So this is going to shock you (or maybe just me) but I am officially half-way through my time at the MTC!!!!! Can you believe it? I leave in four weeks and about three days (it is supposed to be March 28th). Crazy! Sometimes I forget that I still have my ACTUAL mission after the MTC. I am beyond excited to get out into the field . This morning I woke up to a good six inches of snow, and that just sealed the deal for me-I NEED to get to FLORIDA ASAP!!!!!!! Once again, confirmation that I have the world's greatest mission. So.....what to write.....
Let me start with my spiritual experience of the week. We have our first scheduled baptism for an investigator! It happened last night. We were teaching our investigator Yuriko for the third time. She had asked a question about what she should do if God answered her prayers and expressing fear about it if he actually did. It bothered me all day and I spent a good chunk of my MDT (Missionary Directed Time) trying to find an answer for her. I finally found 2 Nephi 32: 1-5. Capter 32 is like the world's greatest cookie filling to the best chapters ever 31 and 33. Anyway, I kept being led to the Holy Ghost and the comfort it provides not only in our prayers, but to let us know God's will. We read that scripture together and the last line was so great, "recieve the Holy Ghost, it will show unto you all things what ye should do." I challenged her to be baptized, but she was still heistant. My companion then asked her to read the parable of the vine and the branches in John 15, but I accidentally turned to John 14 and handed her my scriptures, it was then that she accidently read John 14:1 "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me."
Let me just tell you, anyone reading this right now, there was nothing accidental about that. It took four more times asking her to be baptized, but she kept coming back to that verse and she agreed, in three weeks she will be baptized. Now I realize this is not a real person. This person has the gospel already in their life and is providing a teaching experience for us missionaries. But I tell you all now, there was nothing fake about last night. The spirit was so strong it was suffocating. I literally could barely breath. I and my companions did absolutely nothing in that lesson, it was all the spirit. I hope everyone can gain a testimony of the Holy Ghost that I have been able to gain this week. Your life will never be the same.
Now, on a lighter note. Funny story of the week: I have two words for you all 'Spanish Day.' As a district we dicided to make it a goal this week to speak only Spanish on Wednesday, also known as 'no ingles miercoles!' Need I remind you that we have been here FOUR weeks! I took two years of Spanish and couldn't have said more than five or six sentences. This was an ENTIRE day of Spanish! Needless to say I had a lot of time to think, since it was much quieter than usual! However, it really pushed every one of us, and we laughed almost all day long at our sorry attempts to communicate (over-enunciations, sign language, dictionaries, charades, etc). I will say this though, when I woke up on Thursday, I could speak twice as much Spanish as I could on Tuesday. Amazing.
This coming week is teaching week for us. We have about 1/4 the amount of class time we usually have and are supposed to teach lessons to anyone and everyone we can find with all the time we have. Of course, ALL in Spanish. I have a feeling I might be tired by next Saturday. (Who am I kidding, I am ALWAYS tired!) It is the best kind of tired though. It is the tired that at the end of the day you literally can barely muster the strength to pull the blankets up, and sometimes not even that happens!
Interesting side-note apparently it is the 50th anniversary of the MTC, no one told us, but my companion was told in a letter by her friend. Anyway last tuesday there were a bunch of film crews at our devotional. So look for several spots on KSL in the next few weeks and a big special on the MTC between sessions of conference. Weird, you might even see me! I doubt it though (I wasn't in the choir. Shocker I know!!!!!) I hope they filmed the special arrangement of Called to Serve though, it was amazing. We started off the first verse really soft like we were an army coming over the hill, then it got progressively louder until we were all standing on our feet singing at the top of our lungs. The air vibrated it was so powerful. I hope you at least get to see the film. It won't be the same, but still awesome.
Well, I should probably wrap this up for the week. I love you all so much. Stay true to the faith, stay true to yourselves, and stay close to God in everything you do.
Con Amor,
Hermana Levanger (Beck)
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