First week in the MTC

February 27, 2013

Hola Everyone! I have been doing to amazing this past week and am progressing a lot in the Gospel and the understanding of how I need to teach investigators and by Esiritu Santos es the only way. (Spanglish) My companions name is Elder Rich he es from Pheonix, Arizona but has lived all over the south. He is way cool and we really know how to feed off of eachothers spiritual thoughts. We were able to teach an investigator (member I think but I have no clue he for sure does not act like he is a member) this past week. If you can try to imagine how much you can feel the Espiritu in your daily life imagine being engulfed in it 24/7! It is such a blessing to be able to completely forget about myself and dive head first into el Evangelio. I truly love el Evangelio y se verdadero. Now I am not going to say this past week has not been hard because it truly has been a challange understanding the language and being the only Elder that has not taken spanish before coming to la CCM in my distrito. (MTC) You might be wondering why I am saying spanglish and it's because I know that this is just one simple way to practice the language and to become familiar with the words of el Evangelio. (Gospel)

 

I want you all to know that in my first devotional I was able to hear M. Russel Ballard!!!! How great is that?! An Apostle! One of my branch presidency members is also the nephew of our prophet which is pretty sweet he tells us a lot of stories and has such a strong testimony and espiritu about him. In the devotional by Ballard he stated that we need to keep all of what we do SIMPLE as through simplicity we can express the espiritu just as well. We also were able to understand a lot more about the amazing youth that we have in this chruch today and the strength that we need to keep this going and to know that God wants us to spread el Evangelio to all his children.

 

My distrito is so amazing and we all get together very well and have had the opportunity to bare our testimonies multiple times already to eachother. My distrito was able to give me a blessing last night as I pulled my hamstring the other day at gym and restrained my abdonminals lifting weights. (still accident prone) So now I am embarking on the journey of becoming a street baller and all I do in gym is drain the hoops. I drained 9 3 pointers in a row yesterday! So ya my muscle memory of back in the day is coming back and now I am getting way good. So soccer might be out of the picture NBA here I come! (Kobe Bryant)

 

This is such and amazing time to be at la CCM. There are more missionaries than ever and we are getting a new distrito hoy. But on more of a serious note I would like to end with something me and my companion learned yesterday in la clase. We were in companion study trying to figure out how we can teach our investigator Alexis better next time. We have already committed him to a baptism date and are so excited we had the courage to do that. But as we were studying Preach My Gospel we went into an empty room and I grabbed a marker and started to write out our outline on the board. As we got a generic outline mi companero came up and started to draw his impressions and draw arrows to what he wrote. Then I would think of something and write it down and draw arrows. As we were developing the amazing elaborate mess of doctrine. ( I will send pictures) We realized we wanted to teach him why our church is the true church. And is the true chruch because we have the POWER OF GOD. Now we were relating this to el Espiritu Santos y Bautizmo and realized that only through the spirit can we be baptized because of the feeling we get to know it's true. But only through bautizmo can we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and we can only be baptized through the POWER OF GOD. Now how do we relate this to our investigator our favorite teacher Hermano Boluch asked us. And this is the most amazing thing ever is that in this huge mess the one thing that always stayed on the board that we had never erased and we erased a lot of stuff and rewrote things. Was the simple word ORAR meaning to pray. What a humbling experience that was for mi companero y Yo know that in this huge scheme of learning doctrine and planning the lesson was a simple word that we needed to focus on which is orar (to pray). There is only one way you can sincerely know the Power of God and to udnerstand its amazing powers is through feeling the spirit and coming to know him personally through prayer you can receive answer to questions about life, about doctrine, and about eternal happiness. You can truly speak to your Eternal Father in heaven who loves you unconditionaly. For Love is the True Power of God.

 

Yo se que el Evangelio es verdadero y Jose Smith translated El Libro De Mormon. Yo se que El Salvador suffered a trevas el Expiacion. Yo se que soy hijo del Dios.