Week 3 :)
Alright the time is going by way too quickly! I am already almost done with the Provo MTC!! My last classes are tomorrow and this upcoming Wednesday I will be on a plane to South Carolina! It is crazy how quickly this experience has gone by! I have loved pretty much every minute of it. My testimony has grown so much and my love for Jesus Christ has grown even more!!
Anyways this week has been awesome! This last Sunday I got asked to play the piano in sacrament meeting and I assumed it would just be one song but it was all three! I had never played the sacrament hymns before so this was a little bit stressful! I learned the sacrament hymn the day before and it went a lot better than I thought it would! Then like two days later my district decided we wanted to do a musical number for our final Sunday meeting in the MTC and they asked me to play, luckily enough we chose to do a song I already knew which was Peace in Christ! Shout out to Elder Thornton and Elder Penrod because I used to play this song when we would hang out and they would sing and harmonize while I played, it was great!
My district has grown super close these last few days and it is crazy how people you have just met can become like family in such a short amount of time! After every meal besides breakfast we end up sitting at the table and just talking for like an extra thirty minutes which is always fun. The Elders created a little game that we do with the cups that they have in the cafeteria. After everyone is done using the cups the Elders take turns spinning the cups and trying to get them to land right side up! It is surprisingly very entertaining and it really shows how creative you can get with entertaining yourself when you don't have social media!
(we kinda do the same thing every day so there isn't much else so my emails will be a bit more entertaining once I am in South Carolina, so bear with me haha)
SPIRITUAL THOUGHT:
Now everyone tells you how hard a mission is and how to not to go into the mission thinking it is easy. I knew that going into this but of course when things get hard it sometimes takes me a second to realize that it is not the end of the world. I was having an especially hard time one day. I was just missing my family and was overthinking everything that I had said that day in my practice teaching and all those things. I had a split second thought that I was not good enough to be out here and that I should probably just give up now. I didn't actually want to give up but that thought kept popping into my head. So I said a quick prayer and asked for some kind of comfort and peace and for God to just take away these thoughts and feelings that I was having. About an hour later was my last class of the day with my favorite teacher Sister Meldrum! In the third hour we split into groups with her and two other teachers to do a little workshop to improve personal study, companion study, and daily planning. We went with Sister Meldrum first and she was doing personal study and she had felt the need to guide us through a study of Matthew when it talks about Christ's suffering in the garden. She talked about how much Christ suffered and how much he must have felt alone and then she kept repeating what Christ repeated while He was in the garden, "Christ was suffering so much and he pleaded with Heavenly Father to take away his pain. But if it were not possible he would continue to feel this pain because it was God's will, not His that he was to complete." It just hit me so hard and was an amazing reminder that I am here to do God's will and to fulfil that purpose that he gave to me rather than my own and that if it meant that I would feel a little sad and homesick sometimes and for it to be hard that I needed to keep going anyways. I know I can't compare my pain to Christ's pain but her thoughts in class were just an amazing reminder that Christ is our example and that when we follow him we can overcome any feelings of doubt and fear. He loves me and I know that He loves all of you so much and that when we rely on Him, He will lift us up and help carry us all the way!!!
I don't have much else to say besides I love you all so much and miss you all a lot! It will be a little more than a week when I send my next email but I can't wait to hear from you all when I am officially in South Carolina!
Love,
Sister Jolley :)
Sorry for the bad quality but here's PICTURES
1. Video of the game we do in the cafetiera
2. The best mirror in the resident halls
3. My snowman boyfriend
4. Me and Sister Babcock in class
5. Sister Babcock when we couldn't fall asleep one night haha :)
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