MTC Week 2

Well this week flew by! Quick summary: we are working to learn the

spanish and it come along pretty fast! we teach 3 different lessons a

week and we have 2 visits with members. The food in the MTC is the

same as BYU so it is just like a college campus cafeteria. During our

gym time we play spike ball, hard to explain, so google it if you dont

know, its alot of fun though!

Our tuesday devotional was pretty cool this week! we had the General

President of the primary come, sister Wixom, her talk was pretty

great! she said a bunch of cool things but one thing in particular was

she said that the mission is a dress rehersal for our purpose in life!

Too me that meant that we are learning how to teach our future

families and that was cool to me!

This is what happens when we miss a vocal question (wall sits)

One more cool story! In one of our member lessons the member decided

instead of us teaching him in spanish he was going to tell us a story

in english here is how it went:

"When my grandma was about 40 she didnt know how to read, but she had

always wanted to learn more and she wanted her sons to learn to read

as well, so she kept a bookcase full of books, one of those books was

a Book of Mormon she had gotten from a couple missionaries in the

past, she hadnt been able to read it so she didnt pursue the church

much more, but she wanted to find a religion so she kept that in her

mind. A couple years later her family had a house fire and because of

their hunting ammo going off in the house they were unable to stop the

fire from burning down the entire home. Later they were able to walk

through the ruins of the house and by where the bookshelf had been was

a book underneath a charred piece of wood, she walked over too it and

picked it up and it was the Book of Mormon, she clutched it close to

her and said -this book went through fire for me, and I will go

through fire for it.- And was converted to the gospel

here are me and my comps

We may not all have crazy stories about the book of mormon or the

gospel and we may not get them, but i know that it can have the same

impact on everyones life. and I challenge everyone to try reading the

book of mormon because I can promise it will have a impact on your

life as it has had on mine! ( if you dont have one and want to try let

me know and Ill make sure you get one)

its hard to learn the language but it really is great here and I am

learning so much about the language and the gospel! I love to hear

from you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Ford