One more week down!! That means my time at the MTC is coming to a close! This is my last P-Day before I will be in Colorado! I would say that time has flown by but..... its only been two weeks and I feel like I have lived here for months.
During this past week SO much happened starting with Elder Neil Anderson from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaking to us!! That was an awe inspiring moment. I could feel the Spirit just filled the room as soon as he stepped in. After he was done speaking he walked around and shook hands with those in the front rows of the isles and that meant that I got about 2 feet away from him. It was a feeling that I will never forget. Being in the presence of an Apostle is indescribable, I 10/10 would recommend.
After that experience everything else just couldn't compare but I will try to follow it up with quite and exciting moment. One of the Elder's in my District has interesting taste buds, he swears by salt and just is a fan of the strangest foods. One day he was telling us about how he would eat entire lemons. He would peel them just like Oranges and then salt them and eat them. So out of curiosity Sister Erickson tried it and she said yea, it's not that bad and immediately after hearing that she was fine with it the entire rest of the District decided to try it. So we all got sliced of lemon, peeled off the rind, salted it, and stuck it in our mouths. Immediately after biting slightly into it I realized my HUGE mistake. It was for sure the worst thing I have ever tasted in my entire life. Holy cow I swear on my entire life it is terrible. So we all collectively looked at each other and spit it out, then we all proceeded to chug as much water as possible to remove the taste from our mouth. It was horrifyingly disgusting. We have all learned to not trust Elder Trettin's taste anymore.
I had a wonderful TRC lesson with Karissa later that day where we got a baptismal commitment!! The few seconds before we asked if she would follow after Christ and be baptized I was PANICKING. My heart was beating out of my chest, my hands were all sweaty and I just spit out the words and immediately after I said it she said Yes! I think that is something I would like to do! I literally wanted to scream!!! I was so excited to know that I was the reason someone was coming to Christ!!! I spent the rest of the day just bouncing through the halls and smiling so extremely wide I felt so ecstatic. It makes me desperately want to go into the field... only one more week, I can do it.
Although all of those experiences were incredible the best moment by far happened during the next TRC lesson with a girl by the name of Amelia. Sister Erickson and I walked into our lesson with a plan to teach her about the Restoration of Jesus Christ's Church and immediately upon walking in and sitting down she shared with us something very personal she was struggling with. In that moment I knew that anything we had planned needed to be scrapped. We needed to do everything we could to help her reach out to Christ so He could bear her burdens. In that 25 minutes I felt as though I was being directly led by the Spirit in ways I didn't know were imaginable. I learned that God loves all of His children and He desperately wants to help us, all we need to do is reach out to Him and He will give everything He can to aide us. That feeling is something I will never forget. I felt love for her, love for God, and love for Christ.
Another quick fun event that happened is that my companion accidentally had an allergy attack! She tasted part of my food that we didn't realize had peanuts in it and she started to react to it so we went back to the residence where she took some medication to hopefully help but after a few hours her face was getting more and more red so I finally told her we needed to go see a nurse. We walked into the office and they gave her an Epi shot and let her sleep for awhile, while I studied. After the redness calmed down they told us we would have to leave campus to go to the Pharmacy and I swear to you I was so excited to finally breathe the air of the outside world. Even though it was just a few minutes of the outside, it was enough to tie me over until I get back to real life in the field. It was a needed break.
I wanted to tell you all that there is nothing like the love of Christ. I know there are things in all of our lives that our dragging us down but I have personally felt Christ hold my hand during some of the most difficult moments of my life and I know that He wants to do the same for each and everyone of you. He has felt every single pain you have felt and He knows perfectly what you need, all you have to do is reach out to Him. He is already running to your aide, pray for strength and I know that even though the trial might not get better, I promise it will not get worse.
I love you and God loves you!
Sister Carter
