Hello!
I hope that this week has treated you well and that you are happy,
healthy, learning, and enjoying every day in this amazing world. I hope
that you seek and find opportunities to love and be loved. Love is such a
central part of the gospel and for that I am humbled, grateful, and
encouraged. I want to share a few experiences that I had this week that
taught me more about God's love for His children. It is so deep, so pure,
so rich, so abundant, so available, so graciously given, and just so
beautiful. Ah! Being immersed in learning, teaching,
sharing, and living the gospel here at the MTC grows my testimony of God's
love and mercy for His children everyday. Some days are more
powerful than others and often His teaching comes in the most gentle,
simple ways but my testimony of it deepens nonetheless. It is
miraculous.
OK, first Richard G.Scott came to the Tuesday night devotional this week and gave a beautiful
address on the gift of prayer. Hearing him speak about that topic
touches me--he has a really deep testimony and knowledge of it. From
him I learned that God is so patient with us in our prayers and so
thoughtful and purposeful in the way that He answers them. His answers
often help us to grow, change, and become the people of character that He
knows we can become. His address was so instructive
and I loved watching him leave as well. Before he exited, he cupped his
hands to his mouth and called out "Be good!" and "We love
you". Such a dear man. I love and am astonished by how
dedicated and devoted he is.
Also, President
Eyring's First Presidency Message from the August Ensign is
SO WONDERFUL. I loved reading it and thinking about how God has
taught me through His blessings and then feeling and expressing gratitude
for it. I know that gratitude is really a tue principle that
blesses our lives. Sometimes it blows my mind to think how generous God
is to us.
As you know on
Wednesday, the MTC receives new missionaries. They have an orange
sticker on their tag so everyone knows that they are new and can
especially welcome them. In the evening, my companion and I
were walking out of our classroom to
go study somewhere else. I noticed a sister sitting
on a bench outside our classroom with that bright orange sticker on her tag
and decided to say welcome and hello. We had a brief
conversation and then she was called away. I clasped her hand and
touched her shoulder before she left. As my companion and I
walked outside I thought about this sister and was surprised by
the love that I felt for her. It was so real and so tangible that it
overwhelmed me a little bit. I am so grateful that God encourages us
to love as He loves and gives us that gift as we seek it--seriously,
it is just incredible.
The MTC continues to
be wonderful. Oh, I was going to write about our teachers!
Right. OK--We have 2 teachers, Fowers sensei and
Gardener sensei. I am grateful for and appreciate them and
while they are really different, I learn a lot from them both.
Fowers sensei is pretty tall, really energetic, teaches us in the evening when
some of our district has the energy and nearly the focus of Sunbeams, and
laughs often. Gardener sensei is pretty short (I think he may be just
taller than me), quietly funny, kind of subdued, teaches us in the mornings
when some of us are really quite lethargic, and is really chill. Perhaps
I'll get a picture of them sometime, though I think they shy away from pictures
until the last week for whatever reason.
Anyhow, thank you so
much for your love, support, and prayers. I feel so at peace and so
grateful for you, my dears! Keep your chins up and know that I love
you!
Love kokoro kara
(sincerely, litereally from the heart),
Williams shimai
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