Have I really been here for 9 days? Has it really only been 9 days? Am I really leaving in less than 4 days!? The MTC is the only place I have been that can feel like time is speeding up and slowing own at the same time!
A lot has been happening this week and I don't really know where to start! I spend about 90% of my day in a classroom learning how to be a missionary and that means a lot of role play... And I have a love/hate relationship with role play. I hate doing it but I can feel myself improving each time that I do a role play so I am really grateful for it at the same time!
Spiritual exhaustion is a real thing. When the Spirit is so strong for so much of the day you actually become exhausted by it! But I am trying to view that as a blessing because how often do you have the chance to feel the Spirit so strongly so much of the time!?
The days can be hard but then small things happen that have such a big effect and it immediately makes me feel so much better. Like when I got to see Ethan 3 times and it was kind of the happiest part of my week! Or getting mail (Mail is the best thing that ever happens to a
missionary. It is Christmas everyday hearing from people and I want to say thank you for your letters, packages, and emails, you have no idea how much it means)! Or catching a future Michigan State football players kick in kickball;) Or when my sweet companion, Sister Vassau, and I teach good lesson! I am so grateful for my time here, even the hard days because those are the days when I feel God's love the strongest. John 14:18 "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come
to you." I have felt that comfort every day and it is so powerful! And
because of it my testimony gets stronger and stronger every day.
And now a life lesson from Sister Jones:
Go to bed happy. Just do it. As I have been writing in my journal the past week I have realized that I judge a good day from a bad day by how I am feeling when I am about to go to bed. There are good things and bad things in every day but if you aren't happy about something when you go to sleep then the whole day feels like it was horrible! So make the end of your day happy and you will be able to see how God has blessed you throughout your day! The end:)
Sunday in the MTC is different, but really good!
*All of our meetings are spread out throughout the day so it is like Church is an all
day event, which would've killed me at home but I love it here!
*Sister Vassau and I only taught 4 sisters in Relief Society so I was getting nervous
for nothing!
*Each Sunday we get to walk up to the temple and just sit on the grounds for awhile
and I don't know why I have never done that at a temple, it is the most gorgeous
thing ever!!
*On Sunday I learned a little lesson as well... Most of you know that I am obsessed
with movies, like that was extremely hard for me to realize I wouldn't be able to
watch movies for a year and a half. So when I found out we could watch a movie on
Sunday night (a church one of course) I couldn't handle how excited I was! So when
my District decided we were going to watch Character of Christ I wasn't all too
pleased... I thought, it's a talk haven't we heard enough of those in the last few days
to last a lifetime? But then it started and I found it extremely hard to remain bitter as
I watched Elder Bednar speak. The talk is about how Christ turns out when others
would turn in. I was angry that I wasn't able to watch a movie, just about the least
valid reason to be angry in all of history! Who am I to be selfish over something so
silly while Christ was and is completely selfless in everything that He does? I
definitely was served a slice of humble pie! But I am glad because I know that I am
better for it.
We had in-field orientation yesterday and it is so weird thinking that this time next week I am going to be in New York and doing missionary work! How did I get so blessed!? We are leaving bright and early Tuesday morning. Although we have to be up and at the travel office at 3:30 so there is nothing bright about it... Just early. :)
I want to challenge you all to do something this week. Be a member missionary this week! You all know at least one person who needs the gospel in their life and you can bring it to them. And it doesn't even need to be something huge, just serve them. Go visit them and see if there is anything you can do to help them out, or just talk to them because that could be exactly what they need. You have the power to make miracles happen but you have to act in order for that to happen!
This has been very random and all over the place (and not as funny as I would like it to be, so if you could do me a favor and just pretend like there are a lot of funny and witty comments throughout this I would really appreciate it;)) so I apologize for that but it is what I felt was most important to tell you all!
I love you. God loves you. The church is true!
Love, Sister Jones
A lot has been happening this week and I don't really know where to start! I spend about 90% of my day in a classroom learning how to be a missionary and that means a lot of role play... And I have a love/hate relationship with role play. I hate doing it but I can feel myself improving each time that I do a role play so I am really grateful for it at the same time!
Spiritual exhaustion is a real thing. When the Spirit is so strong for so much of the day you actually become exhausted by it! But I am trying to view that as a blessing because how often do you have the chance to feel the Spirit so strongly so much of the time!?
The days can be hard but then small things happen that have such a big effect and it immediately makes me feel so much better. Like when I got to see Ethan 3 times and it was kind of the happiest part of my week! Or getting mail (Mail is the best thing that ever happens to a
missionary. It is Christmas everyday hearing from people and I want to say thank you for your letters, packages, and emails, you have no idea how much it means)! Or catching a future Michigan State football players kick in kickball;) Or when my sweet companion, Sister Vassau, and I teach good lesson! I am so grateful for my time here, even the hard days because those are the days when I feel God's love the strongest. John 14:18 "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come
to you." I have felt that comfort every day and it is so powerful! And
because of it my testimony gets stronger and stronger every day.
And now a life lesson from Sister Jones:
Go to bed happy. Just do it. As I have been writing in my journal the past week I have realized that I judge a good day from a bad day by how I am feeling when I am about to go to bed. There are good things and bad things in every day but if you aren't happy about something when you go to sleep then the whole day feels like it was horrible! So make the end of your day happy and you will be able to see how God has blessed you throughout your day! The end:)
Sunday in the MTC is different, but really good!
*All of our meetings are spread out throughout the day so it is like Church is an all
day event, which would've killed me at home but I love it here!
*Sister Vassau and I only taught 4 sisters in Relief Society so I was getting nervous
for nothing!
*Each Sunday we get to walk up to the temple and just sit on the grounds for awhile
and I don't know why I have never done that at a temple, it is the most gorgeous
thing ever!!
*On Sunday I learned a little lesson as well... Most of you know that I am obsessed
with movies, like that was extremely hard for me to realize I wouldn't be able to
watch movies for a year and a half. So when I found out we could watch a movie on
Sunday night (a church one of course) I couldn't handle how excited I was! So when
my District decided we were going to watch Character of Christ I wasn't all too
pleased... I thought, it's a talk haven't we heard enough of those in the last few days
to last a lifetime? But then it started and I found it extremely hard to remain bitter as
I watched Elder Bednar speak. The talk is about how Christ turns out when others
would turn in. I was angry that I wasn't able to watch a movie, just about the least
valid reason to be angry in all of history! Who am I to be selfish over something so
silly while Christ was and is completely selfless in everything that He does? I
definitely was served a slice of humble pie! But I am glad because I know that I am
better for it.
We had in-field orientation yesterday and it is so weird thinking that this time next week I am going to be in New York and doing missionary work! How did I get so blessed!? We are leaving bright and early Tuesday morning. Although we have to be up and at the travel office at 3:30 so there is nothing bright about it... Just early. :)
I want to challenge you all to do something this week. Be a member missionary this week! You all know at least one person who needs the gospel in their life and you can bring it to them. And it doesn't even need to be something huge, just serve them. Go visit them and see if there is anything you can do to help them out, or just talk to them because that could be exactly what they need. You have the power to make miracles happen but you have to act in order for that to happen!
This has been very random and all over the place (and not as funny as I would like it to be, so if you could do me a favor and just pretend like there are a lot of funny and witty comments throughout this I would really appreciate it;)) so I apologize for that but it is what I felt was most important to tell you all!
I love you. God loves you. The church is true!
Love, Sister Jones
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