September 24, 2010
Buenos Dias!
This past week has been a great week! On last Friday, we had our first TRC (Teaching Resource Center). It consisted of going to 3 rooms and contacting the people in it in Spanish, then teaching the first lesson in English to the last person we contacted. The contacting went pretty good for the Spanish we knew. And the lesson went great! After only being in the companionship for a few days, we worked really well teaching the lesson. And at the end, I got this overwhelming feeling, after committing him to read the Book of Mormon, to extend the Baptisimal commitment! I did, and the guy leaned forward and extended his hand and said "Good Job". He was a return missionary and said if you are able to teach the first lesson well enough to where they can feel the Spirit strong enough to feel excited about learning more and have enough strength to extend the baptismal commitment (which would be on a later date of course after teaching more lessons), then you are an outstanding missionary. This got me so excited to go out into the field!
On Tuesday, we had a member of the Quorum of the Seventy come and talk to us at the devotional. It was a great experience with most of the 2700 missionaries all in the gym, and during the hymns, I just got an overwhelming feeling of happiness and joy because of how awesome it was! Elder Paul V. Johnson gave a good talk about learning spiritual truths. I took a lot of notes because there was a lot of useful advice!
A member of our Branch Presidency talked with us during our district meeting on Sunday. He completely blew my mind! He knew so much about the history of the Bible, the Church, the history of a lot of Religions, just about everything! He basically solidified the need for a Restoration of the Gospel, with historical facts and events. Did you know that the Book of Revelations was written in 65 AD and that John was written in 90 Ad? So Revelations isn't the last book written! Or that any chapel built before 1311 has a font in it for "submersion" baptisms? Crazy! I will be learning a lot from him.
Everything is going great!
Mom- Thanks for having Julie drop off the delicious treats! And yep, I got the first package and the IBC Rootbeer was gone by the next day. I can get stamps here, but I don't want to pay for them :P On the subject of money, I'll need to get one more shot right before I leave, and it costs around 80 dollars I think. I'm pretty sure I can just use my card, so just a heads up! Ah, too bad about waiting for a new car. But at least the family has a car! Tell everyone I say Good Luck on the run! I've been running a little here, as well as playing basketball and soccer and softball and volleyball to stay sorta fit!
To The Francis's and the McCrary's- I love you all and hope that all is going well! :)
Grandpa Jim- I'm loving the DearElders I get! I hope all is going well as well, and that you're ready some good books! :)
Con mucho amor!
-Elder Whittle
P.S. Everyone who reads this, use DearElder.com, It's awesome!!
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