Week 4

WEEK FOUR

This week we got to teach Plan of Salvation at the TRC. But we didn't find this out till wednesday! Therefore we didn't have much time to prepare. This lesson was so hard for me to teach. Everytime we did a pratice I never, ever knew what to say. I know the material, but to put into words was beyond me. Thursday night I prayed for help and the next day i had such an easier time explaining principles from Plan of Salavtion during our practice lessons. But come TRC day I was not in the best of moods. I didn't feel prepared at all or that I even knew my Korean task and when we did the task i actually forgot alot of it. When it came around to teaching the lesson, I prayed that I would feel the Spirit and know what to teach.

The investisgator asked about why she would need to get baptized agian? She was Catholic and had already been baptized. I was able to bear witness to her about the importance of authority and baptism by immersion, sharing scriptures along the way. Then my companions also bore witness. It was awesome, defiantly the highlight of the lesson. After the lesson, the investistgator (who was a returned missionary from Chicago) said if we would have asked she would hasve been baptized! Me and my companions were like "oh no", because that was not the commit we had asked her to do.

We still have so much to learn. On of the things our observer and investiagto commented on was about asking questions. So during companion study we will read a principle and come up with a list of questions we could ask an investiagtor to guage thier understanding and to help us understand their beliefs more. Our questions are getting better and better. When we did a 10min principle lesson with one of the Elders we were on a role with the questions. It was awesome, he even commented on how we asked good questions. It was a great feeling, especially because one of my companions had a little outburst the other day on her frustrations on not knowing what questions to ask.

I have to say the stress of the MTC has not hit me yet. I am so grateful! A couple days ago one of my companions broke down into tears after lunch. Our teach had not been patient that day (stress of college finals we think) and it made her feel really bad. She was understanding everything and she felt she couldn't ask the one teacher for help. But she is good now. I think from my 21 credit semester I had at school, waking up to sew at 5:30 am and not going to bed till 2am, really taught me about how to handle stress. As my teachers always told me, do your best and the Lord will help you with the rest. During companion inventory both said I was really laid back. So i am so grateful to not get stressed easily over the Korean and such. Such a blessing :)