August 30, 2017
Hello Hello Family!
I made it through another week here at the MTC. There never seems to be enough time in the day to get everything done it's crazy! Time goes so quickly here. My district was in charge of hosting some of the last tours this week, it was fun to see quite a few familiar faces from home, although I missed out on seeing Grandma and Grandpa :( I am glad that the tours are over so we can play indoor volleyball now, our zone is crazy good at volleyball so its good fun!
Super exciting this week in our lessons with our first investigator! We asked Kuthy to get baptized and she said YES! We spent most of our time trying to memorize a baptismal invitation because we wanted to sound sincere when asking her, and we are trying not to read off of scripts anymore. It was a very powerful lesson being able to testify of Christ from the heart instead of off a script. The understanding is still coming, but we can pick out a few words here and there.
There is a flu going around our zone, so almost all of us are sick but we are having a good time! So turns out we don't get to teach Kuthy anymore because she is now another one of our teachers! She is the cutest little Cambodian lady, but she is very hard to understand. She speaks a lot faster than Lokkruu Garlick.
Sunday always seems to be the longest day of the week, but the best. All of us sisters split up the time to teach relief society and I got to talk about faith. I love Doctrine and Covenants 11:17 "And then, behold, according to your desires, yea,even according to your faith shall it be done unto you." I think that is such a cool promise.
Our whole sacrament theme was about charity and love which I think is the most important attribute to develop. I feel that once we develop charity everything else falls into place. As far as our investigators go, once we love them and care about them as Christ does we want to do all we can to help them, and so our studies are more diligent and our intentions are purely on helping them come to Christ. It's really a cool experience to be studying for investigators and trying so hard to be able to focus on their needs and to be able to see others how Christ see's them.
Jesus Christ loves us individually and he knows the desires and intents of our hearts and he is always there for us and wants so badly for us to return to live with Him and Heavenly Father. I am working on developing Charity so that I might be able to be more loving towards others and see everyone how Christ see's them. I want my natural tendency to be to turn outward and help others instead of turning inward. Something that I have been thinking about teaching people is they don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care. I love this gospel and the happiness that it brings into our lives!!! I love being a missionary!
Love you!!
Sister Stratford
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