Like a Heaven

The CCM

Neat-o trees

The CCM is like a heaven because there are saints everywhere. Our district feels like a family. I heard that perhaps the sacrament bread is broken into individual pieces because the Savior suffered for us individually. I really liked that. President Bennett, President of the CCM, shook my hand and told us we always look happy. I replied it´s "porque leemos la palabra de Dios cada día" (because we read the word of God each day). I´m so happy I get to learn about things pertaining to salvation every day here. One day for gym we played tennis! I love singing the Spanish hymns. Sunday we had three devotionals: We watched the Joseph Smith movie and I felt the Spirit so strongly throughout it even though I´ve seen it before. I must stand firmer in the faith, for others have suffered even unto death that I might have the truth. I love Joseph Smith. The church held an experiment in Europe where people just read a single page from the Book of Mormon and shared their thoughts. We read some of their responses, which are only made available to the MTCs. It was sweet how much just one page affected them through the Spirit. You can get something you need from every page. I think about how I love nature and all creeping things in it and how much curiosity I have to learn more about it. Alma 30:44 says, "All things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it." 

It is such a blessing to know how to pray. The most Supreme Being is just a prayer away and he answers us. In class there was a spider. Just before I picked it up, my teacher smashed it, and for some reason we all began laughing, haha. For feedback from yesterday´s lesson with an investigator, she said the lesson was perfect because the spirit was the teacher. While reciting the first vision, I felt the power in the words of Joseph Smith manifest to us. For the Tuesday night devotional, I sang Love One Another (in español) in the choir. I was thinking about how I will teach my kids the loving gospel and be married forever to a worthy priesthood holder in my future fam. The speaker was one of the Seventy, Elder Pieper. To God, we make commitments. Then we find out it takes more than we are. God does this so we trust Him (1 Nephi 3:7). When we are in over our heads, we either become humble or become rebellious. Christ kept the greatest commitment of all when he performed the Atonement. There is no commitment we cannot keep with Christ. The closing hymn was How Firm a Foundation. While singing verse 7, I committed myself to "never, no never, no never forsake." I cried happy tears. I still can´t believe I get to be a missionary! It is a privilege for us to wear the name of the Savior and be His representatives. 

Love,

Hermana Jerman

With Sister Inskeep

Our home with fourteen other hermanas​