Hello everyone!!
Wow it's been a while since my last email... so much has happened!! From my last week in the MTC to my first week on Temple Square.. here are my favorite parts.
1) The Saturday before we got to Temple Square, we took a field triip there! It was really fun, and then we were challeneged to give away a Book of Mormon on our way back. So Sister Dossett and I were walking on the platform, and we had an hour to wait for our train. We saw this guy sitting in the corner, and we walked over to talk to him. His name was Darius and he was so sad. We don't know why he was so upset, but he was just so heavy. So we started talking to him about how Heavenly Father loves him. We all got on the train, and we kept talking to him. He asked us a question, he said"What made you pick me? Out of all the people on the platform for you to talk to you, why did you pick me?" I just said to him, Dairus we represent Jesus Christ and every day we go and find those people that He wants us to talk to. Today He wanted us to talk to you, and tell you He loves you. Darius just looked at us and was almost crying. He then said, I dont deserve that kind of love and he got up and walked away. We hurried and wrote little messages into a Book of Mormon, and then found him and gave it t him. THEN THE TRAIN HIT TWO COWS. It broke down, and was stuck for an hour. After that hour Sister Friel and Sister Madeux sat down with him and started talking to him. He was totally different, he was happy and smiling. And he said he was going to read the whole Book of Mormon and gave them his information for them to contact him later. So cool!!!! Not so good for Ben&Jerry though (the cows)
2) Our first day was crazy. We did some practices where we went and found the panic pulls and did all the security stuff to make sure we know how to be safe and how to contact security should a creeper try to creep on us haha. Then we got our companions! My companion is Sister Aguilar and she is amazing. She's from Guatamala and has been out for 8 months. Her English is so good and she's also the Spanish language coordinator. So that means we get to do cool stuff! Like give the tour of the Humanitarian Center to all the foreign dignitaries coming in to Salt Lake City next week to meet with the Quorum of the 12 Apostles! We're way excited! She's so funny, I'm so glad she's my compaion. It's a lot of fun giving tours, it's really cool how we can share the history of this place and also have the gospel still be ahuge part of it.
3)The Beehive House. My first assignment is the Beehive House, so I have a 2 hour shift there every day, even though when it is changes throughout the week. The Beehive House is Brigham Young's house, and it's so cool! The first tour Igave of it was with Sister Aguilar, and she thought Ihad already given a tour of it before... but in reality Ihad just read the site guide so Ialready knew a ton of the information about the house. Until we got to the last room... I hadn't read that page yet. So she started and then she stopped and it was my turn to talk more about the history... but Ihad no idea about anything in that room. I din't even know what room it was supposed to be! A living room?I had no idea. So I just pointed at the modern picture of Jesus on the wall and said, and my favorite part f this room is this painting of Jesus. Even if it wasn't originally part of the house. S.Aguilar almost died laughing. She kept it together really well but that's when she realized I hadn't given a tour of the place before ahahaha.
4)So here's a little of how missionary work here is... let's take the tabernacle for instance. In the tabernacle we'll share some of the history of the building, do the acoustic demonstration, and then we'll say something like.. this building was so important for the early members of the church because it was here that they came to listen to the prophet. We believe in modern prophets and apostles, the same organization that Christ had when he was alive we have today. Namely a prophet and 12 apostles. Those leaders give us the information we need to be able to make it back to live with our Father in Heaven again... and then we talk about the gospel and about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. It's really cool how we do it. In the Beehive house yesterday, we gave away 7 Books of Mormon!Because after the tour people would ask us for them! We also do online. Yesterday I picked upa call and she was asking for a Finding Faith in Chrsit CD. I asked her if she'd ever heard of the Book of Mormon before and then got to teach the restoration to her all over the phone. I asked her if upon reading the Book of Mormon if she found it to be true would she get baptized and she said yes! We're excited to call her back next week and then work with her local missionaries to see how she's doing. So that's a little of how it works here. Feel free to email me questions:)
5) We got a seriously golden investigator yesterday. His name is Leo, and he speaks Spanish. He told us this: he got to work and then they told him that it was his day off. So he started walking home, and walking home he passed Temple Square. Something in him told him he needed to go inside. So he did, and started walking around the Temple Grounds. The grounds are a little above the rest of the square, so while he was up there he saw Sister A and I holding our sign for the Spanish tour. He felt like he needed to be in that tour. So he came down, but passing us he decided he didn't want to anymore so he just kept walking. He got to the gate to leave TSquare when something in him said No. You need what they have. So he turned around to come back to where we were but we were gone!Then someone opened the door to the Tabernacle, which he thought was closed, and asked if he wanted to go inside. He said okay, and when he walkedi n there we were with the family that wanted to see our tour! So he walked over towards us, but not wanting to interrupt he stood a little away until we looked over at him and said, "Hola! Do you want to join our tour?" So he did. From our side, we had seen him walk past us and we had smiled at him and Ihad said Hola! To him and he just kept walking. So when we saw him come into the tabernacle we knew who he was and invitd him to join our tour. After the tour he told us this experience, and he took a Book of Mormon and gave us his information. He's coming to conference with us this Sunday! Woop woop!! We play it in Spanish in the Assembly Hall. We're so excited!!
6) I use Spanish every day here. I teach a lot in Spanish, possibly more than English. I got approvd for the Spain flag, so that should be getting here soon!I'm excited about that. Most of the people we talk to ask me if I'm from there and why I have the USflag ahaha.
7) This is such a cool and unique mission. I really understand more greatly why Heavenly Father wanted me to come here, and I'm so grateful for this call to be on Temple Square. Now that I'm here, I wouldn't want to serve anywhere else. I love learning the history and being able to share the gospel at the same time. It's so easy to talk to people here, and it's something special to be on temple grounds 24/7. We have these cool access cards that get us into all thetunnels and fun hiding places around temple square. We have fun.
Well, I love you all and I hope you have an amazing week!! I love this gospel and know it's true. I love the Book of Mormon, I love reading it every day. It's because of the Book of Mormon that I, and anyone else, can know that this church is true. I love my Savior Jesus Christ. I love being able to represent Him. It's a good life.
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