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Hermanas Calel, Jarvis, Connolly, Clyd???, Bower, Hulme

 

Hello, it's weird emailing every week here because it's pretty much all the same. Wake up, eat, study, eat, study, workout, eat, study, sleep, REPEAT. hahaha legit though. That is MY LIFE. But I love it so much. The highlight of my week was that I got a fake spider in a package and  And so in the middle of class I threw it out onto the floor in the middle of the room and turns out one of the elders in my district (the funniest one) is terrified of spiders and he started crying. Wow that sounds so mean. But it was really funny because its a 19 year old boy crying about a spider. And don't worry it was a short cry. And I gave him some cookies cause I felt so bad. It's obviously hard to keep yourself entertained here hahaha. Our next plan with the fake spider is to slide it down the floor under the showers in the morning and freak everybody out hahahhaa. But I see so many familiar faces everyday! I love it. And I love seeing the new missionaries coming in. They are just GLOWING. It's so nice to let go of the world for a whole 18 months. You quickly realize what is truly important. I am trying to make the most of my time here and there is so so much to do. So if you have written me a letter just know that I am working on replying. One of the girls in my room went home this week! She was the cutest Hermana but she really wanted to get married so ya know. I'm actually a little jealous sometimes, especially when my investigators never laugh at my jokes or keep commitments hahaha but it's okay. We had Richard I. Heaton come and talk to us this past week for our Tuesday devotional and he was so inspiring! The best part about the MTC is the devotionals. He talked about how important it is to just rely on the Lord. Because all good come from the Lord. We are only the tools he uses to get the job done. I want to dedicate everything I have to helping people come unto Christ and know that they are not alone. I want to dedicate not only 18 months, but the rest of my life. One of my favorite favorite things ever is that when Jesus Christ was dying on the cross his last words were "Forgive these people for they know not what they do". While preaching to the people that he will help them. LIKE HOLY WOW. That just gives me the chills. He dedicated his entire life to serving others. I wish I would have put more thought into this gospel when I was home and not thought so much about my self because the more and more I study the more I appreciate this gospel and realize how life changing it truly is. And how lucky I am to have grown up in it! Don't take it for granted peeps.

I GAVE A TALK IN CHURCH and we are supposed to write a talk before every Sunday because they choose randomly and of course I didn't write one thinking they would never call on me. Then all the sudden in sacrament meeting they say and then our next speaker will be Hermana Jarvis. I was like okay time to go home hahaha. But I got up there and the spirit filled my soul and I just said what came to mind and it turned out okay! I just talked about the Atonement and the role its played in my life. And then of course I quoted my favorite book, "The Continuous Atonement" and bore my testimony and sat down. I never ever ever ever thought I would be able to do that. I barely looked at my notes! It was cray.

side note: Marilyn Hulme is one of my roommates and we are best friends now. It's the best thing ever. We workout together everyday, so we won't gain thirty pounds like everyone told me I would in the MTC. We don't have any weights in our dorms and sometimes they make you stay in your dorm to workout. So we use our scriptures for weights and the couches for high knees and people think we are crazy hahaha.

This week I will think of more things to say in my emails because this one is a little rough. Another side note: Everyone says that our room is so cute because of all the cute decorations Whitney and Courtney send me. So shout out to them!

I love you all so much. You are all in my prayers and I would love to hear from you. Read "The Continuous Atonement" by Brad Wilcox. It will change the way you think. Remember who you are. Enjoy hugging the opposite sex, listening to good music, working out in clothes that don't make you look like a boy, waking up later than 6:30 and eating dinner later than 4:00 hahahha. 

XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Holla for a Dolllllla

(Herman Jarvis and Hermana Prestwich)

Wusss up wuss up in the real world?????

This week was the bomb digity because of Conference of course! I loved it. I have never actually stayed awake through a session until being at the MTC hahahaha. Don't follow my example. But on the real, I am so grateful for our prophet. I never really thought much about prophets before the MTC and when Thomas S Monson was up there about to fall over it broke my heart. I really have taken our loved prophet of God for granted! That is the saddest thing! So just take a minute to realize how blessed we are to have him and his apostles! Such a blessing. Anyways, if you don't know, now you know that I have always had very weird feelings about the way some people act towards people with same sex attraction and when I heard Jeffery R Hollands talk I LOST IT. I was just crying and crying. It was so powerful. For those who didn't have the opportunity to here it, (other than all the amazing things he said about moms) it was about this guy who had been serving a mission and came home due to same sex attraction and he started having so many doubts and feeling so alone.

But his family loved him so much and they kept pushing him to be better and feel the love of God. And eventually after 5 years he felt that love and decided to go back to church, become a seminary teacher and eventually return to his mission. His same sex attraction didn't just magically disappear but he just pushes through it and is still just as equally loved as you and I. Anyways, I love how his family never ever gave up on him. Because that is how God acts towards all of his children. He never gives up on you. You can only give up on him. I feel like we are often so quick to judge another when someone admits their sins. When we are too prideful to admit our own! If only if only our sins made us smell or showed on up our skin, boy would this world be a lot different. "who am I to judge another when I walk imperfectly?" I feel that when we notice someone struggling with same sex attraction, struggling with drugs, struggling with the law of Chasity, struggling with beliefs in the church, the list goes on and on. We tend to distances ourselves. Because we don't want to get involved in that. We don't want to get dragged down to that "level". But we can not go into these situations thinking that they will drag us down. We need to go into these situations with the mind set of how can I lift this person up? Don't give up on these wonderful people. Never. Give. Up. Just as  God has not given up on you. Love as the God would loves them. All these people want is to be loved. All anyone want's is to be loved. So love as God loves.

Sorry that is literally a mile long.

This Sunday my district is starting a 40 day fast and I am beyond excited. We aren't giving up food, THANK GOODNESS. But we are giving up some of our bad habits. I am picking ten things that I think are holding me back from being the person God wants me to be. And I am going to strive to not do them for 40 days and then hopefully the rest of eternity. I know that this will help me so much and I encourage you to do it too! It might be rough at times but it will all in all make us such better people. I hope you are all doing well and not doing drugs! I miss home a lot. Especially when my comp is sick and I just sit in our room as she sleeps for 5 hours. But then I remember why I am here and how many lives I get to bless as the Lord works through my hands!

My scripture that I am ponderizing this week is 1 Nephi 7:12

12 Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten that the Lord is able to do all things according to his will, for the children of men, if it so be that they exercise faith in him?Wherefore, let us be faithful to him.

So good. Just makes my heart happy knowing we can pray to our loving heavenly father about anything, ANYTHING we are struggling with. Something else I though was kool that I learned this week was that we need to not just endure to the end, we need to love, help, and create happiness until the end! K I love you all so much. Remember to look at the potential in everyone. I pray for you all everyday. I hope that if you ever are feeling sad FIRST you pray and if you still need a pick me up you can email me and I will tell you a joke. hahahaha k bye

PEACE AND BLESSINGS <3 <3 <3
Sorry this email is all over the place hahaha

Also I peed my pants this week while I was in a jumping jacks competition hahahahahaha

(Twinning with my Companion on accident hahaha)

Elder Hall - Funniest elder ever



Que Paso Hombres

Wow wow wow! I am a missionary! So crazy. The packages and letters have helped more than you will ever know! They give me a little glimpse of home and I always receive them at the hardest part of the day. I seriously would not make it through with out all my loved ones support! I am so grateful and I have truly felt your prayers everyday. Especially the first day. It was so exhausting! I was trying to be happy and smiley but I just cried and cried and kept falling asleep in the devotional hahaha. Then when we went to get dinner I saw so many familiar faces and it was so relieving! I decided to be happy and change my attitude. Which I couldn't have done on my own so S/O to all of your prayers and the big man upstairs.

Oh boy has my view on life changed. I have never in my life imagined I could feel the spirit that is felt at the MTC. It is undescribeable. It anything comes close it is truly a burning in my bosom. Idk how to spell in English anymore so bare with me jajaja. I love the MTC with all of my heart and soul. It has already pushed me in the direction of who I want to become. I hope I am able to feel the spirit I feel here for the rest of my life. I LOVE IT. I would rate my language at a 1.5 out of 10. hahahahha but really. It's okay though because I am learning the language of the spirit. And it has brought so much peace to my life. I have been trying to put off the natural man in myself more than ever. I have striving to be 100% obedient and make the most of this experience. But let me tell ya, ITS HARD. But I came across this scripture and I fell in love. Mosiah 3:19 19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child,submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

This is not my mission, this is the lords mission! I get so caught up in thoughts of I'm not good enough to be here or I don't know anything about this gospel or I can't get my thoughts across. But none of that matters! Because I was literally called of God. It's so reassuring to me to know that what ever trial I go through I have someone on my side and I need not worry. It breaks my heart to think that people in Salta, Argentina do not have this knowledge and they think they are completely alone in this journey. And that is why I am here. To let the lord work through my hands and help others. Sorry I had to get a little deep right there hahaha. But really, I remember being home and thinking about myself ALL THE TIME. What are my needs, what do I want to do, when can I go to sleep, why is this person so annoying and ya de ya de ya. And I'm a tad bit embarrassed. Being here has made my realize what is truly important. To become like Christ. To help others become like Christ. To dedicate every SECOND to my savior. I don't have a second to waste. I am so grateful to be here and have the knowledge that I have and will have. The best missionaries are the ones who have a burning desire to serve. I want to have that burning desire and be the best possible missionary I can.Also the food here is amazing, they have an allergy room and I have never eaten so healthy in my life.

I knew I was meant to be here when they served sweet potatoes on the second day. hahaha but really :D This life is truly what you make it. The MTC is so hard and so fun and SO sad sometimes and SO happy sometimes! But I am so so so very grateful for every single second I have been blessed with. I LOVE YOU ALL! I encourage you to take a step back and look at the direction you are headed. And I also encourage you to send me an email with your home address because I don't have time to email people back :((( But my new Zone Leader just told us that we can write letters home everyday!!!!!! Wooot Wooot! Also can't get biggie smalls out of my head so pray for that. XOXOXOXO

Hello from the MTC! First Words from Hermana Jarvis

HELLLLOOOO! The first day was so hard and so frustrating. Like my eyes have never been so puffy in my life! They are still puffy hahahaha. But when it came around to dinner time I decided I needed to change my attitude. I am only here for 6 weeks. Now 5 1/2. And I need to make the most of every single second. I have never felt the spirit this strong in my entire life. My whole entire body was tingling at testimony meeting. I love this work with all of my heart. My prayers are 100 times more sincere now that I don't have a trillion things distracting me. I am so grateful that I made the decision to serve. There is no place I would rather be. My companion is the sweetest! Her name is Hermana Bower (Koby Bower). My branch president is Annie Domans dad and he is AMAZING. I am so happy and grateful to be here. I want to make the most of every second I am here. And truly forget about myself. Because thats what its all about! The MTC stands for Make The Change and that's what I am going to do. Make the change in my life and so many others. I love you guys! I am so grateful for all of you! Also my P-day is Wednesdays!