July 16, 2018
Well, I am going to email a bit about the last little bit in the MTC I know that it's kinda backward but I have been meaning to do it for the last two weeks so here it is.
Our last class was really cool we all had been given questions of another person in the class and we spent a little time answering them. It was really cool I am so glad that our wonderful teachers had us do that. Then at the very end, we all shared what we had learned and the thing that stuck out to me the most in the MTC is that it is all about love. The first part of the first lesson is God is our loving Heavenly Father and everything else we teach is because of that. Jesus agreed to be our Savior because he loves is and we would be lost without him! 
After we all took a picture together. The two in the middle are our teachers Hermana Theobald and Hermano Lyon they are the best! (I am having trouble getting her pictures at the moment, so no picture here.)
The last week I was in the MTC was the same week that the new mission presidents were being trained and that meant that the first presidency and the twelve apostles were there training them. Most of the missionaries didn`t see any of them but they changed the devotional that we would normally have on Tuesday to Sunday. The Tuesday devotionals were always someone from the general authorities either an Apostle or a Seventy and once a member of the relief society presidency so we knew that there would be someone really awesome. We all were excited but I didn`t expect what happened. As we were singing prelude all twelve of the apostles walked in with their wives and we all stood and sang together. It was soooo cool I could feel the Spirit so strong and tears began to flow from my eyes. Those tears didn`t really stop very much that night. After we all were seated Elder Quentin L Cook spoke to us and it was super great. He told us to do four things and I would like to share them. 
1. Love your companions 
2. Love the people where you are called to serve 
3. Love your mission president and his wife 
and most importantly
4 Love the Lord.
He also said talking to all of us, "You have our prayers"  and I thought that was pretty cool. 
After, we went back to our classroom for one last devotional review/ testimony meeting with our district. It was really wonderful I love my MTC district so much! They are amazing missionaries!

This week was pretty good. One miracle for this week is that when my umbrella broke and my companion gave hers to a member it didn`t rain an entire week when we were outside. That was definitely a blessing and I guess that was a week ago but I wanted to mention that. 

July 23, 2018

Hola! Communication with Sarah from El Salvador is not horribly easy or hard.  Sometimes we get pictures, sometimes we get newsy emails. This week we got a picture.  This is Sarah, her companion, and a little boy.  We are working on the communication issues.  She is doing really well, though.


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