Week 5ish this week!
Anyways, thanks for your emails! I love hearing from you guys every week!
This was a very long week! On Monday we did another little 'prank' on one of my teachers, haha. So when we are all on zoom, we are constantly drinking from water bottles right? Well, on monday all of us (including hermano Nelson) had whipped cream bottles too. So instead of drinking water, we were squirting whipped cream into our mouths. Basically to see how many times we could do it before hermana cole said something. It was great. 😂😂 I will send some pictures!
This week has been super good. It was my second to last week, and I am so excited for the field, but I am going to miss my district and my teachers so much! I have gotten so used to spending every day with them (via zoom of course). But I am excited for all my new "hellos"
Speaking of which, I wanna tell you guys something I think is super cool. When we are in the MTC we do something called "one on ones" with our teachers. So basically one teacher will zoom one of us and just ask how we are doing and talk about our concerns or whatever. So in my last one on one I told my teacher that I was really nervous to say goodbye to my family, and basically everything that I have known up to this point. My teacher told me that that is very normal. He said a mission is full of "goodbyes". You will say goodbye to every companion, to your family, to your wards. But he told me that a mission is not about the goodbyes. It is about focusing on the "hellos". I will constantly be getting to know new people, and getting so many "hellos". So every time I have to say goodbye, I can look forward to the next Hello :)
This week was just so good. We had so many spiritually uplifting experiences I don't know which ones to share. But I will tell you guys about one thing that I was trying to work on this past week. So whenever I am teaching a TRC I get a little nervous (which I am sure is normal), but whenever I am nervous I start to forget what to say and I panic and try to just read off my notes instead of letting the spirit guide my words. So this week, I didn't write my lesson plans down. That way when I was teaching, I didn't have anything to look at. So i could just 100% focus on the person I was teaching and what the spirit was telling me. It was super cool and I could definitely tell a difference.
This week I have been feeling super grateful for the Book of Mormon. Isn't is so amazing that we have access to a book that can make us happy every single time we read from it? No matter what I am feeling, whenever I start reading it, I feel calmer, and happier. It is a miracle worker. I am so grateful for it. I love understanding new things about it each day, and learning more about each person in it. We are so blessed to have it as our road map in life. Go read it 😉
What else....
Right! Did you all get to watch our amazing Prophet speak this week? He is just the sweetest, cutest, kindest person ever isn't he?!?! If you didn't get the chance to watch it, stop reading this email and go watch it right now. Or go watch it again. It was great.
I am so grateful for a living prophet who leads and guides this church today. I am thankful for the technology we have to say in touch with each other, and be able to watch the prophet speak. I am grateful for each of you and the impacts you have made on my life. I hope that you all have an amazing week remembering what you are grateful for! :)
Love you all!
Hermana Holt
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