Last week in the MTC

Soooooooo. Mtc life. Feels like an hour but its actually a whole week. I feel like I just had pday yesterday. I am going to do my best to remember what happened this week! Sister Holguin (From El Paso, Texas) Learned that DAYYYYYUMMMMM is a bad word. hahahhahahah. apparently down there in El Paso the d word (mormon lingo) is a bad word. hahahahaha. neither is a lot of bad words. TEXANS amirite? hahahaha. On sunday we had mission conference because it was fast sunday. Every missionary in the MTC goes into the gym and its basically the most boring meeting I have ever been too (if the mtc board reads my emails before they get sent out I'm sorry) ANYWHO. They tell us to be 20 minutes early to this meeting, so we can get seats. So we get there and sit by our district. APPARENTLY they make us SING to the prelude music. so we are singing all these songs that I have heard maybe once or twice in my life, then the chorister stands up and says "for our last song we are going to sing I am a child of God" and All the sudden I here Elder Rahm (he's in my district) say YES!!! way loud (Meanwhile the entire gym is silent) hahahahahahha. It was sooooo funny. He was STOKED that we were singing I am a child of God. hahahaha. 

We went to Infield orientation and it was 9 hours sitting in 2 classrooms learning about how to get members to help you............. aka 9 hours of pure torture. literally the worst part of the MTC. hahahahaha. so we finally think we are down to 30 minutes left of this hell we are in, and we are sitting there thinking, "okay he's going to summarize then let us go to dinner" (we were starving) then this guy is there and he says "I have a really cool mission story.... (this guy is like 40 trying to relive the glory days) raise your hand if you want to go to dinner... or here my story" I PROMISE you that enough people raised their hands to go to dinner...... He says "Oh looks like you wanna hear my story! it will only take like 12 minutes!" Me and my companion got the tired giggles 3 minutes in and I almost died I was laughing so hard. hahahahahahahahahaha. I swear this Elder in front of me almost started to cry! hahahaha. It was horrible.

Not only has there been really hard times this week, but there have been some AMAZING times where I have looked back and seen that God is right there. We taught a lesson to our teacher to try and help him with his life and help him be motivated to sharing his testimony more! Anyways, we learned that if we prayerfully plan a lesson for someone the spirit will guide you to teach them what they need to learn. We planned this lesson for our teacher (with some serious help from the spirit) and we planned to talk to him about how having faith will help him. When we sat him down to teach him we asked him if he was afraid to share his testimony and he said no............. there goes my whole lesson plan! ugh. hahahaha so I was like CRAP what now. he is a teacher he knows way more than me how do I teach him?! Then I just felt like I need to share with him what I had prepared. I shared a personal story with him because it just came to my mind. and I testified that If You pray for an opportunity to be a missionary God WILL give you one! Then I shared the scriptures and things that I had prepared, The spirit was REALLY strong and when the lesson ended he toldd us we helped him a ton and the spirit empressed to him things we didnt even teach! It was so cool! I was so stoked. the gospel of Jesus Christ is true. and The church of jesus christ of latter day saints contains the fullness of the gospel. Christ DID atone for our sins. He is our greatest advocate. I have grown so close to my heavenly father since I have been here, and learned that Prayer is so important. Remember to keep praying especially for us missionaries! The struggle is REAL out here. I can't wait to leave to cali (mostly cause my skin hates me for living somewhere so dry.) I love it here and relationships i have made. My companion is a saint and I know that God put us together for a reason. I am really sad to leave here but so excited!!! this work is real! INVITE OTHERS TO COME UNTO CHRIST