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| Me and Hermana Hogan |
July
1, 2017
Hola Familia y Amigos!
I'm
so glad you are on the road! Have so much fun in Canada! Good luck with the
long drive, that's always a long drive especially with everyone in one car, but
I am sad to be missing it! Make sure to eat some ketchup chips and poutine for
me ;) I want to see pictures of all of your fun adventures.
This week has been a
roller coaster it had some really exciting days and others that were not so
much. It feels like it was yesterday that I was writing my last letter. We have
a saying here at the MTC "the days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like
days" and there is nothing more true than that.
Sunday- Well to start
off Hermana Hogan and I were asked at 6:00 pm on Saturday to
give the Relief Society lesson the next morning in church at 8:30. We had
class on Saturday until 9:00 at night so we really only had
about an hour to plan our lesson so I was kinda freaking out (it's fine because
Phillipians 4:13-“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth
me”). But it actually turned out really well. We talked on the creation (and
there is only 1 paragraph in PMG (Preach My Gospel) to go off of so that was
fun) and all we really did was read the creation in Genesis and asked some
questions and all the Hermanas had some really great insights and that was
great.
We also had choir
again. We sang praise to the man and the director talked about the life of
Joseph Smith (more on that later). But also, this week was the new mission
president training conference all of the 12 apostles were here and taking tours
of the new buildings and me and my companions saw Elder Bednar and waved and he
waved back! So yeah... we're practically famous *toss toss*.
Monday- Not a lot
happened, but we did get to participate in some mission president training. Some
mission presidents came into our class and helped guide some discussions and
role plays so that they can understand what their missionaries are doing out in
the field. So that was fun.
Tuesday- First of all
we started teaching a new TRC investigator, her name is Connie she is from
Chile and is 21 years old. She really is the sweetest ever, but her Spanish is
Chilean Spanish and all her words kinda run together so it is really hard to
understand her a lot of the time, so I have to rely totally on the spirit to
try and answer her questions. Hermana Hogan and I challenged her to read the
BOM and she accepted, she was very excited and even cried when we told her that
she will feel god's love as she reads. Then we had more mission president training
and that was fine. Now, here come the really exciting stuff!
For Tuesday devotional we sang praise to the man on the 143rd
anniversary of Joseph's martyrdom which was so special and at practice we
talked about all Joseph did in his life even though he was so young, it just
made me think that even though I'm just a little baby I can do great things
too.
At the devotional we
had TEN of the 12 apostles sitting on the stand! We had Elders: Bednar,
Holland, Ballard, Christophersen, Cook, Oaks, Rasband, Anderson, Renlund and
Stevens. Elder Nelson didn't come and neither did Elder Hales because he is too
sick :( But Elder Bednar spoke and it was really good. He talked about how Christ is the word but
the scriptures are also the word and how we can let the word grow in us.
After the devotional
we went back to class to discuss and we had a mission president and his wife
come in and discuss with us. They were from Venezuela and he spoke pretty good
English but his wife did not. But she
wanted to bear her testimony in a language we could understand, so she bore it
in very broken English. But the spirit
was still there and it just gave me a lot of hope. My Spanish doesn't have to
be perfect, or even good, to have the spirit testify and touch the hearts of
the people I'm teaching and allow them to feel the love of god.
Wednesday- I hit my 2
week mark! Que Loco! Anyway, we taught Connie again. We taught her about the
plan of salvation and we made her cry again that she could live with her family
again in heaven. She told us that her dad was not religious and she and her mom
and been told her whole life that he was going to hell because of it. It makes
me really sad that people are told to believe that but it also makes me super
excited to get out and teach people. But that was all that really
happened on Wednesday.
Friday- Yes I realize
that I skipped Thursday but nothing really happened. But on
Friday we taught Connie again but this time with a member Sister Willie,
she was a very sweet old lady who served a young mission in Uruguay and a
senior mission in Peru but she kinda took over the lesson. I asked her to give her testimony on
repentance and then after that she would kinda take over every time we would
start talking. She was just really excited jaja! But Hermana Hogan and I did
challenge Connie to be baptized once she came to find out the truth and she
said she would so that was pretty good.
Today- The temple is
closed today so that's pretty sad but we do get to watch the stadium of fire,
fireworks tonight after class so that's pretty cool. Because our
class in on the 5th floor we will have a pretty good view so that's exciting. I
can't believe it’s already July, it feels like it was just yesterday that it
was only halfway through June and I was telling you all goodbye...
Now to answer your
questions mom
1. When are Elder
Brown and Moote Leaving? Elder Brown and Moote and their whole district is
leaving on Monday or Tuesday so that is really sad cuz we
are all really close. Also, Elder Brown's mission got temporarily re- assigned
because he had visa problems so he will be going to California until he gets it
so he will probably spend one transfer there before heading to Argentina.
2. Where are all the
other Missionaries in my mission going. There are 4 of us going to New York:
Elder Bolingbroke, Elder Pena, Hemana Hogan and Me. Then there are 3 going to
Rosario Argentina: Elder Hernandez, Elder Killpack and Hermana Roberts. Then 3
going to Posadas Argentina: Elder Riley, Elder Booth, and Hermana Meyer. and we
have Elder Evans going to Mexico (he was supposed to go to the Mexico MTC but
he broke his toe so he came here instead).
3. Did we get a new
batch of missionaries this week? No, we did last week and so now our Zone is
over 50 people so it’s pretty full, but I'm pretty sure that we are getting
more this next week after the other 2 districts leave.
4.Did Emma Lind Leave?
Yeah, Emma left the Monday after I got here so she's been gone a
while.
05. Do they teach you
culture classes? No they don't but I wish they did.
Thanks for the
packages and letters! They are so fun to get I will try to get responses to all
of you but I don't have a ton of time on P-day so sorry if they are
short.
I love you ALL
Love, Hermana Dobson
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| This is Lucifer Lemon, he has been passed down from one set of missionaries to the next for almost 2 years |
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This is another one of
the murals in the new building, it is of Moses after he gets called to be a
prophet. All these murals are so pretty and I love getting to study them!
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