3rd letter

Hola Everyone! So I am settling in here. It is weird to think that I have been here for 2 weeks now! I will be in Mexico in less than a month! So in my last letter I was super excited about our investigator. I guess I should explain that a bit because I have had a lot of people comment on that :) So our investigator "Roberto" is actually Hermano Croft, one of our teachers. Except we did not know that at the time. I guess every time a new district comes in 2 teachers get assigned to the district, but the new district only ever sees one of them. The other one is their investigator. The teacher will pick a person who they taught on their mission and pretend to be them (same personality, same back story, ect.) and the new district will get to teach them. So we taught "Roberto" 5 times and then one day we came into class and "Roberto" is there. It was kind of weird at first, but Hermano Croft is NOTHING like Roberto so we quickly got over that :) It was such a great experience because everything is so real! The nerves you feel about teaching are real. The planning is real. The love you feel for them is SO real. The prayers that we said, praying for Roberto were SOOOO real. And the answers to our prayers were SO UNBELIEVABLY REAL! Hermana Schaser and I got to talk to Hermano Croft about our experience with Roberto. We told him how we would always pray before going into the lessons for things like the gift of tongues, and that we would know what Roberto needed, and that we would have the Spirit with us; which are all great things to have but the day where Roberto accepted our invitation to baptism we had prayed that Roberto would feel the Spirit and that Roberto's heart would be softened, and that is when miracles happened! Hermana Schaser and I were the only ones he said yes to baptism with that day. So it was really interesting to talk with Hermano Croft and hear about his experience with our teaching because he did not know any of this before hand. Now we are teaching another investigator (Carmen) and we are working on getting in the door of another investigator (Filipe). We have only tried once so far so hopefully tonight we can get in. It is SO nerve wracking! I don't think I mentioned this before but I joined the MTC Choir! It is so awesome! We have practice on Sundays at the West Campus Chapel and then on Tuesdays we go up to Main Campus for another practice. Usually we have to walk but in bad weather they will bus us. There are devotionals on Sunday nights and Tuesday nights and the choir sings at the Tuesday one. The devotionals here are so great! I have been to 4 so far. I have heard Stephen B. Allen, Lynn G. Robbins (of the 70), Roger Connors, and Carlos A. Godoy (of the 70). I think that my favorite at the moment was Carlos A. Godoy. He is from Brazil and knows English as a second language. He told about his conversion and was super entertaining! It might sound weird but my favorite part about watching him was watching him fumble for words. He would say something like "The Spirit here is p... palp.... palpable? Right? (he would look back for confirmation that that is the word he wanted then say) Wow that is a good word!" or he would ask "what is the word for that?". But that did not distract from his message! I love that because that is going to be me! I am going to fumble over words and have to ask for help but that is okay! A few days ago we had an "Adjusting to Missionary Life" lesson on stress. Hermano Croft had us do an object lesson. He took us outside and had us do wall sits! The idea was that just because your legs are shaking, does not mean that you are weak. We did not really know why we were doing it at the time, but once we got started none of us wanted to give in first! We ended up holding it for 3 1/2 minutes before one of us finally gave in! Mom I know how you like object lessons and usually I am all for them, but really that was not fun! But it did inspire us Hermanas and so we have been doing wall sits at gym. Dude my legs are going to be so strong when I get back! So we are working really hard to H.S.I. (Speak your language... in Spanish) all the time. It is REALLY HARD!!!!!!!!!! But it will help us get better.... On a side note: Our district has adopted the saying "Que en el mundo!" which literally translates to "What in the World!" but it does not make and sense in Spanish, so anytime we say that in class our teachers just roll their eyes at us. The Elders also really like the word "corazon" (heart) so everything is "Tacos es en mi corazon" or "El Spiritu es en mi corazon". It is awesome. And just in case you are wondering it is REALLY COLD here!!!! I cant wait to get to Mexico where it is still in the 80's!!! Okay 2 Spiritual thoughts and then I have to go: Look up 3 Nephi 27 and answer the question that Christ asks "What will ye that I shall give unto you? And look up 1 Corinthians 7:23.... it is an awsome to think that Christ is my master, he has already bought my soul, so I can not be the servant of men. You guys I feel so greatful to literally be wearing Christ's name over my heart! I love this gospel! and I love you guys! Love, Hermana Ashcraft