Dear Family,
Thank you so much for you
letters! They made me so happy! Ha Ha so yesterday my district leader
came up to me when I was getting my dinner and showed me his pocket that
was full of letters just for me, but he wasn't allowed to give them to
me until after dinner. I couldn't wait to read them!
I'm
glad you got the picture of me and my companions. The lady who sent you
the email is in Sister Sanders' ward at home... I think. Sister Sanders
is the one with the blonde hair and she is from Spanish Fork. Sister
Markowitz is my other companion and she is from Hawaii. Pretty cool,
huh? Her family made her a candybar lei and she was nice enough to share
with us this afternoon. They both went to BYU before they decided to
come on a mission. (I thought you boys would appreciate that.) Oh! And
Sister Sanders' dad also comes from a family with 13 kids! Crazy!
The
MTC is great! I can't believe I have been here for almost a week! I
have learned so much. We have role play which is when one of our
teachers pretends to be an investigator. It is super hard, but I feel
like I learn the most from that. The second councilor in the branch
presidency met with me and told me that he hopes that I have a low point
while here at the MTC. I thought, "psh! Whatever! That's just not going
to happen to me." and "why would you say that?! You want me to have a
low point? That's not very nice." But then he said, "Because then you
will come unto Christ."
Well, I have had low
points. Yes, 'points' as in plural. But the low points come from not
having the Spirit while teaching lessons. When the "investigator"
doesn't seem to feel the Spirit during the lesson. Then we come out
thinking, "what did we do wrong?" But then my companionship thinks of
what we can do better, and then we work on it. I think that we all work
really well together.
We have class for six hours
every day in three hour blocks. The last half hour of class we teach an
investigator. We learn new things in class every day, and my companions
and I look at each other and say, "well, I wish we had known that before
we taught our investigator last night." I know that the MTC is here for
us so we can learn how to teach by the Spirit. I thought it would be
easy, but it turns out there is a lot I still need to learn. Something
we are constantly told is that we need to teach people, not lessons.
Everyone is different. We need to figure out what the investigator needs
and how we can apply the gospel to them.
Tyler, I
hope your birthday was a lot of fun! And I totally know how you feel.
Since my birthday is also the first of the month, when it lands on a
Sunday it is also a fast Sunday. -Oh, and Sunday was great! Although, it
just felt like any other day of the week.
Kyle, I love you and I hope you are having fun with baseball! You are super cool dude!
Ryan, that is awesome! I'm glad your team is doing so well! I hope you have a great Birthday on Sunday!
Spencer, I hope you had fun at scout camp!
Rachel,
I love you and your letter made me laugh!
Mom, I love you so much! Thank you so much for all of the letters! And love! Did I mention that I love you?!
Dad,
I like the sound of Sister Scott, too. Thank you for all you have done
for me. Also, I'm thinking about keeping your white shirt to remind me
of you throughout my mission! ...just kidding. I will get that back to
you.
Ah! My time is almost up!
I love you all! Thank you so much for your love and prayers! Talk to you again next week!
Love,
Sister Janielle Lee Bug Scott
