MTC Week 2 - The Soviets are Everywhere

I can't believe its already been a week!! Every day gets better and every day goes by faster. The Spanish is coming along slowly but surely and I learn more about teaching every day. Missionary work is still humbling but I love it so much. So there's 4 hmas in my district and we all share a room and we have gotten so close these past 2 weeks. Actually the whole district has gotten really close these past 2 weeks. These elders and hermanas are family to me. They're basically my brothers and sisters. We laugh so much over the stupidest things. I love seeing how much each of us brings to the mission field with our individual testimonies.

So, like I said I love the MTC. Our teachers are so incredibly patient and loving. Hma Boza who's from Peru is literally the funniest/cutest person ever. She picks on Elder Nelson  (our District Leader) relentlessly and it makes the 3 hour classroom blocks go by way faster. Hma Boza has a super cool story.  She converted 6 years ago, served a mission, and then taught at the Peru MTC for like 4 years and now she's here. She's such a great teacher and really makes sure we all understand our role as missionaries. To invite people to come unto Christ not to teach lesson. 

We've started teaching an "investigor" (she's actually a member but pretends to be an investigaor for our sake) named Mercedes and she is awesome. We've struggled a little with her since she has no interest in the Book of Mormon and kind of turns off whenever we mention it, but we're teaching her again today and we're hoping to help her be a little more open to it.

We also got to teach members yesterday just to practice talking about the gospel in Spanish and there was this one man who's wife died from cancer 2 years earlier. He has such as amazing testimony of the atonement. I am also amazed by my companion. Hma Shaw has the strongest testimony of eternal families and and that we will see our loved ones when we die and she shared that with him. We were all in tears.

Like the title says, there are Russian missionaries everywhere! Well American missionaries going to Russia. And today we had two Russian sisters move into our room, which I'm not gonna lie we were a little bummed about because we love our just having hermanas in our room, but they seem nice. We don't think that they'll be staying long cause Hma Shaw and I are getting a new companion, Hma Johnston (yeah I know we;re all laughing) on Monday and there's no more room in our room, so we'll be making a trip to the scheduling office tomorrow to figure that out. Side note, one of the new Russian sisters has pneumonia so that's fun. 

Other than that, mission work is going great. I'm learning so much every single day! I love my companion and the other hermanas that are basically my companions as well. Until next week,

Hma Bree

And pictures!!!