Dear Family,
This past week has been good. I don''t know if this is bad or what, but a lot of my days are pretty mundane and they blur together because they are all basically the same.... Anyway, I still love it.
Sister B and I were able to teach Delphine again. We asked her about her scripture reading and she has read like up to Alma! I asked her what she liked and she said Mosiah and I said what exactly about Mosiah do you like and she liked Mosiah 3. She has a four year old daughter so versus 17-18 meant a lot to her. It was so cool because I was able to testify to her that little children are not held accountable until they are eight, unlike her previous beliefs of infant baptism. We probably talked about it for like ten minutes and it was the strongest I have felt the spirit in a lesson since I got here... That night Tad R Callister gave a devotional on the proof of our church in the Bible. He said the Bible is the blueprint of the real Gospel and our church is the only church that follows that blueprint. It was very logical and straightforward. I liked it.
Wednesday we taught Raphael again. We started with follow up and unfortunately he did not read the Book of Mormon at all. Soooooo we decided to read it with him to stress the importance of reading the Book of Mormon. We read 2 Nephi 2 together because it touches on several points in the second lesson of PMG: Le Plan du Salut. It was good. We stopped in between versus and asked questions and discussed. After, Sister Beeny was so happy. Finally. She thought it went awesome. And I did too so that's good. BTW, Raphael and Delphine are our MTC teachers Sister W and Brother M. They give us feedback at the end of each lesson which is VERY helpful. Brother M stressed the importance of simplicity. So i'm going to work on that for this upcoming week. :)
Also, 945 missionaries entered the MTC. Yeah. It's crowded. French is going well. We are starting to pick up the pace. We are starting to only speak french now, which is hard but helpful. I'm nervous to go and be surrounded by it all the time!
Thursday we combined with the Creole missionaries for class. We did a role play. Brother M and Brother N. We planned together and the they showed us how to put their planned lesson into action. During the middle, Brother N stopped and asked me to take his spot! I was like what? So i went up and read Jeremiah 1:5 with Yves (Brother M) and continued. It was actually not as scary as I thought and I was really glad for that opportunity. No one else but me went up and I don't know why. After, Elder G in my district told me that he learned the most when I was teaching and that made me feel really good. It was neat.
Funny story!! The 2nd lesson we taught Brother M/Raphael we taught on the plan of salvation some more. He didn't know anything about the pre-mortal life and that was my section to teach. It was really hard! But I did fine. That's when he said teach as simply as you can. Which should be a relief speaking in another language. That's not the funny part. Before we ended, we invited him to go to church and he said what time? And last time he said he had mass, so, me trying to get around mass, said "Quelle heure est mass?" And Brother M started to laugh hysterically which made me laugh hysterically and of course Sister Beeny too. I don''t know why it was so funny, but it was. It was a great lesson. So Both Delphine and Raphael are coming to church! WOOHOO!
Sunday was great like it always is. In Relief Society sister Ann Glegg of the RS General Board Spoke. She talked about our purpose. We are here to teach and to share this message. Not to flirt or to sight see! Which I 100% agree with. She said remember 3 things: Know your purpose, be bold, and expect miracles. It was very encouraging. I am so ready to go and teach. I want to leave right this second! If I could. But I am grateful for the MTC and everything that I've learned.
BTW I am in the MTC choir and I don't know if you know, but the 23rd is a Church wide leadership thing on missionary work with the 1st presidency and the 12. They are coming to the Mariott. I will be singing at the Marriot for them on that day. Watch the meeting! Find me in the choir! It's live. Don't forget.
The gospel is true. I am dying to get to France and start teaching those amazing people. I can't wait to spread this true message. Be happy. Don't be grumpy. Grumpy people are literally the worst. I love you!
Love, Soeur Roberts
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