The MTC is still amazing! I still love my district so so much. I literally can't get over how I feel like I have known everyone for so long. my only explanation is pre-mortal life! I honestly believe that we all knew each other before this life on earth. In gym the other day I recognized this elder but I didn't know why. I then saw a read head elder with a Kansas shirt on so I introduced myself. His name is Elder Andersen, and his companions name is Elder Dodge. And guess what?! Elder Dodge is the elder that looked familiar to me! Some times I just look and the people in my district one by one and I wonder how it has only been 2 weeks since I have known them! I love them all so much. All the sister companionship each compliment each other perfectly, and the elders are so much like my brothers. I honestly love them all so much! The spirit that is felt here just magnifies the love that I have for everyone. We are already getting instruction on what to do to prepare for when we leave and I am not ready to leave these amazing people. I am glad however, that I get to travel with 2 of my sisters(Sister Petersen and Sister Beutler) who are also going to the Kansas mission and I met the 2 other elders that will be there as well. I'm just really going to miss this district. Our room does a family prayer together every night. At 10:25 we all kneel down together to pray, then when we finish the prayer we have a group hug and then turn the lights off and go to bed. I love it so much. I actually suggested it because I felt like I was supposed to be doing family prayer every night like at home. I hope I can keep it up out in the field, like me and my companion can pray together before bed every night!
So, TRC's are the people that we get to practice teach. Some of them are members of the church but are acting like non-members but some of them are actually not members. Some even get baptized! Our elders actually committed their first TRC to baptism and I got so excited for them I was literally jumping up and down. He told them that he is actually not a member and he has a girlfriend who is a member and he is planing on proposing to her. Even though I don't know him, i am so excited for him and the joy that he will feel because of this choice.
We had to say goodbye to Karisa😓. We didn't know that Friday was the last time that we were going to teach her. So, we taught her on Friday and thought we were going to meet with her again on the following Monday, but on Saturday we found out that we were picking new TRC's. It was kind of a shock and sad, but luckily we got to see her when we went to find a new TRC. I also made friends with the sisters who are going to be teaching her this week so I am going to be checking with them to see how she is doing. I really hope she gets baptized! I love her so much and it will bring her so much joy and direction! Our new TRC's name is Kristina and her and Sister Soren really connected from the begining (which I think is perfect because I felt like I connected with Karisa more). We met with her yesterday and it went so so well. We felt the spirit so strong and I hope she felt it too. Coming out of the lesson we were and a spiritual high and then we saw our sub from like the first 3 days of the MTC, Brother Holloway.
I actually struggled this week. We have had a sub for the first 3 days and I am still trying to adjust to our actual teacher. Brother Holloway was our sub and he was such an amazing teacher. I knew it would be hard to top that. I was right. I said many prayers and had a change of heart. I am able to laugh instead of cry and look at the positive.
I love the experience that I have had here and I think that if I were to finish my mission now I will have already have changed so much!