How all your week? I hope it's been amazing and that you're all finding ways to Light the World! If you haven't heard about Light the World yet, then go to the website lighttheworld.org and get started! It really is awesome and you won't regret the opportunity to show the Lord that you love Him by serving others. Now is the best time to start service as Christmas time is here and our focus becomes centered on the Savior. Don't forget Him this season. He is the Light of the World and He loves you. He will help you find ways to serve others if you ask. He will put opportunities in your life to serve others.
So my weeks at the MTC aren't really much different from week to week. Everything is planned out for us, and nothing changes. But we find new stuff sometimes. On last Friday we had our first Skype TRC. We got to Skype a person in Finland and teach them. They are members, but they are awesome, and super sweet to help us. Sister Godfrey and I taught Pekka Huhtala. He was awesome! he sounded like he knew English pretty well too. He said a couple words to us in English and that was nice because we definitely are not fluent. But we talked to Him about obedience to the Lord and how that takes faith for us to be obedient because we don't always see results right away. We liked it to Nephi though when he built the boat. When he was commanded to build a boat, he immediately asked where to find ore to make the boat. He had faith that the Lord doesn't give a commandment that He won't provide a way for. So he obeyed because he had faith, and faith leads to action. So I encourage you all to find a commandment that you can live a little bit better and work on it better this week. (https://www.lds.org/manual/preach-my-gospel-a-guide-to-missionary-service/lesson-4-the-commandments?lang=eng) there is a link to some commandments if you want someplace to start.
Saturday was a normal class day and it wasn't exciting really.
Sunday was awesome! Kind of. Fasting sucks, but I tried really hard not to complain about it. (There's my commandment I can work on.) It just is hard when the choice is taken away from you. It was good. I would be fasting regardless, so I don't know why I complain. But we had mission conference where the entire MTC piles into the gym and listens to all the Presidency talk. It was pretty good and they played Christmas songs a lot. Each song is about Christ and His gospel if you search enough. It won't say it outright, but there are references. We also got to listen to the Christmas Devotional from the Prophet of God. It was amazing. Nothing I can say will do it justice, so go watch it. Even if you only listen to President Nelson's talk, it will be worth it. He talks about 4 of the gifts that Christ gives to us. Go watch it (https://www.lds.org/broadcasts/watch/christmas-devotional/2018/12?lang=eng&vid=5974522744001) you won't regret it.
Monday was kind of terrible. I had a really bad headache right behind my eyes that didn't fully go away with Ib but it was okay. I just couldn't focus and wore my sunglasses most of the day. It was definitely something out of the norm that went away after I slept. We also had to opportunity to teach each other today. We first taught the other sisters in our zone, but then we taught Vanhin LeBaron and Vanhin Robbins. They role played as Chuck and Sally Smittywerbenjegermanjensen. They are from the South and Sally is illiterate. It was kind of hilarious and funny. I loved teaching them. It was weird, but fun. We taught about family history work and that was a blast. We also taught one of our teachers as Mikka and he "forgot" to read. We were not prepared for that, but I had the Gift of tongues and I totally asked all the right questions and testified about the importance of reading the scriptures, so that was a good experience for me. I love when that happens. It just reaffirms that the church is true and the Lord looks after His children.
Tuesday we had a normal day. We had Sisar Clark and Sisar Kappel teach. They are awesome and I love them. They taught us some more grammar which is always nice. I like them because they will use English when we need to understand instead of trying to keep us guessing or when they tell mission stories. Then we had choir and devotional. Choir is always good. brother Eggett is always the bomb. He's so charismatic. He has so many good stories and gives them very well. Then the devotional was about the 3 choices we make as missionaries. 1 what are missions are going to be like 2 attitude and 3 choosing obedience. It was awesome.
Wednesday was good. I read about the destruction of the Nephites and how the Lord gave them so many opportunities to repent and come unto Him and they didn't. So he destroyed them. He won't allow His people to defile his name. But as long as we repent and turn to HIm, He blesses us. Class was good, very normal. We taught Henrik and he really seems to be grasping the topics that we are teaching and we love him. He is progressing very well. Then Elder Ormsby almost died. He had Elder Hall push his legs out while Ormsby tried to push them in and that was a bad idea. Ormsby is small and his hip popped loudly and he wouldn't stop complaining but he was fine. Then Elder Kimball did the same thing to Elder LeBaron. It was funny. Classes were good but pretty normal. Not a much happened. It was fun though.
I hope everyone's week is awesome and you can find new ways to light the world this week and show the Lord that you love him I love Him and I know that He blesses us in more ways than we can see. He is our Savior and at this time during the Christmas season He is more aware of us than ever. I love you all and I can't wait to hear from you all!
Love, Sisar McCammon
Hey Daddy!!
Thank you for the advice daddy. I will be sure to remember it. Although I have been feeling homesick of late, I know the Lord has been helping me. I have faith in Him and I know that He wouldn't have told me to come on a mission if I wasn't needed here. It's getting a lot better and I love it here. It's going to be pretty sad to leave and have to say goodbye to all my friends. It isn't too bad though because all of the people that got here about the same time or before me are leaving this week and next, so it will be not so bad. Our zone keeps people for so long, that it's easy to get attached and hard to say goodbye. Especially with my district, they have really helped me out a lot in being less homesick. They are awesome and I love them. They really are exactly what I need here.
For me we just talked about everyday stuff, things she still needs. She loves photos so I've been uploading to my google photo account. She seems way better this week than last. Maybe it was just a bad week. I got a nice text from her branch presidents wife this week though. She just wanted to tell me she loves Abbie and that she'll be a great missionary! And included a photo! So sweet.
This is the photo she included!
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