Sawadiiiiiiiiii!!
Thank you all for your wonderful emails! I absolutely LOVE hearing from all of you. It's awesome to hear that Hayley got to go on the Trek, she made the right choice by going and I'm bummed that I never got to be able to experience that. Thank you thank you thank you for the package I recieved from you guys a couple days ago. Much needed support and love did I feel from you guys. Thank you. I'm also excited to hear about your missionary opportunities! I think back in high school and middle school and remember some kids who I knew that I sometimes worry for because some have rejected totally the gospel. I wish I could have done more to help them understand our Heavenly Father's pure love toward us, His children.
This week hasn't been the easiest for me, especially since it was the 4th of July and I became very homesick. I miss you guys so much! I think about you often, and I sometimes share my testimony of the power of an example of a mother and a father in lessons and testimony meetings, more specifically the example of my mother and father. I can hardly talk about you guys without crying because I love you guys so much. And to add to the saddness, an Elder in my district was holding my camera one night and accidentally dropped it on the floor and broke it. We tried to revive it, but we couldn't do much, so I sent it home yesterday. I'm praying we have a warranty on it, but if you can't trade it in, please please please use money out of my account to get a new one. The Elder feels terrible about breaking it, but I told him not to worry too much about it.
On the 4th they let us watch 17 Miracles. It was such an amazing show and if you haven't seen it, be sure to watch it. It's amazing what the pioneers have done and the faith that they have shown. They then let us stay out long enough to watch the fireworks from the Stadium of Fire over the MTC walls. It just wasn't the same and I thought about you guys alot. and that feeling of sadness and depression stayed with me for a couple of days after. I then felt like I should say a pray and so I asked for comfort and strength. I was reading in D&C 6 soon after and the words began to jump out at my like they were alive. It was amazing to me to feel and see the comforting words and it was as if that whole chapter was written for me. I knew that Heavenly Father had answered my prayer. It's amazing to think that our Father in Heaven, the Ruler of the universe, the manager of uncountable worlds took time out of His busy day to answer a simple prayer as mine. I'm a small speck on a faraway world to him, but yet he knows me by name, He knows my fears, sorrows, and doubts, and He made me feel special. I know this is the same for all of us. And so as I read D&C 6, I switched out Oliver Cowdry's name for Jameson Tanner and it made my week. The scriptures are so powerful. I will never forget that experience.
This week we were teaching one of our investigators named Cay Cay. We had kind of a hard lesson and came out feeling beat. We then prayed for inspiration to know how to better teach him and decided the next time we teach him, we will bring him to a "chapel" to show him around. So we built a makeshift chapel in one of the classrooms and taught him in for our next lesson. It was amazing the Spirit that I knew he felt when he entered. I'll attach a picture of it. We even drew the organ and everything on the board:)
Me and my companion have definintely learned about the importance of tones in this language. We were teaching another investigator about the Restoration and about families and had memorized words and phrases beforehand to be able to teach the lesson. We taught the investigator and we would say some things about the Restoration and that families can be together forever and he burst out laughing a couple times and we couldn't figure out why. He later told us after the lesson that we had asked him, "Does your family make tires for a living?" when we were trying to say if he believes that families can be together forever haha. We also asked him if he was able to create a family and just weird things like that haha that were totally not suppose to be that way. Needless to say we have some work to do.
I love you all so much! My Branch President has told us it's not a bad thing to be homesick, it just means we are capable of love towards other. We can't dwell on it though. And so I won't. Through God all things can be done:) Til next week, may God bless you!
With much love,
Elder Tanner
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