We have a busy road about 100 ft outside of our bedroom window. and
ALL night there are cars and alarms and who knows what making noise out
there, we deal with it though, sirens are a usual.
yesterday, on sunday, I was studying the baptismal invitation
during one of the videos and on my page where i have it written down i
had drawn a picture of jesus being baptized (like the one on the cover
of PMG) and this girl behind me noticed it, showed it to her companion,
and they were all oooing and awwing over it, then the companion of the
girl handed me her journal and asked me to draw her a picture. she chose
this tiny picture out of the pmg with christ pulling up a girl from
these rocks with a river, and him holding another child in his other
arm. it was dark and small, and she wanted it big. I drew the pictures
in brown pen, so there is no forgivness if i mess up. after I drew hers,
other girls asked me to draw them pictures, I ended up drawing 8
pictures of jesus yesterday, some of which were in people´s journals and
front pages of journals...no pressure, right? but through blessings,
they all turned out well. super scary doing it all in pen. I was kinda a
bit famous yesterday, even guys i have never talked to were like, ´´are
you the one that draws?´´ and I was like ´´yeah...´´´and then they
would ask me to draw them a picture. haha. people are so funny
sometimes, but I´m glad i could make them happy. one girl was
particularly grateful, i drew the picture of jesus and the women at the
well in the front page of her journal, it turned out really well, and
she is the sister is very nice and thankful for it.
overall, things are getting easer. not easer to do, but easier to
handle. eventhough it feels like we are planning lessons all of the time
and can´t even find the time to just read english scriptures or
something. it´s intense, but it´s good.
we have this thing called ´´coaching study´´ that one of our
teachers (who was also our investigator for the first week, she was
disguised as a cook and everything, it´s a tatic, which takes a long
time to explain) so coaching study is when they take us by companions
into the hall and talk about teaching and what we are feeling and could
improve on and give tips and encouragment etc. so this was our first
night with our ´´investigator´´ as our teacher. she is SOOO cool and I
love her a bunch. she also knows my old guatemalan roommates, jacky and
jenni, from glenwood last summer. she shared a lot of tips and guided
us. it was a spiritual highlight of the week. she testified and gave
support. she talks super fast in spanish, but I actually understand most
of it. I usually only miss one word in a sentense, but sometimes that
can really leave ya hangin´.
another spiritual highlight was when I was preparing to teach our
´´investigator´´ about the atonement. I really do care about her, even
though I know she is only acting. and I wanted her to get this lesson
into her heart and have the spirit touch her. I prepared, and prayed,
and prepared, and read, and prayed, I just wanted it so badly to go well
because i know how the atonement is so important! The lesson went
pretty well, however, my companion didn´t feel so hot about it, she
didn´t prepare nearly as much as i did for this one. But she did notice
how I really stepped into it. I was taking a chance and talking without
looking at any notes ( all in spanish) and bearing my testimony to her
of the importance of the atonment. It was special to me, if no one else.
I tried to take what I got from coaching study and really tired to
apply it.
and for another highlight: a couple of elders stopped by to show us
an example of teaching and to bear their testimonies. I was walking up
the stairs and thought ´´hey look! ít´s missionaries!!´´´and then I
realized, oh yeah, we are at the CCM, we are all misisonaries. :D well,
they ended up being missionaries who are just about to go home to north
america. they are fluent now and they look like well used missionaries
for sure. they showed their example, but talked way too quietly and
fast, but then bore powerful testimonies in english. it was sooo nice
and their testimonies had a lot of emotion and power and spirit. it was
great.
I am sad to have the first batch leave tomorrow. the CCM will be
almost empty for a day. i have gotten close to almost all of the nortes (
most of the hispanas have different schedules, and the language barrier
and everything...we are friends, just not so tight) I know almost all
of their names from memory, first and last, and some thing about them.
they are all so incredible, and i know they will do great.
the weeks and days are finally speeding up a bit, i hear these next few weeks fly by. I´ve got to go, but love you all!
con amor, Hermana Hutchins.
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