It's All Bright in Argentina!

Hola! The MTC has been so amazing this week! We've had so many spiritual experiences.  Sunday devotionals were super awesome, and then we had another amazing devotional on Tuesday! And that was in the Marriot Center for the first time ever!!! How crazy is that? It was so weird to be in the Marriot Center...my worlds collided! Especially because I was sitting by Sister Gabrielle Cruz and Sister Carley Porter, friends from college. So crazy! But so great!! The Spanish is definitely coming along now! We have a saying here in the MTC (or CCM in espanol) which is Speak Your Language! So we try to speak our language all day every day, which is how we can learn it faster.

So a couple funny stories about this week: Our investigator Carlos was having problems remembering to pray, so my companion and I gave him a prayer rock to put by his bed and remind him to pray! Hahaha it was so great! I love prayer rocks! But then the next day, he was our teacher!!!! And he definitely had a good laugh with us about the rock.  He said it's now on display in his apartment haha. But it's so great because we can have immediate feedback now as we teach him about what we need to improve on.  He's definitely going to push us to be way better. But anyway...PRAYER IS SUPER IMPORTANT! Let me know if any of you want a prayer rock, because prayer is definitely the best thing that you can do to receive help with anthing.

About Monday and Tuesday was when our minds stopped working.  No one in my district could speak in either English OR Spanish well hahaha it was basically a train wreck. But we got through it and now both languages are doing great again!
Sorry about the no names on the picture last week! So Hermana Albright (me! haha) is on the far right, with her companion Hermana Stanley.  Hermana McChesney (Brown hair) and her companion Hermana Hafen (blonde hair) are in the middle (if I'm remembering correctly...I can't see the picture right now haha whoops. They both have super long hair though if I'm wrong about where they are in the picture).  They are both going to Argentina Neuquen too! And Hermana McChesney was one of the girls that I was able to meet before. And then Hermana Roper (blonde) and Hermana Peterson (brown) are both going to Peru.  They were supposed to go to the MTC there but they haven't gotten their visas yet.  I love them all so much! They're all super nice, super funny, and super spiritual.  It's awesome.

We got a new district in our zone this week, so I am now a parent! Haha it's crazy how fast everything comes here! But it's great.  And I was called as the Online Coordinater, so I have been able to spend a lot of time with this new district.  They're all super awesome and going to be amazing missionaries.  All the sisters are going to Guatemala and the Elders are going to Mexico City West! So Elder LeFevre is going to be getting a small army in a couple of weeks! They're amazing.

Oh and something really weird happened...our teacher is now our new investigator! He has been our spiritual giant this whole time, the one that helps us to always have the Spirit and reminds us of the importance of our work, and now we have to help him overcome problems. :/ As we say in espanol, que raro! We teach both our investigators again on Monday so I'll let you know how that goes!

One thing that is really cool in our zone is that we have a motto "Obedience brings blessings.  But EXACT obedience brings miracles."  I have definitely found that to be true so far! As we are all obedient to the standards that we have been given, we have been able to have the Spirit guide us in our lessons and have been able to learn Spanish super well.  It's awesome! And it applies to real life as well :D because who doesn't need a little miracle or two in their life? Living by the standards is such a blessing and will help us be able to feel closer to the Savior and be happy.

 

A Dios!

Hermana Albright