January 23rd 2014 - Week 3

3 weeks! Time has flown if you ask me! Half way done at the MTC! 

So this week has been super spiritual for sure! First, the temple again was AMAZING! Always is... and we did it in Spanish again because the headsets weren´t working! Haha so it must be a sign that we need to do the sessions in Spanish! Then on Sunday there were some great talks by everyone. I felt the spirit so strongly! It was grand... And I remember thinking to myself, wow, all of these talks all have one thing in common (faith) , but they all share different messages. Not one of the talks were the same! I just think that it´s really cool how the President was inspired to pick the people that he did, because they all needed to share! It was cool :) Also, we saw a super spiritual broadcast of Elder and Sister Bednar speaking at the Provo MTC a few days ago. It was REALLY GOOD! 

Also, I´ve been learning a ton of stuff about teaching. It´s funny, but a lot of the time you think that it´s just going to be language study the whole time you´re at the MTC and you think that you already know a ton about the gospel... WELP NOPE! You don´t! I´ve learned just as much about the gospel and teaching as I have Spanish, so I´m always super busy! It´s really cool though! I love it :) There was a really spiritual day where we were learning how to introduce scriptures to our investigators and then relate it to their lives. (Which, by the way, I learned can be done with any random scripture) And our teacher, Hermano Pedersen (the super attractive one), explained it to us in a way that was super cool. I really felt the spirit and yeah... It´s hard to describe, but it was really good. Then I found a new favorite scripture!! It´s Alma 2:41! So LOOK IT UP! ;) It´s good one. Oh, and then he bore his testimony about el Libro de Mormón and it was so good! That whole day was just a really good and spiritual one! Also I love one of my other teachers a ton. His name is Hermano Vargas! I´m gonna miss him so much! He´s like my height and has glasses and braces and served in Bolivia! He is so funny though! And he literally laughs at like everything I say.... Hahaha just thought I´d let you guys know! ;)

I´ve become even closer with my district. We´re all like super good friends and way tight ;) And I get along with every single one EXCEPT for one of the boys. It´s annoying BUT I´m trying hard to not let it get to me so it´s all good! I am pretty proud of myself because I have been trying new things! I play like basketball or volleyball with the boys like every day and it´s so much fun! I went into this thinking that I wasn´t going to do physical activity and stuff, but it´s actually been really good that I have been! 

The new president got here and it was crazy how he did! So he was suppose to be here on Tuesday on the same flight that we took it. But get this... There was this huge wind and rain storm as they were going to land and it took out a CHUNK OF THEIR AIRPLANE´S WING! Crazy, right!? So they actually had to do an emergency landing in Montevideo, Uruguay and stay there pretty much all night. It´s such a miracle that they were safe! I definitely know that the Lord was watching over them and protected them. So anyway, they finally get here the next day at I think 5 in a the morning and we got to meet them last night. They both talked for like 10 minutes and then we got to do like a meet and greet and stuff. They are so cool! I already love Hermana Willis! She´s the cutest! She is sooo sweet too. And President Willis seems pretty cool. He is just really different than President Openshaw. So, it´ll be interesting to see how everything goes. I´ll miss the Openshaws.. but I think it will be a cool experience to be able to work with two different sets of Presidents at my time here. 

I got my immunizations. I needed Typhoid and Yellow Fever. I got them on Monday morning and it was no biggie! Some people said that you can get sick from the Yellow Fever shot, but I was fine! Haha and it didn´t even hurt! ;) 

I love reading your emails! They´re great! Keep telling me about everything that is happening! It´s really encouraging to hear that everyone loves reading my blog (that I didn´t know existed?? ;) And that everyone is asking about me! Tell them I love them! Also, do you guys post my whole emails on the blog?? Or just certain things?? Hahahaha just curious! Don´t post anything that will embarrass me! ;) (note from editor: we edit tenderly)

LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH! 

Love, Hermana Whittaker