Guten Morgen!!!
I have so many great things to say!
Last Tuesday, for devotional we heard from an apostle! Richard Scott
came to talk to us and it was AWESOME. He focused on quite a few things but
mainly Sister missionaries, learning a new language, and prayer. It was
seriously just for me. :) The coolest part of his talk was his Apostolic
blessing! So pretty much, I have the words of a prophet telling me I will
MASTER the language. Which came as great relief! I really enjoyed his whole
talk, he's a really good speaker. ( I have decided they get the most
motivational speakers to come talk to us here because every time we have a
devotional, I feel great, happy, and extremely motivated to get work done! So
after some great messages from him, he sat down and we sang the closing song.
As the sister with the closing prayer was walking up to the mic, he got up and
said wait I have one more thing. (how cool, you know this is going to be
important!) He got up and said, "the Lord has called us to succeed, not fail.
The mission is an opportunity for you to discover stuff about yourself that you
never knew before. It will sustain you for the rest of your life. He called
you." Ausgezeichnet. It was such a great reminder, him holding the sisters
in such a high regard was awesome too.
The next day was Wednesday. And that was a good day as well. Time is
flying.
And then it happened. On Thursday, Sister Peterson and I were doing
our language study and someone knocks on the door "WE HAVE OUR TRAVEL
PLANS" AHHHHH. The whole day was a blur I seriously couldn't tell you what
we did. Usually travel plans don't come until the Thursday before you come! So
we were ecstatic!!!
So here's the scoop. We leave the MTC at 8 o’clock for a 10:55
flight and have an hour layover in Amsterdam, and arrive in Munich at 11 the
next day. So yeah, I'll be "traveling a whole day." Sister Freestone,
a counselor’s wife, looked up our flight for us and told us the plane will be
stopping in Detroit as well. I don't know much about the flight except for the fact
I will only have time to call you in SLC. They have calling cards at the
bookstore but be expecting a call between 930 and 1030. I'm sure my comp
and I will find an open phone. Because we have a long flight, that’s enough for a lot of
40 minute lessons :) Sadly the other girls in our district are going to
Frankfurt on a different plane (possibly with Sister Hallum) and I won’t
be able to see them after Monday, which is sad. Melissa is leaving the same day
but at 4 am. Sister Peterson and I REALLY lucked out with times.
I guess I'll see how it works. This is my LAST Pday, so I prob won’t
be emailing again unless I forget to tell you something and hop on later today.
So back to Thursday. Sister Peterson (her first name is Kori,
and yes she's on the same flight) and I were asked to be the missionaries for
the incoming new missionaries Wednesday!! Let me
explain. On my first day. We had an activity where many of us were in
a room with an investigator and missionaries would start the lesson, then we
had to take it from there. Sister Peterson and I are those missionaries! It's
really a cool thing we were chosen. However, I can honestly say I'd rather do
it in German... I haven't given a lesson auf English! haha. I'm sure we will do
fine, but it's a lot of people watching us and we are supposed to be training
them and stuff. But I am glad our teachers find us that competent.
So the rest of the time this week consisted of me struggling with
german, loving german, and feeling the spirit. Seriously though, I LOVE
DEUTSCH. The words are so cool and have so much meaning. Seriously, when I get
back it may be hard to get me to speak English. The grammar is crazy though, I
am learning so much that I never knew in English and a lot of stuff that's not
in English.
I haven't heard from Rachel yet. I know she got the package and was
planning on writing you, but perhaps she ran out of time. I was hoping to hear
from her before I left here so I could at least get her address, because I
don't know if she knows mine. Luckily we can email friends now in the field so
I'll have to email her next week. NEXT WEEK. This is so unreal! I definitely do
not know enough German. This is going to be some adventure.
On Sunday we had some guy come talk to us for 5 minutes during
sacrament. I have no idea who he was but he made me so happy! He first started
off by saying he is mad when people say your work is to plant seeds. NO, It's
to baptize that is how you bring others to Christ! AMEN! Although a little
bold, he really does speak the truth. That is our goal, because that is how
people come to Christ. He also spoke on the importance of getting your
bishop to love you. That had never crossed my mind before. But now it's a
priority. He said the best way to do that is work with the inactive youth and unbaptized
kids. You bet I can do that. That will definitely be one of the millions of
focuses I have in the field.
I have a great object lesson you could use in YW mom! So during
Relief Society. The Primary General President came to talk to us (the new
general YW presidency was there too, these people in the MTC are pretty
important :) ) She had two girls come up and one squeeze an empty water bottle
with all her might, it squished. The other was given a full water bottle, which
she could not crunch. This was to show how strong we are with the light of
Christ. It was really powerful. She talked about how Satan is working very hard
on us and if we fill ourselves with any of the qualities Satan gives us, we can
be squished. But being full of the light of Christ, we are untouchable! I
really liked her lesson. DC 88:67
I am super sad that I will have to break my “temple every week”
since I have been endowed streak.... I love Sister Peterson to death. She said
"how about on Monday during our packing time we go over to the
temple?" She knows me so well and is just a sweetheart. So hopefully we
can make it over there.
This Thursday should be interesting, we have in-field orientation
ALL DAY. I've heard your "hinter" (Miranda-German-Made-up-word
meaning behind) gets tired and it just feels really long. BUT It's specific to
Deutschland I believe, so I am sure I'll love it!
I am kind of sad to be leaving the MTC it seems so unreal. Like I
have grown to really love this place. And I feel comfortable here: broken
Deutsch, English to rely on, wonderful speakers, meine Mitarbeiterin,
everything! But life moves on and it's time for me to help the hearts of
real investigators vs the stories of the people my teachers taught.
I am SO excited to go to Germany! (and all the other countries of
course!)
Make sure you have personal study everyday :)
Well, the next email will hopefully be from Europe!
Love you all so much!
Talk to you soon :))
Love,
Schwester Regnier
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