Hola Familia-
Woh, deep breath.. I love P-days because, no matter what went down during the week and how hard it seemed, I can look back at the week with a bit more perspective and a deep breath and just feel happy. It seems silly because I'm in the MTC, I thought it was just going to be a blissful and spiritual dream, but it's actually a lot more sweat and labor that I envisioned. Pero, todo bien (it's all good).
Esta semana estoy lo mas agradecida for Nora, Nila and Koni.. I feel like, way too many times in my life I have taken them for granted but as my Mom reminded me in her sweet letter this week, "We are living among angels." I'm so grateful that I get to see them here in the MTC, quite regularly and catch them with boyfriends and dessert in hand (Haha Mom, didn't wanna rat them out, but Nora is head over heels for this Steve guy, I keep encouraging her to tell you about it but she's being shy). Anyways, I am so grateful for their spiritual sensitivity and their forgiving and loving nature. They are truly a blessing in my life and an amazing example to all of us!
Tambien, I wanted to wish everyone and early Valentine's Day, aww, the day of LOVE! I'm sure here in the MTC we'll be learning about love on this day, as with every other, but the perfect kind of love. The love our Father in Heaven and Savior have for each of us. It's my prayer, each day that you can all feel this love, I know I can.
This week, as a District we suffered through one of our first hardships, we likened it unto a "Mock Field Transfer" experience, because on Tuesday, the beloved Hermano Perez (our teacher) announced that this would be his last day as out teacher in the MTC, he feels like it is his time to move.. And we figured since we've been here six weeks and most transfers are 6 weeks long, this could be an opportunity to know what it might maybe feel like when we have to say goodbye to our Investigators and other people we love. Because more than just Hermano Perez, he played the role of our first ever Investigador, Manuel and more recently las hermanas and I were teaching him as Mario. Unfortunately, Hermano Perez broke this news to us before we Hermanas had to teach him. Lets just say, it was a bit of an emotional lesson.. Hermana Maxwell and I couldn't even make it through the opening prayer, offered by Mario (Hermano Perez0, of our lesson without losing it. I don't know what my problem was, we've been so excited for Mario because he's been our strongest Investigador and ever since we brought him to church with us he's just been like a sponge, soaking everything up. In the beginning of our lesson we invited him to be baptized, and even set a date with him. But of course, we won't be seeing Mario again. Ugh!!! Ha, but Hermano Perez came with us to the temple this morning to do an Endowment Session. I'm so so grateful for our teachers here in the MTC, I know I talk about them all the time, but essentially they are like our missionaries, their purpose is to invite us to Christ and teach us how we can do the same for our Investigators. But they truly care so much about us, I can feel it.
Also, no visa yet, but it really isn't important to me. We have some Elders in our zone that are supposed to head to Mexico but have been held back in lack of visas also, and they just got reassigned to Mesa and Boise until their visas come. I wouldn't be at all surprised if I got to send a month or so in the Utah, Provo Mission. I promise NOT to tract our neighborhood though, if that happens:)
This week, I've been super grateful for my scripture study and prayer. Sometimes I forget, that I just need to ask, I remember that's something that Jonny Nabrotzky taught me this summer, it never hurts to ask. In the Bible Dictionary under Prayer it talks about how some blessings are simply contingent upon our asking for them. When we pray with sincerity and real intent (actually planning to act on the answers and direction we receive) Heavenly Father is so excited and ready to help us. Por ejemplo, with another INvesitigator, Stefani, she's 16 years old and we've just had the hardest time connecting with her. It feels like most our lessons just go over her head and she's sort of half in with commitments, "Yeah I prayed, but I fell asleep during my prayers..." or, "I read some of the chapter.." Kind of attitude, right before our last lesson when we were praying we asked heavenly father for charity for stefani, because it's just been to easy to frustrated or not understanding of her attitude. And I'm here to tell you, it made all the difference in the world, we had one of our best lesssons, we actually felt comfortable conversing with her before and after the lesson and I really did feel like I cared about her. so grateful..
My other experience is a bit too personal to share, but I've been wanting and expecting a certain blessing for a while.. It never occurred to me that I should ask for it. Ha, and during my evening prayer last night I thought, "Why not." And so I did.. and immediately I received this exact feeling I needed. Sorry, super vague, but I know that Heavenly Father hears my prayers.. It's up to me, I'm the one holding us back in our relationship. When I come before Him with a humble heart and a sincere desire to do whatever he asks, He blesses me.
I"m so sorry, I'm running out of time again. But I hear ya'all want the low down on my companeras!! They're awesome. Hermana Maxwell is from Glenndale, Utah, really really small town and her family has lived there for generations. She's so chill though, not at all what i stereotype small town people to be. She is the definition of humility and she's super thoughtful and mild in temper, she reminds me a lot of Carli Chambers (Travis's sister-in-law). We have so much fun in basketball at gym time because she's totally a baller, she's got a great sense of humore. Love here, Tambien Hermana Roderick, she's from Pleasant Grove. She's passionate, she's hilarious, just hard core real, she says what she means and she means what she says, and she is one of the most self-motivated people i know.
I gotta go thought, 100% obedience eh? Love you all!
Hermana Nelson
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