Selamat Pagi from hot-and-unusually-rainy MTC!
It's all good here, saya baik! I don't feel like a lost puppy nearly as much as I did at first, so that's good. There's much to do here, there's almost no time to think about anything else. A lot of this week was new missionary orientation stuff which helped a lot, but two super amazing things that happened this week were my favorite.
Sunday, I got to watch the Elder Bednar talk everyone talks about: "The Character of Christ." It helped me gather my thoughts about how we should always turn outward, never in, no matter how difficult it gets because that is the character of Jesus Christ (that talk gave me goose bumps). I also got to live my life-long dream on Tuesday of singing in the MTC choir, and WOW that was pretty amazing. 1100 missionaries testified of Joseph Smith as we sang Praise to the Man (ahhhh, more goosebumps).
We've learned a lot this week about having faith and what that means regarding language learning. I've been trying to focus on praying sincerely for help, studying hard, and trusting that the Spirit will bring things to my remembrance. It can be scary and often times I mess up, but a teacher said this week that you have to make 1000 mistakes before you're fluent, so when you mess up 1 time, you're one mistake closer to being amazing! Also, sometimes I randomly switch to German in my brain, so that gets pretty confusing.
A cool experience happened Friday when Sister Gordhammer and I were teaching Brandon (actually just one of our teachers pretending to be someone learning about the gospel) about faith from the Book of Mormon. We were a little nervous that we wouldn't remember the phrases and words we studied, so we said a short prayer beforehand. Although it was hard to understand him at first, and intimating to hear him talk quickly, we remembered words and phrases and the lesson went great. We had a really good feeling the whole lesson and Brandon said he felt the spirit. It has been really neat to feel that help and guidance all week.
I should probably go take my clothes out of the dryer now, but I got everyone's emails and will do my best to reply! I love you all, thanks for the support and hope this week is bagus!
Selamat tinggal,
Sister Hamner
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