WEEK 1: MTC is the happiest place on
earth, things look a little more red and yellow, and 10 apostles
HELLO FAMILY!!!!
As you may have guessed, my P Day is Wednesday after all so
it has been 7 absolutely INCREDIBLE days of my life since then. I can't
believe that it has only been that long. I feel like it's been at least
double that. Our district is incredible. There are 4 sister
missionaries, me and my comp, Sister M, are going to Temple Square, and
Sister D and Sister M (she is the B's neighbor btw- she was
ECSTATIC to find out that I was *the* sister fisher she was supposed to look
for) are going to the California Mormon Battalion Mission. We have 6
awesome Elders that are all going to the Boston Massachusettes Mission in two weeks
from now (shout out to Brigham).
I.LOVE.THE.MTC.
It was terrifying and really horrifying to walk away into
the truly unknown last Wednesday but I AM SO GLAD I DID. I am grateful
for the Elders who just walked me right along to seriously, the happiest day of
my life. The spirit was so strong it was almost smothering with joy,
happiness and just excitement. Everywhere I went there was
"Sister!!! Welcome to the MTC!!" I walked into my classroom met
my AMAZING Companion from North Carolina, and saw on the board:
“THE MTC: The happiest place on earth.”
And it is. I have never been happier in my entire
life. Everyone glows. It is incredible. I love it
here. People just start singing hymns and everyone just starts singing
along too. We sing Called To Serve or other hymns in the shower and
people just start singing along too!!! It's so cool. I love it.
There are 4 of us in our bedroom, and it's just great!
I love my sisters SO MUCH!!! (and my little elders too!! We've all been
together now 16 hours a day for the last 7 days. That's a long
time. We're all super tight and our district is really special so says
our Branch President)
There are only 4 sisters in my zone, so I was made the
Coordinating Sister (basically a ZL for the girls) and that has been really
neat going through the newly released Leadership Program at the MTC.
I feel like the Lord has put me in situations for the last
year that have prepared me to make this transition into a missionary much
easier so that I would be able to do more to help those that haven't had such
an easy transition. I have seen so many miracles since I have been
here.
EVERY SINGLE one of my prayers have been answered since I
have been here (if it relates to missionary work). I have never felt so
close to the Spirit or felt inspiration seriously just melt through me and
speak through me. So many times I have opened my mouth and something
would come out totally different that what I had intended to say, things that
have taught me! My prayer to be more humble and to bless other's lives
more: BAM Elder Bednar's talk happened which answered my prayer that from that
morning, My prayer to be less worreid about myself and how to do
it, and BAM Elder Bednar's talk quoted "Your mission: It's not about
you", my prayer to have energy one morning when I was really tired, and
BAM after I told the Lord I was obedient and went to bed at 10:30 and woke up
at 6:30 and shortly later I had the most concentration and energy in my
life! My prayers worried for the people I left at home, including a twin
sister who I love so much and care so much about, was answered by a comment the
same day from an elder in my district: "We are here in the field taking
care of the Lord's work, He is there at home taking care of ours."
I 100% agree and know and believe this!
My prayer on how I could lift the elders more around me, and
BAM the answer came isntantly to shake all of their hands, look them in the eye
and tell them that they're great and I appreciate them. It worked. It
always does when we follow the Spirit. I love that feeling. I want
to have that feeling the rest of my life.
My teachers are incredible too! I love it. I
love this work so much.
On Sunday night we had an incredible devotional by some
people in the administration of the MTC who talked about revelation. One of my
favorite quotes from the fireside was "often times revelation comes in
forms of thoughts so familiar and common place and rational and easy to accept
that we think it is our own thoughts, it is only when things we would never
have come up with get said that we recognize the Spirit. He in actuality
is there speaking to us, all of the time."
Then after that, we had a rebroadcasted MTC devotional from
Elder Bednar which was INCREDIBLE!!! It was all about the natural man and
coming and becoming like Christ who would in situations turn outward, when we,
subjected to the natural man would turn inward. It was another answer to
my constant prayers on how to be less selfish and more aware of others and
always thinking about them instead of me, and when he said "This mission
is not about you!" it stabbed me into my heart because that is the exact
thing I wrote at the top of my notebook on the first day, and has continued to
be my prayer to be less concerned about myself ever since.
Next, Tuesday night we had a devotional on Mission
President's week where there were 10 APOSTLES!!!!!!!!!! It was SO COOL TO SEE
and be in the room with them! Elder Perry spoke and it was a good
talk that there will be more info to come from.
I love this Gospel and I love this work. I love
missionary work. Nothing has made me this happy before in my entire
life. I love blessing others lives and to bring them to know what will
make them happy here on earth and in life to come!!
I love it so much!!! I love y'all so much!!! I pray for you
always! I know that I am blessed and I feel your prayers!
Love,
Sister Fisher
Answers to your questions:
-I love it if you'd just send me stuff via dearElder.com or
mail because I have more time to read it than if you email my ldsaccount
-I've seen HERMANA B three times (SHE LOOKS SOOOOOO
GOOD!!! And so happy!), Elder T 3 times (He's GLOWING), Hermana
M 3 times, and Hermana H eats everyday at the same time
that I do too so I see her A TON!!! I've even ran into Elder C twice as
well! (Tell Sister C he looks GREAT!)
