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| Girls in my District in Christmas Stuff |
Okay so lets start at the beginning of the week. on Sunday we
went on a temple walk and it was snowing pretty bad so it was way
slippery and scary but then we build a snow man! It was great.
Then Christmas happened! the day started off with a
missionary talent show. It was really fun. There was a Elder that did
magic tricks that were so good! definitely had the whole audience
involved. And this other elder played pirates of the Caribbean on the
piano. I didn't realize how much I missed not church music until he
started playing it and when my district broke into Be a Man from Mulan
while we were back in our classroom in between events. We have fun
together. But anyways, we had that show then we ate lunch then we had
the general authority come. It was (drum roll......) Elder Bednar! He
gave such a good and unique talk. He handed out 200 phones to the
congregation and we could all anonymously text his iPad and he would
answer our question. so yes now I have Elder Bednars phone number! At
least for his iPad. but anyways, people asked some really good
questions. One was asking if it was bad that they felt so inadequate.
Bednar answered this by saying " Feeling inadequate means that you know
what the Lord has asked you to do. If you felt totally confident in what
you were about to do that's when I would start to worry." Then he
talked about how we are inadequate but with the Lords help we can be an
instrument in his hands. SO TRUE! Can't do anything without the Lord on
your side. He also talked about the traits of some of the best
missionaries he has known. He said the two biggest ones were
"selflessness and to not get in the way." He emphasized making sure
nothing you do is for yourself and never get in the way of an
investigators progress. His talk was amazing. Really cool to see general
authorities here so much recently :) After Bednar's talk we had a
renowned jazz player come play for us. His Christmas music was beautiful
and it was such a good concert. Then we watched a movie of Mo Tab
preforming and they handed out popcorn to everyone. then they gave us
the best Christmas present ever! they let us go back to the residence
hall at 8:20 instead of 9:30!
IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE! Sister Jenson and I had big plans to
get to bed early but then we started taking pictures with everyone and
the whole early thing was a lost cause. I'll send some of the wonderful
pictures from that night.
There was a lot less homesickness from the girls
than I expected. We all did really well. I will admit it was the hardest
day in the MTC by far but the presidency did a good job at trying to
keep us occupied and making sure we had fun :)
Yesterday our teacher challenged us to find three
people every day and give them a short message about a different message
everyday in Korean with our companion translating. He says it will help
us perfect our street contacting. Our topic today is Pray. Sister
Jenson and I haven't done it yet and were slightly intimidated but it
will be good.
Well that was pretty much my week in a nutshell. I
hope you all had a very merry Christmas and it was a good day for
everyone. have a happy New year has well! then I'm off to Korea! THAT'S
CRAZY! I love you all!
사랑해요!
Sister Collyer
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| My District on Christmas |
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| Christmas PJs! |
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| Me in my PJs |
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| This is what we did instead of sleeping. We climbed up walls. This is me and Sister Glauser |
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| Girls from My Zone Left to Right: Lynn, Janson, Driscoll, Anderson, Glauser, Bagley, Me |
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| Our Stake President! President Yost |
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| My District with the suckers you and Grandma and Grandpa Collyer sent. Left to Right: Maccarthy, Lamburt, Jansen, Payne, Peterson. |
