Last Week in Provo

Holá mi familia!

I have been here for two weeks! Sometimes I think about it and it seems like it has gone by so fast, other times it seems like I have been here for months....home life seems like it was a dream.  I think I am being brainwashed.  Just kidding. Sort of

I head out into Peru in 6 days!  Yahoo!

Mom, Dear Elder works super great here at the MTC because I get the letters the day you send them to me.  It was fantastic. :)  I heard that it takes a month to get mail in Peru....so everyone should write me now before I leave!  My teacher also said that when I get down there,  there is a purple looking juice and it is NOT grape juice.  Good to know.  Its like corn something.  I forgot what it is called.

Guess who I saw yesterday?  Rachel Jackson!  Remember her from Texas?  She just moved in to the apartment next door to me.  It is so fun to see people here you know.

Ok so let me just say something right now.  I keep getting letters saying people are having surgery and heart attacks and no one ever gives me any details so the only thing I can do is pray that my entire family is still alive. I keep getting letters from you, so I know at least you are breathing.  I am glad to hear that everything is OK though!  I worry about you guys!  I love you!

Mom and David, I hope you are having so much fun at Education week!  You will have to tell me all the things you learned!  Clark and Dad, please take care of yourselves!

Oh yeah, I wanted to tell you we call our teacher the Jedi Master.  First, because he has Jedi-like reflexes.  Serious.  And second, because without fail every day during a lesson he will stop for a moment and say "we need to turn to the scriptures.  Specifically to.....blank.  I swear he has the entire standard works memorized.  This week he turned us to Deut. 31:4 ( i hope that is what it is) and it was awesome.  And I just learned yesterday that he was a convert at 18 years old!  WOW!

And let me tell you something I experienced this week.  Yesterday was our first day to go to the TRC, training resource center.  It is where people come to volunteer to be investigators and we pretend to knock on their door and all that.  So I taught two people yesterday.  The first time it was so funny, because me and my companion had jotted down some notes of things we wanted to say in Spanish, but when we knocked on her door, she said sorry but she only spoke English!!!  If only that were to happen in Peru, right!? :)  The second time was an older guy who spoke only Spanish, and this was the coolest experience I have had so far.  We just started talking to him you know, about how he has a loving heavenly father and how families are a part of God's eternal plan.  Then my companion felt inspired to share a scripture with him that we had previously prepared for another investigator a couple of days ago.  It was 1 Ne 8:10-12 when Lehi talks about the joy of the fruit of the tree of life and how after partaking of the fruit he desired to share it with all his family.  It brought the spirit so strong into the room and touched the investigators heart so much he began to cry and said that this is what he needed to be reminded of because he has an inactive brother and he knows that he can share the gospel with his family and maybe his brother will one day feel the love of God.  I was able to bear testimony in spanish that I know that the love of our Father in Heaven is available to all people if they are willing to come unto Christ.  It is so amazing to see the Holy Ghost prick the heart of the investigator.  That was my favorite experience this week.  After that meeting my companion and I just hugged each other and got really excited about this work.  God know's everyones needs.

Well, I am off to Peru this week!  I love you all!!  Until Peru (WOW!!)

Hermana Lindsey