"Lord, I Would Follow Thee."

Wow. First of all, thank you all so much for the letters!! I was definitely feeling the love this week! Thank you, thank you!

I forgot my journal so. . .we'll see how this goes.

Sunday: Music and the Spoken Word. So great! I encourage all ya'll to watch it every Sunday from 9:30-10:00, it's a perfect Sunday activity! For R.S Sister Nixon (?) the Geneal Primary President spoke to us! I can't even tell you exactly what she said, but it was another beautiful moment where I felt the Savior's presences so strongly! Those moments of feeling His love and just KNOWING he loves me and that He's aware of are so sacred to me and I am so grateful for them! It was a beautiful feeling.

Monday: We had to go onto BYU campus for Sis M to get her fingerprints done.  DAD.  We parked in the parking lot of the Talmage building. That was a close one. I did not like combining my life with my other life. I was getting a little antsy. You were right there!!!! I took a sad little picture but forgot my camera this time. I'll send it next week. crazy!!

Tuesday: I've been going to choir (huzzah!) so I got to sing in the choir on Tuesday night at the devotional! Brother and Sister Cousee (slaughtered that) of the general bishopric came and gave some grate talks.  They are both native to France and were living in Paris until not to long ago when he got called to be a 70.  He talked a lot about our personal relationship with Christ and accessing the Atonement in our personal lives before we can help others do so.  It was awesome.  At the end we sang "Lord, I Would Follow Thee" and I just felt like I was singing all by myself to Heavenly Father.  Honestly, that's want I want to do! That song has never stood out to me before but it's perfect.

Wednesday: I got to host for real this week!! It was SO  much fun! I got to host four new sisters! Now there's four little newbies that I get to say hi to everywhere! Everyone was surprised that we got to do it after only 2 weeks, which mean we'll probably be able to do it 2-3 more times! It was honestly such a blast, we got 500 new missionaries!!  I also got to help with the orientation for our 5 new elders.  It was great to see you newbyisha and nervous they were, I hope we get to be besties with them too!!  Yesterday they're ties were all coordinating but I just couldn't get myself to ask. . . . so I got Elder Gardner to and sure enough, "yeah, it's pink tie Friday!" Bless, them, they all had bright pink ties.  I love it and I hate it. I think I'm going to like them:)

Thursday: SISTER M GOT HER VISA!!!! After only 2 weeks of being here and 2 moths after turning her stuff in! It' s honestly so stinkin sad.  We were all planning on having each other the whole 6 weeks:( I will miss her SO much. We got along so well and have become so close. Mom along the lines of what I was telling you though, I'm a leetle bit grateful because this is how I'm going to become best friends with Sis Burte, I'll will get to know her so well and hopefully be the best companion and help her in any way that I can.  There is good in this situation:)  We had to go to the Doctor for Siter M's toe and while there sis B and I made friends with these elders from South London!! They going to Holly's mission!! It was the best.I felt like one of those missionaries who is dying of happiness because they're speaking in the language they miss. I was melting. Honestly, he wasn't really cute at all but his accent. . . .and all of a sudden he just was.  his "mates" he went there "loads of times." Aaah we had a jolly little chat.  I know this is so not missionary related but thought you guys would appreciate!!

Friday: We're kind of all on the verge of hysterics because of Sister M so we've just been laughing to the point of tears like 5 times a day. Yesterday we were teaching one of our progressing investigators about the W.O.W and read a verse about his body being a Temple.  He went off on this analogy about his body being fragile like the window, pantomiming cracking etc.  We were all good or so we thought.  Sister M looks to us for clarification: "So, he thinks his body is going to crack?" We about lost it.  After the lesson we were in the hallway laughing on the floor, I kid you not.  During a differnt lesson this week, Sis M saved the day again. What am I going to do without her?? Sis B was attempting to relate her experience with appendicitis ( as you can imagine this was a pretty brave attempt as she was lacking about 90% of the vocab for this story.) She's trying to explain her intense pain right? We don't actually know the word for pain. (well now we do!)  She looked to us for help and Sister M: paused, pointed to her stomach and said really loudly and slowly " O-O-W-W."  Yes.  We all (including Marcos) We laughing out loud. It was then one of those laugh during the prayer moments and a real battle for a while there. (lines of the week. #win #whatamigoingtodowithouthat?)  We also taught our first TRC lessons for the first time last night!! The second lesson was with the sweetest couple from Sao Paulo!!  They were so sweet and I instantly loved them and wanted to go to Brazil asap!! I really vaguely understood them and was able to (SORT OF) talk with them!! It's amazing that even though we're not teaching "real lessons" or "real people" the Spirit can be there and Heavenly Father guides me and gives me ideas. Really faith, and putting for the effort goes a long way. Like Elder Bednar said, "Faith is an action word." The MTC is amazing and I don't want to be anywhere else!! 

Love,

Sister Ventura  "Vamos para frente com fe"

Dad, here's a line of the week for you!! We were practicing different verbs to be, to go and well. . . "sua mai vai universidade!" Word.