So this last week has been crazy. I don´t have time to look up things and remember everything, so it will kind of be scatter brained. I´ve been here 8 days now. You wanna know what? I have my visa! What they told me though was that I may have to leave the MTC early because the flights are full the later you go out. So instead of leaving the 24th like they said, I may leave the 20th! That's in a week which means if that happens, I will have only been in the MTC 2 weeks. UH............. That makes me nervous.
Well, MTC life is different. We are on a weird time schedule. But I did get to take a nap today because it's P-day!!! :) But we have a lot of classes. In the classes, we learn how to teach better and then we usually do a mock teaching experience with our teachers. The names of our 2 investigators from classes are Carlos and Mario. Carlos just doesn't have a lot to say, but he keeps all of his commitments. Mario is a LOT more different. We are trying to do more than just read. The problem with Mario is that I honestly wouldn't keep teaching him in the field if I were there and we had other people we could find. He says he's only interested in having the knowledge of what we believe, but doesn't want to change anything in his life and likes it the way it is (which we know he truly does want to be happier) BUT.... He also won't pray. The reason why is because he doesn't believe in God. So it's a bit difficult to teach him about prayer and we've tried a bunch of different things. It's REALLY good practice though because we are having to get really creative on what we do so that we can help him. It's even harder here because it's the MTC so we're limited on how we can help Mario. We only see "Mario" when we have our scheduled time. So it's not like we can stop by to say hi whenever we want. So it's good. Then we also taught a man named Javier in the TRC who gave us a history lesson on the Catholics and why all of these other religions are false. I learned a lot from him because history is NOT my strong subject.
Funny moment of the week... well there are lots. To start off, the TRC is where we practice teaching. The investigators could be real, or they could be actors. Usually actors, but you have that SUPER small chance that they really are real. But I love my District and one of the Elders, Elder Cardenas, was at the TRC and he was told his investigator's name was Jacob. We're a Spanish district so most of realized we were teaching in Spanish. Well, when he knocked on the door to go teach Jacob, and saw a white guy sitting on the couch, so he assumed that he didn't spoke English and walks in and goes Hello Jacob (in English) and then proceeded to teach the rest of the time in English! We had a good laugh making fun of him for it. We definitely laugh a lot!
This week during gym, I jammed my finger really good :( They splinted it so that it would heal better and the swelling is starting to go down. But hopefully it heals fast because I wanna get back to playing volleyball and being about to hit. I can't hit until I can 1. straighten my finger and 2. clap my hands because that's what it'll feel like hitting the ball.
So the thought for the week is "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." It has made me think a lot about how to truly serve people and not just preach to them. There are so many ways to do this is what I've found out. Even inside the MTC.
I finally met a few people going to Peru! And I met one elder who is going to Cusco with me... well sort of. He'll be in the Lima MTC for 6 weeks after this and I'll go straight to the field.
OMG I forgot. THE worst this week. I was sleeping peacefully and at 12:30, I sat up in bed and was so confused why my head was blaring. I then realized that all of my other roommates were awake and I found it odd. I just clasped my head not knowing what was wrong. Then one of the sisters says "Hey guys, I think that's the fire alarm" Then I realized why my head hurt. There was a blaring fire alarm. We had to evacuate the building and were outside for an hour in the middle of the night. When we got back to bed, I couldn't really fall back asleep because we'd been up for the last hour. I knew the next day was going to be rough staying awake. What surprised me was that I was able to get through the day, a little groggy, but for the most part, just fine. I CAN do hard things. But only when I rely on the Lord. I know it's the same for all of us. I hope all is going well and that you find someone that you can show how much you care!
Love you all,
Hermana Carly Jo Lang
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