hey everyone! Today is a 1/2 Pday so here i am and maybe
tomorrow, idk. this week has been so good and by far the best week in the MTC.
It was just us 4 sisters and 4 elders in the whole zone for a few days and we
were able to get so close, it was awesome. we got 8 new sisters and it was cool
to see the progress we have already made seeing the ones that just got
here.
last tuesday we had a devotional from the general primary
president Joy D. Jones and her husband. it was incredible and i loved this
quote her husband said "the best smell anyone can smell at church is
cigarette smoke and alcohol because that means they are trying to change."
that really touched me because sometimes we are quick to judge. Theres been so
many great things here. We had a couple investigators this week and they were
very helpful in preparing us for the next 17-18 months. One of them was really
helpful because she was a very tough lady. The first time we taught her, we
were..oh man.. so discouraged. She ended up not being very receptive to
anything but we learned that we teach people and not lessons. the whole
situation was very very different. She has been here at the MTC being taught by
missionaries for 5 years... she had sister Stastnys older sister. so she was a
very tough lady and it was hard but we know that when she is ready, she will
latch on to the gospel so fast. This past week weve been spending alot of time
as a district together and for our sacrament meetings here they pick the
speakers out of the congregation right before they give the talks and we were
all siting talking about sacrament meeting Saturday and me and one of the
Elders (Elder Allen) we both said "we totally feel like they are going to
choose us to talk" and well...they sure did. So i know that we oughtta follow
that little small voice, because we prepared talks and they were put to use. so
if its telling ya to go to church, get the car started. if its tellin you to
pray, get on them knees. if its tellin you to tell someone you love them, get
to talking :)
If you guys have time, read Jacob 2:1-2. The Lord pleads for
your cause and i know it <3 i love you all!!! Christ lives and he loves us
and wants us to become closer to him. On to Canada in T-10hrs.
Sister Rivera <3
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