Hey Family!
Before I forget- mom it was really nice to talk to you for those 2 minutes
and I am going to be at the airport around 7am Tuesday morning. Who do you want
me to call?
Life here at the MTC has been really busy but super great. I seriously
would not want to give it up for anything! I have learned so much about the
gospel and myself. And I am SO grateful for the district that I am in! It truly
was inspired and each one of them has helped me grow in many different ways! The
Sisters and the Elders are amazing! It's going to be really weird not being with
them for 15 hours a day, each day. Going to miss that. Especially going to miss
Elder Hill and Elder Wilson because the are going to Indiana Indianapolis and
there won't be any chance of seeing them in CA. But I hope Blake becomes
companions with at least one of them!!!
Anyways. Things are really busy here at the MTC. Elder Kivett was super
tired and he said, "Is it 10:30?" because he is super tired and wants to go to
bed. Elder Boyle did not pick up the sarcasm and said, "Are you kidding? We
haven't even had dinner and it's not even dark yet!" You probably won't find it
too funny but we almost busted a gut!!! On Sunday we had a Missionary Conference
and it was like a mini General Conference. It was so good. Sunday's here are
amazing. Sister Priest bore here testimony and she said, "Sometimes Satan smacks
you in the face with a cactus," she was being dead serious but it was so funny.
We love Sister Priest.
We have been having several "investigators." Russell (I think I told you
about last time- he's our teacher Brother Hitchcock pretending to be one of his
envisages) is progressing well. He is starting to understand the Gospel. We
taught him about baptism yesterday and it's a desire of his but he does not feel
ready quite yet, so he gave us a "Yes" answer but later.... So that's
improvement! We also have an investiagor Barbara (a volunteer for the MTC). We
loved her so much! She was not raised with religion but has read the 4 gospels.
That was helpful. As we were teaching her about prophets and commandments she
said that it makes sense. God gave Adam and Eve 2 commandments to start out with
and then he gave more. He gave Moses the 10 commandments but when Christ came to
the earth there were even more. It makes sense that there would be a prophet
today. She related it to a phone. If we were all given an IPhone first we would
have no idea how to use it. We first needed to have a basic phone and then we
could learn from that. We are not given more commandments until we are ready for
them! She had such a willingness to learn and she was understanding what we were
saying. I think part of if was having a friendship with her so she was willing
to trust us. It was a really neat experience the two times we taught her. We
told her we were being transfer ed and she was upset. We are to.. We have loved
teaching her!!!
One thing that has stuck with me is "Priesthood power is portable." -Elder
Kivett. It's obvious but it's also so true and powerful. Sometimes Elder Kivett
will be goofing off one minute and then the next he will say powerful things
like that!
Oh I saw Kevin! He was just entering the MTC and going to his classroom and
I saw him right outside the building (right after I talked to mom). We in the
same building on the same floor so I see him every now and then. Have not seen
Steven yet but it was really nice to see a familiar face! And Kevin said that
Elder Wilson does look like Blake. So I'm not crazy! And I showed my class a
picture of Blake and they put it next to Elder Wilson and everyone was shocked!
It's Blake's long lost twin! AND... both of his parents are converts too and he
was also born September 1994. I really am hoping their companions. He has such
great spiritual insight- I have learned a lot from him.
Oh funny story. I was getting lunch one day and this one Elder comes over
and he asks me if I know the Shropshire Family and I say yes. He asks me if my
first name was Audrey. Yes... Turns out that he was in the Shropshire's ward and
remembered me. It was so nice and I remembered him, vaguely. He told me that I
looked familiar but he was not sure if it was me. He's going to Brazil.
Love You All.
Love,
Sister Clifton
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