December 20, 2011
Howdy!
Howdy!
How's life treating y'all?? From what I've heard things are going great:) That's l?awe nah to sdat. Things in the MTC are good, I am getting a long a lot better with my companion and my district. Elder Barney are becoming a lot more tight and we make each other laugh a lot now-he's really good at doing voice impressions and stuff. Haha oh funny thing last sunday the first one-a guy in our District-elder jongsma-kinda nerdy but way funny guy-love him-the branch presidency member read his name wrong when he was announcing something and said, "yongsma" and elder jongsma accidentally just instinctively said/yelled "Jongsma!!!" It was way funny and I love teasing him about it-sounds pretty bad but was actually funny. The branch presidency member was a little annoyed. Anywho-excited for Christmas?? I know I am! But this is the first Christmas that I'm not really looking forward to material things so much. We are going to have an Apostle come talk to us during a mtc wide sacrament meeting. And my companion and I were chosen to be among the few that get to help out with passing and blessing the sacrament- how exciting! I feel very blessed to have already had so many cool opportunities to serve and be involved.
I am startting to like the mtc a lot more-now that i am getting a lot more used to it! The first few days were really hard and i was getting really frustrated and felt really stressed. But things are a lot better now. I feel the Spirit super strong so many times-my testimony is growing tremendously. We have the opportunity to teach "investigators" some are actors and some are really nonmembers and have been converted from missionaries practicing on them. It's tough because you are to teach in Khmer-so we have to read probably most of our lesson- however last week as we taught Hol Mon-when I looked him in the eye- after explaing a little bit about who Heavenly Father was and Jesus Christ, and testified- without reading my words- that I knew that our Heavenly Father loves us and that we are children to God and that Jesus Christ was our Savior-I felt the Spirit very strong and am so thankful for his confirmation and I know Hol Mon felt it too.
Sister Dalton came and talked to us last week about 'gifts' and about how this Christmas will be unlike any other and how we will be seeking gifts but not spiritual ones. She gave an awesome talk and I love hearing from amazing speakers and general authorities every week! What a blessing! I always come away spiritually strengthened.
We started to learn to read Khmer sorta...I have gotten down most of the constanents all 33 of them and a number of the subconstanents (33as well) plus theres like 20 something vowels, It's the longest languuage alphabet in the world. You read in circles sometimes while reading left to right-in short its going to be real tough. And I've been frustrated but I know and we've been told that if we'll work and seksaa our hardest and pray with faith we will be blessed with the gift of tounges and the Lord will help us learn it. (1 Nephi 3:7) It really is miraculous how much we ahve already learned!
I found out that Elder Mathis is actually on the bottom floor of the same building as me and we see eachother like every day-so that's pretty cool! And I see elder jake christofferson a lot too! It's great having friends in here with me:)
Anywho, have a Merry Christmas! I love you all and pray that you'll be safe.
Thanks for your love and support-i really appreciate it.
Love,
Elder Garlick
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