August
24, 2019
Hola!!
These past few days
have been CRAZY! My flight from Connecticut left at 5:50am on Wednesday and I
got to the MTC in Provo around 12:45. I'm in a trio (I have two companions)
which is super fun - their names are Hermana Glatt and Hermana Parker, from
Colorado and Salt Lake City. Somehow, we all got into the intermediate
Spanish class, so we're moving very fast haha. We learned how
to pray in Spanish yesterday, how to introduce ourselves the day before and
tonight we're learning how to testify. Also, there's this thing called syl
which stands for "speak your language", so theoretically, we're
supposed to try saying EVERYTHING in Spanish and if we don't know something we
ask, "me permite hablar en ingles?" (will you allow me to speak in English?)
and then we can say some words in English. THEN, we look the words up, write
them down and try to use them in the future. We're doing so so at that...We may
be struggling a little.
In addition to
companionships, we have districts, which are just the people in our Spanish
class. Because we're in the intermediate class, our district is really small,
so there's us three, a trio of Elders, and a companionship of Elders. They're
all really fun and good at Spanish so that's good. Our teacher's name is
Hermana Silva, she served her mission in Mexico City and got home about a year
ago. I'm pretty sure we're supposed to have two teachers, but so far we've just
had her and then last night we combined with another district of like 20 Elders
so it was just us sisters ☹. Anyway, the teacher is from Texas!! He is a
native speaker; his parents are Mexican but he grew up in Puerto Rico/ Texas so
he "speaks both languages perfectly" according to himself. But it was
super cool because he just talked so fast and all in Spanish and I could
understand him!! Very exciting.
This week we all had
to pick a Christlike attribute to work on. I chose charity, which is the pure
love of Christ. 1 Peter 4:8 says, "And above all things have fervent
charity among yourselves: for charity preventeth a multitude of sins." I
really like the scripture because I've noticed that when I just focus on loving
people, it helps me resist temptation, makes me a happier person, and helps me
to be more focused on Christ. It's so important for us to see everyone as God
sees them - as sons and daughters of God.
I hope everyone is
having a great week! Thanks for the emails, and sorry if I didn't respond, it's
been SO busy!
Love,
Hermana Coleman
