Hola from the CCM.
This week, we didn't have our whole district together very
often because so many people caught the MTC plague...except me! Apparently
pretty much everyone gets sick at least once at the MTC and they call it the
MTC plague. On Sunday, we only had 6 of the 12 people from our district at
church and in class. My companion, Sister Brown, as well as Elder Cook, and
Hermana Bassett stayed in bed all day on Sunday. Since there were 2 sisters
sick, I was able to do splits with Hermana Schmutz, instead of having to stay in
the residence hall all day with my companion (what would have happened if
Hermana Bassett wasn't sick). Elder Bean got a really bad concussion on
Saturday while playing basketball and has been bed ridden ever since. On
Sunday, he had to go to the ER because he was getting worse and worse and they
thought he might have had some brain damage. The district leader and his
companion went with him to the ER, but, thankfully, its just a concussion, not
brain damage, so he doesn't have to go home.
For the Sunday night devotional, Sheri Dew came to speak.
Unfortunately, I fell asleep after the opening song and woke up for the
"amen" at the end of her talk. I had people share with me afterward
what she had spoken about. For the Tuesday night devotional, I kept hearing hints
about who the speaker might be (they don't tell you before hand). Last week the
choir director said "you're going to want to be in the choir for sure next
week." I also heard that the devotional was broadcasted to all the MTCs
around the world. I figured they must have an apostle coming, and I was right.
President Russel M. Nelson spoke to us and it was awesome! He talked about
being epistles of the Lord. You might be able to find the devotional on LDS.org
and see if you see me on it. They zoomed in on me while I was in the choir.
Jenna (in the Philippines MTC) probably saw me too.
We taught 6 lessons this week to 3 different investigators
(2 each). I'm getting a lot better at giving lessons in Spanish. I used to
bring a huge notebook as well as preach my gospel to lessons, and now I just
bring a hand sized notebook with just a few words written on it. In Spanish
class, we are still learning about the present tense of verbs, which is stuff
from like Spanish 1. The class is really easy, but there's not an intermediate
class I can go to and advanced would be too hard for me.
I saw Adam Denison this week. He works here. I also saw
Dallen Hagman.
For exercise time, our district likes to play sand
volleyball on the courts by the temple. Its super fun. Since today was Pday, we
got even more time to play. The basketball courts are being refinished until
August 18th, but I got the chance to play on them a couple times before they
closed.
According to my companion, when I talk in my sleep, I speak
in Spanish. Also, the other day in class, I was falling asleep, while speaking
Spanish and the Spanish that was coming out of my mouth was better than my
regular Spanish. Maybe I should teach lessons while I'm asleep.
Anyway, mission life is good. I keep seeing people with
missionary name tags on and thinking "look the missionaries!" Then I
realize that I am one.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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