Last Week in the MTC!

Hola Fam!!!

This is President and Sister Sitterud, my MTC Mission President!

This week has been fantastic! I am so excited to get out into the field though! (: it´s going to be so great!

22 de Agosto THURSDAY

Temple session today was in Español!!! WHOOO it was awesome! When I went into the temple today, I had a question in my heart throughout the session. As the session was about over, another question came into my mind (no se por que) but yeah after the temple, my companion and I were talking and my first question was answered! It was amazing how it worked so SO fast. That day we went to the Mall... it was like walking into America! The first stores we see when we walked in are CLAIRES and H&M. American music playing everywhere... so it wasn´t much different! I bought cute oxfords from PRIMARK that were 11 euros! Super cute.. (I should have brought mine here)Later that night we had our weekly devotional and it was a talk by Elder Bednar Character of Christ (my favorite) I watched it in Provo too! This was when my second question that came into my mind in the temple was answered! It was so crazy how it happened. More details later! (: EVERYONE should watch that talk by BEDNAR it will change your life! (: One challenge he extended was to read the Book of Mormon with a question in your mind.. just one question and read it all the way through. So I´m doing that! I´m in 2nd Nephi and it is amazing! Hopefully by the time I´m old I´ll have hundreds of copies of the Book of Mormon!

23 de Agosto FRIDAY

I memorized the 1st vision FINALLY!! in Español of course! It is so beautiful in spanish! Daddy I loved the letters I get from you! They make me so happy! (: IVY is adorable! I´m so happy she is doing great!

24 de Agosto SATURDAY

Today was great for my Spanish.. I feel like it is coming along! Very slowly of course, but yes coming along! OH ONE THING THAT IS PRETTY IMPORTANT!! We get SNACKS every night here! It´s awesome! (: I love SPAIN!

There are two girls in the other zone and their names are Sister Green and Gilette! They are some of the sweetest people I´ve ever met! They talked to me the other night and made me feel so good! TODAY IS MY ONE MONTH MARK!! CRAZY!

25 de Agosto SUNDAY

My teacher, Hermana Notario, is my favorite person ever! She is such a sweetheart and I wrote her a letter and told her how much I appreciated her and the attitude she has for life! She is always caring for me and hopefully I´ll get a picture to you soon of her and I! Today our first devotional was a video of Elder Holland´s talk, DON¨T YOU DARE GO HOME! It was so great... this is another one that everyone should watch! Especially if they are preparing on serving a mission! Our second devo was from a couple who is serving in the temple. The husband reminds me SO MUCH of Lane! It made me so happy!

26 de Agosto MONDAY

Elder Cluff is probably the funniest person I´ve ever met! Mormon Message that is amazing is MOUNTAINS TO CLIMB!! So inspirational! I love it! I also watched one on Fathers and it made me so so so grateful for the fantastic and loving fathers I have in my family! BEN, BEN, ADAM, STEVE, BRETT, DAD! I´m talking about you! (: we´re so lucky to have fathers that care so much for their families! I love you all and I´m so happy to call you my familia!

Well that was my week! I want you all to know how much I love you! You are the most amazing family and I am so blessed to have you!

Yo se que este iglasia es verdadera. Jesucristo es nuestro Salvador. Yo se que Dios nos ama! En el nombre de Jesucristo, Amen.

 

A Trip to the ER!

August 22, 2013

Hola mi AMAZING Familia!!!!!

I´m just going to start by telling all of you how much I love you!!! This last week was quite tough for me, but I´m so happy to hear that you are all keeping me in your prayers! Being a missionary is fantastic! I love meeting people and hopefully changing their lives with my awful broken spanish!!

Thursday 15th

We went to the Prado Museam in Madrid on Thursday. It was... uhmm interesting. I didn´t enjoy it too much, lots of things that weren´t really uplifting! But I guess it was a good experience to say I´ve been there! When we came back to the (CCM) we had a devotional from Richard G. Scott. It was ALL about faith and prayer! It was pretty amazing because it is exactly what I had been studying all week, and then the letter I received from Ben was also about faith and acting on it! It was great! My testimony has grown so much on faith and it makes me so happy that my faith is increasing!!

Saturday 17th

Today was the park again, and yes I was able to be companions with Abby!! Today wasn´t as great as last week, but it still went alright! We should be companions every week, so it´s going to get better! When we were getting off the train, we were walking next to this cute woman and she had her finger placed in a Book of Mormon to mark her place. She had just received it and it was so cool to see her reading it! It made me so happy! (: even if we didn´t place it!  When I was playing basketball today with the Elders, I drained a three in this really cocky elder´s face! haha He was quite embarrased! It was super fun though, they call me a baller... not really true, but we always have fun!

Sunday 18th

HEAVENLY FATHER ANSWERS PRAYERS!! Like I said earlier, this week has been quite hard so I was praying for charity and compassion and Heavenly Father really knows how to help! This morning, I lost my necklace and honestly thought that today was going to be awful, but luckily it wasn´t.  In Relief Society, Sis. Sitterud did a lesson with meaningful questions that each of us received and had to ponder. My comp. got hers about family and she really started to choke up. I felt so much love for her and I know that was from Heavenly Father! It was great to see the blessings from prayer come true right in front of me! My question was. ´´Share your testimony for President Monson and of living prophets.´´ I talked about the age-change and it seemed like everyone in that room felt the exact same feelings as I had about it being ´´just for me´´ (: I know we are all part of this MASSIVE missionary army sent throughout the world at this time for a reason! It makes me so happy to think that we are inviting others to come unto Christ! Hermana Hansen is so cute and made me feel so loved, she just gave me a little hug and told me how much she appreciated my testimony! I love her so much, and she´s just the cutest! After all the devotionals and everything, President Sitterud´s (our MTC pres.) wife fell and broke her arm in two places :/ It was awful, and she is still the most cheerful and loving woman ever! But she doesn´t need surgery so that is good!

Monday 19th

This morning I asked my District Leader, Elder Cherrington,  for a blessing of comfort and that was all I said to him about what was going on. It was one of the greatest blessings I have ever received. I KNOW for a fact, it is exactly what my Father in Heaven would say to me if I was talking face to face with Him. My testimony of Priesthood has also grown immensely because of that experience, and I think the testimony of others in my district also grew after witnessing it. Unfortunately, the day didn´t stay that great. During gym time I was playing basketball with the Elders (like I do everyday) and as I was on a fast break, going up for a lay-up, an elder came up behind me and kinda tackled me. I heard my neck pop and freaked out a little. I was thinking it was concussion and I was pretty scared, President Sitterud told me I needed to go to the hospital. One of the teachers took me to the ER and I was SO happy I had a translator or that experience would have been awful! The doctor was so nice and told me I needed to stick to chess and wear a helmet! haha but yeah he gave me a shot to numb the pain and it hurt SO bad!! oh my goodness, I couldn´t believe it. After getting x-rays, the doc told me that everything was okay! so that was good to hear. I came back and slept for the night, and slept in, in the morning.

Tuesday 20th

After a little bit of class I was super dizzy so I went back to bed. I woke up to 5 letters from my AMAZING family and friends so it was great timing! Thank you so much! I really needed it!! My district is the best! BY FAR.. I love them so much and I am so blessed to be around people that love me too! Tonight was the first time Í have felt the spirit during an ´´investigator´´ lesson! I talked about my baptism and the spirit was so strong! P.S. could you send me a picture of our family and of me at my baptism! I heard it is good to have for investigators!

Wednesday 21

Today in class we were learning how to teach by the spirit, and our teacher asked, ´´what do you say to investigators who don´t want to pray with their families´´ it got really emotional, an Elder- shared an experience with his mom who is an addict. He talked about how long it took him to forgive her, but he did. Our teacher then told us that she asked it because that was her. She had a hard time praying with her family because she felt like she couldn´t. It was a really spiritual lesson and really neat to hear about. We taught the same investigator as last night and AGAIN felt the spirit so strong. I talked about Ben and shared an experience for the first time. It was neat because the Spanish kind of just flew out my mouth! I don´t even remember learning some of the things I said! It was awesome! The gift of tongues is REAL!!

Well That was my great week!!

PLEASE tell everyone to not send letters to the MTC after Monday... send them to my Mission home!!! Make sure it´s clear, because even though they forward them, it takes FOREVER! I love you all so much! I hope things are great at home! (:

Sister Sara Autumn Brown

Spain Malaga Mission

Av. Jesus Santos Rein N˚ 2, 3 D-E

Edif. Ofisol

Fuengirola

29640 Malaga

SPAIN