Okay, so this week, what cool things have happened?
Well we got to go to the temple, not as cleaners, and it was so nice! I really enjoyed it, but to be honest I'm pretty sure I slept through A LOT of it... I was so hard not to, I was in a comfortable chair, and didn't have anything to be worrying about, or planning or anything, so ya, my eyes may have been closed for a large majority of it.
Hm, what else, okay, don't hate me but I'm going to go super missionary right now, (I told my self I wouldn't do that, but I can't help it)
The lessons we taught this week were AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously I don't know what is happening. We have 2 "investigators", the first is Muriel (and also her boyfriend Luc), nothing particularly life changing happened, but the Spirit was there so strongly. It isn't really, it's just practice time, but it was amazing. The fact that it was practice time didn't change that the Spirit was there to testify to us that what we were saying was true. AH I loved it. Our other ami is Hospice, we had two really good lessons with him, and it was the same thing. This last time, we were talking about church, because he went on Sunday, and we were talking about the sacrament. And the whole time I could feel the Spirit telling me this wasn't quite it, it wasn't quite what he needed to hear, so as we talked I just kind of went with what the Spirit was pushing me towards, ( it isn't a real investigator, Hopsice isn't real) and as I spoke I just was overwhelmed with the feeling of YES, this is it,, this is what you need to be saying, and my french is still pretty bad, and my vocab is not good enough for all the things I want to say, but I can't even explain it, I just really realized how important the Holy Ghost is when teaching. The lesson was okay, but as soon as we started really following the Spirit, that was when the changes started happening and the really missionary stuff started.
Also, I though I was just going to give up trying to explain this, but I have one more story , that isn't really a story, because it probably wont make any sense what so ever. But we did this thing called TRC, basically you have lessons with members (in french), so you can't really prepare anything, and you just meet them in the lesson and go with it. We meet with this RM, I can't remember his name, but again, I don't know how it happened, but somehow we taught something that he really needed to hear. at least I think so, I'm not 100% sure what he said, because of the whole he only spoke french thing, but, we shared this scripture, I really had no idea why i was sharing it, it was just the only thing that I could think of and with out even thinking I was sharing it, 1 Nephi 7:12, (I had memorized it in french a few days before, Oui, et comment se fait-il, que vous ayez oublie que le Seigneur est capable de tout faire, selon sa volonte, pour les enfants des hommes, si'ls font preuve de foi on lui. Soyons- lui donc fidele.) At least I think that's it.. Basically he said that right now he has to make a hard decision and he needed this reminder or something. I don't know exactly, and I didn't know. I didn't really know why I was sharing that scripture, but God knew what he needed, and the Spirit led me to it. I can't really explain it, but everything the scriptures promise, about having the words that we need to say come to us in the moment of need, and everything about the Spirit. It is just so true!
Guys, the church is true! The gospel is just so true!
I don't think that made any sense, at all, but it was really cool for me to experience that.
Anyways, this week was just really spiritual and I am so excited about being a missionary. I'm also kinda freaking out about it because I'm half way done the MTC stay and that much closer to actually being in France. AH, it's CRAZY!
So one of the counsellors in my branch presidency Brother Markham, has this vineyard thing, and he makes grape juice. So the other night his wife came over and all the girls in the zone came to our room and we had some of the grape juice, "chateau Markham". It was with out a doubt the yummiest thing I have ever tasted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so good!
And the best part was, it was juice, so I could drink sooooo much and not have to worry about anything. She said that they would bring it to parties and there would be wine there, but when they brought their juice, none of the wine would even get opened that other people had brought because the grape juice was just that good!
Also, something cool is we are getting a new MTC presidency. So tonight at our devotional apparently there will be "a whole flock" of apostles. I am so excited.
This is embarrassing but I seriously almost started crying hear it and just thinking about it. My throat got all closed up and weird and my eyes got a bit glossy and watery.
ya, embarrassing,
I'm such a baby, I cry all the time. not sad crying. Don't worry there. But in every lesson and every other thing where I bear my testimony and such I just cry.
It's embarrassing.
Everyone makes fun of me about it.
I hate crying, and blushing. AH . seriously. Who thought either of these things are good?
Hmm, I can't think of anything funny that happened this week...
ya, I cried to much to laugh...jokes, but not, but kind of.
LOve love love love!
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