Another week at the MTC has passed by,
and I am still here... and will be for a while now. I guess that the
biggest news for this week is that I will be getting surgery on
Wednesday, September 4th. My new departure date for the MTC is now September 25th.
I'm doing my best to stay positive with it. I guess that I am tad bit
disappointed that I will be here for so long, but I know that the Lord
will take care of me and that I am where I need to be right now! I am
hoping that I will heal quickly so that I will be able to leave sooner.
And, the odds of me getting my visa while I am here are VERY likely! So
hopefully after this, I will be able to go straight to Brazil! One thing
that I am worried about with being here is that my Portuguese won't
progress as much as I would like it to. With my district being gone, it
is much harder to talk in Portuguese since the district that I am with
does not like to. Since I will be here for a while, I am not sure what
exactly will happen. I should find out in the next few days.
My whole district left this week for their reassignments. It was pretty sad to see them go. Especially waking up Wednesday morning and being the only one in the room... yeah, that was super weird. On Wednesday
morning I moved in with another district. There were 4 girls in the
room that I moved into. Right now I am in a trio. My companions are
Sister Peterson and Sister Van Wagenen. They are both super nice! On Thursday
I had a ton of doctor's appointments so they were super patient with me
going to each one. I really am appreciating all of their patience. I
also moved in with another district. It is sort of weird because it is
not the people that I am used to being around, but they are super nice.
They are definitely a very musical district. When they got their
reassignments, before opening them, they all decided that they wanted to
sing two hymns first.... something that I am not used to, but hey,
whatever floats their boat I guess. Yesterday they received their
re-assignments. Two of the sisters are leaving Monday morning and going to Georgia and the other sister is leaving on Wednesday
morning going to Ohio. They are super excited and I am super excited
for them! Thoughts of going out of the MTC are always pretty exciting!
It is sort of sad to see everyone go though.
Tuesday
Devotional was SO awesome!!! We had another apostle come and talk to
us. It was Neil A. Anderson. He talked about sacrifice and love. One of
the things he said that really stuck with me is that: "We sacrifice for
those we love, and we love the things we sacrifice for." I really liked
that quote. It is so true. After that, he went and talked about how
Christ sacrificed and gave his life for us and he loves us very much. He
related it to missionary work and it was very powerful. At the very
end, he shared a story about the importance of always sharing your
testimony. He had a former missionary come up and share an experience
about how he shared his testimony one time and that was one of the
things that made an investigator interested in the church. It was pretty
cool. I hope that when I am on my mission that I will always have the
courage to share my testimony with others! Definitely something that I
want to strive for.
I have become an avid sleep talker apparently.
Before my former companion left for Brazil, she woke up to me saying
"Vamos a Brasil, e voce? ... Ah, muito bom". And then two nights ago, I
woke up one of my new roommates because I was laughing. And then last
night another girl was having trouble going to sleep and I said "E muito
importante a usar a preterit." It's pretty cool hearing everything that
I say, but I feel like I have become much more talkative in my sleep!
It's definitely pretty fun!
Yesterday I attended the "in-field" training again.
It was exactly the same as the week before, so no surprises there. I
felt like I should use my time more productively than doing the same
thing over and over, so I memorized all of the irregular preterit verbs.
It was nice. My goal for this week is to master the subjunctive verbs,
when to use them, and to create a a ton of sentences to help me practice
them! I have also been learning a ton of vocab which is super nice.
Even with my district being gone, I still feel like for right now, I
have enough things to do so that I can push myself to learn more.
Well, not much has really happened this week, it's
just been an odd week. Even with this being a more of a difficult week, I
am SO grateful to be a missionary and have the opportunity to serve the
Lord! I know that the Lord is watching out for me, and all of us and
that he loves us all very much! I love you all very much!
Sister Spencer
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