Sister De La Vega

Well this is my last week here!!!!!!! ahhh i cant even believe it! I am really leaving the Garden of Eden, this nice place that everything is prepared for me and going off to somewhere where i have no idea whats going to happen! i will know exactly when i am leaving Thursday or Friday so i will let you know. I just am really excited and really nervous! i worry that my Spanish wont be good enough, or that i don't know everything that i need to know, or i wont be able to answer questions people have, but i worked really hard here. <i tried my very best to study the most that i can, to be obedient, and be happy, and i know the Lord will bless if i just continue trying to do the best that i can. Our teacher told us to treat this last week like the last week your in Field and that means HARD WORK. me and my companion started to doing personal language study before 6:30 am so we can get better in Spanish, because i know i can only qualify for the gift of tongues if i am trying my very hardest to understand. There is not enough hours in the day to study everything that i want to! i have gotten really good at reading on the elliptical so that is very impressive haha. so i try to study everywhere i go. but here is a little bit about my week! Well today we went to the temple again! We left at 7 am and it was awesome as usual! Im really happy i got to go one more time before i left! I love it!!! But this week has been awesome as usual! I feel like i have had the best MTC experience. I had to say bye to my really good friends yesterday because they are all leaving on their missions! It was really sad, because you see these people everyday for 6 weeks and share spiritual experiences and you ust get so close with them. But i know they will all do amazing. I loved the Friends i have made here, and the mu teachers are amazing. They inspire me so much to be better each day. We are still teaching investigators here, and they are getting more complicated! i like it because it gives me the chance to know what to do in a real situation, and learn how to be a better teacher. Its funny me and companion whenever we extend a baptismal invitation and they except we get so happy that we forget to extend other invitations like going to church and stuff ( which is a necessity lol) and its just funny because we need to learn how to calm down hahah. but everything is still great, i haven't gotten sick here at all, and it rains pretty much everyday and it really fun to play in. We have earthquake centers here at the mtc outside the building where you in need to stand in that spot when there is an earthquake and we have had 3 earthquakes! you cant feel them from where we are, and there not big, just an alarm rings and everyone has to go outside. Its always at inconvenient times too hahah like one time it was during a lesson, and then at breakfast, and then in the morning, hahah people were like in towels and stuff it was hilarious. but yeah dotn worry we are all safe. I have learned alot more about commandment God has given us in this life and why we have them. Some times it easy to think that we have commandments just to restrict us on doing things, but Heavenly Father is so loving that he wants to give each of us the best shot possible to be able to return to live with him. Thats why we have commandments, because if you follow them, no matter what situation you are in, your are promised certain blessings with each commandment, and they lead you back to heavenly father. There is a reason for every single commandment, and if we obey with exactness, the blessings of heaven cannot be stopped. Why would you want to say no to being abundantly blessed? That has made me want to obey all my mission rules with exactness, and all the other commandments have given us. I love looking at them with a different perceptive, and i feel like i am more effective teaching them. It was raining really hard here yesterday and i had forgotten my umbrella but i was glad because the rains here feels awesome and me and comp just played in the rain, and while i was walking right outside of our classroom building seriously i step out my comp and another friend were sing ¨stand by me¨ and all of i suddenly i completely biff it hahah it was the funniest thing everrrr, hahah and very ironic because i was no longer standing. hah awkward, but people saw and i don't think anyone has laughed so hard, so i though you guys would like to know that i am still clumsy and loving it hahah. We had a devotional where we saw another one of Elder Hollands devotional at the MTC in Provo and i saw Elder Jarman! it was so cool! Ha he gave an answer and the mic when Elder Holland was asking for volunteers, and i was so happy to see him! it was cool. After the devotional was over Presidente Pratt asked me to give the closing prayer ( were best buds) and asked me where im going to announce it, and when i told him Louisville, he told he had family there that were not members! so he is giving me their info before i leave so that was way cool! Oh and i also got a bunch of compliments on my prayer! Everyone thinks i am a native now! hahah no where close though but it made me happy. Life is good here, and i am still so grateful that i get to be a missionary. I came here wanting to making people happy with the gospel, and change someones life for the better, but being here has just made me want to tell everyone out there about our gospels unique message. That God is our Loving Heavenly Father. He knows you personally inside and out, and that he wants you to return to live with him someday. He is so loving that he has sent us help and way that we are able to accomplish this plan. That is though his son, Jesus Christ, that died for not only the sin or the world but for each of our sins, and knows are pains, and sorrows because he has been there too. That through him we can be clean from sin, that there is life after this one, and that we can be with our families, and the ones we love forever. I love this gospel so much, i have a testimony of it with all my heart. I have learned so much, and i know everyone can be strengthened with this message and find a happiness they have never felt before. I love you all so much and I am so excited to work even harder in Louisville Kentucky, and i cant believe that i get to be the one to spread this message! I hope you are all happy, and safe, and know that Heavenly Father loves you completely, even though we may be incomplete. I love you all as well. Adios!


Hermana De La Vega