Officially on the downhill here at the MTC. We leave October 17 so less than a month!!! We are all really excited. The weeks just continue to go faster and faster.
Cool experience with TRC this week, we were teaching about faith and how important it is and as I started testifying I just started crying and I felt the spirit so strong it was amazing, I didn't even know what I was saying but it was very powerful for me. The gift of tongues is real as we are diligent in our studies and do all we can to learn this language. The language is coming slowly but surely. We have been focusing a lot on learning script which is crazy hard but so much fun. There are 131 symbols that we have to memorize to be able to read well and I have about half of them memorized. We sing hymns in class everyday and try to read the cambodian words so hopefully by the end of the mtc we will be able to read faster and actually sing the hymn at a normal pace.
Sister Eastmond and I taught relief society this week about the creation the fall and agency. We have really been focusing on asking good questions and trying to have more of a discussion than a lecture as we teach. So we had pondered all week about good questions we could ask and we ended up having a good discussion about these topics. It is so important that we are choosing to have eternal life by the decisions we make daily. I know that repentance everyday is so important to our happiness. Heavenly Father is always there with open arms wanting to help us and guide us. We need to continually choose to come unto Him and let the enabling power of the atonement into our lives.
I watched a talk this week by Elder Bednar about recognizing the spirit. He mentioned how important it is to always strive to keep the commandments and honor our covenants and the Lord will bless our lives and will direct our paths. As we are doing all we can to be good people and to follow the commandments and keep our covenants every good thought that we have is from God. We don't need to sit around and wait for some crazy spiritual prompting to come. We just need to get to work and to always look outward and try to find ways to help other people. I know that the Lord directs our paths when we are being obedient and that as we strive to become as He is, he will place people in our paths that we can help or that will help us. In devotional this week my favorite quote was "When we reach out and succor others the Savior will feel as though we reached out and succored Him." I know that we have an infinitely patient Father in Heaven and he is always willing to help us. We need to do our best to help His children and to be willing to do all the things that he asks of us. He loves us and wants the best for us and everything he does for us is for our benefit.
Have a good week!! I love you guys!
Love Sister Stratford
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