Overview of a week:
Every day so far has been completely packed to the brim with meetings, classes, devotionals, activities, anything you can think of. We start every day at 6:30 am, and get ready. We then go from our houses to breakfast, and from there straight to a 3 hour class. All the teachers i've had so far have been super nice and fun which have been a relief. The teachers speak almost all spanish which has given me a headache or two during class because i have to constantly translate in my head which wears me out pretty fast. After that class, we have a little bit of language and personal study, then off to lunch. After lunch we have Gym Time which is just exercise for about an hour. That has gotten me through the day so many times because they have basketball, volleyball, spikeball, frisbee, ping pong, you name it. After that we head back to our house to change, and have another little bit of personal and language study time. After that we head back to class for about and hour and half, then have a little break for dinner. Just so you guys know, the food here is the most mid thing I have ever had. There is a good meal here and there, but most of the time, because i'm a picky eater :(, i don't like it. After dinner we head back to class for another couple hours, then we head home for the night. That's basically what goes on every day, other than the occasional devotional or meeting.
Cool experience:
For our devotional this week, we had David A Bednar himself speak to us missionaries........ through video lol. He was in provo, broadcasting his speech to all the MTC's in the world which was cool. He made 2 points in the video, to sum it up, Apostles aren't old guys that sit in their office all day reading scriptures, having meetings, and staring at walls all day. And secondly, the gospel is filled and is completely made up of sequences. The first point he made was actually really interesting, he showed us the statistics of where hes been and how many miles he's traveled. From when he became an apostle, he's been to I think 97 countries, and traveled over 3.7 million miles, 4 years in hotels, 200 mission meetings, a million talks (i don't remember the exact number). And it kinda shows that the Apostles know more than anyone what is ACTUALLY going on in the world because they are there all the time. For his second point, he emphasized the use of sequences all around the gospel. And used tons of examples in the scriptures such as Moroni, and how in the scriptures, if you read all the chapter headings backwards in all of Moroni, it is step by step of the process of the gospel. How everything in the Gospel of the Lord is being built upon itself, since the beginning of the restoration of the church.
Favorite part of this week:
My favorite part of this has definitely been the choir experience. All the missionaries meet in the chapel and we practice a Spanish hymn for the upcoming devotional. But man, something about all the Elderes y Hermanas standing and singing as loud as they can, just hits my sweet spot. It sounds so good, and is so spiritually powerful that it just made my whole day.
Got to Facetime my fam today and it was a nice motivation to keep it going. I'm so grateful for the opportunity I have to speak with them every week.
Yo se que el Libro de Mormon es la palabra de Dios, también yo se que profetas nos guían, y nos ayuda en nuestras vidas!
Love,
