Hello friends and family!
So it's the start of week seven for us tomorrow, and there is so much going on! I'll start backwards so I can get it all. Tomorrow we get "Nung Thais" (or 'little Thais') which means new Thai missionaries!
YaadYiam! (Awesome and/or tubular)
On Sunday, we got a new branch president (which pains me deeply because Pres. Roach - former Mission President of Illinois Chicago Mission who hurt his back and was reassigned here - was one of the best examples of love and authority I've met. So it was cool to have President Brown, the President of the whole MTC be in our Sacrament meeting, where we also released Elder Tatton from our district leader and also Sis Yeo and Coordinating Sister. BUT, instead our new district leader and new coordinating sister is none other than Elder Bennett and Sister Stoleworthy - the two missionaries I met at the temple before I went in! Amazing how the Lord works!
Also, Elder Creer and I have had one of the best TRCs (Teaching Resource Center, where volunteers spend time with the missionaries as themselves (at least they are themselves in the language department I think...). On Friday, Thursday, all awesome lessons from awesome teachers. Bro. Jenkins and Bro. Day rock the house, and Bro. Day has really helped me a lot this week. Between that and the TRC, where the volunteers gave us some awesome feedback concerning our teaching by the spirit. It's funny that the two volunteers who gave us the best feed back we saw at the temple today! It was trippy (am I allowed to say that?) but awesome. I also did sealings for the first time - and it was so special. The officiator was so full of the spirit and his meekness and love poured out of his heart through his mouth with each word.
I also tried out for a musical number with "Better Than I", which I did so well with the beg help from the spirit, but they do want me to sing something else about Joseph Smith instead (different 'Joseph,' but I'm fine with that! On the day of tryouts, we ran into the MTC President himself and I smiled big at first, and then felt like Adam who wanted to hide with out my suit coat (it was being dry cleaned)! Awesome.
But, if that's not enough, Alex Boye came and spoke to us - craziest fireside I've been to here and one of the better ones I've had in my life. He really emphasized the power in thinking big. Haven't you ever
realized that God never really thinks small? Bro Boye talked about his conversion story in London (it's on Mormon messges), but then told us that you are as good as you think you are. He shared Proverbs 23:7 - "For as a man thinketh... so is he." It TOTALLY makes sense to me that your thoughts are the most powerful resources you have. If you are guilty like me of making negative comments about your self, stop it. You haven't the slightest clue how much damage you cause yourself until you try with much faith to do the reverse - when you have faith to think big, you can start thinking on the Lord's level. When you start thininking on the Lord's level, he can speak about his will to you. And when you can understand the language of His will, miracles happen.
Gtg! think about that
