I appreciate all the
love I have been getting from home! Letters are the best part of my day.
This week has been hard, because we started
TRC's. That is where we go and teach real investigators every day. We have the
same investigators for one week and the ones we had last week were both good
and bad. The first was a Mexican woman names Talia. I love her she had such a
sweet spirit, she wanted to know more about the church because she saw the
Provo City Center temple being built. She had lots of questions and we only got
to meet with her twice because she had to drive her mom to Mexico. I hope she
comes back to the Mtc to learn more!
Our other investigator was Elise. She was so
hard. On our very first visit she told us she hated people and that she
followed her boyfriend to BYU and knew a lot about the church. We (my comp and
I) were stumped so we started asking her questions about The Church. Which is
kinda weird seeing how we are missionaries and she is the investigator. She
knew a lot but didn't see the connection. Our next lesson we taught about the
Restoration and how this isn't the only time God has brought Christs Church,
and the Priesthood to the earth. She was blown away. After that I was super
pumped to see her again. When we went in the next time we invited her to be
baptized and we had an amazing lesson, she said she was willing.
#HugeImprovement The next time we went she 'lost her voice' and couldn't answer
any of our questions. It is so hard to teach a lesson when you can't tell what
the person knows because they can't answer questions. We tried to teach with
the Spirit but honestly it didn't go that well. I was super excited to get new
TRC's yesterday. They are both challenging in their own ways but I love them so
much already. Here is a tip, if you want to love someone pray and ask for you
to be able to feel Gods love. I promise you that it works.
We had a band called the Nashville Tribute
Band come and sing to us on Sunday. It was really good. We felt the Spirit so
strongly. I honestly cry everyday here. Sometimes its because of the Spirit,
sometimes its because of frustration, sometimes its because I miss you guys,
and sometimes its because I just don't know how to express myself. The Band was
good and they made me cry for all of the reasons listed above.
Ok here is a really amazing thing that
happened yesterday, it shows that the Holy Ghost really guides our lives and
works through us to help other people. Yesterday after Sister Berthelson and
I's second TRC we had study time. We sat outside on the tables by 19M and I
read the BOM. After like 45 min of study I knew we needed to go to 11M. I told
Sis B. and we gathered our things and walked over there. 11M is the TRC building
and there is literally no reason to go there but to teach but I thought maybe
we are supposed to get some new training record papers or something. When we
got in front of the door Sister Ekker and Sister Carter were walking down the
path, I waved and continued on up the stairs but Sister B stopped and said we
should talk to them. I noticed Sister Carter was crying. I gave her the biggest
hug and just let her cry it out on my shirt. We stood their hugging for a good
3 min while she cried. I guess their TRC was really hard. The lady attacked our
religion and told them not to teach lessons. I wanted to march right into her
room and tell her to get her fat lazy butt right out of the MTC and to never
hurt my sisters again, but I have patience so I didn't. As we were trying to
comfort her some Elders walked past they got about 5 feet past us when one
stopped, said something to the other, they turned around and asked if she
needed a blessing. We went into the nearest classroom and they gave her and her
comp a blessing. This was these Elders first blessing ever, to people they
didn't know, for reasons they weren't sure of when they offered. It took so
much courage to do what they did. We had plenty of Elders walk past, some form
our own branch and none on them stopped. But these Elders did. I hope that as I
serve my mission I can have the courage and boldness they had. This was a major
testimony builder of the power of the Holy Ghost.
I hope y'all are having a good time! Keep the
letters and love coming! And the cokes! That 90 calorie one was just the pick
me up I needed. I have only slipped us
and swore once but a bird tried to attack me!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE you guys and think about you all the time!
Love Sister Ashlee Evelyn Witt
