Hope everyone had a Happy New Years! For the first time, I got to sleep
through all the New Years celebrations. That was probably the best New
Years gift ever, haha.
This was an interesting week. On P day
last Monday, since the Provo Temple was closed, our district had the
assignment to help clean the temple. It was a neat experience. I was
surprised and impressed by how meticulous the deep cleaning process was
for the temple. (we spent about 2 hours cleaning corners of walls with
cu-tips!) But it made me realize more how special and sacred of a place
the temple is. It was also cool to go today to the temple and see
everything we cleaned, haha.
So, since the BYU semester starts,
everyone is switching and getting new teachers. We had our last day with
our two teachers... and everyone was super sad. Both of them shared
special experiences from their missions and shared their powerful
testimonies, and it was then that I decided that I want to be like my
MTC teachers when I return from my mission. They have helped shaped me
into the missionary I am now, and I felt have had a powerful influence
on me.
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| This is Wu Laoshi on our last day with him. He served in Vancouver,
Canada, and his Chinese is awesome. His mission stories made us all cry. He's my favorite. I'm going to miss him,wo zui hao de pengyou. |
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| This is Tan Laoshi. She is such an inspiring teacher. She is also
married to Elder Christensen from the District, haha. I'll miss her too. |
This week, our district received our travel plans to leave
MTC to our missions!! It's a mix of excitement and nervousness to know
that just one week from now I'll be on a plane to Toronto! I'm scared
about the Chinese, since I know I'm not going to understand hardly any
of it when i get there. But I know that in time the language will come,
and everything will work out.
Oh and last Sunday was
our last week as zone leaders. But I was then assigned as district
leader for this last week of our MTC stay, haha.
We had a
devotional on Sunday by one of the directors of Church media for the
missionaries. (He is over church videos like "He Is the Gift" and stuff
like that.) He shared the scripture Jeremiah 16:16, relating it to how
the Lord is utilizing technology to enable the restored gospel to be
shared to everyone around the Earth, "from every mountain, and from
every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks." It was a really cool and
eye-opening devotional. He showed us some of the church's new videos
(not released yet) that are designed to spark people's interest to learn
about the gospel of Jesus Christ. He also talked about the "He Is the
Gift" video for Christmas - it got 33 million views around the world,
generated 200,000 referrals for missionaries, and led to 100,000 new
investigators. It is amazing how the Lord is using technology to share
His message around the world. He also gave us a sneak peak for the
Easter 2015 video, "Because He Lives." He said it was going to be even
better!!
Favorite scripture this week is Ether 12:27.
I realized this week that the Lord often gives us trials so that we can
realize what our weaknesses and strengths are, and then turn to Him to
make our weaknesses strong and our strengths stronger. I am grateful for
the opportunity He gives us to continually improve and become more like
Him. As we begin a new year, I am trying to be more determined to see
every stumbling block as a stepping stone, and I hope we can all do the
same!
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