Hello Everyone!!!
So, I have four weeks left in the MTC...in a way I am so ready to get out and get preaching! Also, I'm getting a little nervous...but mostly excited! I can't believe I'm going to actually be in KOREA!!!!!!
We got our new districts this week...they are so so so so great! We got permission today to go, as a zone, with our Sister from Mongolia to get her endowments...it was AMAZING! I thought it was just so cool that we all got to be in the temple together...and as a whole zone! I honestly cannot express how much I love the temple! We also were able to take Korean names with us from this Sister who is Korean but is learning Cantonese. It was soooo cool! Ok, and seriously, Korean romanization is terrible! I was glad I could read the Korean...and I felt bad for the temple workers...they had no clue what to do with the name! (funny side note, Korean women don't have names on their paperwork...they're just so-and-so's wife...so...that's interesting)
The four days...yeah, I'm having a birthday in the MTC! It's a very very exciting time. Just in case you all were wondering. Very Exciting!
I have been working so hard on the language. I almost have the first vision down in Korean. Pretty cool! We now have two new "progressing investigators". We've been teaching one, but now we have both of our teachers being that we're completely into the new curriculum. It's kind of sad, we were getting our old investigator pretty close to baptism...it was awesome! I am so excited for our new ones though, I love teaching in Korean. I've noticed that the more I'm able to teach in Korean and share the gospel in it, the better I get at it. I drill things and go over vocab and work on verb-forms all the time, but it never sticks till I'm able to use it in an environment where the Spirit is telling me what to say! It's basically the coolest thing ever!
I wish you all could meet my district...like I really really do! Over the past week we've grown exceptionally close...I think it's due to the newbies coming in. It's been incredible. I've been able to see testimonies grow and language abilities increase more over the past week then in my whole time at the MTC. It's been so cool having the younger district come to us with questions about the language and the gospel, and knowing that we really don't know and having to trust in the Lord completely to be able to give good advice. I've grown to love Preach my Gospel so very much. The more I study it, the more I understand why we need to be studying it. Same thing with the rules. My whole district has gained a greater understanding of why we have the rules we do and why we really need to be exactly obedient in everything. This week has been phenomenal!
Well, I got to sing in Sacrament meeting this Sunday. That was pretty fun. I sang How Great Thou Art (first, third, and fourth verses in English and finished with the fourth verse in Korean) My Korean...well, it was fun. I messed up a couple times which was embarrassing, but after the meeting, Sister Shin (the branch President's wife) told me that I did really well with the Korean and then she and her husband gave me this way too nice compliment in Korean that I didn't understand, but they said that it was a saying that you only said to someone with a really good voice...President Shin wrote it down for me and told me to ask my teachers what it meant...I haven't done that yet, but I will.
I am really going to miss the MTC at the end of these next four weeks...like a lot! This experience has strengthened my testimony so much. I didn't even know it was weak, but I look back at where I was on June 15th and it's crazy, it's like I'm already a different person...a much much better person. I think of what I would or could be doing if I weren't here and the ONLY thing I can think is: EWW! I mean, I love who I am and where my thoughts and desires are right now. I love the direction I'm going and how I'm really just beginning to understand what life is really all about. I can't wait to go and share this message of happiness and love with the Korean people. And even thought a lot of people probably won't accept it...it's worth it for the few who do!
I love you all! Stay Awesome!!!
~Sister McClellan
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