Hola everyone!
I don't have a lot of time to write today, since today is General Conference and I don't get a real p-day today, so this email is going to be a little shorter than normal. I can't believe I'm half way done with my time in the MTC! Wow! This week has been really good. It's been a lot of learning, teaching, and being led by the spirit. Our "investigator", Diana, pretty much agreed to get baptized this week which was awesome. On Wednesday my district did our first English fast, and oh man was that muy dificil. Literally a whole day of speaking nothing but Spanish has probably been one of the hardest things I've had to do at the MTC so far, but I was very successful in speaking, conjugating, and translating in my head; not to brag but I feel very proud of myself. It was a good reminder to me that I am not learning Spanish for myself, but for those people who I will be teaching the gospel to.
If you were not planning on watching General Conference this weekend, I STRONGLY suggest you do so. General Conference is a time when we get to hear the words of and sustain our wonderful prophets and apostles. Today's sessions (and the Women's session) were absolutely fantastic, I urge you all to go and watch them if you haven't already. My favorite talk has definitely been President Uchtdorf's talk, where he said that we all hear the call of God, and how blessings will come to us when we make the pilgrimage back to our heavenly home. As a missionary, this talk really reflected the missionary purpose in my mind, to invite others to come unto Christ and, like it says in Moses 1:39, to "bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man". It's my job as a missionary to help people heed to the call of the Lord and to lead them back into the arms of our Heavenly Parents. As I've listened to the Lord and heeded this call in my own life, I have seen the blessings in my life and the blessings in the lives of people around me. I love this gospel, I love being a missionary, I love my Father in Heaven, and I love my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I love all of you so much and I hope everyone has a wonderful week this week!
-Hermana Peterson
Receiving a package from home
Watching General Conference at the MTC
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