Rough Days

Hey guys!!! Happy birthday Emily!!! This MTC is hard!!! My Spanish is coming along I guess. We are now teaching two different investigators instead of one and it's really hard to prepare lessons in Spanish for two different people with different needs every day. I've been extremely overwhelmed this past week. If I could just learn the language so that I could communicate with my investigators. 

 

 

I'm so grateful for all the letters of encouragement and advice that everyone has been giving me. I know that the Lord is mindful of me and what I am going through. An experience that happened to me this week was on Sunday morning. I woke up feeling the worst I have on my whole mission as far as depression about everything I've been going through. That morning in testimony meeting, one of the Elders got up and shared Alma 26:27, which says, "Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success." In that moment my feelings overcame me and I started crying in the middle of the meeting. Then we went back to our class and our district had our own testimony meeting and when I stood up to bear my testimony I started crying again. I bore my testimony on the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and how it's helped me get through this experience. The spirit was so strong. There's not really much else to tell, every day is pretty much the same. I really like my companion which apparently is really lucky because everyone else in my district has some sort of problem with their companion. Our Spanish is still probably the worst in the MTC but we have been praying for help and we are slowly getting better. The other scripture that's really been helping me during this time is my mission scripture which is D&C 121:7-8. It reads, "My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes." 

 

 

Anyways that's all for this week. I love and miss all of you guys!!!!