Hola Familia!!
The MTC is quite the experience? I was so excited and so happy when I finally got here and they gave me my official tag!!!!!! (I dont have much time so ignor the spelling) So I met my companeras, I have 2, Hermana England and Herman Latham. they are really sweet girls and both are from utah. (south jordan and nephi) the schedule at the MTC is crazy and iim still adjusting to it but it is getting better and i have hope that i will become more efficient with my time. it seems like we have no time at all to do anything and i feel like i have to learning everything.
so you are probably wondering how my spanish is coming..! well the first 2 days our teachers only spoke spanish to us. the first day we walked into what is now our classroom, where we do everything, and our teacher was giving us instructions in spanish. i felt so out of place and it made it worse when some of the elders and mi hermanas could understand what was going on. Needless to say i was sooo stressed out about speakin spanish and in a moment of weakness i actually wished that i was serving an english speaking mission. well in that same moment el Espiritu Santo brought taught me that i need to learn humility and totally put my trust in the Lord. well here i am on day 4 and becoming humble is going to be a long journey for me. i am totally being humbled in my struggle to learn spanish but our teachers are constantly reassuring us that the language is not as important as learning to have faith in the Lord and rely on the Espiritu Santo. I am not yet as Job but i do have a desire to be, and a desire to completely rely on the Lord.
So yesterday was really exciting. we got to teach our first investigator named Oscar. oh ya might i add that we taught him in spanish!!! whe i heard the news that i was going to teach and the investigator did not speak any english i was terrified. again the Lord has to continually humble me and remind me that all is well in the Lord. We had to plan as a companionship what wer were giong to teach but that was easy. the difficult part was how we were going to teach this man when we knew little to no spanish. so about and 1 and 1/2 before we went to teach we were taught how to pray and bare our testimonies. kind of a priority when teaching!! :D so we delegated who was going to do what and i was chosen to say the opening prayer. when we met oscar and went into the classroom we asked if could pray...which is one of the questions we had memorized right before going in. he said yes and i began to pray. i forgot most of what i wanted to say and i stumble through it but i made it through and i hope that it made some kind of sense to our investigator. then we continued on with the lesson and asked a couple of key questions the only problem was when he answered none of us knew what he was saying. i feel like i know the least amount of spanish compared to my companeras but i felt like i spoke the most. i didnt know what he was saying, but i know the easiest way to bring the Spirit into the room is to bare testimony of Jesucristo!! so did! it was awesome! i only hope that my companeras and the investigator felt the spirit that i felt because is was so good. the lesson was far from good and i dont really know if i said anything that he wanted to hear but i felt really good about it. we are teaching him again today and that might be even more difficult because i felt like i said everything that i can sayin spanish already!! but we think we will teach him aobut profetas and the resturation. ill let lyou know how it goes next THURSDAY on my p-0day...wink wink!
my comparneras are good but im struggling to feel united in our purpose and decision making. Hermana latham and i are pretty outspoke and herman england is pretty quiet and we all think that differnt things are important. hopefully as time goes on and our love for one another grows we will be a great companionship and be able to learn and grow individuallyand together. both of my companeras are serving in chile but we are all going to different missions!! my district contains 3 hermanas, us, and 7 elders. all the elders are great in my district and we are having fun learning together and teaching one another! i hope all is well at home! por favor know that i send my love.
yo se que Jesucristo es el Salvador y Dios es nuestro Padre Celestial. yo se que la iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias es verdadero. yo se que el libro de mormon es verdadero y es la palabra de Dios!!
i love you guys! i love being a missionary and i am soo excited to continue putting my trust in the lord and learning how to preach the true evangelio en espanol!!
love hermana thacker!!
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