"holla mi familia y amigos!!!
how are you all doing? this week has been just like every other week, lots of class, lots of studying, gym time, meal times and little sleep times. :) You know how I told you about hermana ponaveitongo? well we had a really neat experience because last thursday night our whole zone decided we were going to fast for her and her family. We all prayed together and fasted on friday. It was a really neat experience to come toegether as a zone for her I felt like it really unified our zone and you could tell that she truly felt our love. It was amazing. As I was thinking about her situation i have just thought, what better place for her to be at this time than on a mission with all of these people that love her and know that everything will be alright because of this gospel. How amazing! She seems to be doing a little better lately which is good!
Last saturday was officially the hardest day I have had since being at the mtc. It was just the longest day ever and I felt like nothing was going right that day. but it comforted me to know that everyone in our zone hates saturday. We are just going going going all day its the end of the week and we are all just so tired. but all is good and it just made me really grateful for all the other great days I have had here. Although there are hard days because I feel like I just cant learn anymore or my brain is fried from so much class all day I have great comfort in knowing that my heavenly father is by my side, he knows what I am doing and he is there helping me through this. This week I have truly found an appreciation for my teacher Brother Brown. I have just really realized that I think I have the best teachers at the mtc. We have all been stressing about spanish and how we just cant learn it and how it is hard so in class the other day as brother brown was teaching he told us how it really doesnt matter if we dont know anything but to use the words we do know and even if it isnt a lot if we say it with meaning the spirit will be there and touch those peoples lives. He gave an example of him saying three words.... Jesucristo, Jose Smith, and la iglesia (chruch). He was super passionate as he said each of these words and even though he was only saying these three words it was truly incredible how strong the spirit was while he was speaking. It just really gave me courage to just speak spanish as much as I can. These past couple of weeks as we teach lessons we have just had to teach them in english but this saturday for the first time we have to teach the first lesson in spanish to our teacher. Pray for me! I am scared out of my mind!!!!
My companion and I are still doing great! We get along great and each and everyday I just realized how blessed I am. Yesterday (wednesday) we recieved a solo sister. This sister is going to germany and is the only sister in the mtc at this time that is going to germany. ( can you say lonely?) So since all of the german missionaries have the exact same schedule as us we Hermana Hamman and I have been assigned to her, which means every morning at 7 we have to escort her to her class and she will go to gym and temple with us. Basically she stays with the elders in her district all day but if she cant be with them she has to be with us. I feel so bad for her because as we get ready for missions we are all expecting to have a companion but she got here to nothing. So it is really important that we welcome her and make her feel loved cause I sure it is hard. It will be interesting but she seems cool so Im sure it will be good. Her name is Sister Funk and she went to school at BYU-I and went to Jerusalem so we have some stuff in common. Im excited!! Mom was asking about our bedroom, well before our solo sister got here it was just 4 of us in our room (the four of us sisters in my district) but now we have 5. It is kind of weird to share a room with 5 people but it really isnt bad because honestly the only time we are in our bedroom is from 10 pm- 7 am (the times we are sleeping) the only hard thing sometimes is the snorring, but its not too bad. Well one thing i have learning about myself since being here is apparently I am really easy to tease... hmmm I thought I got out of that since Im not around dad anymore but noooo.... my elders are constantly teasing me! There have been a few times where I start laughing really really hard and they all tell me I laugh like a Brontosauras (some kind of dinosaur) and whenever they see me they make the noice I apparently make when I laugh.. great!! The teasing just continues on with many other things. I deal with a lot here at the mtc. I just think of the elders like little brothers and just do it right back at them. It makes things entertaining! :)
Basically I just want you to know that I am doing well! I am happy to be hear and I know that I am suppose to be here. It is truly incredible how much I am learning everyday i really do love it. I know a lot of people hate the mtc and yes is does feel like you are trapped in some other world but it is so amazing to be around so many other missionaries all the time with the spirit so strong. I am happy to be here and I am glad I still have more time here. It was weird for me to think that if I was speaking english I would have been leaving this week. One of my favorite parts of being here is every tuesday at devotional when we all sing Called to Serve. The spirit is so strong and we all know our purpose of being here. The church is true. Keep smiling. i love and miss you all mucho!!!
muchas amor,
hermana van wagenen"
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