The MTC is hard. There are
good days, better days, and not so great days. It's so true what
everyone says that days feel like weeks and weeks feel like days! I'm
learning to like it more and more each day, and my district is so great.
I always feel a little bit bad for our 2 elders surrounded by 9
hermanas...but the one elder had 6 brothers and no sisters, no now he
has 9! A little tender mercy that happened this week: We had
just learned to bear our testimonies in spanish and our teacher took us
outside and told us to find 3 people to bear our testimonies to. The
first person I went up to was....latino. Haa just my luck right? So he
already knew Spanish. His name was Elder Hernandez and after talking for
a little bit I found out that his brother served in my mission! He was
so excited and told me some wonderful stories about his brother and the
mission and talked about the area quite a bit. It was so nice to hear
good things about my area and it got me excited all over again.
The awesome thing about the MTC is that you have such little time
for yourself! You're always thinking about what to teach investigators
and how you can better love and serve your companion that little things
like if my hair got messed up or if I didn't put on a ton of makeup that
morning or things like that, don't even matter and you don't even think
about it. You're always thinking about other people and I love that
aspect about it. We talked a lot about our purpose as a missionary this
week, and I really learned that to be truly converted to this gospel,
you have to turn out to love and serve others. I realized that to get
what I want most in life and to become the person I want to be, I have
to focus on everyone and things other than myself. By losing yourself in
the service of others, you find yourself. My companion, Hna. Glazier
has given me such great opportunities to love and serve her and
sometimes I feel like I pray for her more than I pray for myself. Prayer
is the best thing ever! We pray ALL the time here, and it helps us
always have the spirit with us.
Sundays are AMAZING here! My whole district joined the MTC choir, which sings at devotionals on Tuesday nights, but we also have devotionals on Sundays as well. We were told that if you can make it to Sunday,
you can make it through your mission. After devotional we can pick
which movie we want to watch, and we decided to watch The Character of
Christ, by David A. Bednar. It was so amazing. It completely changes
your attitude on the mission and what your purpose is. This tuesday we heard from Rosemary M. Wixom, the primary general president. She gave the best talk! Wednesday
was our Week-iversary! I was so excited. I'm so glad you sent me all
that candy mom, because I wrote little notes that said "happy one
week-iversary!" and put them on everyone's desk as a surprise! It was so
fun. I learned that if you always try to make the best out of tough
situations, they end up turning into the most wonderful learning
experiences. THANKS SO MUCH for the piano music! I had been missing
playing the piano sooo much! Hna. Morgan plays the piano too and she has
a beautiful voice so we had the chance to go play for a while. It's so
nice to have that with me. I'm definitely bringing my music to
Argentina. Wednesday
was one crazy day though. I wasn't feeling that great after lunch and
then after dinner during class time I ended up getting sick for real.
I'm pretty sure that it was either food poisoning or the stomach flu,
but that was probably one of the worst nights ever. I won't go into
detail because you know what that all entails, but my companion was so
great. I honestly got so lucky though! I'm so glad I got sick at night
so I didn't really have to miss much class or studying. Also it was such
a huge blessing because Hna. Glazier prepared everything we needed the
night before for a surprise lesson that we didn't know was coming the
next morning! I felt bad also, because that same night that I got
sick...we got 2 new roomies!! They are so amazing! We now have a full
room, 6 girls in a room. 3 of them snore, 2 of them talk in their sleep,
1 has a super creaky bed...so let me tell you night times are something
interesting. My goal every night is to fall asleep before the snoring
starts. The new hermanas were so sweet about everything and I think
they'll be so great!
My experiences already have helped
me grow a lot, and I'm so excited for what my mission can teach me! I
love you so much! Thank you for all the prayers and letters. Please feel
free to keep using dearelder while I'm in the MTC at least! I pray for
you all the time, and I'm so grateful to know that the Lord is watching
over you for me. I just want to bear my testimony, that I know this
church is true and that this gospel is the only way to true happiness. I
know that as we turn away from ourselves and focus on serving others
and finding the good in them, that we will come to find ourselves in the
process. We are never alone, because the Lord is always with us. Pray
always, for He is always there listening. If you give the Lord
everything you have, He will bless you with everything you need and
more. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Con amor,
Hermana Feldermann
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