We got our first e-mail from Sister Platt!!!
Well, my first day at the MTC was
grand!! I'm obsessed with it here!! I'm not on the main campus; we are actually
living in family housing which is weird cause I haven't even seen the main
campus, but I love living in the apartments! :) We have our classes in
different apartments as well and they have provided a cafeteria here.
My companion, Sister
Brunner is AMAZING!! I love her!! She totally looks like Sarah Newcomb from my
LCC basketball team. All of the companion ships are truly inspired. Ah. It's so
hard to tell you all what has been going on, but I am busy literally every
minute of every day and I am loving it!!!
Our district is teaching a
man(Really an actor) from Jamaica and we gave him the Book of Mormon!! He
doesn't understand why we believe that Jesus Christ is so important so we gave
him the book of mormon and told him that we can't force him to believe in
anything, but that we would just be guides in helping him and that if he wanted
to know that it is true, he would have to read it for himself. I challenged him
to read Ether 12 as it talks about faith and how we can't receive an answer
until we have faith!!! Dear friends who are reading this who are not mormon, I
would challenge you to read the Book of Mormon and see for yourself what you
learn and pay attention to how you feel when you read it!!!
The first 3 days were REALLY slow
because I didn't know what was going on and where I was supposed to be.
Everyone told me to just make it to sunday and
everything will start to go by really fast. Boy, were they right!! This week
has already gone by so so so fast!!! My mind is about to explode with the
information that I am learning. I really do grow every day and I am just
getting so excited to be in Alabama!!! On
sunday, we watched a talk titled, "Characters of Christ" by
Bednar and OH MY. EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW. JUST GO ON YOUTUBE. It
will honestly change your life. One thing that I loved that he said is that we
need to LEARN of Jesus Christ and not just know things about him. That's all I
will say about that one.
Tuesday night,
(last night) we had devotional! My whole district decided to sing in the choir
in which we sang the song, "Lead thou Me on". The spirit was so
powerful in that room. Neil L. Andersen spoke!!!! He mentioned how there are
4,108 missionaries at the Provo MTC right now and how there are over a 1,000 at
the other MTC's!! The biggest it has ever been! It feels so great to be a part
of this work :) Andersen's talk was titled, "First Love, Then
Sacrifice." He explained how we will touch the lives of others and not
even realize it and that we "sacrifice for the things we love and love what
we sacrifice for" He also explained that our greatest responsibility on
this earth that we have is to love God! How true is that? If you think about
it: if we have love for God, then we will have love for everything else in life
:)
I know that as we sacrifice, the
Lord notices and will bless us :)
Sister Brunner and I are living in
an apartment with 4 other girls!! 2 girls are going to Alabama as well as us
and the other two are going to Albania!! I have learned so many words in
Albanian like:
"Po"=Yes
"Yo" = No
"Multra" =Sister
"Ciene" = How are you
heheh so sometimes, sister Brunner
and I go around and just yell out random Albanian words to missionaries walking
by.
We just got back from doing a
session in the provo temple which was amazing!!! I read D&C, chapter 6 and
received an answer that Heavenly Father is aware of us and knows us so well and
is proud of us!!!! Please take a chance to read it if you can :))))
Gracie leaves for Alabama on the 3rd. We can't wait for her phone call from the airport. She sounds so happy and excited. We are so proud of her.
Keep sending her letters! She loves it.
Here are some pictures of Gracie before heading into the MTC:
Here are some pictures of Gracie before heading into the MTC:
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