Hello dear ones,
I thought I would just take a minute to tell you a little about the experience we have had here..from my journal:
The presence of the Spirit of the Lord on this enormous campus is undeniable. What faithful, incredible youth we have in the Church! We have enjoyed rubbing shoulders with over 2000 of them every day. Reminds me of Helaman’s 2000 stripling warriors. Yesterday, as Elder Roberts and I took a very brief walk outside we noticed three sisters across the street kneeling on the lawn having prayer together. It touched my heart to be a witness.
Joe could not speak above a whisper by the time we got to our small classroom to prepare for teaching. So he asked two of the elders in our district to give him a priesthood blessing.
When Drusilla told me she had had the most spiritual experience of her mission while in the MTC, I couldn’t understand that until today! I know with a surety that the Lord blesses us when we accept His call to serve. We had our second teaching experience today, and I was, again, quite nervous about this…especially since we had had NO time to prepare the way I felt we needed to. But the Lord keeps His promise and as Elder Roberts and I shared our message of the Plan of Salvation, the words actually came to my mind what I needed to share. Joe told me afterwards that he too was truly amazed. We were able to teach together in unity, and I felt blessed to have a companion who understands the gospel so well and is able to convey it to others in such a wonderful way. And besides all that, Joe’s voice had returned!
Our final day of classes. My body is telling me it’s definitely time to quit! We have pushed ourselves to the limit. Today we did more role-playing, but this time, with inactive members instead of investigators.
For the last class which included the whole group, we just shared how we felt about our MTC experience, then they showed a clip from a talk Elder Holland gave to the missionaries at the MTC. He summed it all up so well when he recited a poem translated from French…
“Come to the edge” he said. “No, we’ll fall!”
“Come to the edge” he said. “No, we’ll fall!”
“Come to the edge”, he said again. “No, we’ll fall!”
Then he pushed us----
And we flew!!!
Elder Holland: “That’s where you have to go, spiritually”.
I can honestly say that I have been pushed and I have flown. If anyone had suggested that I would have been able to bear my testimony in Tagolog with just three language lessons, I would have laughed at them. Well, tonight I did it…without notes.
I can't believe we are finished...now for the next chapter.
