So this is my last week in the MTC! This place has come to be my home, and i've loved it, even though some days are the worst... its really strange how time works here, the days go by super slow but then the weeks go by super fast. People that have been here know what I'm saying. Anyways, this week was really effective, we stepped it up again and have just been working super hard, trying to get fluent and to learn as much as we can. anybody watch that conference talk i told you to watch? Elder Holland october 2009 conference. sooo good. just take some time to do it cuz it will strengthen your testimony. anyways a couple cool things happened this week, we met with the argentine consulate person, we had to get finger printed, and sign stuff in front of her. she talked to us about argentina and it was neat. also the head teacher on our floor is from my mission and so we've been talking to him a lot lately he is super awesome! he's going to try and hook us up with referrals and whatnot.
Yesterday we taught his friend in TRC who is also from buenos aires but not my mission and that was also cool to get another opinion from her. I'm getting super excited, i have been trying not to look forward to it too much because i knew it would make time go slower but now that its here im freaking out! we had infield orientation yesterday which is an all day class/workshop thingy about the field. it was so long but good. I think im ready, even though we are leaving like a week early haha. My spanish is decent, i can understand most things my teachers say and most of the stuff the girl we taught last night said. we listened to conference talks in espanol and that was crazy hard though. so i still am just not sure how its going to be.
Anyways, i got to host dave wright this week! it was super awesome, i saw him, joe, dan and bro and sister wright. It was so awesome just to see someone from home, and yeah, it just made me so happy. somebody give sister wright a big hug for me cuz it was really hard not to! Anyways dave was so happy to get in here. he's going to be an awesome missionary! the Corner Canyon 2nd is well represented here at the MTC! we're all over the place! Now its finally my turn to say goodbye and get out there and preach the gospel. I have lots of pictures im getting developed right now and i'll send them home before i leave. i got lots of just random ones cuz i just wanted lots of pictures. i like pictures/memories :)
We had some free time yesterday and i got to play some piano! :D it was the best. seriously words can't describe. trying to learn some himnos but i stink at reading music, but i kinda made up a medley of a few of them. haha its not that good but it sounds pretty. anyways... idk what else happened this week.
Oh yeah ok so good spiritual experience this week but its hard to explain... actually i dont think i can... but we had a decent fireside tuesday but afterwords we were reflecting on it and the spirit came in and i just learned a lot. hard to explain and probably sounds dumb but then right after, an hermana in our district was asking president for a blessing and elder buxton and i were asked to come help because we're zl's but then president asked me to give the blessing and i froze. I was terrified... i've never done it before, didn't know what i was going to say, or anything! but i've been trying to rely on the lord more lately and to just have more faith, and this was my chance to show some faith. So i just cleared my mind and did it. I think it went well. But i think back to president bednar's talk about how can we know if we're being prompted. his answer was "quit worrying about it!" if we are doing our best, being a good boy/girl, keeping our covenants/commandments, then our thoughts will be in tune with what god wants. I feel like that was the case during the blessing. I dont know about anyone else but it at least was a big faith builder for me.
I was also thinking, when we were teaching our investigator about the importance of the sabbath day and i realized that my whole life i haven't done as good a job as i need to keeping it holy. I am going to be out there asking people to take extreme measures so that they can keep it holy and i just haven't thought too much of it my whole life. Some people that are in humble circumstances quit their jobs, and put their families health/living conditions on the line just to keep the sabbath holy. anyways so we should keep the sabbath day holy.
i have to go for now but i'll write again later.
Love youElder Skousen
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