Hola!!!!!
How is everyone doing? I feel like I havent heard from people in a while. Is everyone still alive? :) oh wait my district leader just literally gave me the letters from ky and mom. Thanks for those! Mom I cant wait to hear about efy and see pictures from what you were saying about preparing it sounds like it was amazing! and ky thanks for the letter I absolutely loved the cute little pic and I am excited that you finally got some new "spreading" :) you will have to send me a pic. Everyone else that reads this Update me!! :) You only have 11 more days to write me then who knows what mail is going to be like when I get to argentina. I am starting to kind of freak out that I only have 11 more days in the mtc, this means that I only have 11 more days where I can even speak english because once I get to Argentina it will be todo espanol. ahhh!!!! I have so much to learn. Speaking of learning spanish we had an AMAZING experience here at the mtc this past week. As you know we have a fireside every sunday and then a devotional every tuesday normally it is just some random speaker, we have had a couple of the quorom of the 70 but this past tuesday was a little different. We never know who the speaker is going to be until they walk onto the stage at 7 pm to start speaking so this past tuesday we could all just feel this different spirit around the mtc and as we all sat in the gym with anticipation to know who we would have the opportunity to hear from we all knew that it was someone special and lucky enough we had the amazing opportunity to hear from Elder Scott! I was so stoked especially after his amazing talk at conference. He talk was pretty incredible but the one thing that stood out to every single person listening was when he asked all of the missionaries who was learning a new language and as the majority of the room raised their hands he then said something similar to this: "In the authority of the apostleship I invoke upon you the blessing of the gift of tongues for those who are striving. He said: you will recieve additional help and support. I confer this gift upon you. you still have to study but I think you will find it easier." I'm sure you can only imagine the spirit at that moment in time. It was truly incredible to hear an apostle of the lord invoke this blessing upon us. It just gave me hope that through the lords help I WILL be able to learn this language. :)
This week was also kind of an interesting week because last thursday my companion and I walked into our classroom to our Branch president standing there telling us that he needed to talk to all of the sisters in our district. (there are 4 of us) He ended up saying that due to some things going on they were going to have to switch up our companionships. I was devasted!! I absolutely love my companion. We get along so well, we teach so well together, and we know how to have fun but also focus and study. I did not want to let that go but the other sisters in our district have a horrible companionship. They dont get along at all and they are always arguing, i guess they thought that if they switched us up that things would be better. After a long day of thinking I had to switch companions they ended up telling us that we were just going to have companionship exchanged for two days so we were apart for 2 days and luckily we are happily back together and hopefully companions for the rest of the mtc! So things are good at the moment. :)
Another exciting moment of the week is that yesterday (wednesday) I was able to be a new missionary host, meaning we bacically take the new missionaries around to check in. As I was standing there with sister horsepool waiting for a sister to arrive I look over by the cars and see the Foggs dropping Meghan off. I literally sprinted over there, I was so excited!!!! I got to see them for a minute and then sister horsepool and I took Meghan around the mtc and got her all checked in and in her class. I think she was excited to see someone she knew and I was excited to see her. She lives with two of the sisters in my zone so I think I will see her a lot which is cool!
How is everyone doing? I feel like I havent heard from people in a while. Is everyone still alive? :) oh wait my district leader just literally gave me the letters from ky and mom. Thanks for those! Mom I cant wait to hear about efy and see pictures from what you were saying about preparing it sounds like it was amazing! and ky thanks for the letter I absolutely loved the cute little pic and I am excited that you finally got some new "spreading" :) you will have to send me a pic. Everyone else that reads this Update me!! :) You only have 11 more days to write me then who knows what mail is going to be like when I get to argentina. I am starting to kind of freak out that I only have 11 more days in the mtc, this means that I only have 11 more days where I can even speak english because once I get to Argentina it will be todo espanol. ahhh!!!! I have so much to learn. Speaking of learning spanish we had an AMAZING experience here at the mtc this past week. As you know we have a fireside every sunday and then a devotional every tuesday normally it is just some random speaker, we have had a couple of the quorom of the 70 but this past tuesday was a little different. We never know who the speaker is going to be until they walk onto the stage at 7 pm to start speaking so this past tuesday we could all just feel this different spirit around the mtc and as we all sat in the gym with anticipation to know who we would have the opportunity to hear from we all knew that it was someone special and lucky enough we had the amazing opportunity to hear from Elder Scott! I was so stoked especially after his amazing talk at conference. He talk was pretty incredible but the one thing that stood out to every single person listening was when he asked all of the missionaries who was learning a new language and as the majority of the room raised their hands he then said something similar to this: "In the authority of the apostleship I invoke upon you the blessing of the gift of tongues for those who are striving. He said: you will recieve additional help and support. I confer this gift upon you. you still have to study but I think you will find it easier." I'm sure you can only imagine the spirit at that moment in time. It was truly incredible to hear an apostle of the lord invoke this blessing upon us. It just gave me hope that through the lords help I WILL be able to learn this language. :)
This week was also kind of an interesting week because last thursday my companion and I walked into our classroom to our Branch president standing there telling us that he needed to talk to all of the sisters in our district. (there are 4 of us) He ended up saying that due to some things going on they were going to have to switch up our companionships. I was devasted!! I absolutely love my companion. We get along so well, we teach so well together, and we know how to have fun but also focus and study. I did not want to let that go but the other sisters in our district have a horrible companionship. They dont get along at all and they are always arguing, i guess they thought that if they switched us up that things would be better. After a long day of thinking I had to switch companions they ended up telling us that we were just going to have companionship exchanged for two days so we were apart for 2 days and luckily we are happily back together and hopefully companions for the rest of the mtc! So things are good at the moment. :)
Another exciting moment of the week is that yesterday (wednesday) I was able to be a new missionary host, meaning we bacically take the new missionaries around to check in. As I was standing there with sister horsepool waiting for a sister to arrive I look over by the cars and see the Foggs dropping Meghan off. I literally sprinted over there, I was so excited!!!! I got to see them for a minute and then sister horsepool and I took Meghan around the mtc and got her all checked in and in her class. I think she was excited to see someone she knew and I was excited to see her. She lives with two of the sisters in my zone so I think I will see her a lot which is cool!
Well I dont know if I can think of anything else at the moment but like usual right when I get off of this I will probably think of something else I can tell you. but some exciting news is I signed my visa on tuesday and I should be getting my travel plans today!!!! yipee!!! we are all getting so excited, I know I have so much to learn still but I am excited to finally get to argentina and teach people the gospel. Its exciting to hear other peoples mission stories but I am ready to creat my own mission stories!! :) oh I met my second cousin. the other day when we had our argentina meeting for signing our visas I heard his name because grandma had told me his name and so I went up to him and told him that I thought we were related and he just kind of looked at me funny cause he had no idea what i was talking about and just said oh cool. so umm ya that was an interesting experience. haha Well i think that is all for now! i love you all. keep writing me, letters really do keep me going! and know that I am doing great and becoming closer to my savior everyday! it really is an exciting and happy time of my life. I will send pictures home today. hope everyone is doing great. have a wonderful day and i love you lots!!
love,
Hermana Van Wagenen
P.S. Heather I swear you are super popular, today at the temple some girl came up to me and said she knows you. I guess you were in the same ward this semester.. i didnt get her name though. haha but really i have met so many people that know you. oh and I hope finals went well and drive home safely tomorrow! i will be thinking about you!!
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