Week 4

Hey everyone!

 

This week was another good week overall. Me and elder Hansen have been hard at work and we teach a lot of lessons to our two investigators. We have actually committed both of them to baptism this week after about 4 lessons. Even though they are "fake" investigators, it still feels good to get a couple of baptisms under our belt. This past sunday was a sunday I will never forget. Due to security reasons me and elder Hansen were not supposed to tell anyone about what we were assigned to do. Last sunday, all of the new mission presidents, members of the 70, 11 of the 12 apostles, and the first presidency including the prophet, were all in a special sacrament meeting that Elder Hansen and I were able to be a part of. We were assigned by our branch president to be 2 of the 48 missionaries that got to pass the sacrament to all those people I listed. It was an amazing experience seeing the Prophet and his counselors on the stand about 30 feet from where we were passing! I actually passed pretty close to President and sister Stoker, but I don't think they saw me. Elder Holland was next to president Uchtdorf which was kind of funny because elder Holland looked like he was piercing into the souls of all of us missionaries while President Uchtdorf was just smiling and looking around at everyone. haha Me and President Uchtdorf made eye contact and I gave him a smile and a nod. He did the same to me. The spirit was so strong in that sacrament meeting, my heart was pounding so hard and elder Handen said that his body went numb. I will never forget that. We weren't able to stay and listen to the prophet speak to the mission presidents, but it was nice to see him. Later that day was the worldwide broadcast in the Marriot center. We were taught about the new way of missionary work and how we can help members become better missionaries. New technology will also be added as a way to do missionary work. Tuesday we had the weekly devotional. We heard from Janice Kapp Perry. She is actually the great aunt of one of the elders in our district, Elder Wilson. She gave a shout out to him and said hello in korean. She has written about 10 of the songs in our children's song book for the church. A lot of the more well known ones, so that is pretty cool. We sang some of those together as a congregation and she taught us about the spirit. The rest of the week was about the same as always, we teach and go to class to learn more about korean and the gospel! Everything is going well with our district and our companionship, no complaints! The spirit is so strong here at the MTC and I love it. Love you all! Talk to you next week!

 

- Elder Carter