Happy Birthday Mom! On Saturday, we have classes in the morning which was kind of nice. During class, we found out we would go to the TRC on Monday. TRC's are pretty much teaching a return missionary who is speaking only the language. It was kind of intimidating until we met the people and then it was less so. They know that we don't know the language so they help you out as much as they can including speaking Spanish sometimes to help with a word. The first guy we taught spoke most of the time so we didn't have much of our lesson that we used. The second guy was really quiet so we taught our entire lesson and still ended up leaving early. It wasn't the worst thing though. That meant we were able to have a one on one with Sister Aquino on what we could improve.
I don't know what it is about Saturday nights but I had another really spiritual conversation with Elders Lewis and Anderson from my district. We were talking about our testimonies and Joseph Smith and other cool things. It was super cool! Sunday was fast Sunday and we had to teach the lesson in priesthood. It went well. We did a mural pondering exercise which was pretty good. We looked at the mural of Paul on the road to Damascus. It was pretty cool. When we got back my entire room left it up to me whether or not we were going to choir so I prayed about it. I got the answer, "Go to choir!" That was all I needed It was pretty good. The choir was packed which kind of surprised me because it was fast Sunday. We had a mission conference or something like that and it was fine. Then we had a Devotional by Elder Carpenter. It was a pretty good Devotional. Afterward, we watched a film they were playing by Elder Bednar called How to Recognize the Spirit. It was super good and it really showed the funny side of Elder Bednar. I would highly recommend it.
On Tuesday, we started the day off with some flashcards. That was pretty fun and encouraging. We had choir and Brother Eggette showed us a picture of him with this girl and it was a sister missionary's sister. It was pretty cool! He then talked about how God looks out for each of us personally to help us out. I realized that was kind of like my experience with Dad last week. I also realized that experience was like the verses in Alma 17:1-4 where Alma runs into his brothers in the gospel "by coincidence." Brother Eggette also talked about a story with Elder Christofferson and people leaving the church. He was saying that if we start using the real name of the church and calling it the Savior's church people will start realizing exactly what they are walking away from. It was really interesting to think about.
The Ochoas spoke at the Tuesday Devotional. Sister Ochoa's talk was pretty good but the one that I felt more was Elder Ochoa's talk. We watched the video about Jesus calming the storm and he talked about how maybe Jesus was just waiting for them to come to him. It was really interesting imagery. In the version we watched, Jesus's voice wasn't a shout but a still small voice to calm the storm around them which of course I related to the Holy Ghost. He ended his talk with the video of Peter walking on the water. He then got up after the video and said, "I didn't feel the spirit as well as I wanted to." He then talked to us about how he was impressed upon by the spirit to stand up again and talk to us about talking to our companions that night then to pray to know what Jesus did for us. It was really powerful! Elder Allen and I, after we did our district review, had a heart to heart that I believe brought us even closer.
At service on Wednesday we were given the inside of the toilets and we made some sick beats on the toilet seats with the brushes. I also met a teacher that taught with Jessica at a workshop that was on Technology. We had a bit of a heart to heart with our teachers later and expressed our frustrations with the language and having all of this put on us so quick. We then had a more relaxed lesson after that about how to recognize the spirit which was so nice.
Thursday was an okay day. We didn't do much except class and a flashcard game with Peterson and Wilson which was really fun! Today we went to to temple and did sealings, which was my first time. It was pretty cool and as I was going back to the changing rooms I saw Kristen Beckstead! It was so cool! We also went to the dry cleaning place to pick up Elder Allen's suit and I also saw Misha! That was just so much fun to be able to see a bunch of people I know today! That's about it for this week!
Love you all!
(Editor's note: We saw Steve crossing the street from the Provo Temple to the MTC last week!)
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