Monday, February 4, 2013

 
Another week down. What a crazy week it has been. I had the most amazing experience, we do this thing it is called TRC we get to teach people who volunteer to come and let us teach them.  Most of them are members and some are not, but they don't tell us. So me and Sister Olson went to teach and this girl came out of the room she said that she went to BYU and met a friend who is not a member and she finally convinced her to come here and listen to us. The spirit testified to me that this was a real investigator and she really needed to hear our message. Her name was Katy, we testified that god loved her so much I honsetly don't remember everything I said because it wasn't me teaching it was the Spirit, In the middle I asked her if she would pray, she had never prayed before I explained how and felt prompted to ask her to pray right then. She didn't really want to at first but as me and Sister Olson talked to her about how important it was she said okay I want to. We knelt down and she began praying. She asked God if what we were teaching was true and before she finished she started bawling. The Spirit testified to her and she told us she felt it. Sister Olson and I felt it too we were crying and I just felt a little glimpse of how much Heavenly Father loves Katy. That was the most amazing experience.
This week has been hard because my companion and Sister Conova's companion have been sick ALL week. I feel so bad for them. It has been a struggle working with someone else who is not your companion, but Heavenly Father is blessing me every day with strength. Monday night there was only five of us out of the twelve left in class. I am so happy I have been able to stay healthy and not get homesick. One day I was having an expecially hard time and everyone around me could tell. I would randomly open my scriptures and find random drawings from the elders and notes of encouragment. We do this for everyone, always trying to encourage each other and we are truly becoming a family, I am going to be so sad to leave them in a week. Also I always look forward to my letters from all of you they make me so happy. Special thanks to you dad for sending me a letter EVERY day. That is pretty cool. and it is always something that I needed to hear right then.
 One of the girls that I went through the temple with, she is actually in my zone. She is awesome. We have gotten to spend a lot of time together. It is such a small world that we would be together. I really wanted to send picture this week but I will have to wait until I get into the field because I can't do it on this computer. I am loving life. the MTC is amazing and I am making so many friends. I love feeling the sprit every day. My teachers are great, Sister De Arton and Brother Burdette. Every time they come to class I swear they are inspired and always teach exactly what I wanted to hear and needed to hear. Another cool thing was when Brother Burdette was teaching us about how to teach with the spirit and we were doing a role play As I was teaching my pretend in investigator he told us to pause and not say another thing until we felt an inspired question then we could talk. I waited and then it came into my head and I knew what to say and the whole atmosphere of the lesson changed completely. What an awesome experience. I have also learned how to teach people not lessons and you really feel love for them even when you just barely meet them. Today at the Temple I was talking to a lady who used to live in West Virginia she said that the people are very closed and in order for them to open up to you you have to show them that you really love them. I would of been worried about that before but now I know that I will be able to feel that love and teach them the gospel.
We do role plays a lot which I always thought were pointless because it was just pretend but our teachers would always say if you take role play seriously you will be surprised how much it will help. So I was really nervous about teaching this kid Steven because he would not open up to me and so beforehand I role played with a Sister and when I got into the lesson Steven said the EXACT same things!! It was so crazy. I am getting used to being a missionary. Even in my head I call myself Sister Robinson. haha! I am so lucky to have this amazing oppurtunity and I am so glad that I am here right now. There is no where else I would rather be. I love you all so much. I hope you have a great week. I don't know when my next P-day will be but you will hear from me eventually so don't worry!
love,
Sister Robinson

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