Hello Family!
I am so excited to meet the Passeys on Monday (her mission president and his wife). OH I got a letter on Monday
and they are coming into the MTC and I'm going up to main campus on Monday to
meet them! And I'm the only missionary here going to Tucson so...I just get to
chill with them for an hour :) and I can see this being a very rewarding
experience.
This past Sunday, we were privileged
to hear from Sheri Dew. She was a wonderful speaker and she spoke about grace.
And then on Tuesday, Elder M. Russell Ballard came. In my hand written letter I
will send some of my thoughts from their talks. I've been singing in the
choir every week. Front row ;) like a boss. We did Consider the Lilies of the
Field this week. We are doing Praise to the Man this week and the devotional is
at a different time on Tuesday. With all the mission presidents coming in this
week, we are fairly certain it is the prophet. I will never sing better in my
whole life if he is here haha! I am very excited.
2 of my friends from Bingham who I
graduated with, Marie Ward (played lacrosse together for a year and she worked
at LifeTime Cafe for a while) and Krysten Tayler (played in orchestra together)
came into the MTC this past week. It was so much fun seeing familiar faces! And
faces of those who are over 20 ;) at 20 years old, I'm still the oldest in the
district haha. Hopefully I get another oldie this week! So I was a New
Missionary Host this week, just like when I was taken care of when you dropped
me off! When sisters came to West Campus, I helped them with luggage and
getting them to their classroom. Believe it or not, out of the 4 girls I
helped, I had a connection with 2 of them! One of them, Kayla Hansen, is from
Idaho Falls and actually played basketball with Julie, Clark's sister! (Clark Hatch is Sierra's brother-in-law, Hayley's husband). And she
knows the Hatch family. How crazy?! Now it gets even weirder.... I helped another young woman whose name
was Hermana Tate. I asked her if she knew Brooke or Anne Tate and she said
"Those are my cousins!!" and then I said "You wouldn't happen to
know Johnathon Tate would you?" (The personal trainer from LifeTime)
"That's my brother!!!" SMALL WORLD!!! So tell President Tate that she
says hello :)
I've had a fun week of fulfilling my
calling to be 'Mama Martin' haha. Sorry Mom, I actually do get called that
here. One of the girls here was having a rough day and I got to just be a mom
for her (I'll share the full story in a handwritten letter) and then I got to
take a sister to the dentist because she 'needed her mom there' and I was 'a
good replacement' :) It has been a very wonderful week. Remember the story I
shared last week about Elder Olvera? He had yet to receive his mission visa and
I was praying and then asked the Hermanas to join me. The morning he got it, I
had told him at breakfast, "Hey, I've been praying for you and so have the
Hermanas. I am feeling it today. Today is the day that you are going to get
it." And he did! I've shared that already sorry, BUT on Sunday, during
Priesthood meeting, they were sharing some of their best experiences from the
past week with the Branch Presidency. President Stewart said they were nice
stories, and then Olvera just quickly shared that story, and then Olvera told
me that President Stewart then began to cry. Not just a few tears, but full on
crying. He then bore testimony to the elders about the power of sister
missionaries. It came up in Zone Council as well, and it was just great :)
Pray for you to be safe morning and
night :) and my prayers come true so....don't screw it up ;) estoy bromeando.("I'm joking")
Love you! Hermana
Martin
Sierra with the sisters in her District.
Sierra's preaching license - the pen is covering her return date!
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