when you were here dad! On tuesday, Ronald A. Rasband came. That was pretty sick. He is the guy that gave the talk on how mission calls are made. He had a powerful testimony. But we haven't had anyone from the 12 come...although there are rumors every week. haha
So...last night in the trc we had an awesome times ten lesson!! I was so happy afterwards. In fact, I don't know if i've ever been happier in my entire life. (see D&C 50:22 and my patriarchal blessing for more info) Anyway, we were supposed to teach the plan of salvation and we were planning on doing it in spanish. But, right before we felt like we should speak english, so we did. Turns out the guy we taught had no clue what was going on...and hadn't read the teaching record. We aren't sure if he is a member or not. Either way, if he is someone who volunteers, he totally broke roll and started venting to us about how his wife is pregnant and they are having all of these struggles and he wants 7 kids...and it was just so weird. Not what we were expecting at all. But, the great part about being a missionary is...even though the three of us had no clue what to say, the spirit filled our mouths and we were able to help him. Hma richards pulled john 16:21 out of nowhere...and it made him cry and he was like thank you so much. Anyway, maybe you had to be there. haha but the spirit was SO strong. And we were really able to help him and teach him...not a lesson. Also, it probably is most likely that he is a member but we were able to help him as a member while teaching him as an investigator. Pretty cool. I haven't stopped smiling since. I love missionary work :)
oh! also something really funny that happened was that last night when we taught daniel, we start out speaking spanish to practice certain voacb things. THis week we were supposed to talk about our families. So i had our fam picture and was trying to tell him taht my two sisters are pregnant but I accidentally conjugated my verb wrong and said WE are pregnant. hahahaha so he was like, you're pregnant? haha no!!! it was super funny though. Especially since the word for prego is embarasado...so usually people mess it up by trying to say they are emabarrassed. I was aware of that. I just can't conjugate :) good times.
I'm glad you got my pictures! I'll probably send some more a little later. As I'm sure you can imagine...I take a lot of pictures :) I'm glad curtis and whitney have such a cool house! It will be nice to have a yard. Utah houses are so great. But you already know that. Yay for the car staying in the family!! I love that car. and ashley and brent. These are good things.
I love you so much. I hope everyone is doing well and doing good things. If you listen to the holy ghost he will guide you to people who need your help.
ole.
Love,
Hermana Ross
p.p.s. My life is full of typos right now. Plus as i learn more spanish the more my spelling goes down hill. all of the times I made fun of people (sorry curtis) for not being able to spell is coming back to bite me in the butt. I can't spell prophet correctly at all anymore. It always is spelled with and f now. profeta. crap.
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