Week #4

Hello Family and Friends!!

Hope everyone had an awesome week!! Well, this week was really... interesting! I learned so much. On Thursday it was my turn to teach our investigator with a teacher. So it was just me and this Russian girl that I had met for the first time. I spent two hours with her before we taught our investigator. We prepared a lesson and then the last 45 minutes we were supposed to go over language so I knew what to say, yano. Well, she basically was just like read this, then this, and then that? So basically, all I was gonna do was read from different things. I wasn't feeling confident at all? Especially because I feel like you can't really bring the spirit in when your just reading. So we go in there and my "investigator" was pretty quiet. Didn't really say much. But let's just say, I taught the whole lesson by myself. My "companion" barely said anything, and she was the one that spoke Russian! I was stressed out the whole time and then I wanted to be sincere about everything I said, but how could I do that if I sounded like a 6 year old trying to read? My investigator would say things that I could barely understand. I would look at my companion and say what did he say? And then she would start speaking to me in Russian? Haha I was getting so overwhelmed because I didn't know what to do. It got to a point where they both were just looking at me waiting for me to say something. I was freaking out inside and I almost started crying.. Don't worry I waited until I was done;) But in that moment I just wanted to quit. It made me realize how grateful I was to have my companions in there with me. After that I hit rock bottom. I think heavenly father really wanted to humble me and I must say he did it. I think he's trying to show me that I can not do this on my own. I learned so much from that lesson!! Afterwards my teacher talked to me and explained to me that my "companion" didn't do a very good job with helping me and not to get discouraged. So I felt a little better after. Well after that I was so bummed out. I felt like giving up. Well, I get to dinner and find out that I had two packages waiting for me. God works in weird ways... that's all I have to say. Well, the next day, I was kinda stand offish? I didn't want to talk to anyone or teach another lesson.. But we had too. So we are preparing to teach this guy Sasha and as we go to "knock on the door" we hear yelling and a bunch of random noises!!! hahaha I start laughing and said to my companions....He's Drunk!!! Sasha opened the door and was completely "wasted" I was laughing soooooo hard. I did not say one thing because I was laughing so hard. He was like walking all over the place, his clothes were unbuttoned and all this stuff. Then he starts yelling at us and telling us to come in. Ahhh!! I was dying! haha funniest thing!! So, finally I gave him a mint and on the mint it just said what time church was and we hoped to see him there. Hahahaha I will never forget that. When my teacher walked in he started clapping and just said well done!! Ah best lesson I've ever taught;) Well Sunday came around and I just wanted to be alone that day. I decided to fast because there are a lot of questions that I have that I don't understand. Cectpa Fehlberg can read me like a book...so, we're in relief society and she asked me what was wrong. I kinda told her a little bit, but not much. Later that day she said, "after you told me that the spirit told me to give you this scripture." She said she had never read it before, but the spirit just said Alma 38:3-5, I read it and it made me feel so much better. Holy cow!!! it was something that I definitely needed to hear. It's crazy how heavenly father does stuff sometimes. The next day I received more answers to my prayers. And then again on Tuesday!! The lord will answer you prayers if you put in the effort. Last night at our devotional, the president of the quorum of the 70 spoke and he talked about spiritual gifts. Made me think about all the spiritual gift that I have received through out my life. There are sooo many gifts that I have received and that I didn't even realize I had until last night!! God has given each of us so many gifts and I hope everyone during this christmas season can recognize them and thank him!! Well, That was my week. Hope it makes sense:) I love you all and I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!

Love, Cectpa Godfrey

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Week #3 in the MTC

Privet Family and Friends!!!

It is the third week in the MTC and I gotta say... It feels like 3 months. But that is ok:) I'm trying to think about my week and to be honest everything mixes together so if I repeat myself I apologize. Ok well we have two new investigators! Eda and Sasha, Eda is just like Kristina.. Super strict and won't do anything. Haha so we had the idea to do an object lesson! So I brought her Chocolate and drew her a picture with a scripture on is haha She loved that! While we were in there Cectpa Noorda was trying to say a would and she kept pronouncing the word Bullshi... Hahahahaha I started laughing so hard and couldn't stop. I literally had to put my head in my lap and breath for a second. She said it 3 times and didn't even realize what she was saying. Ah gosh Cectpa Noorda, she said she's only sworn once in her life. Hahaha so that lesson was pretty funny! The elders in my district didn't end up going to spain because there visas never showed up, so thats a bummer! Right now they're just waiting for them to show up. Ok so this past week I have been stalked by this Australian kid that I met the 2nd day I was here!! He's super nice and everything, but he won't leave me alone. He comes up to me during breakfast and talks to me and then right after choir or something? So every time I see him I try to hide.. Haha but on sunday he ran up to me and he was like so before I forget is there anyway I can get your email.... Ahhhhhh I did not want to give it to him.. But I felt so bad haha so I ended up giving it to him. I felt super uncomfortable though. So hopefully he doesn't email me haha. One of my teachers Brat Hollingstead has been way cool! we talked for like an hour the other just me and him getting to know each other. I love my teachers they are all so great and help me so much. Yesterday I was really frustrated with the language. So Brat Hollingstead pulled me out of class and worked on the grammer with me. I don't know, but this language thing is not easy? Especially for me!!!! I feel like I'm so far behind and I'm trying to tell myself that I will get it its just gonna take patience, so hopefully through time it will come. On Sunday I got called to be the Music Coordinator and Senior Companion!! So that was kinda cool! I'm in charge of like all the hymns and musical numbers so that should be fun! Yesterday we found out that our Russian teacher, the native one Cectpa Kuneztova might get deported or kicked out because she worked over 20 hours last week.. So she can't come back for 3 weeks unless something else happens which would suck because she honestly is so great!! She taught us a lesson the other day on Prayer and I have never seen someone with so much faith in there life. She is solid!! She has so much faith that god will answer her prayers and he does!! A quick story.. So when she was on her mission she said that Sundays were the most stressful days. Since they were so stressful she would always get a milk chocolate bar with nuts to calm her nerves down. Well one Sunday she didn't have the time to go to the store the night before to get her chocolate. So all day she was praying to god saying I need chocolate!! I want it so bad. Please have someone give me chocolate. So during church the whole time she knew she was going to get it, she just didn't know when? So church was almost over and once of the members pulled her aside and said hey I want to give you something, She pulls out the chocolate and said I had a feeling I needed to buy you this this week and give it to your today?!?!? What??? Hahaha and it was a milk chocolate bar with nuts... Then on her way home she was ridding the bus and she sat next to this lady and started talking to her and guess what.. She pulled out a milk chocolate bar with nuts and said I have an extra one of these do you want it?!?! haha god answers prayers, no matter how dumb you think they are... Anyways she's great!! I hope she comes back!!! Lets see my companions are good!! We are getting along pretty good. Cectpa Noorda keeps talking about Marriage and her future family haha like shes obsessed about it. The other day she had a dream about he first child and she talked about it all day hahaha I feel bad for her sometimes because she's never been on a date or anything.. But yeah.. Um cectpa Cullens good! She's gonna start teaching me Piano because she use to teach it! So that will be way fun!! Tomorrow I teach an investigator, Just me and a teacher so that should be fun! Quentin L. Cook spoke last night at our Devotional!! It was really good. Talked about missionary work of course, but what he said that stuck out to me was the more faith you have the more blessings you'll receive. Faith is a huge part about a mission. I've learned that I can't do this on my own. There is no way!! But with faith anything is possible:) Well I love you all sorry I'm all over the place!! But I'll talk to you next week! Have a fabulous week!!!!!