Hello!
Well wow, where to start. It is day 4 here at the MTC and life is great, hard, crazy, tiring, uplifting, etc. etc. etc. It is like one huge roller coaster everyday all the time. When you dropped me off of course I was crying a little but then they just whisked me away and I haven't really had a moment to stop and think since. The schedule here is so tight, which is a good thing. There is literally not a spare moment to waste.
So today is our P-day, but the next two weeks it will be Friday. So when you write me back your really cute and great emails make sure it is before Friday. Oh, and I haven't gotten any letter yet but I haven't checked the mail so sorry if you wrote me and I haven't gotten it yet. And thank you for the cookies.
Anyway, life is great. I can't believe how much we have already learned just in the 3 days we have been here. Today me and my companion taught the first lesson to our teacher, and it went ok. TONS of room for improvement, but I was happy with it. Yesterday my teacher actually asked me if I had taught before, which was a nice comliment. My companion is Sister Frandsen who is from South Jordan. She is super optimistic and bubbly, and I can just tell we are going to be good for each other. My district is awesome- there are 2 other sisters and 6 elders. All 4 of the sisters had similar experiences with why we came on a mission, so we really relate to each other. The elders are also great. It is so funny to me how one minute they can be joking around about football and high school and stuff, and then the next minute they are making a comment
or bearing their testimony and just blowing me away. We met our branch presidency the other night and all bore our testimonies to them, and the elders had me crying the whole time.
Oh, some exciting news I guess, I was called as the coordinating sister. I don't really have any idea what that means other than I am a leader and I have to go to meetings. And I am supposed to be an example for the other sisters. But I will go to a meeting tomorrow and find out more about that.
Anyway, I have had some great experiences and some hard ones. The first night we were here we had a meeting where there were about 50 new missionaries in the room and a fake investigator (really a teacher) came in and was taught by some fake missionaries (also teachers). We just observed while they taught her some of the lesson, then they turned the time over to us and made us pretend we were her missionaries and try it out. Wow, that was eye-opening. We were a mess trying to talk about God and how he is really there, because she said she didn't really believe in God. But we have talked in class and stuff since then about what we would say and I am getting a better handle on things.
We have mainly been studying the first lesson in Preach My Gospel, and it is so awesome! I tried to read PMG before and really struggled because I just thought it was self-explanatory and easy. But oh man, I have sure learned a lot just trying to figure out what I would say to teach it. That book is amazing. I am really excited to study more from it. I have also realized how precious study time is here. Ever since we got here I have just been wanting to have more personal study time, which is so funny because before I had so much time and didn't use it really much at all. It is so awesome being here and being a missionary because you can just feel the extra help whenever you do anything. We were learing how to teach by the spirit yesterday and teach the first lesson, and we were all freaking out about what to say. But then our teacher made us close our books and just go by the spirit, and it was amazing.
Ah, anyway my time is up and I have to go. I love you all! Thank you so much for all you have done for me! This church is true, don't ever forget it. No question.
Love, Sister Hafen
Well wow, where to start. It is day 4 here at the MTC and life is great, hard, crazy, tiring, uplifting, etc. etc. etc. It is like one huge roller coaster everyday all the time. When you dropped me off of course I was crying a little but then they just whisked me away and I haven't really had a moment to stop and think since. The schedule here is so tight, which is a good thing. There is literally not a spare moment to waste.
So today is our P-day, but the next two weeks it will be Friday. So when you write me back your really cute and great emails make sure it is before Friday. Oh, and I haven't gotten any letter yet but I haven't checked the mail so sorry if you wrote me and I haven't gotten it yet. And thank you for the cookies.
Anyway, life is great. I can't believe how much we have already learned just in the 3 days we have been here. Today me and my companion taught the first lesson to our teacher, and it went ok. TONS of room for improvement, but I was happy with it. Yesterday my teacher actually asked me if I had taught before, which was a nice comliment. My companion is Sister Frandsen who is from South Jordan. She is super optimistic and bubbly, and I can just tell we are going to be good for each other. My district is awesome- there are 2 other sisters and 6 elders. All 4 of the sisters had similar experiences with why we came on a mission, so we really relate to each other. The elders are also great. It is so funny to me how one minute they can be joking around about football and high school and stuff, and then the next minute they are making a comment
or bearing their testimony and just blowing me away. We met our branch presidency the other night and all bore our testimonies to them, and the elders had me crying the whole time.
Oh, some exciting news I guess, I was called as the coordinating sister. I don't really have any idea what that means other than I am a leader and I have to go to meetings. And I am supposed to be an example for the other sisters. But I will go to a meeting tomorrow and find out more about that.
Anyway, I have had some great experiences and some hard ones. The first night we were here we had a meeting where there were about 50 new missionaries in the room and a fake investigator (really a teacher) came in and was taught by some fake missionaries (also teachers). We just observed while they taught her some of the lesson, then they turned the time over to us and made us pretend we were her missionaries and try it out. Wow, that was eye-opening. We were a mess trying to talk about God and how he is really there, because she said she didn't really believe in God. But we have talked in class and stuff since then about what we would say and I am getting a better handle on things.
We have mainly been studying the first lesson in Preach My Gospel, and it is so awesome! I tried to read PMG before and really struggled because I just thought it was self-explanatory and easy. But oh man, I have sure learned a lot just trying to figure out what I would say to teach it. That book is amazing. I am really excited to study more from it. I have also realized how precious study time is here. Ever since we got here I have just been wanting to have more personal study time, which is so funny because before I had so much time and didn't use it really much at all. It is so awesome being here and being a missionary because you can just feel the extra help whenever you do anything. We were learing how to teach by the spirit yesterday and teach the first lesson, and we were all freaking out about what to say. But then our teacher made us close our books and just go by the spirit, and it was amazing.
Ah, anyway my time is up and I have to go. I love you all! Thank you so much for all you have done for me! This church is true, don't ever forget it. No question.
Love, Sister Hafen
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