Week 2 In Provo MTC

HI!!!!

This week was another amazing week. We started full immersion on friday so that was really ummmm exciting. It has been good, but crazy. The sisters and I experienced a fun thing... on the first day our brains died from how much Polish we learned that our english stopped working. So that was funny/frustrating. Starting to get used to it now though. We are back to fully functioning English and are now able to string a few Polish sentences together. 
Lots of missionaries have been leaving this week. It is so fun to see them go. We are all excited for them cause the anticipation just builds every day that we are here. Our Spanish sisters next door that we workout with are on the countdown though which is very upsetting. 
We did get to talk to that Polish sister's family last week!!! It was incredible. Their conversion story is amazing. If anyone wants to hear about it... you should email me:). 
Spiritual thought of the week is short and simple this week, 
Luke 22:31-32
31 ¶ And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, aSatan hath desired to bhave you, that he may sift you as wheat:
32 But I have aprayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art bconverted, cstrengthen thy brethren.
Sister Trost brought it to my attention when in comp study... it is an incredible verse. I could talk all day about it. I think it is so applicable to us though. again.... if you want to talk about it please email me. I would LOVE IT!!!

okay, I lied, one more spiritual thought... A sister shared an incredibly impactful talk with me. A talk that was given by Elder Bednar... pretty much to sum it up it talks about having faith to be healed and how that is a positive thing but... he asks the question "do you have the faith to NOT be healed".... it took me a second to grasp that question. so here it is again, "do you have the faith to not be healed?". Losing grandma Sue was and continues to be very hard. She is such an example of what it means to be Christ Like. When this talk was shared with me by Sister Gay I could not help but think about Grandma Sue. She is a truly faithful women and she had the faith to not be healed. She expressed over and over that she was at peace with it. She knew she was going to be reunited with her family and the Saviour. Her faithfulness to the end of this mortal life, was and always will be an example to me. 

My district continues to be amazing and my comp continues to be the best. I feel so blessed and honoured to be here with these people. It is a truly incredible group. 

Here are some pictures from this week
1) us climbing up the death stairs... they literally take six minutes to get up and are steep
2)I got to see the cutest teacher ever!!! Literally highlight of my week
3) the district after an AMAZING devotional debrief
4)Donuts !!
5)the girls :) you can always catch us by some patch of grass laying out when we have any spare second

I love you all!!
I hope to hear from you,
Siostra Andrews




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