More News From the MTC

So this week we had two new girls assigned to our room and their nice, but kind of loud and miss having my bottom bunk to use for letter writing and relaxing between activities. But it's all good. My district is still really fun and I'm sad that we'll be split up next week as 5 of us go to Montana and 6 of us go to California. That'll be a bummer especially since I'm losing Sister Schofield and I've really come to appreciate here over the past few weeks.

So I was reading in 2nd Nephi chapter 2 today and I came across a verse verse 21 that said that God elongates our days for the purpose of repentance. I thought it was really interesting and am now wondering if maybe part of the reason the average death age has risen is because the gospel is spreading across the world and God wants everyone to have a better chance of being able to hear the gospel and take that opportunity to repent so that they can return to him. I had another scripture I had wanted to share but now I don't remember what it was which is kind of unfortunate.

I've been having so much fun with my district the Elders are amazing. There's one of them Elder Whiting who is pretty quiet about sharing his ideas but I sat by him in class the other day and he shared a few with me and man they were impressive. He has a way of putting things so simply and clearly that I really feel like I need to improve on that.

I've been speaking more in the lessons we teach and I feel like it's really been helping our teaching to go better. The balance really works better that way. Cause while Sister Heward is amazing sometimes I feel like she's jumps past things too quickly and we miss opportunities so I'm trying to keep from doing that so much. But it's not doing so great. I'll have to keep working on it.

So, we got a new investigator this week named Randy and he is amazing he has such a desire to know God and to do what's right it's awesome. The second time we met with him Sister Heward asked him if he would read a scripture and he explained that he's had an eye disease since he was ten that left him legally blind at twelve. As he was describing it I realized he was talking about macular degeneration, what Grandma Florence had. And I was floored I just can't imagine losing your sight in that way at the age of 10.

But the lessons with him went really well once he stopped talking long enough that we could get in the messages that we had prepared.

Oh and I've always thought i had a pretty solid grasp of gospel doctrines and all that but now I'm realizing that there is so much more I don't know. And that we don't really discuss in church.

So in good news this week I had two good moments in class. The first one we do an exercise where we have to sum up the entire lesson discussion in 5-6 sentencs and this time it was on the plan of salvation so I wrote it up and was called on to share.
and after I shared the teacher, Brother Farley, said "ok lets turn to page __( I don't remember what it was) where the apostles quoted sister Coon. I was kind of embarressed but it still felt good. So yea. And then the other day we were talking about repentance and that if you really want people to repent you have to teach them what it is, not just the process you go through. So after ignoring the feeling that I needed to say something for a while i finally raised my hand and said "you know you've truly repented when that guilt is finally gone. You never realize just how much weight you had been carrying around till it's gone, and once it's gone it's the best feeling you could ever have." And it just came out well and made sense so that was my second good moment.

Well I guess I don't really have anything else to say about my week.

Glad that you're still doing well Dad, sorry your boxes aren't going as well as you want but you'll figure it out I'm sure.

Looking forward to getting my hoodie. I need a comfort object and the blankets here just really aren't comfortable :P i really was hoping for it for today because last p-day was kind of cold, but turns out today is a really nice day so it all worked out ok.

Love you,

Sister Coon

P.S. The food here is awful, you think it's good the first couple days but then after that you realize that it's actually awful on your digestive system and wish there was somewhere else you could get food. Honestly I'd appreciate Mcdonalds at this point.

She also said: classes are going well though I feel like someone is taking a jackhammer with a bomb on the end and putting it against my brain. Yes that is exactly how I feel everyday it's pretty dang crazy. But kind of fun at the same time.