Week 3

This week was a good week! Me and my companions were asked to be the Sister Training Leaders for our zone. Its been fun interviewing all of the sisters and really getting to know them. President told us that he knew from the first day when he interviewed us that we would be the STL's for  the last three weeks to bring everything home and to finish off our time here at the MTC successfully. On Sunday I was asked to give the lesson in Relief society. My topic was enduring to the end. They've asked us when we teach to not make it a lesson but to make it a discussion so that everyone has a chance to participate. In my group I was teaching were all of the island sisters. They're all from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Papa New Guinea. They are the Sweetest girls but they are all so quiet and never really talk when we have group discussions. I was kind of nervous that my lesson wouldn't really go anywhere but it was one of the most powerful lesson I have ever been in. The island sister have the most powerful testimonies and they are all so filled with the light of Christ. It was awesome!!

On Tuesday Brent H. Nielson and his wife came and spoke to us and it was amazing. Elder Nielson talked about our mission call and how we've all been called by a prophet. There’s not many times in your life that you will be "Called by a prophet" so we need to cherish the time that we get to be a representative. He also talked about our mission call and what it says and means. He put up a copy of a mission call and read it to us. It was really cool because I don't think I actually read the whole thing when I opened my call because I was so focused on seeing where I was going to go. haha  He pointed something out to us and he said " You are called as a missionary and assigned to Tonga. Not called to Tonga and assigned as a missionary." That was a really powerful statement. It reminded me that I am called as a missionary!  No matter where I go in the world I am called to teach Heavenly Fathers Children about the truthfulness of the gospel. Another thing he said was "You will leave behind all personal affairs" and if you do the Lord will bless you "with increased Knowledge and a testimony of the restoration of the truths of the gospel." I really needed to hear that because sometimes I let things from home distract me but if I put them all aside I will be blessed. 😊

Sister Egan and I taught our investigator Lopeti yesterday and it was like our fifth time teaching him. This time we decided to put our lesson on note cards and just have the main points of what we were going to teach. Usually we write out the whole sentence because we’re still not comfortable with the language. We wanted a challenge this time and I'm so glad we did. The spirit was so strong in our lesson!  Lopeti asked us a couple of questions that we didn't quite understand but we listened to the spirit and we were able to find answers to his concerns. After the lesson Lopeti who is also our teacher talked to us about how the lesson went. He told us that he was able to understand everything we said. He also said that it was our best lesson yet. That was so reassuring because we were so nervous to challenge ourselves but we did our part and the Lord blessed us and did the rest.  Missionary work is hard but its so rewarding!

I cant believe I leave for Tonga this month! Thanks for all of your prayers and support I can definitely feel them. I love you all! Have a good week!

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  SISTA SYLVESTER