I officially will
have two weeks left at the CCM tomorrow. At some points I feel so ready to
leave and then at others I feel like the newbies. But, I am SO excited to leave
for Las Vegas!
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| ¡Almuerzo! |
This week has
definitely been the hardest, but the most rewarding. First off, my compa and I
had been really struggling with our teacher/investigator. I know my
teacher is trying to push us to become better teachers, and he knows that we
are both good at Spanish. Pero, we just felt like we were getting absolutely no
where with his investigator. Our lesson on Wednesday went awful. We did not
have enough time to plan, so it was just all over the place. We were feeling
really discouraged and upset that our lesson had gone so badly when we both had
studied really hard to teach him. Our other teacher told us that we have
to be prepared first for the Spirit to be able to guide us in our lessons. We
decided to take that to heart, and we planned our guts out for our next lesson
with our other investigator. We had asked him the lesson before to be
baptized, but he would not give us an answer. We focused our whole lesson on
baptism, and tried to answer his questions as best as we could. At the end, we
again asked him if he would be baptized. He said YES!!!! My compa and I just
looked at each other in complete shock. We had no idea what to do with
ourselves. After we finished our lesson and walked away, I started to cry. I
cannot explain the immense amount of joy I felt. The crazy thing is that he
isn´t even a real investigator! How great will be the joy I feel when I finally
am able to bring one of God´s children back to him.
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| ¡Molé! |
We were so proud
of ourselves and our lesson, that we decided to teach the same lesson to our first investigator.
And guess what....we committed him to baptism too! Those two experiences have
been really big missionary confidence boosters for me. I know that I can teach
in Spanish and now with the Spirit. I also know that this is exactly where God
wants me to be right now.
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| Mi compañera |
My teachers this
week have decided to have me start teaching with them during our language time.
I am so excited for the challenge! Also General Conference is this weekend! I
cannot wait to here what the Lord wants to teach me through his prophets and
apostles. I am so
excited to have to opportunity to serve mi Padre Celestial y mi salvador,
Jesucristo.
Until proxima semana,
Hermana Erickson
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