This week flew by! I can't even believe I only have 2 weeks left and I had some really cool things happen this week. I took a ridiculous language assessment test on the computer on Monday and did terrible! It's timed so it was so bad. The people that gave feedback made sure to give me a bunch of positives before the corrections though, it made me feel like I was at the gym! lol. We had a great devotional on Tuesday that was about finding your identity. It reminded me a lot of Danny Poulsens talk when he got home from his mission. I shared bits of his talk with my district after. The talk was also a lot about loving the people we teach. Sometimes I think it's interesting that we talk about that so much but as my district shared their thoughts I realized that not everyone grows up with an amazing mom who loves and cares about everyone no matter what their situation. Thank goodness I had that influence growing up because I feel like i just love people! We have this adorable investigator right now that is from Mexico and has told us all about our mission. She says most people sleep in hamacas because it's so hot and she said don't eat the monkey! lol I had the coolest experience teaching her yesterday. For the first time since being here I felt like I was about to carry and lead a lesson, and in spanish! Crazy. She asked a lot of questions and for some reason I knew the answers. We talked about why the priesthood was important and why God waited such a long time before establishing the church back on the earth. I could feel the spirit so strong in the room and I just smiled as she was talking to my companions because I couldn't believe I had answered it in a way that made sense. At the end of the lesson I asked if she had any questions and she grinned and said, "No, you answered everything I wanted to know." That is so cool. Sometimes we get asked questions and we have to say something like, "That's a great question can we talk about it next lesson?" But this time everything just worked. It was awesome and she is so great. Another cool thing that happened this week was that for the first time I ever I was studying the scriptures and I think I really found something that jumped out and applied to my life. It was so awesome. I was reading 3 Nephi 13. The whole chapter is great. There is a funny scripture about fasting and how you shouldn't disfugre your face so people know lol. I found it the day after fast sunday and I felt bad for whinning about not eating all day. But! the best part was at the end of the chapter. I want to say it's verses 30-33 but don't quote me. Just go look! It talks about how God knows what we need and as long as we seek first to live the gospel then everything else will be provided. When I was researching more I found out that preach my gospel compares this to balancing work and family and it totally makes sense. Always put the Lord first and everything else will work out in one way or another. Loved the scripture.
On a less spiritual note! My teacher had the most rocking zit on his neck the other morning and he went to the bathroom in the middle of class and had taken care of it. I told him at the end of class that I was glad he got a handle on it for his date that day. He tells me all the time that he's never been so harassed by a student before. It's hilarious, he's a really cool teacher. I feel like when I'm in his class it's the only time of the day I get to be myself! I bought some rocking sweatpants here that say MTC on them so I'll be wearing those for the rest of forever. And! because it was so precious I want to just let everyone know that yesterday was probably the most unattractive day of my entire life. I had a rocking volcano zit on my cheek. My hair looked like a wet poodle and my face was melting because we were outside so much. that and I was out of all the clothes I like so I was rocking my grandma shoes(no offense grandma) which I love so much because they are so comfortable but definately not that attractive. It was a really struggling day. Good thing the spirit is there no matter what I look like! My companions was saying the other day that her parents used to always tell her, "If the church wasn't true the missionaries would have screwed it up by now." I think that's so funny and so true. All the elders here seem so young to me, they are all like my little brothers. And so many people haven't left home before this so some of the things said in lessons just make me shake my head lol. But the spirit makes up for it! Thank goodness that's how it works! That's about it this week. All the new mission presidents arrive this coming Tuesday so we're supposed to have a pretty cool devotional speaker. Fingers crossed! Thank you to everyone that has written me dear elders! It is the best feeling in the world to get mail. You are all awesome! Miss you!
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