Well it's my last week at the MTC but I am sprinting to the end! On Monday I only spoke Spanish as a goal. I am working harder in gym and
learning as much as possible! Sunday the fireside was with President
Mciff of the MTC Presidency. He spoke on keeping healthy to be an
effective missionary and you'll never guess who came to our devotional
on Tuesday?! Guess! OK I'll tell you, it was Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles! He had a really inspiring talk. He talked
about how important the Spirit is in teaching and that we need to pray
for the Spirit. We need to do everything by the Spirit! He also talked
about the Sacrament and that if we were baptized at age 8 and we're 19
right now we have heard the Sacrament prayers over 500 times! We
should not take it for granted anytime. If we pay close
attention to the Sacrament prayers Elder Oaks said we will be more
prepared for the next week with the Spirit. Also, he talked about that in
order to have the Spirit we need to love people with a Christlike love.
It was such a great devotional for my last one here! I am still
running about 3 miles a day. Also, with our investigators Marianna was
"baptized" last Saturday! BJ is progressing well he understands the Spirit but he has some Word of Wisdom problems but will do his best to
change! Also, Carlos has a baptism date for the 25th! He wants to read
the whole Book of Mormon first. When we talked to him last he had read over
31 chapters in the Book of Mormon!! He is so golden the Spirit is
always so strong in the lessons we teach with him! Also,
our investigators David and Alex are progressing slowly but surely. I
think we finally helped Alex to understand the feelings of the Spirit
and David is a tough one. He reads a lot but he is mad with God and
doesn't understand the Plan of Salvation and is also mad because of the death
of some of his family members. I am so excited to preach to real
investigators and to be doing the finding, teaching and preaching full
time in California! We keep hearing and seeing things about field life
and it seems so exciting! I know that I need to be patient there are still things for me
to learn at the MTC before I can be fully ready to go out into the field
and speak Spanish. There was an Elder here a few days ago that was assigned to my mission temporarily while he waited for his Visa to come through. He came back from my
mission to get his visa for Mexico and he made me super excited to go! There are 6 million people in Arcadia and there is a lot of work to be
done! Also, that the weather is so great and so is my Mission President!
Well I don't have anything else for the week. I love you all!!!
Love, Elder Reisner
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