Now I see why they say time goes by quickly here in the MTC. Now that I am on my 4th week here it feels like yesterday that I just go here, but maybe it’s just because we got newbies on Wednesday and now its great not being the youngest district. Anyway this week has had a lot of ups and downs.
One upside is that we had temple day after I finished my laundry and email time last week. We ate at the temple cafeteria which was the best decision I have ever made because the food there is amazing... and cheap. Then we had an amazing session. I also was able to finish 1st Nephi this week in my Spanish Book of Mormon which was sort of difficult but as our vocabulary improves each day it gets easier and easier.
Then we had fast Sunday. Fast Sundays here are pretty good except for the fact that we don’t eat. We have MTC conference instead of our normal meetings. This is 2 hours of hearing from the presidency and youth speakers. But the best part of fast Sunday is the dinner. It’s always the MTC best on fast Sundays.
The biggest problems I have been having this week though is with my companion. Starting Monday he has had this weird pain in the lower right side of his abdomen. So as everyone went to class, I had to stay back with him and then go to the doctor’s office. This wasn’t too bad except we spent two hours in the clinic services. When he came out I was like “ok, cool, let’s go”.... nope. We then had to be driven to the BYU emergency hospital and spent another 2 hours there as they did a bunch of crazy tests on him. After he came back out, I was like “sweet! Let’s go to class”.... nope. They gave him this medicine that made it so he had to stay home in the dorm for the rest of the day. We went that whole day without doing anything or speaking any Spanish. Well.... the next morning, we got up and went and did our service project and he seemed to be doing just fine, he jumped off the top bunk of his bed and got dressed and showered and everything. But when it was time to go to class, he said we need to go back to the doctors. So we went back and ended up sitting in the waiting room for 2 and a half hours waiting. When he came out, I found out that no one knows what is wrong with him. So they sent us off campus again to an imaging place to get a scan of his stomach. And guess what... more waiting. Try 3 and a half hours more. So after waiting, we find out that everything looks... normal. The funny thing is that when he is in the dorm or just with the guys he acts like nothing is wrong... but when he is around the hermanas he can barely even talk and is on the verge of tears. The doctor thinks it’s just because he is getting a lack of sleep. So they gave him sleeping pills. And guess what, he still can’t get to sleep. I don’t know how that is possible. Two days without speaking Spanish has literally affected how we both speak it, but he seems to be back to ground zero. I plan and teach every lesson by myself and I have no idea how to deal with it. I have the teachers trying to help me and I pray every night on how to help him but nothing is working.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m doing amazing. I got a commitment to be baptized from one of our investigators this week to be baptized on the 14th of October. You should have seen the victory dance I did... especially because we where the first ones to get a baptismal commitment. Other than that my Spanish is still improving everyday and I’m staying ahead of the class. For some reason I feel like I am getting behind when people are starting to catch up. But that’s just me.
Last Tuesday we had an amazing speaker come. His opening statement was, "Sisters, before you marry a man make sure he is a RM, then call his mission president and ask him what kind of missionary he was. If the mission president says he was a "great missionary", dump him because you want someone who was an exceptional one. Elders, make sure you are an exceptional one" - that’s when I knew it was going to be a good one. My favorite part of his talk though is when he said, "If you decide you don’t want to share the gospel, it’s because you don't know Christ well enough. If you feel like going home early, it’s because you don’t know Christ. Unless you are thinking about Christ and trying to strive to be like him everyday all day, it’s because you don’t KNOW Christ well enough." I made it a personal goal from then on to KNOW Christ. In my study journal I have a section in the back of "Things that I know about Christ" and I write something there every time I read a scripture or Ensign or talk that teaches me something about Christ. It’s amazing how my attitude has changed since. I suggest to you that you do the same. And if you find some good ones, email me a short letter about it. It doesn’t even have to be a letter. Just a scripture and how it is a quality of Christ.
Keep the letters coming please! I love to hear from you guys, especially when things are this rough with my comps. Anyway love you guys.
- Love,
Elder Stewart
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