Thanksgiving & Gratitude

We started doing TRC. It is when they have volunteers-almost always members-come into the MTC and you teach them. No roleplay, no acting, you just teach them and help them come closer to Christ. I was really nervous. How could I help someone who has been a member for much longer than I? Going into it we were going to talk about the restoration. The woman had served a Spanish mission 25 years ago. When we got in there, I felt like she needed a different message. i guess my companion must have felt the same because we started to talk about thanksgiving and gratitude for all of the Lord's blessings. It was really an amazing experience. By the end, she started to cry. It was really incredible for me, I know that my testimony had been strengthened by our conversation.

If I Thought I Was Busy Before...

To sum it all up: I am exhausted, sick, tired, uncomfortable, intimidated, sleep deprived, and terrified, yet I have never been happier. On Sunday I was called/assigned to be the new district leader. I feel like I was just starting to handle all the responsibilities that i had already. I hope that I can figure this thing out. The leadership handbooks says that my mission is to help other missionaries come unto Christ, in other words be a "missionary for missionaries". I am glad that I know the Lord will help me.

Visa Success!

I went to Las Vegas on Friday. In order to get my visa, I had to appear before the Mexican consulate. It was an...interesting day. We had to meet at the whyview bus stop at 4:30 am. Yeah. Our flight wasn't until 8:40, but they like to play it super safe I guess. It was the first time I had been in public besides going to Brigham's Landing, so it was nice to remember that there is more to the world than just Provo Utah haha. Basically my day consisted of waiting in the UNLV institute building for hours and hours until we went to the consulate, then we went back to waiting at the institute building. Literally, the consulate just needed to take my fingerprints and my picture, and that was it. An 18 hour day, just for 20 seconds haha. Then we went back to the Vegas airport and can I just say WOW! The people in Vegas LOVE the missionaries. Everywhere we went people acknowledged us as Elders. We had so many RMs come up and talk to us, and about 8 people offered to buy us dinner. I forgot to tell you this last week, but a man totally bought us lunch at Brigham's landing on my first dia de prearacion as well. My heart is so full. A man came up to us. he told us he was a nonmember, but that his son had served a mission. He began to cry and thanked us for our service. There really are great people all around. When we arrived back in Salt Lake, so many people welcomed us home it cracked me up. I was tempted to pretend like my family hadn't come to pick me up haha but i didn't. We finally got home at about 10:35. I still don't understand how it took that long. But hey, at least I have my visa. I feel bad for all the people who have been waiting longer than I have, and haven't gotten any travel plans.