I've only been here
little under a week and I have fallen in LOVE with this place!! I'm so excited
that I get to spend 3 weeks here instead of the expected 12 days. That's what it
was that Kylie and Michael got here in the MTC, but they changed it in March and
I'm so glad they did!! I love it here, even though it is really easy to get
cabin fever in your little classroom. Because you are in there all. day.
When I first got
here we went right into classes and preparation. they gathered all the newbs up
and as a group, we taught 3 different investigators. Holy crap did I just feel
so inadequate.
My companion is
absolutely amazing!!!!! Her name is Sister Bair, so our couple name is the Brown
Bair :) She is just more evidence that God knows
me so well and that he is in every little part of my life. She is everything I
would ever need, and I didn't even realize that I needed what she gives me! But
she is the BIGGEST example to me. I've never had someone that I look up to sooo
much. She is the type of missionary I want to be. Confident, obedient,
beautiful, speaks her mind, organized, on time, and just so spiritual and
amazing. I love her to pieces, and we have already gone through so much
together. But I'm serious. She is exactly what I needed here at the MTC and I
think the only person who could handle every side of me. She is so patient and
just amazing!!!
My district consists
of another Sister companionship, Sister Sessions and Sister
Hudson. We 4 share a room and they are all wonderful and so fun
:) We also have 3 other Elder Companionships, and they are super great. We spend
class together aaaalllll day, so we see a lot of each other.
Speaking of class, I
have learned soooo much!!!! It is crazy that I can retain any of it, but somehow
I am really learning. It's hard, to be a missionary I guess, but I know it will
be so worth it. My branch President here says to remember not to worry the fun
out of your mission :)
On Friday Sister
Bair woke up feeling really sick, so while she slept till 9, I got a chance to
just stay in the room and study what I wanted. It was really nice! I need that
kind of time again. Everything here is so scheduled!! Even our P-day is
scheduled! well this is free time and Laundry, but 12:30 we get to go to the
temple and I'm super excited to go with my District :)
Oh and here at the
MTC they have a choir that practives twice each week, and I really wanted to do
it, but Sister Bair wasn't that interested. But lucky for her, our Branch
president basically requires it so I get to go without me feeling like I'm the
one dragging Sister Bair around :)
On Sunday Sister
Bair and I got called to be Sister Training Leaders for our Zone! It's a lot of
responsibility because now I have to worry about all the sisters instead of just
myself, but it will be really good for me. Saturday night we watched a talk
given by Elder Bednar at the MTC called "Character of Christ" and it seriously
was the best thing ever. The most notes I have taken from a talk ever. He really
talked about tuning outward instead of inward and not being selfish. Yes the one
convert I should come home with having is me, but I'm not trying to do that.
This mission has nothing to do with me and everything to do with My father in
Heaven. So being an STL will help me turn to help others instead of being
concerned about myself!
Really, the MTC is
just a place to tear you down and let you realize that you know and can do
absolutely nothing. Because you have to rely on the Lord for everything and you
can't do anything without his help, because this is his work, not mine.
I have to keep
glancing at my name tag because I still cannot believe that I'm a
missionary.
Man I really need to
write down bullet point or something, because I forget what I want to say and
now I'm about out of time! Oh well I have 18 months to perfect this whole
emailing thing.
Please send me snail
mail! I know it's a little old school, but I can spend more time reading and
replying on pdays to your letters rather than emails.
Lots of love!!
Sister
Brown
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