Week 5! MTC Half-way Day!
Nihao fam and friends!!!
This last week went by so fast!!! We got to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks from the 4th floor of the MTC classroom building! It was super cool because we actually saw like five different firework shows happening all across the valley! Stadium of Fire was the best though because they had people jumping from helicopters with parachutes and somehow fireworks with them! it was pretty insane! We also watched a little video presentation thing about religious freedom and the importance of it and had a good discussion!
One of the other memorable things about this week is we reached our MTC halfway point! Waaa-oohhh we're halfway theeerreeee! Waa-ohhh livin' on a prayer! (honestly, so true though, so true...) ;) haha it's been great!
Saturday was probably the busiest day this week! We had "TRC"s which is when we get to have a gospel discussion with a member that speaks Chinese (often return missionaries that volunteer, but sometimes just random members) and our teacher sits in a different room and listens through the camera and writes an evaluation and then the people we teach write an evaluation for us too! it went really well and our teacher wrote some really encouraging things! I always enjoy TRC's more than practice lessons because you just have to think of some good questions and then the members do most of the Chinese speaking as they share spiritual experiences and all you have to do is focus on understanding them! They were all so nice! Saturday we also went to the field to play sand volleyball, and although it was hot, we had a ton of fun! We played with the other mandarin zone here and it's always so much fun getting to know them and talking to them! Sometimes my team has to remind me to pay attention to the game because I'm talking to the other team too much! Interviews saturday evening went really well too and all the new sisters are adjusting much better! Then we practiced our musical number for church sunday: Come Thou Fount transitioned into Nearer My God to Thee and it went super well! (A mini-miracle honestly) and then we planned zone conference with the Zone Leaders which was a blast! Finally, we had service (setting up chairs for devotional) and our group prayer outside because the fire alarm went off in our dorm building.
This week I thought a lot about 2 Nephi 31:20 "Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life." I love this scripture because it fits so perfectly with our mission purpose! We are hear to invite others to come unto Christ because of our love for Him and for everyone! I also love "having a perfect brightness of hope" because hope and faith are so connected! When we have faith in Jesus Christ, we have hope that through His Atonement, all things will be made right! I love this gospel and I am so grateful to be a missionary of Christ!
Have a fantastic week!
Sis. Jensen
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