WOW! things here are amazing!!! So the first day when Sherri dropped me off my like escort dude took me to go get my tags and put my luggage in my room and all that fun stuff then he took me to my classroom where my district and teacher was and the teacher spoke only in Spanish!!!! it was really really hard to understand him but we kinda just got introduced and then we got our books and went to this devotional with the MTC president and we just talked with him about a mission and sang called to serve! and after that just dinner and unpacking haha day two we went to class and just studied hard on Spanish and we learned that we would be teaching our first investigator the next day!!!!! which was super scary because it was all in Spanish! Then at night on Thursday we went and met our branch president and just talked with him and his counselors! On Friday it was a day to basically get your lesson ready for our investigator Antonio. Then and night me and Elder Ketcum my companion taught him and it went horrible hahaha but we were told we had to teach him again the next day so we just studied hard and revised how we were going to teach a lesson! so when Saturday came and we taught Antonio, we taught about how God loves him and we actually got him to pray with us!!!!!!! it was amazing and i was like crying the whole time he was praying!!!! So up to that point i had been having fun but everything was super hard to adjust to and i really didn't know what to do but everyone in our zone was just telling our district that when you make it to Sunday everything gets better! AND IT TOTALLY DID!!!!! Sunday was so amazing being able to just take a break from Spanish and to really learn from the spirit! Sunday night we had a devotional on repentance and it was just pure AWESOME! i don't remember who the speaker was but it was great!!!! Then after that we watched a video by David A Bednar about the Character of Christ its was like a huge slap in the face!! and there is sooooo much i can work on to gain the character of Christ! Then Monday was just a normal day we were supposed to teach Antonio but my companion had to go meet with the district president, so i didn't get to teach so we just studied hard on Spanish! Then yesterday was just a normal day EXCEPT we had a devotional and guess who came?!?!?! David A Bednar i was sitting so close to him hahaha but his talk was amazing it was on General Conference which is kinda a strange topic but it was like amazing! he basically told us that after general conference we NEED to study the talks again and live those principals from the talks in the next 6 months then he gave us ways to study the talks!!! In ever general conference talk there is a main principal or doctrine, a invitation to act, and a promised blessing!! If you find those and really live them you will be soooo much better off!!! This morning we went to the Temple like early early, right as we woke up and our district did an endowment session and then went to the baptistery and did some confirmations! haha it was amazing! i felt so much peace and love from my heavenly father, i know this is exactly where i am supposed to be!! I love the Lord with every fiber of my being! I know that the prophet is called of God and that the 12 apostles are too! I love all of you guys thank you so much for your support!!!!
Elder Bigelow
"tengo gozo en mi alma hoy"
only like the best hymn in Spanish ever (there is sunshine in my soul today)
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