Week 2! Well technically its week 3 but it's letter 2. Anyway so far so good! The days are seeming to go by faster and faster, we get to our rooms and ask what we even did that day, but we are still learning a bunch. This past week one thing we learned was a case chart in Russian, which is coming along slowly, but it's like what tense each word should be in so you don't sound like as much of an idiot when speaking haha. Today I brought my camera and I plugged it in and it wouldn't upload the pictures..so I'm not sure why but I guess I will have to look into that, so it will be another week until you get pictures, even though they really aren't that excitinghaha
Last Tuesday night we had a fireside and we got lucky because we got to listen to Elder Dallin H. Oaks speak. They told us that apostles don't come very often but it was nice to hear from him. He just talked about when we are teaching we need to make sure we don't talk down to or act superior to our investigators, because well..none of us really are. I love that because we aren't better we just want to be their guide and help them have a closer relationship with Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father. We were talking about it after as a district and someone said Elder Oaks reminded them of a quote, "We must do something for someone that we know they can't" I love it. It is just so important to serve others no matter what the do or believe or anything. Just serve them and you will both be happy.
Another thing i have learned here is it's not what we want to learn more, it's do you want to teach better. We also came up with a class motto, since we aren't the best at speaking Russian it's "First we teach then we speak" so we teach by the Spirit not as much by Russian. Which I think is important to remember. We committed our investigator last week to baptism after we had taught him, and even though it was a proxy it was still cool and the Holy Ghost was felt. We also got 2 new investigators this week, Maria and Nikoli, we taught Maria and she is pretty tough to talk to but we teach her again Thursday so we will see how that goes. Today we went to the temple again and that was pretty good.
Last Tuesday night we had a fireside and we got lucky because we got to listen to Elder Dallin H. Oaks speak. They told us that apostles don't come very often but it was nice to hear from him. He just talked about when we are teaching we need to make sure we don't talk down to or act superior to our investigators, because well..none of us really are. I love that because we aren't better we just want to be their guide and help them have a closer relationship with Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father. We were talking about it after as a district and someone said Elder Oaks reminded them of a quote, "We must do something for someone that we know they can't" I love it. It is just so important to serve others no matter what the do or believe or anything. Just serve them and you will both be happy.
Another thing i have learned here is it's not what we want to learn more, it's do you want to teach better. We also came up with a class motto, since we aren't the best at speaking Russian it's "First we teach then we speak" so we teach by the Spirit not as much by Russian. Which I think is important to remember. We committed our investigator last week to baptism after we had taught him, and even though it was a proxy it was still cool and the Holy Ghost was felt. We also got 2 new investigators this week, Maria and Nikoli, we taught Maria and she is pretty tough to talk to but we teach her again Thursday so we will see how that goes. Today we went to the temple again and that was pretty good.
The other day Elder Puckridge wrote a fake letter to Elder Houston from his "girlfriend" and we had the district leader hand it to him when we got the mail, so that was pretty funny. Other than that we've just been reviewing vocab, studying and such. Love you guys! Thanks for your love and support!
Love, Elder Witt
No comments:
Post a Comment