Week 6

WEEK SIX

Provo Temple food AMAZING. I highly recommend eating there for breakfeast. The omelet is full of cheesy goodness and they draw smiley faces on your waffles with fresh whip cream. Today the man gave my waffle a mustache with bacon, it was delicious.

Our devotional speaker this past Tuesday was awesome, it was Elder Dallin H. Oaks! Thats two apostles in a row. His wife also spoke and she is such a good speaker as well. He talked about missionary work and made an emphasis on learning the gospel so you can teach by the Spirit. He repeated twice, "Prepare by learning the principles of the gospel and teach by the Spirit according to that persons need in any order." This is so important to remember because you can get caught on doing the lesson in order everytime, but thats not the purpose of Preach My Gospel. They changed it from the memorized lessons to this for a reason. So that missionaries can teach by the spirit to the needs of the investistigator.

Last night we did a 20 minute lesson with our progressing investigator Rob and we planned a lesson but did not go by it at all. He had not prayed and expressed concerns and we ended up talking about the Holy Ghost. And by the end he left with an understanding of the importance of prayer and how through prayer we recieve answers or get feelings of comfort through the Spirit, which he had felt before when reading the Bible. So it was a successful lesson, but perhaps our committment could have been more substantial. But My one companion was super frustrated afterward because we didn't do what we had planned and therefore she did not say much in the lesson.

Our heard us after our lesson discussing this whole issue and later in class shared a quote by Elder Bednar that I really like, "Planning is everything, plans are nothing." This related to what Elder Oaks talked about. It's important that we prepare and study for the lesson, but we need to makesure to teach to the investisgators needs and not freeze up if nothing goes according to our plans. Prepare and then teach by the Spirit. No one got to shake Elder Oak's hand but I got a picture of him from the curb of him driving away smiling and waving and wearing this stylish golf cap. So cool.

TRC teaching was fun this week. Our first lesson in Korean. Friday night we taught our progressing investigator in korean and it was horrible for me. I literally said two sentences. I was frustrated and knew what I had been doing was not working. I was writing down simply english sentences and then translating them into Korean. I wanted to be able to speak freely, which I had not been able to do. Doing the lesson made me realize I didn't know the vocab. So that night I wrote down words I would use from the first lesson, which was about 20 or more. And then I prayed that I would be able to memorize them and remember them for tomorrow because TRC was the next day. And the Lord totatlly helped me. Got them down within 30mins, and remebered them the next day. The Church is TRUE! I feel so blessed. And when we taught I was able to say so many sentences and express want sentences came to my mind. It was a ruff lesson because of our lack of language. But I left feeling like I was able to communicate what I needed to and our lesson flowed from prinicple to principle. The Lord has truly blessed me and called me to learn this language.