Now, in case you haven't heard- I've been re-assigned to COLORADO SPRINGS! :) I'm so excited! I leave on Monday. My companion was sent to Alabama and had less than 12 hours between knowing and leaving. It was such a rush, it wasn't too hard to say goodbye. But then yesterday was pretty rough without her. I had class and MDT all day, and had to stay with the Elders. I love them, but I felt pretty alone. Its crazy how quickly you have to be connected with your companion, not only physically, but emotionally and spiritually. Not having that support did not feel very great. Today has been better though, because its P-day and I have to stick with sisters. Plus, today I am packing and getting ready to leave, where as yesterday was still focused on teaching and language (thats rough without Sister Bee). Now I'm too busy to think, so I just do.
We got to do sealings in the Temple today, and it was an awesome experience! I was thinking today, because last night I started to sort of panic because I feel my little portuguese baby wings are not ready to fly yet, especially since I won't be in Brazil. BUT I didn't feel at all ready for the MTC, somehow I ended up on that plane, and everything turned out great. So we'll just do that again! Now into the field! I won't be travelling by myself, there is a group leaving for Colorado Springs, of 14, 4 sisters in it. So thats a little relieving. Please don't send anymore letters to my MTC address because they don't forward letters from here, they just throw them away, so I won't get them. I should still get dearelders, but I don't know how it works, you might have to change my address in the system or whatever.
My new address it: 4090 Center Park Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80916. Also, if you were wanting to send stuff for my birthday, don't worry about it yet because I don't know what i need. Although, I do know I need some warm tights or something, or else my legs are going to freeze, and that is something I know they don't sell at the bookstore here.
I'm trying to think what happened this week. Basically its all a blur. I'm pretty sure the days on a mission are actually 36 hours long, the nights are 2, but the weeks are a nano-second. I don't know how the Lord does it, thats why He is all powerful, and I am not. Portuguese is great, we had our last TRC, which was reason to celebrate, and I was surprised at how much I understood and was able to say. I am bringing waaayy too many books with me to Colorado in order to make sure I don't plateau or even digress in my learning of the language before I get to Brazil. I'm trying not to stress about it, because I know that it will all work out. I feel have studied well here at the MTC. Of course there is ALWAYS room for improvement, but I won't beat myself up for what I lacked when I know how much I have learned and grown here. I will miss so many of the people I've met here. (Although the Elders I will miss the most, will hopefully be in my zone or district sometime In Brazil, since they're all going to Salvador too). I can honestly say I will miss it here, there is no other place in the world where so many different people with different stories, backgrounds, languages, strengths and testimonies are all gathered for one purpose. We got to sing Armies of Helaman again at my last devotional, so I guess I'm going out the way I came in, which was feeling that power of 2500 missionaries singing the simple words that We are now the Lord's missionaries and we're bringing the world the truth! Am I scaring you with how much I sound like a missionary? I'm scaring myself too. But don't judge, like I always did. I never understood. I'm excited to go into the field! I'm nervous too. The thought of knocking on people's doors and talking to people in the street, and sitting in front of someone in their home teaching the first lesson makes me want to smile, cry and throw-up all at the same time! (I have to re-memorize everything in English now, by the way, I don't know the fist vision word for word. And don't even get me started on contacting! I've NEVER contacted in English. Its been Portuguese since day 1. New goals for the next 2 days). Sorry this is a short e-mail this week. But I've basically expressed all the important feelings and moments of this week. I love you all and miss you tons!
Te Amo!
Sister Pratt
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