Hey yallllll,
I hope that everything is going well back in the 801 and that youre all having a jolly old time. So i have some awesome news. My companion gets to stay and he is so happy. We have been having so much fun and working so hard. He has been completely changed by the experience and is now so optimistic about the Mish. So the Hmong is coming really well and I have been progressing way faster this week than I have in the past. It's so amazing to see how much the Lord loves missionaries and wants to help them out. Each day when I'm studying I can feel the Lord helping me and guiding what I do. There is no way in the world that I would be able to learn this language without His help. I really don't even know how I've learned anything. The teacher just gets up in front of the class and starts going off in Hmong and somehow we all just understand what he says.
I'm getting really excited to get out in the field and try and use everything that I learned in the field and bring my Hmong brothers and sisters to the gospel but one thing that makes me pretty nervous is that my teacher said when he went to the mission field he had to teach one or two lessons both in Hmong. YIKES! But the thing that I think I have learned the best from all of our practice teaching appointments is that it doesn't really matter what you say as long as the Spirit is there. All you have to do is work really hard to prepare a lesson and do your best at studying the language and if you have faith that the Lord will help you, He never leaves you hanging.
We had a really cool devotional last night that I thought was so inspiring. The speaker was talking about how if we never open our mouths then we will never teach anyone. He talked about how as a missionary you will get rejected a lot but the most important thing to remember is that God is on your side and he wants us to succeed. Then he read a quote from Winston Churchill that is now one of my all time favorite quotes, "Our success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." That is something that I am going to try and remember every time a person rejects me. But I'm sure that the Hmong people are so nice that none of them will ever reject me. I still can't believe that I'm leaving in two weeks from today. It seems like I've been in here forever and also for like one second. It's so weird. The days seem to go pretty long but then all of a sudden you wake up and your like oh dear I've already been out on a mission for two months. I really feel like I'm prepared to go out and teach and I'm sure that I'll get one big ole piece of humble pie in that first lesson but I feel like there's just something awesome about the MTC that makes you feel like you can do anything. Or maybe that's the Spirit I'm not sure but either way I feel like God won't let me fail.
We get our travel plans tomorrow and I'm so excited. I'm pretty sure that I fly to Denver first and then to Minnesota but I'll just have to wait and see. One thing that is kind of sad is that my whole district leaves one day before me and my companion because our flights are different so that will be pretty lonely but at the same time we'll have all of their left over candy and stuff so maybe we'll just have an early thanksgiving with all the other Elders on our floor or something. It's crazy how God puts all these random people in your life that bless you so much. I have really become best friends with all the other elders in my district and I'm gonna miss them when they head out but I'm sure they'll all do a great job on their mission so I'm not to worried about them.
Anyways that's all for now and I love you guys a bunch. I hope that you're all safe and loving life.
Peace out
Elder Henrie
Sib Ntsib dua kuv tsev neeg
Apparently once you become a missionary you get some pretty awesome powers. Also the Hmong ninja moves that they taught us in class ripped my pants :(
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