Hey there Everyone!!!
Holy Smokes I cant believe I've been here 3 weeks! It's insane.
So this past week as been waaaay awesome. I've learned so so much everyday. Well to start of the greatest part is that I dont have to blow my nose anymore! I was so sick of that. Blowing your nose a million times a day is not my favorite thing. So thankful that's over :)
This week with my companions has been great. We're growing a lot together but still having some rough times. There's always more to learn.
So Hermana Tyson (friend from Hawaii going to Florida) left yesterday morning at 4am! She is so cute. She was way excited to get out there and serve. She was so sweet and gave me a ton of clothes that she couldn't take with here. It was like Christmas!
Oh I wanted to mention that I play volleyball every single day at gym. It's rad! I love it. There are a few kids...I mean Elders y Hermanas that are really fun to play with so its way fun. They also offer a 6am class every morning for the sisters. They have different things every morning like yoga, step aerobics ect. So I went a few times last week after I was feeling better and it was a great way to start the day.
On Sunday we had a great District Meeting after Sacrament and me and my comps got to teach the Plan of Salvation. It was amazing. We were prepared but the Spirit totally took over and taught the lesson for us. My testimony of the Holy Ghost has been strenghtened so much since I've been here because the only way to truly teach is to follow the Spirit and rely on it's promptings. Only then will the people we teach be able to feel the Spirit and know that what we teach is true. "we aren't teaching lessons, we are teaching investigators" So this lesson really strengthened my testimony of this because we evaluated our lesson afterwards and our Branch Pres was there. The first evaluation question was "What did we do well?" This is a great way to keep the spirit and recognize (and write down) those things that we did well on and that worked. Then we asked the question "What could we do EVEN better?" Still keeping the evaluation positive but with the motivation of improvement still there. It was a great thing and we learned so much about how to teach. The Elders in our District really loved our lesson and gave us some great feedback. We really grew in unity so it was an amazing day.
Another day we had something called companion inventory. So during this time, which we have at least once a week if not more, we talk to each other and ask those questions I mentioned before. We basically talk about ways that we are doing well, things that we could be doing better, and goals that we can set to get there. It's also a great thing because we take turns saying things that we learned from each other or respect and admire about each other. This is crucial to our companionship because we can learn to love each other and become more united. So for our inventory this week we took some advice from some Elders to write out lists for each other of things that we know about them that they have told us and also things that we know about them that we know, that they don't know haha :) if that makes sense. It was the most amazing thing! We already know so much about each other only after 3 weeks! We laughed a lot and grew much closer. It was a turning point for our companionship.
There have still been hard times though...we're girls hahah it happens. But I know that if we continue to rely on the Spirit then we will be ok.
In our district we set some goals and it was awesome because it makes this work seem so much more real. I suggested we set a goal to only speak Spanish at every meal of the day. It's super tough! But i know that we are going to learn a lot and our skills will improve so much more.
I miss you all so much and wish I had more time to write but I dont....please please please write met!!! Send me a letter on dearelder.com to my mtc mailbox...#233
love you all!!
Hermana Winchell
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