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Me and Mitch!! We're pretty sure you're allowed to hug family... (1st cousin from AZ)
half the sisters in my zone at the field
my district sisters at the temple
Hola familia!!
What a week! Filled with so much it just flew right by! I can't believe I only have a week and a half left! I am gonna miss this place!
I saw so many friends from Lone Peak and college and that was super cool! And I also saw Mitch (my cousin)! Our classrooms are right next to each other, so we get to see each other all the time! Oh and I also met Brother Heaton, who is the MTC administrative director and we figured out we are third cousins or something like that. He's Paco's (Grandpa Jones) 1st cousin! We went over our family history and it was really cool. We were both at that gigantic reunion in Kanab!
Also this week, me and Hermana were studying outside on the grass by a building and she points out this perfect circle of feathers behind some bushes. We both were just too curious and couldn't let it slide, so we crawled (well, I crawled and she stood back and cheered me on) through the bushes and poked it with stick. It was just a bird wing and beak with a pile of feathers! So we're pretty sure the poor thing flew into the building and died. We couldn't find the head or the body anywhere! Anyways, this all turned out to be a real bad idea because right after my arms started turning red and bumpy and they hurt super bad like pins and needles. We had another bad idea to rub some of the leaves of those bushes on my comps arms to see what would happen. Luckily nothing happened to her and the bumps went away after a few days, but I am proud to say that my bush crawling days are over.
The biggest highlight of the week was Sunday. We usually have a devotional and then watch a movie, but they announced that instead of a devotional, we would be watching "Characters of Christ", a devotional by David A. Bednar that they play every week. We were excited cuz it is amazing!! If you haven't seen it, I recommend watching it for FHE or just whenever you can because it is seriously life changing. Anyways, we watched the devotional together with the whole MTC and when it ended everybody suddenly stood up. I was just casually like, "Oh everyone must be trying to leave or something" like an idiot and my comp starts punching me and then I was like, "What the heck is going on?" And David A Bednar- in the flesh- walked in!!!! Me and my comp were freaking out and everyone was so excited!! He did a Q&A with the whole MTC and it was so amazing!
Some highlights of Sunday:
"Charity is not something you do, it's something you become"
"We receive blessings only when we desire to use our gifts to be an instrument in the Lord's hands"
It was so funny and inspiring and the Spirit was so strong!
I have already learned so much from being on a mission. My first week here, I picked up the language really fast (gift of tongues is verdad), but didn't put in as much effort into lessons and planning as I should've. Unfortunately success doesn't come from just being smart. I have learned that diligence is more important that intelligence. And a lot more effective. The Lord blesses us when we put our shoulder to the wheel and work for it. And if you listen to the Spirit enough it will start to trust you with more guidance and comfort then you could ever have imagined. I know the Gospel is for everyone and God sincerely wants us all to return to live with Him again. I know that through Jesus Christ and His Atonement, we can come back from wherever we have fallen. Jesus Christ knows everything we have been through. He and Heavenly Father know us each individually and will do what they can to help us when we do our part. I'm so happy to be able to sacrifice just a short 18 months to Him and hope that for the rest of my life I will always be dedicated to repaying all that he has already done for me. I love the Book of Mormon!
I miss you all so much, but am so happy that I am where I am right now. I'll see you all in a few! ;)
Te Quiero Mucho!!
Hermana Hallsted
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