If you didnt get that "Frozen" reference then you are not an amigo.. and you should probably go watch that right now..
Seriously weeks here are CRAZY!!!! I literally have like 15 min to tell you my crazy schedule and it never ends up being exactly what I want to say. So here I go trying to say EVERYTHING I did since last saturday (pday)
Sunday- Breakfast- a donut and apple (for those who REALLY WANNA know) Then we had church, it was grand. We listened to music and the spoken word, then Relief Society which Sister Hurst played a violin duet "If You Could Hie to Kolob" and Sister Boman gave the closing prayer. (P9 Represent) We are lucky because we get a guest speaker everyweek for relief society and this last week it was Jean A. Stevens, first counselor in the Primary general presidency. I cried a lot during her remarks because I MISS PRIMARY. My mom's primary president and I totally miss being with the kids, and teaching them, hearing their sweet spirits and everything... so I pretty much miss those kiddos with all my heart! We had study time and lunch, district meeting and bonding. Study (we do this a lot...shocker) then dinner. We (our district) goes to choir so we don't have to do service and its just more fun to sing anyway... and then we boarded the bus for the devotional at main campus. We sang "Where Can I turn for Peace?" and apparently I was on the screen a bunch... The elders kept making fun of me because they'd zoom in on me.. anyways, we watched the restoration video, and had a "you know you're a missionary when..."ironically, that movie can be funny...because its really NOT but its all we got for the next 18-24 months. :)
Monday- Breakfast, Class, Gym (I'll be the best bballer ever haha), lunch, class, teach our teacher/investigator "Juan", dinner, then class and our other teacher/investigator "Ricardo"
Tuesday- same thing except we had the opportunity to teach some members in spanish! It was way awesome and I love doing that! Its something we get to do everyweek and I'm always looking forward to it! We also had an awesome devotional from Elder Bradley D. Foster and his wife. Then afterwards we had a post-devo with our branch presidency and our zone. (My district is 4 hermanas, the other district is 5 elders and we combine to make a zone) My respect for all the elders went sky high after the devotional and our cry sesh during that meeting. It is always powerful to feel and hear their testimonies.
Wednesday and Thursday- See Monday. Literally its the same. Although every Wednesday is when new missionaries come to the MTC. We knew we weren't getting new people in our district but it was still crazy to see others that are here and not being the "new-kids" anymore. We have inheritance that we want to pass on so WE WANT NEW HERMANAS every week! We were able to give the newest hermanas advice one night but it was just in passing. It was pretty crazy because I've technically been here for a "long time" (almost three weeks) but, I don't know what to think of that concept when I feel like I just got here.
Friday- Pretty much the same although everyone in my district had a break down moment. We were trying to teach a hard topic, in spanish, to our teachers, for the first time. It. was. HARD!!! We are all good now but prayers were flying left and right that day.
Random sidenotes- Our teachers are both Returned Missionaries and go to BYU. We have 2 ZRT's (assistants) and then 3 others that randomly come to help us. 4 hermanas. 7 hermanos. There are days were we ladies feel outnumbered, literally and we are trying to absorb EVERYTHING they tell us and its too much. We can become great misssionaries if we work on one thing at a time. But I am the first to admit they really are helpful and I love it! I SAW DANIELLE EMERY TODAY!?!?! WHATTTT!!!!(friend from USU) I was passing the street, after eating at the Main MTC and there she was in a car looking cute as ever screaming her head off after realizing it was me!
Remember Benjamin?! Well he's actually a teacher at the MTC, we had no idea, but he came in and told us THE COOLEST STORY about his mission in Chile that uplifted us and literally after he finished I was dying to get to Mexico! He is way cool and he sang, "The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway" from frozen to me and I'm pretty much satisified with life now.
Sister Cano- THANKS FOR THE DEAR ELDER! You are seriously the sweetest and I miss you!
A Special Shout Out to all my DEARELDER.COM users - I received notes this week from dearelder.com from my Grandma Carol, Cicely, Hermana Cattich and Ruesch. These daily messages really keep me going. I love them! Thanks!!
Cicely- I miss you to death and I can't believe you didn't tell me that you'd be in provo for spring break! I love you! Thanks for the uplifting words! I miss you dearly.
There's so much I could say but so little time. For all who are reading this...DEARELDERS & letters are the way to go because I have NO TIME to write! Also, time here is crazy. I never understood how a day could feel like a week and the weeks going by like a day. It's techincally my 3rd week here (by MTC standards) and I leave April 14 to the beautiful land of VERACRUZ, MEXICO!
Con Amor...
Hermana Blankmeyer
P.S. I forgot my camera so please ignore the ugliness of the blog this week and get ready for some wicked sweet pics for next week!
Here is Sophia's post: "This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it- or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure, in order that I shall not regret the price that I have paid for it." -Dr. Hartsell Wilson
ReplyDeleteI thought that I might start of with that quote so hope yall dont mind that. First off I'd like to say CONGRATS TO THE NEWLY WEDS!! Love you both and I'm so happy for you and I'd love to see pics cause you know..cant really get on the internet much here so please & thank you.
So this week I had a new investigator named Javier! I love getting new people to teach!
Tuesday was a good day because we had lunch with another investigator named Nayelli and we sang in the choir! Elder Ellis spoke and it was way cool because afterwards, I went and shook his hand and showed him that I followed through with what I said at zone conference in Texas with me being here and he said I'd do great things in Mexico and he said he was happy I finally got my nametag!
WE GOT NEW ELDERÉS!!!!! On wednesday! We are so excited! There are 4 and they are all going to Argentina! My companion and I were called to be Sister Training Leaders so we got to welcome them with the district leaders! They're great and will be awesome missionaries!
I found a lot of awesome things in my personal study everyday but my favorite scripture right now is Matthew 18:20.
So one of my teachers taught Elder Archuleta and that was a huge fan girl moment for me but then ended quickly. Cars honk at us all the time while we pass the street and it literally scares me so bad everytime.
Last night I was at the E.R. for stomach pains and while I was sitting in the waiting room there was a college aged young man who came with his grandparents and asked Hermana Bingham and I if we would be kind enough to go over and talk to them because his grandpa just had a stroke and he needed to hear about having faith and hope. Hermana Bingham had just shared with me a scripture in Mosiah on that subject and she went to go talk to him. When she was over there, a man in a suit came up and asked if I wanted a blessing. After he left, another lady came up and started talking to me and said she served in Puerto Rico and her husband went to argentina. She was giving me so much hope and comfort. I cannot thank her enough for all that she did.
I'm feeling much better they never said what the cause was but they can guess it was the MTC food...
Thank you all for your prayers and for your letters! I love you all!
Con Amor,
Hermana Blankmeyer