Week 2!!

At the Temple

Here I am in the second week of my MTC experience! Crazy! I attached some pictures. One of them is a picture of our view from our class room. It's lovely. This week has been so great! I love being here. This MTC must have been made just for me. Last week I really had no idea what to say, so this week I've been keeping track of things I want to tell you all:

First of all, Sister Arnold and I became Sister Trainer Leaders this week. It may or may not be because we were the only Sisters at the MTC at the time, but its all good. We go to leadership meeting each Sunday with all the district leaders, zone leaders, and the president. We discuss needs of missionaries and such. It's a lot like BYC so I like it a lot because I always enjoyed BYC.

The view from the England MTC

One skill that I've really appreciated having while here at the MTC is my overall familiarity with music. I cannot tell you how many times I've had to conduct and play the piano. This Sunday, our district is singing Nearer My God to Thee in German. I will be covering the alto part. Knowing music has just been so helpful. Anyone going into the MTC anytime soon, I hightly recommend being somewhat familiar with music, you will appreciate it so much.

Conference was this week was so good! 

I felt the Spirit more here than I ever have at conference before...maybe because I am a missionary. Anyways, something that really struck me was Elder Rasband's talk. It was the first talk in the first session, but I know it was something I really needed to hear. He talked about the little girl named Tori who was in a school bathroom during a tornado and prayed for safety. I just loved that so much, becuase Heavanly Father is always there to answer the prayer of a little girl. Wether it be a little girl hiding in a bathroom or a little girl in England learing to be a missionary, he is always there to answer our prayers.

Another thing I learned this week during my personal study was from a scripture, 3 Nephi 13:28 "Consider the lilies of the field; how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin."I'm sure many of you are familiar with that phrase from the song, but seeing it in the scriptures changed the meaning for me. I want to grow like I lily. I shouldn't toil or else I can't be as strong as I want to be. I can't really explain what that scripture meant to me, but I liked it a lot.

The District

My district figured out German sentence structure this week: you simply have to talk like Yoda. Put the words in the most not logical order: We must to church go or Wir mussen zu Kirche gehen. See, it's easy. Actually the German is coming along really well. I am super far from perfect and have plenty of grammar to figure out, but I can converse pretty well, so I'm going to keep truckin along. My favorite word this week: Kichern=to giggle.

Here's a funny mishap that happene in class. We were rollplaying and I was the investigator. An Elder told me "If you read the Book of Mormon and study it, you'll have obedience to your mother". I guess we still have work to do, but we were all laughing about it.

That's all I have for this week, but WRITE ME LETTERS! Seriously though mail is the best thing ever next to the gospel. Have a great week and make good choices :) Sister Smiley