--Keisha
Hola Mi Familia y
Mi Amigos! Te Amo!
I have only 12 days left in the
MTC! Words cannot describe how fast time has flown, "When ye are in the
service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God." I
feel like if we serve as companions and use our time wisely, the days will FLY
by because every moment is precious.
I am doing extremely well. Great
news! Today one of our progressive investigadores (I.P) committed to
baptism! I have been praying for a few days now (and will continue to pray) to
know if the Lord will really express this beautiful truth to the heart of our
investigators. As my companions and I talked with Tómas (our investigator
played by our teacher who we practice with), the spirit was really strong! I kept
feeling these promptings to give up looking for certain specific scriptures and
then the prompting would be more like look in 2 Nephi, or just start flipping
through Mosiah—and I found what I was looking for. Both scriptures shared today
really helped our investigator!! I am so excited that the Lord was helping us
learn, even if it was just practice. "I shall be on thy right hand and on
thy left." (D&C 84:88).
I feel confident that each day if I
give the language my best effort the Lord will be proud of me. I don’t expect
to learn Spanish in 4 weeks, but I do expect to do my best! If each day I can
look back and say, I have done all I can do, then what more could I have
done?
The MTC is incredible. The spirit
is so strong. I have made friends with the Latino Chefs! LOL! We enjoy talking
each day. They ask me things about myself. I find it is good practice. Even though
every two weeks we get new Latino missionaries the Cooks always stay the same.
They are wonderful people. Some live 2 hours away via bus and still they are
here at 7:00am everyday. Wow! They are all members and I love the food they
cook-- lots of meat, potatoes, and there is a salad bar every day.
My schedule does not change from
day-to-day. I wake up at 6:30 :) my alarm doesn´t even do it! I wake up
naturally now :)-- kind of neat. We eat breakfast when ever we are ready
between 7-7:30, then at 8:00 we do personal study, 9:00 we learn how to teach
better, at 10:00 we do grammar, 11:00 companion study, and at 12:15 Lunch
(Almeruzo). After lunch more grammar and we do the TALL program (on computer
for Spanish study), then Actividad Fisica time!! Lately we have been playing
basketball--extremely awesome, it is co-ed and honestly it is so fun! After
showering and such, we head back for more grammar study and/or gospel focus
study. Then dinner is at 6:45 and afterwards Idioma (language) study till
Planamentino at 9:00pm! That is my day, every day :) I quite enjoy it!
I will have gone proselyting in the
Beunos Aires area a total of 3 times by the time I leave here. The people are
wonderful. We have heard a lot about the new Pope. People here seem to have a
lot of "pride" towards this because he is from Argentina .
I have gone every week to the
temple! I am so excited to hear about Jerianne and Cheryl getting their
endowments. The Lord is so good to us! And congrats to Karina and her dance
competition!
Also how fun that Uncle Ryan and his
family will be living with us in our home. The Lord works in mysterious ways,
mom :) It will be good to have their sweet little spirits in our home. I am
excited for the opportunity for Kaleb to play more with the sweet little ones.
Also it will be good for other reasons :)
THANK You for sending all those
little notes along about people who know me and who send their uplifting and
encouraging messages! I feel your prayers.
Sincerely,
Hermana Hansen
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