Week 2 of MTC

Hola!

Last Tuesday after writing we went to the temple for the first time and it was so amazing!  That makes 24 temples that I have had the opportunity to do work in!  The celestial room was so beautiful and perfect.  Also because there are so many American missionaries they let us do the session in English which is soooo nice! My companion fell asleep a couple times which was way funny, but that's okay!

We also watched a worldwide missionary broadcast and they made huge changes to the missionary schedule!  Which allows for more time on pday and more wiggle room to decide for ourselves when study time and meal times will be.  It will give us a lot more freedom of choice.  Also, pdays in the MTC kinda suck.  We get one hour to email and an additional 2 hour for whatever, the rest of the day is still scheduled out for us.

The food is......well I'm just being super picky.  I'm pretty positive I've lost weight!  My typical breakfast is fruit, with a piece of bread and peanut butter.  And I don't really eat a whole lot for lunch or dinner cause the meats scare me!  They always look half cooked, so I just try to stay with the carbs and veggies!  

So one of the funniest things that happened this week was we were teaching our fake investigator and I was on a roll!  Like he said he didn't believe in God because he can't see him, so I whipped out the scripture about faith in things not seen....anyways it was going so good until we committed him to church and he asked how long church was, and I said, "Tres años" (three years), as soon as I said it I knew it was the wrong word but by then we were all laughing so hard, also I was the first one to make our investigator break character, so there's that.

The pollution is soooo bad here in Chile, especially right now because Chile has a lot of fires right now (I'm not anywhere close).  But we are getting all the smoke so today was the very first time I saw the sun since I've been here.  And we have only been able to see the moon twice....GROSS AIR!!!  I can almost feel myself getting lung cancer...

For my friends who speak Spanish, here is a little tongue twister to practice "RR"...

Erre con erre

cigarro, erre con

erre barril, rapido 

corren los carros 

repletos de hierno

del ferro carril.

(it doesn't really translate to anything I don't think, but it's kinda fun)

So while in the MTC if you write me a long letter I won't be able to read it until the field.  They are really strict about only 1 hour on the computer and we are not allowed to print anything.....so keep it short for the next couple weeks and I'll respond the best that I can.

This week my favorite reading was in Helamen 5:23.  It talks about Lehi and Nephi cast into prison by the Lamanites for preaching the gospel and through faith they were encircled as if by fire and were not burned.  Then if you go to Exodus 3:2-4 the Lord appears by way of a burning bush to Moses and says, "Moses Moses Here am I".  How can we have as much faith in the Lord as did Lehi, Nephi, and Moses?

Key Things I learned This Week

1. Faith =Action (The key to faith is prayer, reading, and attending church)

2. Repentance= Change  (Repentance is not optional, it is a commandment)

3. Repentance & Baptism= the door to heaven

4.  Holy Ghost= Taste of Eternal Joy

5. Follow Christ= Lifelong commitment to endure to the end

6. Conversion= Key to our membership (A testimony alone will never be good enough)

7. Character= moral qualities

8. God´s Law=Freedom

That's it for now!!  Thanks for all the love, support, and emails!!  Miss you all!

Love,

Hermana Sullivan

Chile Santiago South Mission

Pictures:

Me and Hermana P (She's my favorite Latina)

My sock shrunk in the drier....

The view of the temple grounds from the MTC "Living room"

Me and my companions

Me and Elder A (I worked with his sister at Utah Valley, and we ran into each other today)

My typical breakfast

What my scriptures look like now, I have learned soooo much!