Family!!! How are you:! I cant make any smiley faces or much punctuation because like every language known to man is typed in this keyboard and I dont know which buttons to press hahaha. oh mannnn i love this. It is so amazing. So, I am here in the MTC (missionary training center). It has been such a great experience so far because I have learned soooo much and I can feel the Holy Ghost testifying that these things are of Christ. I feel it so strongly. I love it so much. I love how AI have been able to notice when the Spirit (Holy Ghost) is here and when it leaves. Sooooo with that being said, it has been a roller coaster of emotions. I will be on a spiritual hgh and then we get distracted and then start laughing really hard and loud or sometimes we get distracted and start talking about other thingsd that really dont matter, but then when we resume studying, the Spirit isnt as strong. Thats been a little hard, but I have really realized what drives the Spirit (the peaceful, calming, loving, feeling) away and what brings it in. With that being said, I have been praying A LOOOOOT. haha Like every 20 minutes we say a prayer to start study, or class, or lunch, personal study, etc. I just love this. I dont want to leave this kind of life which is hilarious because I just started my mission 5 days ago. I only have 18 months left... NOOOOOOOOOoooo.... (sad face) I love my district. The district is the group that I am in. We are the advanced spanish speakers, there are 8 of us, and 7 our of 8 of us are going to Ecuador. Elder Cody Yarbro is in my district! Love it! and then I LOVE my zone! A zone is a few districts combined. We are awesome and from all over the world !! I love my companion. Her name is Hermana Wendy Sanchez. She is from here in Orem, but her family if from mexico city. We get along so well! mmmm what else... I am the senior companion which is kinda cool and Elder Yarbro is the District leader which is awesome!
Basically we study and have class every day from 7am to 10pm. we wake up at 530am and eat breakfast at 630am. we have to be to class right on time. not that we will get in trouble or anything, but they were explaining that its class, and scripture study time,. We have an appointment with THE LORD at 7am or 9pm or whatever time it is. So even when I am like 1 minute late, i feel really bad because I want to be the best that I can be. today is our preparation day (sort of like a break) and we went to the temple, are doing laundry, studying, and writing letters.
we just ate lunch and it was sooo much fun. our zone has all gotten really close. we all sit together at meals and today....we went through... 2 BOTTLES of hot sauce...between 4 girls.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA we were like omg we are going to have the curse of the Chalula tonight. hahaha So many funny thingfs have happened. Because we are living mmissionary standards and everything and basically apart from the superficial, inappropriate, like...really not important things, of the world, we have become ..just more innocent and more in tune with the Spirit. I honestly LOVE it so much. It is like you feel a peace at heart and you feel a warm protection around you.
I already got my travel itinerary and I leave for Ecuador Monday the 8th or oct. what what. Teahcing was a little scary at first, but we have learned to teach with the Spirit and it. WORKS. MIRACLES. You just KNOW. you know (question mark) hahahha
omg I was showing my hermanas in my district some jiu jitsu moves during our stress management orientation and it was sooo funny,. we were laughing to hard and apparently there was a microphone on in that classroom and it was all being trasmitted over some speakers in the classrooom HAHAHAHHA sooooo then this teacher came in to let us know and he walked in when I had Hermana Phipps in a rear-naked choke (choking her out) hahahhahhaha it was soo funny.
Ah I really dont have a lot of time (like an hour), but I just want to tell you (Mom, Pappy, Bull, Normy, and Andre ..oh and BROWNIE!) that I love you guys so much and I really miss you! I am praying for you and all my friends every night!! But I PROMISE you that if you James 1 verse 5, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. or Moroni 10 verse 5 -----ask God and all things will be known by the Spirit. I PROMISE you that the Book of Mormon is true and my testimony has grown sooooo much more in these 5 days here. I feel like it was just the size of a little ....bacteria. so small, right!! now its maybe the size of....something a little bit bigger, but it has increased in size ...TENFOLD haha I can honestly say that I have prayed to KNow if the Book of Mormon is true and I felt the Holy Ghost testifdy to me that it was. and I read in oh shoo...mmm a scripture in the New Testament, but I dont remember where, but it sayd that the Spirit testifies of Christ. And The Spirit was the promise that Christ left His Apostles with. soooooooo, if we pray and ask God if the Book of Mormon is true and feel the Spirit, then Christ was really on the earth and MADE that promise, so then He lives, and if we are feeling the Spirit , then it is testifying of Christ, that this IS the RESTORED Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not the reformed. the restored. the Book of Mormon is not something that competes against the Bible. It testifies that the Bible is TRUE and vice versa. The Bible is testimonies and stories of prophets in those ancient times in Jerusalem and all those places, testifying that Jesus is the Christ..(because the Lord loves His children, He sent them prophets to find their way back) The BoM is testimonies and stories of prophets in those ancient times in the ancient americas, testifying that Jesus is the Christ. ahhh so great. then i realized... God loves all His children equally. so doesnt it makes sense that He would send a prophet to His children that went to other places of the worl after Jerusalem was destroyed, other times, now, etc (question mark) it does!! ahh I wish I could put smiley faces because I am soooo happy. I wish I had more time to type more and explain more, but all i can do is promise you that if we read the Introduction to the Book of Mormon -my favorites are the last two paragraphs- and ponder it, and pray to God in the name of Jesus Christ to know if these things are true, you WILL get an answer. You will know for yourself. Its not a scary thing, but such a marvelous thing. my heart is so full.
I am so happy that I have made this decision to serve the Lord for 18 months. So happy. OH!! Cool quick stories. It was FREEZING here in UT the first couple of nights. I was sooo cold. One night i was just like. you kno,...... so I just prayed and asked that I could be finally be warm while i slept and have a dream that would help me understand the Gospel better, and guess what..immediately, a warmth came over me. like I was in a warm bath or something. it was amazing,. AND my dream was amazing. ahhhh
and then today i got in the shower...530am woot haha and it was omg like 40 degree snow water run off and i was shivering and teeth chattering and this was still like 5 minutes after i turned the water on and let it run to warm up (with me in it) haha and I was like...ah ohk ill prya and immediately, the water turned warm;hot!!!! say what you want, but I know who it was (smileyface) haha I love life
my spanish has improved. i will have a horrible accent when i speak english when i come back haha. i LOVE life, BUT more importantly i LOOOOVEE THE Gospel of Jesus Christ. I love it. I challenge you all to read the intro to the BoM and pray about it, talk to the missionaries, do it. its not a scary thing, but rather the best thing you could ever do. i want to share this love that i have. this is how you can receive it. I leave that with you in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Mom, I love you and miss you so much!!! I really hope that you are doing well and the family too. love you guys!! you are in everyone of my prayers.
and to my friends, you are also in every single one. Love you!
I have run into so many of my friends here that I just happen to know from all around the world HAHAHHA hilarious, right!! my district calls me the popular girl because out of like thousands of people, the first day I already met like 7 that I knew hahaha. love this.
love,
Hermana Leah Tangedal
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