Hello all! I hope everyone is doing well!
So the weeks are blending together!!! It's week three! The MTC experience is such a learning experience. We have devo every tuesday and sundays and the speakers always speak about something I need to hear about. Yesterday Sheri Dew spoke to us during Relief Society. It was freakin amazing! She talked about Priesthood Power, Keys, and Authority. Some things that really stuck with me was she said that when we take our Endownmnets out we are given God's power and given knowlegde about how to use that power. The Endownmnet is a gift of Priesthood Power. Also, a pattern I've been picking up on is the role of angels. Multiple speakers have mentioned a little thing about it each week. On multiple occasions I've been told that our ancestors and angels (one in the same) are protecting us and guiding us. Sis Dew quoted Jeffery R. Holland in telling us that we need to invite angels to help us. They want to help us, but can't help us as much as they want to unless we as for their help. If you think about all the ancestors you have, they are watching out for you!
During movie night last night we watched "Characters of Christ" which was basically a recorded talk by Elder Bednar. The main focus of the talk was how Christ turns outward when we or the natural man would turn inward and be selfish or complain about life. Turning out or learning and practicing how to do it was ho to become truly converted. A testimony is just the beginning of the path to conversion toward Christ. As we teach people about the gospel, we need to teach them in a way that they can become converted to Christ. It was pretty life changing.
So our elders amuse and entertain themselves by making orange juice bombs or drain cleaner bombs. Actually it's passion fruit guava..something like that, but if left for a couple of days, it builds up pressure and busts open. It's pretty suprising to the unsuspecting. They also try to do a barbershop quartet...with six of them. It's...interesting. They also like to play fruit ninja...real life style. Basically they throw bananas and apples at each other and slice them out of the air with a knife. It's really messy.
Our teachers are amazing. They have such great insight, and they're really good actors, because they also couple as our mudayoumen (investigators). Tan Lao Shi is playing this girl with super anxiety problems and it was scary how good she was. The relationship we have with them can only be described as they are kindly but forcefully pushing us off a cliff with a hang glider that has holes in it...and they expect us to learn how to fly. But it's okay, because that's where the Lord comes in...we just need enough faith to make it fly :)
so, how is everybody? anything interesting, funny, exciting, or boring in life? If you email me, I will email back... I promise :)
Well, that's all folks. The Church is true!!!
Yu Jie Mei (Sister Fisher)
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