Another good week at the MTC! This week was easter so on Sunday we had a combined sacrament meeting with the entire MTC and President Packer spoke! It was a really good meeting and probably the biggest sacrament meeting i will ever attend! But it was awesome to have a general authority come! Then that night for devotional BYU mens chorus sang and it was just a music devotional, which was kind of nice after general conference and have Boyd K. Pakcer we got kind of a sit back and relax type night. But overall a great Easter Sunday!
Ok so i hope this isn't confusing but this is what happened w/ our mission recently... The current mission president will be released in July, so they called a new mission president who has been preparing to go but this last week his wife got a brain aneurism so they are no longer able to serve, so they just called another new mission president who was previously assigned to serve in North Carolina and is now going to be our Mission President in Thailand, but he served his mission in Japan so he doesn't even know Thai! CRAZY!!! It is so crazy how the Lord works, but I know that this new mission president is called of God and will do great! I'm not sure what his name is yet (our teacher forgot) but i'm sure you can look up more about him in chruch news or whatever. But i am super excited to meet our new MP and I know it was through inspiration he was called!
Other news, our Phii-thais left for Thailand yesterday!! It was pretty sad to see them go! There were 16 of them and now it's just the 7 in my district left of Thai speakers! It's pretty weird! But we will get another district next week i believe so that will be fun! Also I was just called as Coordinating Sister so i will now have a few more responsibilites here and be in charge of all the sisters in our zone. Right now its just me and my comp, but tomorrow we get 4 more sisters going on English speaking, and i think we are getting 2 new sisters for Thailand next week but i'm not positve yet, but i am excited! It was funny when i was getting called, the branch presidency got a little confused and 1st i was called as music cooridinator and then my comp came back and was like i just got called as music cooridinator! So we both were really confused and had to ask the branch presidency if we were both suppose to have the same calling, and obviously that was not the case, so i then i got called as coordinating sister! haha
This week we are starting to teach "investigators" twice a day! AHH! so during one class session we teach our teachers, and the other we will teach other members of our district! It is a little overwhelming but it will be good! I think it really is the most important part b/c i have learned sooo much about how to teach from these activities! We also taught in the TRC last week and that was fun! One group I taught, my friend's sister was one of the members we taught so it was fun to see her and the other was a sister that was native from thailand and it was sooo good to hear a real thai accent, so i know what i'm getting myself into! haha
I am slowly but surely learning how to read thai! It is crazy thought b/c there are so many different ways to spell and say things that sometimes i get so lost, also they dont' put any spaces in between words, so sometimes i don't know where one word ends and the next one starts, but it's kind of fun trying to figure it all out! My vocab is also coming along pretty well! I think i pretty much have the basic church words down and can bear my testimony so that's good! Our teachers have been riding me and my comp pretty hard though, we aren't allowed to bring any dictionary or any notes into our lessons with investigators, which has been pretty difficult (and someone annoying b/c they let the elders bring them) but they said we were relying on it too much so they told us no! In the end i think it has helped us but at first i was super overwhelmed!
But ya that is about it this week! I hope all is going well with everyone at home! I love you all!
Also, Jon and Dani: How's the baby?!? Do you know if it's a boy or girl yet!?!? I want to know right away!!! :) (dearelder works great!!! :) ) Also Jason told me you were able to sell my phone so thank you!! did you just put the money in my account or how did that work? Oh and have you found a house yet or what's going on with that!? Well hope all is well! Love you!
Love,
Sister Itri
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