Week #2

HELLOOOOOOO!

Oh my goodness where do I even begin. This has been the most amazing and crazy week ever. I just need to start off by saying the the Lord answers prayers. My companion is the most amazing person. Sister Suman has such an amazing testimony and knows so much about the gospel. She is my best friend and we have already had so much success together. 

Last Friday we got to go to the Provo temple as a district. The Sisters did a session and the Elders did initiatories (I don't know how to spell it and the computers don't have spell check. Oh how I miss spell check haha) man I am the worst at spelling. I was thankful that I got the opportunity to go to the temple. Sister Suman and I sat in the celestial room for a good 45 minutes. I was awesome!

Sunday was fast Sunday and we started off the day with mission conference. The MTC presidency and their wives spoke. They answered so many questions that I have had! After we had sacrament meeting with our zones. It was fast and testimony meeting. I don't think I have ever felt the spirit so strong before. It is amazing to see that each of have trials. We are all going through different things, but our Savior Jesus Christ helps overcome all of it. Later that night we had a devotional by Chad Lewis. Him and his wife came and spoke to us about the importance of never giving up. 

There is so much to tell you all  but I just don't have enough time ahh! In class we have been learning how to teach the restoration simply and to out investigators needs. Our first investigator Sister Suman and I had the opportunity to teach was Tino. (Our teacher is the one who pretends to be the investigator.) These are called PI's here at the MTC. Our first lesson was awesome. We got to know Tino and his needs. His wife and kids are going to church and he is wondering why their lives are changing.  As we talked to him we taught him about the restoration and how his family can live together forever! WE INVITED HIM TO BE BAPTIZED ON THE FIRST LESSON and guess what he said...... YES! Sister Suman and I were so grateful that the spirit was able to testify to him of the things that are true. Our teacher stopped us after and expressed to us that, that was one of the top 5 lessons he has had as a teacher at the MTC!! Sister Suman and I started to cry because being a missionary is one of the hardest things we have ever done, but it is moments like this that make it so rewarding!!

Another amazing thing that has happened this week was that we started TRC this week! This is where we get to teach real investigators. Some are real investigators and some are members acting as investigators. Our TRC's name is Kaelin and she is the sweetest person I have ever met. Her boyfriend is a member and has invited her to take lessons with the missionaries. She is from Maryland and moved to Utah to go to school at BYU. She is taking a Book Of Mormon class and wants to know more about the church. The first time we met with her we talked about the atonement! The spirit with this sweet Sister was so strong. She has a testimony of our Savior Jesus Chirst! She was so concerned about prayer and so we invited her to pray and continue to read the Book Of Mormon. The second time that we met with her she expressed how prayer had helped her relationship with the Savior and that it has grown. She also told us that she prayed about the Book Of Mormon and know that it is true. Kaelin told us a story, on tuesday night Elder Chrisofferson came and did a devotional! It was seriously so so amazing. He talked about the importance of repentance and how we need to teach it to our investigators! anyways as she was walking out from a meeting and Elder Chrisofferson SHOOK HER HAND!! Sister Suman and I were so excited to hear her news! We continued to teach her about the restoration and the plan of salvation. At the end of our lesson we asked her if she would be willing to be baptized and she said YES!!!!!! The spirit really is the teacher!

I don't have much time but I wanted to thank you all for your dear elders!! They have helped me so so much! I am so thankful that I get the opportunity to be a missionary. It is the hardest thing that I have ever loved to do!! I love this gospel and want you all to know how true it is! I love my Savior Jesus Christ and am thankful that he atoned for all of my sins so that I can make it back to my Father in Heaven!! 

Love, 

Sister Kenzie Graham 

PS FUNNY STORY: Sunday night around 9:30 we were walking back to our residence out in Vietnam (seriously takes 10 mins to walk from where our classroom is to our residence, because there are still bats in our old building haha) the path we have to take to get there is super dark and is under construction and backs up to the neighbors back yard so it is kind of scary haha. anyways we were almost there when we see a guy came out of a tree and screamed in our faces. he was wearing normal clothes and didn't have a missionary tag on or a companion.  He chased us and I tripped over the curb and fell, Sister Barkdull helped me up and HE STILL CHASED US. I ran into the residence and Sister Suman used the red emergency phone to call security and told them what happened. Some elders came out and told the sisters to go back inside because we didn't know who this guy was (he had his hand in his pocket so one Elder thought he had a gun or something).  We stayed inside and looked through the window and saw that he was trying to chase the security guards. We couldn't see anymore, but Sister Cook (one of our roommates) had a panic attack for like 15 minutes so that was really sad.  We told our branch President the next day and he was so mad, he made the MTC presidency put a light outside of our building and now makes the Elders in our district walk us home every night.  Turns out the guy was just an elder who ditched his companion and wanted to be funny.  At the time I thought I was going to die but now we look back and kind of laugh about it haha