Familia e Amigos!!!!!
This week has been completely insane. I got so lucky to catch the wonderful cold from my district. And of course i had to catch it when i had the busiest week ever. So lets see, besides feeling like crud this whole week i decided to still push through all the pain and still teach all 3 lessons a day to my investigators and attend every class. I have to thank all the medicine i was taking of course haha.
Lets see, I will start out with a story that has hit me pretty hard here in the MTC...
I don't remember what day it was but it was when I first got pretty sick at the start of the week. I came into class knowing I had 3 lessons to pre-pare for that afternoon and night. I studied all 4 hours about how and what i should be teaching. We chose that we would be talking about having Fe em Jesus Cristo. I felt super prompted to tell my story about how I kept the Sabbath Day Holy. I had written my story out in Portugues (way proud, took forever) and i went to have my teacher proof read it when she said to me " okay, now memorize it" my jaw dropped and I completely shut down.
She then said that I couldn't take any notes into my lessons and I would basically do it all from memory. Right then and there I totally gave up on myself and became super stubborn. I was then super ticked, knowing my ability to memorize was weak. I could say I was pretty mad for about half the day but then had to realize I still had to teach in about an hour or so. I prayed my little heart out that I could at least pick up little words here and there, but to even be helped at this point I had to soften my heart.
As I went into the first lesson I was overwhelmed by the spirit and I knew that I couldn't deny that feeling. My heart was softened and my mind was opened. I began to teach Margarita the words from my heart. Lets just say it wasn't all me. I was pumped because right then and there i remembered I am not flipping perfect, and this is hard and will take time. But if you are so willing and open your heart you'll be so blessed. I then understood my teacher and what she was trying to tell me. But i did rub it in her face that I didn't bring any notes into the lesson haha. She was proud and laughed with me.
Let me talk about TRC a little bit more, (teacher resource center) its where we teach members and they gives us either good or bad feed back from the lesson. Since earlier I felt the prompting to talk about my life experience we went in with confidence that we could do this.
The first couple we talked to were so cute they're both from Brazil. As I was sharing my story the man looked at me and just said Muito Bom. I later then asked him a question and he shared that he too, had a similar experience with not playing sports on Sunday. I wish you could have seem my face, it really did light up. Words then came into my head and I felt like I was pretty much fluent in Potugues. Little experiences like this go along way. By the end of the night I was Pumpado and wanted to teach 10 more people! I was just stoked. I mean everyday doesn't go as perfect as you want it to but no matter what my purpose here is still the same and I still give it my all.
Okay some pretty good highlights this week!
Well this isnt so much of a highlight but for service I got stuck with cleaning the bathrooms... So help me hahahahahaha. Lets just say I made Sister Runyan clean all the toilets lol. Aw man it was just so gross and we had to do everything, like sweeping and mopping the whole thing. I thought I liked cleaning but no the MTC bathrooms haha.
Lets see I am pretty sure I am going to come back with a 8 pack because I laugh so hard all day every day.
My district of girls are just flat out amazing.
Everyone still thinks that I am Mexican because I cant get rid of the accent. You gotta do whatcha gotta do it you're gunna learn the language haha.
Welp thats really all I have this week! And I am officially half way down with the MTC!!!! YAY!
Congrats to the twins for there baptsim I cant explain how sad I was. I sent a card so hopefully they get it. Also Happy Birthday to Aunt Sara this week, 20 years of age will look great on you!
You know I miss you guys everyday! Onward towards my 4th week holla!
Muito Amor,
-Sista Elliott
This week has been completely insane. I got so lucky to catch the wonderful cold from my district. And of course i had to catch it when i had the busiest week ever. So lets see, besides feeling like crud this whole week i decided to still push through all the pain and still teach all 3 lessons a day to my investigators and attend every class. I have to thank all the medicine i was taking of course haha.
Lets see, I will start out with a story that has hit me pretty hard here in the MTC...
I don't remember what day it was but it was when I first got pretty sick at the start of the week. I came into class knowing I had 3 lessons to pre-pare for that afternoon and night. I studied all 4 hours about how and what i should be teaching. We chose that we would be talking about having Fe em Jesus Cristo. I felt super prompted to tell my story about how I kept the Sabbath Day Holy. I had written my story out in Portugues (way proud, took forever) and i went to have my teacher proof read it when she said to me " okay, now memorize it" my jaw dropped and I completely shut down.
She then said that I couldn't take any notes into my lessons and I would basically do it all from memory. Right then and there I totally gave up on myself and became super stubborn. I was then super ticked, knowing my ability to memorize was weak. I could say I was pretty mad for about half the day but then had to realize I still had to teach in about an hour or so. I prayed my little heart out that I could at least pick up little words here and there, but to even be helped at this point I had to soften my heart.
As I went into the first lesson I was overwhelmed by the spirit and I knew that I couldn't deny that feeling. My heart was softened and my mind was opened. I began to teach Margarita the words from my heart. Lets just say it wasn't all me. I was pumped because right then and there i remembered I am not flipping perfect, and this is hard and will take time. But if you are so willing and open your heart you'll be so blessed. I then understood my teacher and what she was trying to tell me. But i did rub it in her face that I didn't bring any notes into the lesson haha. She was proud and laughed with me.
Let me talk about TRC a little bit more, (teacher resource center) its where we teach members and they gives us either good or bad feed back from the lesson. Since earlier I felt the prompting to talk about my life experience we went in with confidence that we could do this.
The first couple we talked to were so cute they're both from Brazil. As I was sharing my story the man looked at me and just said Muito Bom. I later then asked him a question and he shared that he too, had a similar experience with not playing sports on Sunday. I wish you could have seem my face, it really did light up. Words then came into my head and I felt like I was pretty much fluent in Potugues. Little experiences like this go along way. By the end of the night I was Pumpado and wanted to teach 10 more people! I was just stoked. I mean everyday doesn't go as perfect as you want it to but no matter what my purpose here is still the same and I still give it my all.
Okay some pretty good highlights this week!
Well this isnt so much of a highlight but for service I got stuck with cleaning the bathrooms... So help me hahahahahaha. Lets just say I made Sister Runyan clean all the toilets lol. Aw man it was just so gross and we had to do everything, like sweeping and mopping the whole thing. I thought I liked cleaning but no the MTC bathrooms haha.
Lets see I am pretty sure I am going to come back with a 8 pack because I laugh so hard all day every day.
My district of girls are just flat out amazing.
Everyone still thinks that I am Mexican because I cant get rid of the accent. You gotta do whatcha gotta do it you're gunna learn the language haha.
Welp thats really all I have this week! And I am officially half way down with the MTC!!!! YAY!
Congrats to the twins for there baptsim I cant explain how sad I was. I sent a card so hopefully they get it. Also Happy Birthday to Aunt Sara this week, 20 years of age will look great on you!
You know I miss you guys everyday! Onward towards my 4th week holla!
Muito Amor,
-Sista Elliott