WEEK 3 email!! yes...its already week three! CRAZY.
Happy New years!!!! what a great year 2012 was for our family!! 2013 will bring even more blessings! hope you all made some great goals!!
First off ... Feliz Compleanos hermano!! i sent ya a letter this week sorry it will probably be a lil late! :( but happy birthday anyways!!! heard ya got a uekelelele (dont know how to spell that one) haha thats awesome!!! awesome pictures from the trip!! we got dumped on here!! and then it was sunny blue bird skies on tuesday and all week so far! dreammmmy but super cold! got to learn to acclimate though... -20s are commin at me fast! heard you guys were in the negatives also! but the powder im sure made it well worth it!! we will put somethin crazy together for when i get back!! suplomente.
so the food here...started repeating itself 6 days ago...and i actually havnt gained any weight!! ive lost like 4 pounds!!... kinda wierd!
the mtc is kinda a death trap hahahaha....one person got the flue which then turned into 350 different cases and now tons have it... only 8 kids survived this "zombie apoccolapse" as we are callin it... and yes i was one of the ones that didnt survive:( but im feelin a ton better today! its only a 24 hour ordeal! but it was funny to be somewhat quarantened (ya dont know how to spell it).. it was a huge bummer to have to miss all my classes yesterday.. i love my teachers here i learn so much from them!!
the anology of th mtc is... days feel like weeks but then weeks feel like days... its so true time is flyin! im so excited to get out in the field!! cant wait to find those that are prepared for me! gotta use these nine weeks to the fullest so that im prepared for them! spanish is pickin up! elder shipp still struggles quiete a bit but hes doin alot better!!! so glad! i dont remember if i told ya last week but our investigator from last week we were able to set a baptism date with him! NAILED IT! i love this language! Now we have 2 new investigators this week!! nicholas y leonardo! we are goin lesson by lesson...but since this sickness has struck weve only been able to teach once...BUT tomorrow we are gonna invite them to be baptized! i have the invitation memorized now and gotta have the first vision memorized by tomorrow!! i am enjoying every second of this experience! when im feelin down i get my focus off of me and back to my purpose." invitar las personas a venir cristo al ayudarlas a que reciben el evangelio restuarado mediate la fe en jesucristo y su expiacion, al arrepentimiento, el bautismo la recepcion del espiritu santo y preseverar hasta el fin." im not here for me im here to bring others unto christ!! it was either late last week or early this week when i was teaching enrique our investigator... i could feel the spirit guiding me in our lesson...it wasnt necessarily the way i had planned... and it being a new language and all ...it was hard to go off in some way that i hadnt studied...but i tried my hardest...and did follow the spirit (ALWAYS). it was amazing to see the outcome..even though my grammar wasnt the best enrique still understood it...a asked "como siente" how do you feel? after i talked to him about prayer and how joseph smith had a question and received an answer...i promised him he would also..he told us hes never felt better and feels at peace! BAM. it was an amazing experience to be guided and see the outcome and feel the outcome!!! enrique ended up bein our second teacher here at the mtc!! Hermano Harris! hes amazing!!!! the investigators are now our teachers but they act just like a person they taught on there missions!!!! i love teaching! its so stinkin fun!! our objectivo as a missionary is to have our investigators gain a better relationship between god! as missionaries if we dont talk through the spirit how are the investigators suppost to grow closer to christ?? as missionaries teach through the spirit and gain a stronger and closer relationship with christ our investigators do also!!
in class one of our main focuses has been the "How to Begin Teaching" part in preach my gospel! and its helped alot with my teaching and also elder shipps! the purpose of it is to gain an understanding of the investigators needs then be guided by the spirit on what the first lesson should be!! its grand! as missionaries we are represnetatives of christ... what better way to represent christ then to show our love for the investigators! there is no better feeling than feeling the spirit direct you in a lesson then see the outcome of why you were directed in that way!
im in 3rd nephi in my reading rightnow! LOVIN IT and am learning so much!! capitulo siete is probably one of my favorites! nephi(the son of heleman) had so much faith that it was impossible for the people he taught to deny his words! what an amazing example in missionary work! 3rd nephi is amazing its pretty much all highlighted now...hhaha
our workshop this week was on PMG... our teacher in there served in my same mission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is on heck of a teacher and i always feel the spirit super strong when he teaches! hes also like 6'6 i wonder if milwaukee did that too him...we can only hope right?
well family and friends!! its so great to be serving the lord! im livin it and lovin it!! i love you all so much!! thank you for all your prayers! ive felt them bless my life!! i challenge you all to grow closer to the lord every day!!
-ELDER bryce osmond HARPER-SMITH
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