Hola todas las personas en el mundo!
The MTC is such an experience! This week I was reflecting on all the things we have learned here thus far.
We have learned (from the District that left this past Tuesday - which included Elder Farr) that doing the tower challenge with blueberry muffin tops is a very bad idea and should not be attempted.
We have learned that there are many ways to open a banana. I have personally seen 5 different ways.
We have learned that opening an apple no longer requires a knife or teeth. You can split them open with your hands! or, my favorite, with your head and a table! Thanks for the demonstration, Elder Doolhoff!
We have learned that if you really want to speak at the microphone during a devotional, you have to be persistent and never give up. Thank you Elder Gerber for teaching us that you might have to sit on the stairs to get there first.
We have learned that Spanish is not English and that even though we feel like we are learning things in a strange order (phrases before the alphabet, etc.), it is actually inspired and helps us build on what we are supposed to be teaching investigators. Also, Subjunctive is hard. We just started it. Just remember: If you have JEDI, you need subjunctive.
We have learned that you can learn from Devotional Speakers even if they aren't in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This week Elder Don R. Clarke of the Seventy came and spoke to us. It was so great, and not just because he quoted (from memory) "The Touch of the Master's Hand" poem. He also said:
-We can feel the loving arms of the Savior by being obedient. Write what you are going to be on your heart, then it can never be changed. (We were told to write how we were going to be obedient no matter what other missionaries do, but you can make it more applicable to your non-full-time-missionary lives.)
-Diligence is required to receive help/comfort from the Lord. Do all that you can do, press forward, keep the commandments, honor your covenants, do what's right and then the Lord will guide your path, tell you what to say, comfort, and protect you.
(The last part of that might have been from an Elder Bednar talk we watched during class. Good stuff none the less.)
During our Devotional Review, many great additional statements were made by the missionaries in my district, but my favorite was "Be doers, not Try-babies." Don't just try to be good or be obedient; BE good and obedient.
We have learned that external motivations are most productive in getting us to speak Spanish, even if the motivating factor is "Los Puntos" that don't really exist. It's a game where everything's made up and the points don't matter! But we abide by them anyway. 3 points if we speak Spanish all the time, 1 if we only use it a little, calculated 3 times a day. Out of the possible 9 points a day, my best day was 6 so far, but we're working on it. Speaking Spanish is hard, especially when you don't know very many words.
I have learned that I love being here despite the fact that I miss you all! Yes, even you random person who stumbled upon my blog one day! But at the same time, it is really nice to be away from the world and not have to worry about anything other than our investigators and learning and being better prepared to meet their needs. It is so wonderful! Plus, today Hermana Magnusson took our cold hard-boiled eggs and made deviled eggs for us! It seriously made my whole day and it was only 7:45 am! It is the little things that matter most. Any little change makes a world of difference when everyday seems like every other day and you can't remember what day is what because you are always studying.
No importa! Esta Bien! Estoy muy agradecida por todos las bendiciones en mi vida, and I hope you are too!
Love from the safe land of learning new things,
Hermana Anna Sheffield
P.S. If you would like me to expound on any of those stories, write to me! I would love to write and tell you all about it!.
P.P.S. Our roommates are leaving on Monday! I will miss them! We leave in 2 1/2 weeks! Ah!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Overload of Happiness
Hola!
This week has been incredible!
First off, all the letters I got this week made me SO happy. Like Christmas. Then I got a package of pictures from Alan and Kristin and that made me super happy. Then I got a package from The FAM and that made me even MORE happy. I love jackets. And the weather that provides a need for them. And Candy. And information! All of it makes me happy!
Also, I'm sorry to hear about the BYU-UTAH game. Our teacher went to the game and told us the score. I thought of you all.
Moving right along. . .
Sunday was our official halfway mark. To commemorate the event, we got a new district leader (now it is Elder Rockwood) and we switched 'Senior companion'-ship, which means that the companion with the first alphabetical name is now a junior companion. Good thing that is entirely meaningless here in the MTC.
It is strange that we've been here for 5 weeks. I lose all sense of time here. All I know is that it feels like we just got here and that there is no way I am going to know enough to leave in 4 weeks. We get our travel plans in about 2 weeks. How is that coming so soon?! I feel like I never have enough time to study for our lessons and that is the majority of what we do all day. It is so crazy.
Our Sunday fireside was nice. One of the District Presidents spoke about accepting hard things and making the best of it because Christ went through a lot worse. He also said "You must choose if you are willing to serve the Lord." I like that quote and I hope all of you are willing and do serve the Lord in any and every way you can.
To no one's surprise, a common theme in the MTC is obedience. A lot of the instruction we received this week included at least some mention of obedience. Twice it was said "Obedience brings forth blessings, exact obedience brings forth miracles." It is obviously very important because the speaker in RS said it on Sunday, and it was spoken of again on Tuesday. By Wendy Nelson. Who is that, you ask? Exactly who you think it is: The wife of Elder Russell M. Nelson.
Yes that is right, folks. For the third time in the last 4 weeks, an Apostle of the Lord came and spoke to us for Tuesday night devotional! How cool is that. We are so blessed. When we first got here they said it had been a long time since a general authority had come, and now we've seen 3!
Elder Nelson's talk was about the Book of Mormon. He told us some history of the translation and publication of this most amazing book. He also called 4 Missionaries from the audience to tell what they knew to be true about the Book of Mormon. Pretty nerve-wrecking for three of them (the fourth was his granddaughter!). They all did a great job because they have great testimonies--and they had done their homework. We all had homework for this devotional: READ THE OCTOBER 2011 ENSIGN
It is all about the Book of Mormon. They gave a copy to every single missionary in the MTC and asked us to be familiar with it before coming to the Devotional. Little did we know that one of the contributors was going to talk to us about it. It is an amazing magazine and I really do want everyone to read it. I learned a lot from it and I know you will too.
Yesterday, we stood out on the front sidewalk and waved at all the cars bringing in new missionaries. It was fun. I'm excited to see my cousin Garrett on Oct. 12 because he is the only new missionary I will know.
I love hearing from all of you.
Love from the land of overwhelming joy,
Hermana Anna Sheffield
Paz afuera. [Peace out!]
This week has been incredible!
First off, all the letters I got this week made me SO happy. Like Christmas. Then I got a package of pictures from Alan and Kristin and that made me super happy. Then I got a package from The FAM and that made me even MORE happy. I love jackets. And the weather that provides a need for them. And Candy. And information! All of it makes me happy!
Also, I'm sorry to hear about the BYU-UTAH game. Our teacher went to the game and told us the score. I thought of you all.
Moving right along. . .
Sunday was our official halfway mark. To commemorate the event, we got a new district leader (now it is Elder Rockwood) and we switched 'Senior companion'-ship, which means that the companion with the first alphabetical name is now a junior companion. Good thing that is entirely meaningless here in the MTC.
It is strange that we've been here for 5 weeks. I lose all sense of time here. All I know is that it feels like we just got here and that there is no way I am going to know enough to leave in 4 weeks. We get our travel plans in about 2 weeks. How is that coming so soon?! I feel like I never have enough time to study for our lessons and that is the majority of what we do all day. It is so crazy.
Our Sunday fireside was nice. One of the District Presidents spoke about accepting hard things and making the best of it because Christ went through a lot worse. He also said "You must choose if you are willing to serve the Lord." I like that quote and I hope all of you are willing and do serve the Lord in any and every way you can.
To no one's surprise, a common theme in the MTC is obedience. A lot of the instruction we received this week included at least some mention of obedience. Twice it was said "Obedience brings forth blessings, exact obedience brings forth miracles." It is obviously very important because the speaker in RS said it on Sunday, and it was spoken of again on Tuesday. By Wendy Nelson. Who is that, you ask? Exactly who you think it is: The wife of Elder Russell M. Nelson.
Yes that is right, folks. For the third time in the last 4 weeks, an Apostle of the Lord came and spoke to us for Tuesday night devotional! How cool is that. We are so blessed. When we first got here they said it had been a long time since a general authority had come, and now we've seen 3!
Elder Nelson's talk was about the Book of Mormon. He told us some history of the translation and publication of this most amazing book. He also called 4 Missionaries from the audience to tell what they knew to be true about the Book of Mormon. Pretty nerve-wrecking for three of them (the fourth was his granddaughter!). They all did a great job because they have great testimonies--and they had done their homework. We all had homework for this devotional: READ THE OCTOBER 2011 ENSIGN
It is all about the Book of Mormon. They gave a copy to every single missionary in the MTC and asked us to be familiar with it before coming to the Devotional. Little did we know that one of the contributors was going to talk to us about it. It is an amazing magazine and I really do want everyone to read it. I learned a lot from it and I know you will too.
Yesterday, we stood out on the front sidewalk and waved at all the cars bringing in new missionaries. It was fun. I'm excited to see my cousin Garrett on Oct. 12 because he is the only new missionary I will know.
I love hearing from all of you.
Love from the land of overwhelming joy,
Hermana Anna Sheffield
Paz afuera. [Peace out!]
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Y he aqui....
Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011
Hello family relations and all you others not sitting on a cushion!
I am doing great. Life is hard and busy here in the MTC, as it should be, but it is such a great place to be. Safe. Surrounded by my first family in this life (as a missionary), and constantly learning about The Plan of Salvation, poder + infinitive, repentance, The Word of Wisdom, Preterit, and much more.
Speaking of life as a missionary, we had a discussion with one of our teachers about how we were all born here and the MTC is our first home, our district is our family that we grow up with, and when we are ready, we go out into the real world, teach people, learn and grow some more, and then die (get released). Then we go the the spirit world (schooling) and are placed into kingdoms, the highest includes getting a job and getting married. It was pretty funny.
This week was pretty awesome. It went by a lot faster than the other weeks. The saying they told us on our first day is true: The days seem like weeks and the weeks seem like days. Sunday will be our halfway point, which is good and bad because I have still have SO much to learn.
The highlights from this week are as follows:
On Sunday, President Brown gave the fireside, which was a memorial to September 11. We all discussed where we were that day 10 years ago (which made me laugh because one person was a senior and one was in second grade!). In the fireside, we watched a tribute video that was pretty good. I think James Blunt was singing in it, but I don't really know. I'm not so in tune with the music of Babylon these days. We also got to watch the Music and the Spoken word tribute to 9-11 which was pretty awesome as well.
Afterwards, the hermanas in my district went back to our class and watched the CES Broadcast by Elder and Sister Oaks. Or at least we watched the first half of it. Kristen Oaks is really funny and they both said some really great things.
We also decorated the white board for our teacher, Hermana Nelson, because Monday was her birthday. While eating breakfast Monday morning, we decided to do something more for her. So we got a donut from the cafeteria, a candy bar, and a birthday hat someone had in their residence, drew mustaches on our fingers, and showed up late to class. (when you come late to her class, you have to do a door approach in Spanish to get in). She kind of saw us before, so she had her camera ready to filmed us as we sang a direct, word-for-word translation of Happy Birthday outside the door to our classroom, holding up our mustaches. It was hilarious. She said she was going to post it onFfacebook. Whatever that is.
We are extremely lucky to be at the MTC right now. The weather is perfect, most of the time, and the General Authorities start showing up all over. This week's devotional speaker was Elder Ballard! We had no advance warning this time, but it was amazing just the same. He spoke about whatever he felt like. He gave us some "suggestions from an Apostle" such as Be yourself and converse with people instead of teaching wooden lessons, teach clearly because the gospel is plain and simple and the spirit will help them understand, exercise your faith as much as you can, Be quiet/still to let the doctrine wash over you and sink into your soul, and many other great one-liners.
Hna. Magnusson commented afterwards that he said so many great things and "we quote dumb movies all the time, why don't we quote apostles?" Then 2 hours later she quoted a movie. It was pretty ironic.
There are an alarming amount of missionaries on crutches lately, but don't worry, I'm not one of them.
Everything is fine, nothing is ruined. Situation normal.
I'm really happy to be here, even though it is really hard some days and I miss you all tons. Thanks again to those of you who sent me letters.
Love from the District of the Smiling Angels, 08-D
Hermana Anna Sheffield
P.S. The Mailroom is finally moved to building 2M along with the barbarshop, alterations, travel office, health clinic, dry cleaners, clothes shop, and soon-to-be the bookstore too. It is a really pretty building and the alterations ladies are really nice and sewed the split seam in my skirt for no charge. It also smelled like paint because they weren't done yet. My companion said it reminded her of her childhood. Maybe she had a lot of painting in her house...
Hello family relations and all you others not sitting on a cushion!
I am doing great. Life is hard and busy here in the MTC, as it should be, but it is such a great place to be. Safe. Surrounded by my first family in this life (as a missionary), and constantly learning about The Plan of Salvation, poder + infinitive, repentance, The Word of Wisdom, Preterit, and much more.
Speaking of life as a missionary, we had a discussion with one of our teachers about how we were all born here and the MTC is our first home, our district is our family that we grow up with, and when we are ready, we go out into the real world, teach people, learn and grow some more, and then die (get released). Then we go the the spirit world (schooling) and are placed into kingdoms, the highest includes getting a job and getting married. It was pretty funny.
This week was pretty awesome. It went by a lot faster than the other weeks. The saying they told us on our first day is true: The days seem like weeks and the weeks seem like days. Sunday will be our halfway point, which is good and bad because I have still have SO much to learn.
The highlights from this week are as follows:
On Sunday, President Brown gave the fireside, which was a memorial to September 11. We all discussed where we were that day 10 years ago (which made me laugh because one person was a senior and one was in second grade!). In the fireside, we watched a tribute video that was pretty good. I think James Blunt was singing in it, but I don't really know. I'm not so in tune with the music of Babylon these days. We also got to watch the Music and the Spoken word tribute to 9-11 which was pretty awesome as well.
Afterwards, the hermanas in my district went back to our class and watched the CES Broadcast by Elder and Sister Oaks. Or at least we watched the first half of it. Kristen Oaks is really funny and they both said some really great things.
We also decorated the white board for our teacher, Hermana Nelson, because Monday was her birthday. While eating breakfast Monday morning, we decided to do something more for her. So we got a donut from the cafeteria, a candy bar, and a birthday hat someone had in their residence, drew mustaches on our fingers, and showed up late to class. (when you come late to her class, you have to do a door approach in Spanish to get in). She kind of saw us before, so she had her camera ready to filmed us as we sang a direct, word-for-word translation of Happy Birthday outside the door to our classroom, holding up our mustaches. It was hilarious. She said she was going to post it onFfacebook. Whatever that is.
We are extremely lucky to be at the MTC right now. The weather is perfect, most of the time, and the General Authorities start showing up all over. This week's devotional speaker was Elder Ballard! We had no advance warning this time, but it was amazing just the same. He spoke about whatever he felt like. He gave us some "suggestions from an Apostle" such as Be yourself and converse with people instead of teaching wooden lessons, teach clearly because the gospel is plain and simple and the spirit will help them understand, exercise your faith as much as you can, Be quiet/still to let the doctrine wash over you and sink into your soul, and many other great one-liners.
Hna. Magnusson commented afterwards that he said so many great things and "we quote dumb movies all the time, why don't we quote apostles?" Then 2 hours later she quoted a movie. It was pretty ironic.
There are an alarming amount of missionaries on crutches lately, but don't worry, I'm not one of them.
Everything is fine, nothing is ruined. Situation normal.
I'm really happy to be here, even though it is really hard some days and I miss you all tons. Thanks again to those of you who sent me letters.
Love from the District of the Smiling Angels, 08-D
Hermana Anna Sheffield
P.S. The Mailroom is finally moved to building 2M along with the barbarshop, alterations, travel office, health clinic, dry cleaners, clothes shop, and soon-to-be the bookstore too. It is a really pretty building and the alterations ladies are really nice and sewed the split seam in my skirt for no charge. It also smelled like paint because they weren't done yet. My companion said it reminded her of her childhood. Maybe she had a lot of painting in her house...
VERDE!! ARRGGGGHH!
Date: Thursday, Sep 8, 2011
Hola Amigos!
I hope you are all doing maravilloso. The MTC sure has it´s ups and downs, but I am happy as a clam.
First off, let me explain the subject line. There is an Elder in my district, Elder Doolhoff (or Duljaf en español) who has been trying really hard to learn Spanish but has a hard time remembering things. He and his companion have twice had Spanish only days where they spit out about four words and we all play charades to figure out what they are saying. Yesterday, Elder Doolhoff realized he had forgotten to do something and wanted to express his anger, but in his limited Spanish, all he could to was point to his skin and say ¨Verde! Arrgghh!¨ It was super funny as he pretended to become huge [and green, as in Green Hulk] and throw things around. Our teacher couldn´t stop laughing. That was probably the third time we had all stopped what we were doing to laugh for 5 minutes. It was great.
Last Friday we also had Verde Viernes (green Friday) where we all wore green. Don´t worry, we took pictures. We´re doing it again tomorrow, also.
Our devotional speaker this week was Jay E. Jensen. He gave a nice talk about the history of the missionary training program. He also talked about music (which was funny because right before he started I found my notes from conference 2007 when he gave a talk on Hymns). He went with the Tab Choir on their tour in June so he talked about how they are not a choir of soloists: they work together, under the direction of their leader, to sing in harmony. He counseled us to do the same. He explained that we need to be sumbissive vertically (in similtude to the will of the Father) and then we will be in Harmony horizontally (with our companions, investigators, and the spirit).
His whole talk was a little more cerebral than we are used to at the MTC, but I love history, so it was awesome for me.
Fast Sunday was. . . long. Being up early, not having every moment planned, walking up to the temple, and not eating for 24 hours was a lot to handle. Walking up a hill in the sun without hydration is probably not the best idea. After the fireside (which was given by the administrative director of the MTC Richard Heaton - he told funny stories), we had an "hermanas fiesta" and watched the Restoration on LDS.org on the giant tv in our room while eating popcorn and cinnimon rolls Hna. Carnes got from Dear Elder. The Hermanas from our zone joined us. We could have watched "Mountain of the Lord" like the Elders did, but we quoted it enough this week that I didn't feel the need. (There's enough poweder in there to blow us all to kingdom come.)
We have been teaching two investigators for a while now, but we actually committed one to baptism! At least I think we did, everything is in Spanish so I hardly know what I'm saying, let alone what the investigators are. We keep learning things in class and in the workshops that tell us what we are doing is not the best way to go about things, so we have to learn new things all the time, but that is why we are here. To learn and grow and become better followers of the spirit, but mostly to help investigators. We taught some members (in Spanish) in the TRC this week for the first time. It was super hard and we had no idea what to say. My Spanish vocabulary only covers the words in the first lesson, not conversational Spanish or words to teach members, but I guess I'll learn because we are teaching members every Friday for the rest of the time we are here.
I hope you all know how important the gospel is and how much you need it in your life. Do everything you can to be close to the spirit. Pray. Everyday. Always, Constantly. The Lord loves you and wants to bless you. Just ask Him.
I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week! I'm on to week 4! Crazy.
Adios,
Hermana Anna Sheffield
P.S. As Elder Larsen said "THis place is like a Golden Corral. Only bigger and you can never leave."
Hola Amigos!
I hope you are all doing maravilloso. The MTC sure has it´s ups and downs, but I am happy as a clam.
First off, let me explain the subject line. There is an Elder in my district, Elder Doolhoff (or Duljaf en español) who has been trying really hard to learn Spanish but has a hard time remembering things. He and his companion have twice had Spanish only days where they spit out about four words and we all play charades to figure out what they are saying. Yesterday, Elder Doolhoff realized he had forgotten to do something and wanted to express his anger, but in his limited Spanish, all he could to was point to his skin and say ¨Verde! Arrgghh!¨ It was super funny as he pretended to become huge [and green, as in Green Hulk] and throw things around. Our teacher couldn´t stop laughing. That was probably the third time we had all stopped what we were doing to laugh for 5 minutes. It was great.
Last Friday we also had Verde Viernes (green Friday) where we all wore green. Don´t worry, we took pictures. We´re doing it again tomorrow, also.
Our devotional speaker this week was Jay E. Jensen. He gave a nice talk about the history of the missionary training program. He also talked about music (which was funny because right before he started I found my notes from conference 2007 when he gave a talk on Hymns). He went with the Tab Choir on their tour in June so he talked about how they are not a choir of soloists: they work together, under the direction of their leader, to sing in harmony. He counseled us to do the same. He explained that we need to be sumbissive vertically (in similtude to the will of the Father) and then we will be in Harmony horizontally (with our companions, investigators, and the spirit).
His whole talk was a little more cerebral than we are used to at the MTC, but I love history, so it was awesome for me.
Fast Sunday was. . . long. Being up early, not having every moment planned, walking up to the temple, and not eating for 24 hours was a lot to handle. Walking up a hill in the sun without hydration is probably not the best idea. After the fireside (which was given by the administrative director of the MTC Richard Heaton - he told funny stories), we had an "hermanas fiesta" and watched the Restoration on LDS.org on the giant tv in our room while eating popcorn and cinnimon rolls Hna. Carnes got from Dear Elder. The Hermanas from our zone joined us. We could have watched "Mountain of the Lord" like the Elders did, but we quoted it enough this week that I didn't feel the need. (There's enough poweder in there to blow us all to kingdom come.)
We have been teaching two investigators for a while now, but we actually committed one to baptism! At least I think we did, everything is in Spanish so I hardly know what I'm saying, let alone what the investigators are. We keep learning things in class and in the workshops that tell us what we are doing is not the best way to go about things, so we have to learn new things all the time, but that is why we are here. To learn and grow and become better followers of the spirit, but mostly to help investigators. We taught some members (in Spanish) in the TRC this week for the first time. It was super hard and we had no idea what to say. My Spanish vocabulary only covers the words in the first lesson, not conversational Spanish or words to teach members, but I guess I'll learn because we are teaching members every Friday for the rest of the time we are here.
I hope you all know how important the gospel is and how much you need it in your life. Do everything you can to be close to the spirit. Pray. Everyday. Always, Constantly. The Lord loves you and wants to bless you. Just ask Him.
I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week! I'm on to week 4! Crazy.
Adios,
Hermana Anna Sheffield
P.S. As Elder Larsen said "THis place is like a Golden Corral. Only bigger and you can never leave."
Sunday, September 4, 2011
I Now Choose to Recite a List
September 1, 2011
So much has happened this week. I had to write it all down before so I wouldn't forget anything. So now I choose to recite a list. (and I will expand on each one!)
1. Sundays are great days. We study, eat, study, listen to teachers, like we do every other day, but we also get to go to Music and the Spoken Word, Relief Society (this week with Janis Lindley who talked about inviting others to do something either big or small), Choir practice (We sang Faith of our Fathers this week and we learned about the faith of Abraham, Paul, Brigham Young, and Heber C. Kimball. Also, I was totally front and center on the screen during the devotional, not that any of you will ever see it), The Temple Walk, Sacrament Meeting, etc. It is pretty great. Choir is awesome. Also, we stood outside and watched the awesome lightning storm. But I could only stay out there for about 5 minutes because I was getting attacked. I lost and have 4 bug bites to prove it.
2. There are celebrities at the MTC. I've seen two of them this week. The MTC celebrities are the missionaries that were filmed in "The District, 2" (made for MTC videos for the missionaries) which we watch clips from all the time. Apparently, they teach here. One was wearing sunglasses like a real celebrity. We felt cool for seeing him.
3. Monday night, at about 9:40, as we were all getting ready for bed, the fire alarm went off in our building. All of the sisters had to go outside for half an hour because some Sister burned some sort of hash brown patty in the microwave. It was no bueno. Especially since we had gym at 6 am the next morning.
4. We got two new teachers this week. Hopefully these are more permanant than the 3 before them. Actually, Hermano Hepworth is amazing because he explained how the new curriculum works and what we are supposed to be doing here in the MTC. I guess PMG wasn't quite as effective as they wanted it to be because they realized that missionaries didn't know how to teach. So they are now focusing on telling us how to communicate the message of the gospel and let the spirit teach the investigators. Of course, that also includes teaching us Spanish words and phrases we will be using before teaching us grammar. So it is good, but different than it used to be. But we don't really know what that way is anyway. We didn't understand any of it until our teachers finally explained it yesterday. So now we should be set.
Now for the best news.
5. On Tuesday, President Brown stopped by us at lunch and said a General Authority was coming to the Devotional and wanted us to write a question for him. We all thought it was going to Elder Bednar, but when the meeting started, in walked ELDER HOLLAND! It was so awesome. He spent 20 minutes on his intro telling us how much his mission meant to him and hundreds of other things I couldn't possible tell you all of them. He then answered some of the questions he had received. 6 to be exact and we were still 25 minutes over. Here is the one thing he said that I will take the time to mention: The only thing we have to give to God is our heart. Turn your will over to Him.
6. Going along with that, I was handed a talk (by Hna. Andrus) given by Elder Maxwell in the Nov. 1995 Ensign entitled "Swallowed Up in the Will of the Father". I highly suggest you all read it.
7. We were challenged to do the following, and I invite you all to do the same: On the next fast Sunday, make a list of all the things you need to let go of, the sins you need to be rid of in your life. Then let them go. As is mentioned in the talk, the path to eternal life is the only path is is okay to litter on, if you are shedding your sins.
8. I love you all. I miss seeing you and telling you all about the amazing things I am learning everyday. It is SO wonderful to be here, to know the truth, and to prepare to tell the world about the restored church. Don't ever forget the things you learned on your mission. You do not have the right to turn your back on the truth especially after you have felt the Spirit and have shared it with others.
Good luck to you all! Go forth, love the Lord, and be believing.
Love, Hermana Sheffield
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