So
far my experience has still been awesome. Its crazy, i have never felt
the spirit this many times in my life. its awesome. Every Sunday in
between priesthood meeting and sacrament we have a district meeting that
always turns into a cry fest. This week we all went around in the
circle and shared why we came out on the mission. The mission is already
changing me. Before the mission i'll be honest i never really wanted to
read the Book of Mormon... now i cant put it down. I love it. Also i am
definitely closer with my Father in heaven.
So
the whole first week we would have to plan and prepare a lesson in
Spanish for an "investigator". The lesson would be for about 30 min. My
companion and i struggled for the first 4 lessons. When the 5th one
came around it was awesome. I had only written down 2 sentences. When
she would ask questions i could respond and show her the answer in the
Book of Mormon or Preach my Gospel. It was awesome. My companion shared
his testimony and then i shared mine. we were all crying. After the
lesson we walked out and gave each other a big hug and I said, "The gift
of tongues is real man". Then i come to find out that, that
"investigator" was our night teacher.. Spanish is coming along though.
If i think hard i can put together what people are saying but every
teacher here says that Chileans speak crazy fast so that makes me a
little worried.
My companion and i still get
along really well. None of us clash in our whole district which is
awesome and a blessing because there is another district in our casa
that all don't like each other... The days are long here. 16 hours...
Being with good people helps out a lot. Every one has their stories from
home.
This Sunday was really awesome. However
each Sunday you have to prepare a 5 min talk in Spanish and they give
you a topic a week before hand. After the sacrament The conductor will
look out in the audience and pick people to come up and give a talk. We
have about 30 people in our sacrament meeting and 7 got chosen this
week. luckily i wasn't one of them. We got a new batch of elders this
last week and 2 of them had to give talks and they were both super
nervous. It sounds bad, but it was pretty funny.
A
funny story this week was when we were in our district meeting. Elder
Coulson was telling us why he came out on his mission and he was saying
how there was this kid who was always into trouble with everything. When
he was explaining him he yelled "I mean the kid was a SON OF A BISHOP!"
We all thought he was gonna cuss and we all cracked up. It turned
around that the kid cleaned up his act and went on a mission and came
back a changed man and that was one of his reasons for coming out.
My
favorite scripture of the week is Alma 29:9. Its awesome. I don't have
time to quote in on here but i would encourage you all to look it up. It
talks about missionary works and being an "Instrument in the hands of
God".
I love you all.
Happy Birthday Momma! I sure love you!
Elder Berry
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