Hola familia!
I can't believe I'm leaving tomorrow!! Um...are y'all alive?? I hope you're updating my blog! I got your dearelders and what not but hey, you can email me!! Thank you so much for the package grandmother and thanks fam for the delicious cupcake, it was just what I needed! I hope I haven't gained like 10 pounds here lol..Where to begin...Last wednesday during class, our teacher and Elder Wardle did a role play with Sister Montierth. Sister Montierth was the investigator and Elder Wardle and Brother Carter were the missionaries..Brother Carter asked Sister Montierth if she would think of someone personal in her life who would need to hear their lesson. She picked her less active brother. Brother Carter then asked the rest of us to think of someone that would need to hear it as well. So, I picked Matt. Elder Wardle and Brother Carter spoke with such power and the spirit was so strong that Sister Montierth began to cry. I could feel so much love for Matt and I could feel how much the Savior loves Matt. So that was a really amazing experience..
On Saturday, my companions and I taught a lesson with a new investigator and I felt so utterly alone. I couldn't feel the Spirit, I didn't really desire to be there, and my companions just wouldn't talk at all. So at every long awkward pause, I expected them to jump and help but they wouldn't! I was in total disbelief. We left the lesson and I was being selfishly sorry for myself. We went back to the classroom and waited for our class instruction to start. Exhaustion swept over me and the only thing that I wanted to look at was the back of my eyelids...As class began we were asked to study, converson. I said a humble prayer and asked for the Lord to help me wake up and to help me feel the Spirit. For the past day I had really been strugglying with trying to discern if I was being prompted by the Spirit or if it was just my thoughts. This problem would rule my thoughts during lessons that we would teach and I think that it was really starting to affect me.
I kept thinking that I needed to expect a miracle...every..day...We moved on from personal sutdying and our substitut teacher said that we would now talk about promptings and our thoughts. Um. Wow. Thank you Heavenly Father! We watched a clip of Edler Bednar giving a talk at the MTC...He said, "How do you tell when you're being prompted? Is it your thoughts tell you something? Or is it the Lord?" He then said something that took me by surprise, "Don't worry about it!" If it is something good, it is from God. After the video, we read Moroni 7 as a companionship and I could feel the spirit so strongly. Brother Larson, our sub, came over to my comps and I and said, "I feel prompted to share this personal story with you." At the time, we were reading about through faith, angels minister to us and miracles never cease. So he (bro larson on his mission) said that he went to an investigator's home for a lesson and met the woman outside her house. She had been living with her husband in her sister's house. Bro Larson said that he saw the sister (less active but served a mission) inside the house staring at him. She began to cry her eyes out. So he went inside to see what was going on. She proceeded to tell him that she saw angels surrounding him. Wow. He said that he could feel them but he couldn't see them! I know that angels will be with me every step of the way.
At times I question why am I really here. But then I think about all of the people in the world who are just waiting for the gospel. And if I want so badly for Dad to join the church, think of how many people want their family members to join! This gospel is so true and I'm so excited to finally get to Houston. I've been waiting for 5 stinking months!
Sunday was fantastic! In the morning, all of the sisters gathered in the auditorium to watch Music and the Spoken Word (Mormon Tabernacle Choir program). After that, we had Relief Society and the guest speaker was Carole Mikita, a salt lake city anchor who's relatively famous in Utah haha...She shared her story of how she found the church...As a child, the missionaries knocked on her door, the very last house on the street...Years later she was baptized and one by one, her family members were. Her family was eventually sealed in the temple in the 90s! One thing that she said really struck me...."The Lord opens eyes, hearts, and minds when the time is right." This brought me comfort because it made me think about Dad. For the past 19 years I've wanted for him to be baptized. But his eyes, heart, and mind haven't been opened. He's simply, not ready. For the past two weeks I've really begun to understand this concept. It's all about timing and it's in the Lord's timing, I know that things will work out!
For Sacrament meeting, our district sang Be Still Soul....We got to go to the departure devotional because we leave on Wednesday!!! President Nally said that we're the largest group to ever leave the MTC this week...974 amazing missionaries!!! This past week was the "peak" for missionaries in the MTC...Meaing that the MTC was at its largest occupancy EVER. It's amazing to think that I'm a part of this historic year! President Nally also said that no matter how hot, cold, wet, dry, or humid your mission might be, there's no such thing as bad weather! HA! I could really use some help from the Lord because I'm going to melt!
Some interesting things that he said:
-Don't give up on the call the Lord gave you.
-Your mission experience is the MTC for the rest of your life and the next.
-The number of missionaries in the MTC has doubled since January.
For the regular sunday night devotional here's a couple of bullet points:
-You're not "finding" anyone, God has already found them The only one that is lost is you! Find yourself!
-God gives people more than one opportunity to hear and accept the gospel.
-Look for God's hand in all things..
Well fam, time is up and I can't wait to leave...This is craziness!! This is what my itinerary looks like for tomorrow...Fly out of SLC at 6 am...Arrive in Dallas/Fort Worth at 9:40 am...Leave Dallas at 12:35 (gross layover), and land in Houston Intercontinental at 1:40 pm...I'll be calling home (hawaii) at the crack of dawn...Expect a phone call around 5 am haha PLEASE HAVE YOUR PHONES ON SO I DONT HAVE TO WASTE MY PHONE MINUTES repeatedly calling you.....I can't wait to talk to you!!!!!!!!! And...I'll try and give Matt a phone call! So give Matt a heads up!!
I love you all so much and the Church is true!!!
Love Sister Seymour
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