Dear Pamilya!!

 

I have I more week left in the MTC!! Yah!! We got our flight plans yesterday! I was jumping up and down everywhere!!! So masaya :) I leave the MTC AUG 12 at 7:30am Monday morning, fly out of Salt Lake at 11:15am and get into Portland OR at 2:10 and then leave for Tokyo Japan at 4:55pm.....then fly to Manila Philippines!!! WHOO!

 

This week has been crazy!! I have exciting news! I was called as the NEW SISTER TRAINING LEADER!! The training book is new and fresh off the press. We are the second group to use them. I love being a sister training leader! I have this overwhelming love for each and everyone of my sister, from Heavenly Father. I was in charge with our zone leaders to welcome the new missionaries in our zone and have an orientation for them. We also started having nightly mini devotionals in our room with all the sisters in our zone. We have an exciting news moment, scripture, and a prayer. It has gotten all of us to each to know each other better and build a sisterhood. I love them all so much. I know that this is the work of the Lord. Being at the MTC has strengthened me so much. We also had 4 new international sisters/elders come into our zone where we got to spend the the second half of the day with them! They are so fun and so sweet. I love new cultures, they are from the island of Kitapiss.

 

My kasama and I were both chosen to help train the new missionaries in the "how to begin teaching". We got to be the example missionaries when a whole group of new missionaries watched us and talked about how we taught. I haven't taught a lesson in English, so it was hard to not let the Tagalog words slip out. We taught Jose and Barbra. Even if they were not real investigators, the spirit was still so strong.

 

Something funny happened the other day, sister keith and i were laying on the cement wedges while doing personal study time. A brethren walked up to us and said, what are you sisters doing? Missionary Planking?? Haha, we laughed and that we weren't allowed to sit on the grass. He said, who told you that? I am his boss, you study on the grass! Hah, it was Richard Heaton!! It made us laugh.

 

Tagalog is coming...I have been trying to get the grammar down better this week. Our conjugations sound like gibberish haha, when we are all talking at once, it sounds funny.

 

Here is my purpose sa Tagalog:

 

Ang Layunin Mo,

 

Imbitahin ang iba na lumapit Kay Cristo sa pagtulong sa Kanila na matanggap any ibinalik na ebanghelyo sa pamamaigitan ng pananampalatya Kay Cristo, pagsis, binyag, pagtanggap ng Kaloob na Espiritu Santo, at pagtitiis hanggang wakas.

 

I have been learning at the MTC to seek to live a higher life. To be more pure, obedient and righteous. To always do the things that will please my Heavenly Father. St John 8:29

H Bryan Richards gave a Tuesdays devo and said, Missionaries are like diamonds against the black velvet. That what a tragedy it would be if we were not prepared for our finest hour. I know that this is one of my finest hours, to bring the world its truth. I need to be as prepared as i can!

 

Alam ko po na totoo simban ni Jesucristo!

Mahal Kita!!

 

Sister Reed