Bonjour Heureaux Lundi! Monday
9/30/13
This week has been a very crazy and amazing week! Every day this
week we have been practicing for hours all our songs we sang at the Relief
Society Broadcast. On Monday my district got the opportunity to go to a
teaching conference where this guy named Nathan Tanner was teaching new people
that wanted to become employed here at the MTC how to teach. They used us as
the guinea pigs to see how these teachers taught. They first taught us how the
Book of Mormon is the biggest thing in conversion and then the next thing we
had to do was teach the teachers as if they were investigators that the Book of
Mormon can help them in ENGLISH. You would think I would be relived to finally
speak in English but I was freaking out I wasn’t sure what to say because if I
messed up I couldn’t blame it on “I’m just barely learning the language”. I
just said what I felt and it turned out really well. On Tuesday we had a great
devotional by Don Clarke from the 70’s. The day before Jaren had written me an
email saying Justin had taken the Provo MTC president which is President Nally
and all the Utah Mission presidents and some other high up people on some kind
of chuck wagon. Jaren told me that I should go talk to him, so after the devotional
I saw that my district leader was shaking his hand so I made my way over there
and asked him if he had been on a chuck wagon lately. He looked really confused
and said how do you know?! I told him I had gotten a letter. He looked at my
nametag and with a big smile said SISTER DICK it’s so great to meet you! On
Wednesday we got to host all the new missionaries coming in. Over 600 missionaries came in that day; it
was so crazy but a lot of fun to be able to welcome them into this great place.
I feel like it was just yesterday that I was coming in and now this Wednesday I
will be starting my fifth week! It has been very chilly this past week I have
really been missing that warm Hawaii Weather! I haven’t experienced this cold
in a long time and its only the beginning of a very cold winter! I have had to
break out my winter clothes a lot sooner then I expected! On Friday I had to go
to the dentist because a tooth that I just had filled before I came here has
been bothering me the lady at the MTC called my mom as I was inches away from
here to tell here I was having a dentist appointment I could hear her voice and
the lady is very lucky I didn’t rip the phone out of her hands so I could talk
to her. Luckily I restrained my self and just enjoyed hearing my moms voice. I
went to the Dentist and my bite was just off because of that tooth. They fixed
it and had me leaving with no payment in no time. I love being a missionary =)
Saturday with no doubt has been the best, most spiritual day since I have been
here! It was an all day event! We got ready in the morning in our lovely jewel
colored shirts that sister missionaries had to gather from every corner of the
MTC because honestly who wears collared jewel color shirts anymore.. Not me! We
ate lunch and then went to a big room where they called us row by row to get
clothing and make up check. When I went into the Make up room they had 10 older
sisters lined up with different things of makeup. The first sister covered my
face with blush everywhere. Another sister didn't think I even had blush on so
she covered my chin nose cheeks and you name it on my face and neck with more
blush. Thinking I already looked like a tomato, I turned around and to my
surprise another sister was covering my face with blush again! She complimented
on how beautiful my skin was and I couldn’t help to think to my self that
"yes maybe my face was, before but not after all this make up has been on
it I feel like a wall that just got paint smeared all over it!" I hurried
and got my hair inspected by another sister and as I was running out to get
away from that room a different sister stopped me with a foundation brush
because she said she could see a shiny spot! I didn’t care by that point I was
out of there! When we got to Salt Lake, they lined us up by height and
situated us in the loft where we would be singing, the view from up there was
amazing! The Relief Society president and her two councilor’s gave us all a
spiritual thought and how thankful they were for us. I was so grateful they would do that when i
know they already have so much on their plate. When the first councilor
informed us that President Monson would be speaking I had to pick my chin up of
the floor. I could not believe he was speaking I was so excited! While we were
practicing our songs I got to see the lady from my ward that is in charge of
all the flowers for the church. She was
watering all the flowers on the stand. I had heard her tell all the stories
when she taught in my ward back home about creating flower arrangements for all
the conferences, and then I got to see them Saturday! We got to go under the conference
center to this big room where we had a snack and some people applied more
makeup I thought I was good to go for weeks! When we walked back out for the
broad cast and I thought to my self, “wow normal people”! I laughed and thought
ok I have been in the MTC to long to think that! The Broad cast was so amazing!
I couldn’t believe how all the talks were on covenants. I think that is a big hint that they are so
important and we need to keep our covenants! When President Monson spoke it was
crazy for him to be so close instead of watching him on TV. When he spoke about
his wife I cried. You can really tell
how much he loves her! Singing up there was so spiritual and so neat to be able
to hopefully touch many women’s with our singing. After it was over I saw so
many girls look into the audience and see there moms and start bawling it was
so sad! One of my roommates actually saw her mom and gave her a hug! I felt
like someone famous when we walked out of the conference center we had 20 bodyguards
lined up helping us get to our bus across the highway. There were people
screaming out names and WE LOVE SISTER MISSIONARIES it was so cool. On the way
home on the bus we sang hymns and shared our testimony it was great that we
could keep such a great spirit with us all the way home.
This Sunday was a little rough the night before I prayed that I
could some how get some good rest because I was so tired. Well On Sunday
morning I woke up to my companion yelling wake up its 7:00 we have ten minutes
to get to sacrament I guess Heavenly Father answers your prayers in different
ways because for some reason our alarms did not go off! At all the meetings on Sunday
all the presidency complimented us so many times on how great it was. They even
played it at the devotional so we could see it. This Sunday was fast Sunday and
its really easy to fast at the MTC because they don’t serve any food here tell
five. It went really well though and I felt the spirit very strong all
day!
I love being a missionary so much my testimony has grown leaps
and bounds in the little time I have been out! The French is coming I am
starting to get the sentence structure of it all and the different tenses of it
until a French elder going to Tahiti said the prayer for gym and I guess it was
in French but he could of fooled me. It
was the fastest prayer I have ever heard he spoke so fast I could not even kind
of understand it! These French Elders that are going to Montreal with us but
are learning Chinese here always make fun of the Canadian accent they said if
we pick the accent up there they wont talk to us. I’m a little nervous I will
though since they said it sounds like French with a hick accent. I already have
the hick accent down so if I just learn French I would sound like a natural at Canadian
French!
I hope everyone is doing good! And has a great start in October.
I love you all so much and I am so thankful for the support.
Sincerely,
Soeur Dick
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