I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas!!!!!!!!!!
Christmas
in the MTC was amazing!!!!! They treated us so amazingly. To start on
Christmas eve they gave us an amazing dinner Turkey and Ham and so much
food. That we had a devotional by Hugo E MartÃnez from the Area
Presidency and the second quorum of the seventy it was so amazing to be
able to hear him talk it was in English. He wanted to met and talk to
all of us. Yesterday was Christmas and here was so special we had two
devotionals one was from Tuesday December 23rd 2014 (Joesph Smith's
Birthday) That was by Bishop Stevenson Presiding Bishop over the Church.
Then we got to participate in a live broadcast from Prove MTC by
Russell M. Ballard he is such an amazing speaker. I got to experience
Christmas in a different way then you guys I got to be a missionary. I
have the opportunity to have Christmas everyday as a missionary. I am so
excited to be able to experience that. Being a missionary is one of the
best things that has happened to me.
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| Elders Grimmer and Moss |
Just
thinking that I am only two weeks away from entering the field is so
weird!!!! I can't believe how fast my time here in the MTC has been. I
am so excited to get out of here I feel like I am in a prison sometimes
always following the same schedule always in classes and just stuck
behind a gate everyday. I am so grateful for this opportunity to serve a
mission. My district thinks it is so funny how I know a lot of
different scriptures by memory. Seminary really does help with a
mission. I am so glad I had the opportunity to participate in seminary
all four years of High School. Seminary may have been a struggle for me
but I am so blessed with the opportunity I had to have it in my life. I
have been able to quote scriptures and also be able to tell the elders
in my district exactly where to find different scriptures for their
lessons. I love the people here in the Dominican.
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| True story |
Last
Friday we as the older districts in the MTC had the opportunity to go
to the University and be able to talk to people and share a message with
them. My companion and I handed out like 5 pamphlets and a Book of
Mormon!!!!!!! I HANDED OUT A BOOK OF MORMON AND I AM STILL IN THE
MTC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the feeling I get talking to
people about the gospel. Today (December 26th) in class my companion
and I had the opportunity to teach in front of two districts and two
teachers and we are the two with least amount of Spanish and we had to
teach about faith in Jesus Christ. We made it so simple but the Spirit
was so strong, after our little lesson one of the teachers complimented
us by telling us that even though our Spanish isn't perfect that she
could still feel the Spirit in her heart.
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| Love this tree |
I
love how the Spirit works. I am so grateful for this opportunity to
serve a mission. I am so grateful to be here on a mission at the time of
Christ's birth. I am so grateful for the gospel in my life and the
opportunity I had to have it in my life always. This gospel means so
much to me. As I sit here thinking why Christ was born I always go to
the Atonement and how he was pre-destined to sacrifice for our sins. I
am so grateful for him and for his sacrifice for me and his suffering
for my sins. I love all of you guys and I love this gospel and I know it
is true. I know that the Lord sacrificed his life for us the least I
can do is sacrifice two years of my life for him. I love you guys so
much.
Elder Moss
Hi There...Mom, here. I asked Elder Moss a number of questions in an email and he was able to answer some of them. Here are my questions and his answers:
Did they (the MTC people) make it (Christmas) a special day for you?
**Yes the MTC people made Christmas so special for me.
Do you get to hear any good devotionals/speakers/talks?
**Every single week we get to listen to devotionals. They are so amazing, as we stand to sing Called to serve.
How's
your Spanish coming along? Are you able to understand and teach in
Spanish yet?
**My Spanish is coming along very slowly but I am starting to understand the language and being able to have conversations with people.
Tell me about your investigators. Who are they? Do you know their "stories?"
**We have two investigators right now. Their names are Ramon Trinidad and Juan Victor. Our teachers are acting as our investigators though. Ramon has a kid and a wife and is a lawyer he's favorite sport is baseball and his favorite team is the Boston Red Sox. Juan Victor also has a kid and a wife and he works as a CEO of a pharmacy. He is a good guy.
What kinds of spiritual moments have you had?
**The most spiritual thing I would have to say was when we handed a Book of Mormon to someone and he promised to read and pray about it.
When you go to the temple, do you participate in English or Spanish?
**We go to the temple every Thursday and we participate in the English session.
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| Santo Domingo Temple |
**We will not be getting a new MTC President while I am here President and Sister Freestone leave the week after we do. Yes I have met the new MTC President they were on Skype with the Owner of the MTC and he brought them in here to show them around.
Tell me about Elder Grimmer? You mentioned that he is funny and that you get along well. What else do you like about him? Where's he from?
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| Moss and Grimmer |
**Elder Grimmer is the best, he always jumps around from bed to bed he climbs on everything and has so many jokes. He is awesome he has four older brothers who all served missions his dad served in Japan along with two of his older brothers. His other two brothers served missions in Ogden Utah and in Missouri. He [Elder Grimmer] is so spiritual I love him a lot.
What do you guys do on your "free time?"
Do you have any free time?
**We kinda get free time after lunch everyone spends it differently some nap and some study I do both depends on how I feel recently I haven't been feeling good during the day so I just see how I am feeling.
