So this was so not what I expected. I heard the food was
gross but it's actually pretty good. I was nervous about getting a companion I
wouldn't like but we have so much in common! It's awesome! We both did
landscaping before our mission, we both love painting our nails, we both shower
every night (which is good because I didn't want to annoy her from my habit) we
both like about the same types of food, we both have blonde hair and blue eyes,
her hair is a little more blonde than mine though. We share a room with one
other companionship and they are also in my district but there is 6 beds so we
have a lot of space. Our whole district is my companion and I, a set of sisters
and a set of elders. It's awesome, in our zone we have about 10-12 elders and
just us 4 sisters. So it's pretty intimidating. They are really cool thought.
We usually study all morning and then a little bit after lunch and then at 2:15
we have a teacher come in and help us get ready to teach our investigators. We
have 3 teachers and 4 mock investigators. Our investigators are Harley, Luke,
Steven and then we will be introduced to our 4th investigator on Monday. Harley
is really hard to teach, he is very shy and we only get about a 2-3 word answer
when we ask him things. We invited him to say the closing prayer and he
declined but I know from all the practice I've had my companion and I can get
him to say the next closing prayer. Harley wants to know that God loves him and
he wants to believe there is a God but he doesn't feel sure about it. Our last
lesson was really awkward and embarrassing!!! My companion and I taught him
about the restoration of the gospel and we had about a 10 minute lesson instead
of a 20-30 minute lesson and during the closing prayer my companion called him
the wrong name so I started laughing a little bit and then my companion did and
Harley was just staring at us strangely! When we left we busted out into
laughter, I felt so embarrassed! When we met with Steven next we were just
getting to know him and tried to know what he wanted or needed to know first,
so wasn't really anything big. Our lesson with Luke was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! We also taught
him on the restoration of the gospel and just so you have an idea his religious
background was all over the place he has never stuck with a religion. When we
told him about Joseph Smiths experience with how he knew things were right but
was missing something, Luke said he could relate and he felt the church's had
truth but none of them felt like home. That made the lesson even more powerful
because he could relate. We invited him to say the closing prayer and he said
he wasn't comfortable doing it we asked him why and reasured him that we don't
care if he messes up or doesn't think he knows how God just wants to hear from
him and know that he wants a relationship with him. So he said the closing
prayer. We also asked him to go to church on Sunday because he went to a YSA
activity before and loved it, so we thought he could go to church and see if it
felt like home, we gave him a Book of Mormon and told him to keep praying and
if he wanted to, to read the BOM, the reason for that is because he thought our
church was just like any other church, making things up and telling what we
want people to hear, so we gave him the BOM to relate it to the Bible if he
wanted to. After the lesson was over we invited him to be baptized! Even though
it was the first lesson, in our class we had learned that it's not hard to do,
he said he wasn't sure and that he'd have to think about it, so we invited him
to come to a baptism to see what its like. He said he would come and was really
excited about it, on Monday we are going to teach him about the atonement. I am
so excited.
This week I learned so much more about prayer than I ever
thought I would. I love it here in the MTC even though it feels like I've been
here for a month, the days are really long but I am excited for the decision
I've made and I'm excited to get into the field.
It still is weird to hear Elders and Sisters instead of
Brothers and Sisters and its weird to be called Sister Vejnar all the time and
it's hard to not call everyone guys all the time and I hate not being able to
chew gum but I love this experience. I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Sister Vejnar
P.S. Pictures to come, and if you're all wondering I saw
Elder Vejnar the 2nd day I was here at lunch or dinner, I cant remember, and my
companions name is Sister Huefner.
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