How is everyone?! Thank
you for all the letters mom and especially for the flowers. :-) I love them and
they are so nice to look at every day! Are you all in Arizona this
weekend with Trina? I'm pretty sure that's this month.
I hope she recovered and she is doing well. I pray for all of
you and your health to be dii maag :D Trina told me that you were
driving to Timpview High for her concert and you and her waved at the MTC
trying to guess where I was at. Now that the weather is getter
nicer, sometimes we study outside. We are on the south side by the
flags because we have classes there, typically though, we are inside in class
or having personal or language study etc. I'm glad you had a chance
to see Connor, he was always very encouraging when he wrote letters to me.
Well this week seemed to
come and go. It seems like we just had P-day but still learning
many things each day. It's a little hard to remember what went on
because I got sick again for 2-3 days. I'm not sure how I keep
getting sick but I took the appropriate medicine, had soup and went to bed
early one night. I am 100% now so don't worry. I just
think it's so strange because I never got sick at home (or rarely).
So as a district, we
make goals together as well as individually. We have several
but my favorite is Thai day. All day we speak Thai and any words
you say in English our companion writes down and we look it up later. It's
a work in progress because not everyone sticks to speaking Thai all day but I
love it because it helps me see where I need to improve and I also get to see
what the other district is learning. A personal goal I set last
week that has been really rewarding is reading the Book of Mormon.
The teacher from the other district, Brother Day came in and talked to
us. It was good to see the different teaching styles but he said, 'you
can finish the Book of Mormon here in the MTC. You can even to it in two weeks'
I liked that so I'm doing it. I started last Wednesday and I'm
about to Alma right now so I have one more week to finish the rest of
it. I carry my Book of Mormon and study notebook around
everywhere. If I find a spare moment I pick up where I left
off.
As far my struggles are
concerned, I expressed last week, from reading the Book of Mormon, I am
learning more about the qualities of Christ. Also the thought I
shared with you last week from Alex Boye that "We become what we think
about most," well it is true. There are days and times when I
get frustrated and so I've been trying to think, what would Christ do in this
situation? I'm sure He felt that way in
His time here on earth. Looking at it that way helps me so
much. Preach My Gospel is so right when they say that the Book of
Mormon is key to conversion. It has helped my relationship with the
Savior grow more this week. I hope that family scripture study feels the
same way for you all. I love 2nd Nephi; it hard for me to
understand in the Isaiah chapters, but later I love how simple it is.
Have faith, repent, be baptized and endure to the end. Pretty much the
missionary purpose on page one of preach my gospel. :-)
Firesides and
devotionals were also really good this week (but when do I think that they are
they not?)
*sidenote - Our
NoogThay's (younger district) are super great. They will by far be better
Thai speakers than us. The thing about the MTC and I guess the Church in
general is that they are always surveying and analyzing how things can be
better. Some of the grammar books for them have been modified and
they are on day 4 they are already learning script!! We didn't start
that until week 3 or 4. It's good because I hope they are better so
when we all go to Thailand the work just rapidly increases. It would
be amazing if President Monson announces a temple in Thailand this conference!
:-) :-)
Ok, so Sunday Brother
Heaton who is the MTC facility president (at least I'm pretty sure that's his
title.) he talked about goals. It was super interesting because he
shared thoughts about goals that I've never thought of before. He said
that often times, we missionaries will set goals for investigators and when
they don't go to church, or keep their commitments, we think we have
failed. He said that, that is the wrong attitude because the key
indicators we set as goals are about them and their agency. Those
goals are a perhaps, goals. In my study notes I wrote they are
faith goals. Which when I thought about it more afterwards, it really
makes sense because we often say that it is according to the Lord's time table
and he will help that person because He knows them far better than we
do. So he told us to not be frustrated about how the investigators
choose to use their agency, because it is something we don't
control. Goals help us exercise our faith but if goals are not met,
we keep caring for those people and evaluate those goals. He shared
so many examples from the scriptures and I wish I had time to explain them all
but it gave me a different perspective. One I really liked was in
Jacob 5. “The allegory of the vineyard.” The tree decided how
it was going to grow and long story short, when the tree did not produce
fruit; the Lord continues to prune and dig and nourish it.
At time I know I tend
to measure myself if I accomplished my goals or not but the last
thought he shared was, "Your worth to God has nothing to do with how many
people say yes [if you accomplish your goals]. Serve with all your might."
I loved that.
Well in the last minute,
is there anything that you would like me to share? I have a few question
for you mom about the airport stuff; like what I should lock and
other question I can't think of at the moment but I’ll ask you those next
week. We leave so soon!!! :D
I'm hoping to send
pictures home today but we took a nap so our schedules are a little off
and that why we are e-mailing so late. It was needed though.
LOVE YOU ALL
Love, Sister Yeo
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