Promptings of the Spirit

hi family!!!

this week has been so good! I know mom has been really worried and please just keep worrying because it means i get dear elders! You would think i would get a few more letters of love after surgery but i just go t a few from mom this last week. But it's fine because this week was so good!

so Tuesday and Wednesday was mostly spent in the sickbay which we renamed "daycare" because my comps would just drop me off and then i would just sleep and eat crackers and drink gatorade. best kept secret of the mtc is the daycare beds. they are heavenly and i was always so sad to leave them at 5 when daycare closed. i'm still typing and writing with one hand for a few more weeks but i'll keep you posted. also, i am completely off meds. i don't understand people that do drugs. being high is not fun at all!!! so i'm glad to be off of them, i'll just take a tylenol if it gets bad at night. Also, i got a package from Elder Reed's family because apparently he told them he broke my hand which for the record he did not. But i have more starburst jelly beans and pink peeps then i could ever want.

Cool story of the week:

we were in trc teaching a girl, Su Jeimei and of course i only understood about a tenth of what they were saying. suddenly i got a really strong prompting to ask her ifall her family were membersd of the church. she said sahe was baptized at 16 and only her mom and her were members. the other day i had been reading DC 31 about missionary work and so i told her that by volunteering at the mtc and by serving a mission (which she was perparing to do) would bless not only her current family but her future family. it was amazing to me that i had no idea what was going on in the lesson but i knew what i had to say and bear my testimony about.

Also, on Sunday, the best day of the week, we had awesome speakers all day and everything had to do with learning the promptings of the spirit. and then dad wrote me about that same topic. my comp and i had an awesome discussion yesterday about how havuing the spirit with us is literally having the third member of the godhead with us and we choose to have the spirit with us or not and it's the atonement that enables us to have the spirit with us. Joseph smith said that the most important skill we can learn on this earth is how to learn how to seek, recieve and act on the spirit. I think that is so true and i think the lord might be telling me that i need to work on that a little bit.

I really feel like the lord has blessed me with the gift of tongues this week. My comp always says she is so impressed this week about how i've been able to say words that she can't even remember in lessons and i truly belive that the lord is giving me this blessing as i try to speak the language and learn how to write with my right hand so i can record those spiritual promptings. Obviously the lord has a work that needs to be done and i'll do all i can to move that work along.

Another Sunday higlight was seeing so many of my friends on my sunday walk. i literally started crying as i saw Erin Greenwood. So happy to see everyone, so encouraging that so many girls are going on missions!

Shoutouts:

Randi and Travis- Baby??

Mom- seriously, you are the best. also, sam already emailed her mom for my surgery dress. it was a hit and i've already worn in twice in one week. Thank you so so so much. have fun in California!

Dad- miss you, thanks for your letters every week! They are inspired.

Beks- apparently my blog needs to be updated

Sarah Smith- a long letter is in the works. Hang in there, babe!