Whats Up everyone hope you are having a great week! Time in the MTC has been flying by so fast it feels like it was 3 days ago since I got called to be a zone leader!

Dutch HOA

On Thursday me and my companion had our first HOA in Dutch. We were scared to do it so we said a prayer and asked for help and guidance. Also we took 1 hrs to prepare. The lesson went actually really well. We took up the full 15 min and taught her all about prayer in Dutch. I messed up only 1 or 2 because I forgot a word but overall the Dutch words flowed naturally. It really testified to me how powerful the gave van talen is and without it there is no way we couldn't leren dat taal dat sniel.

God beantwoordde mijn gebeden door mijn leraar.

I had been wondering for a little bit on how to make my personal study more spiritual each day even when I am dead from class. He told me to always start and end with a prayer in my study and express to god exactly what I am feeling. If I am feeling I am going to have a hard time focusing I will pray to him and tell him that and ask him to help me focus during my study. As I have done that each study has been way more spiritual and I always feel so locked in.

Fast Sunday

Today was Fast Sunday. It was one of the coolest experiences because in sacrament meeting me and my companion assigned a asl district to do the sacrament prayer. So they did the prayer in ASL. It's very weird because you keep your eyes open but you could feel the spirit so strong it was amazing and they do such a great job expressing their emotions and spirit. Then in the Sacrament meeting sense it was fast sunday we all were able to bear testimony the spirit was so strong. It was so cool hearing everyone's testimony and taught me so much about the love God has for all his children.

Bekering

Then in class I was asked to write a question and I wrote How to look at Repentance as a Joyful thing. I forgot the question and during are 1:30 hr personal study I saw repentance come up so much I was reading in Helaman when he is teaching the laminates about christ birth and repentance then I pulled the question out and on the back was someone who answered it in are class and they said one word washed and then the spirit guided me and taught me and answered my question. I have never thought of it this way I realized that repentance is like taking the sacrament it's a gift to remember his atonment and him bleeding for are sins. Repentance should be a daily way to rember his suffering and helps us be more like him.

Tuesday

Today we got the opportunity to have Garret W Gong speak to us and also because my whole district joined the choir we got to sing We Thank Thee of God For a Prophet the spirit was so strong as we sung that. Then gong spoke all about atonment of Jesus Christ I love one part he said the answer to everything is Jesus Christ and nothing is unfair because of him. Then he also shared how we need to be patient with ourselves because God is pleased with are sincere desires and will bless you for your effort even when you feel it isn't a enough.

To end I would like to encourage all you guys to try to read the book of Mormon each day. We learned in a Devotional all about the Book of Mormon. They said that the Book of Mormon is the greatest source of direction and it will change your thoughts and actions and help you with choices you need to make.