Ola!! My P-days are Tuesdays! My MTC mailing address is:
Sister Elizabeth Tingey
MTC Mailbox #246
POR-LIS 0328
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604-1793
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS!!!! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!!
I wear my tag 24/7- even when i am sleeping. I LOVE it!!! We are the lucky portuguese speakers that have Irma on our tag because in Cape Verde and Brazil it is just Sister. woot woot! I LOVE the MTC. It is a literal spiritual feast. My district is really legal (cool). There is Elder Brown, Gaertner, and Firouzi. Elder Firouzi is really having trouble. Some days he is having a great experience, other days he wants to hop the fence and go home. Please pray for him. My companions are incredible. Irma Wilde is so fun and boisterous and outgoing. She has taught me to communicate more openly. She took Portuguese at BYU so she really helps us with the language. Irma Rojo is Mexican and she is from California. She is a convert of 18 months and really gives us great insight of how the investigator might be feeling.
I wear my tag 24/7- even when i am sleeping. I LOVE it!!! We are the lucky portuguese speakers that have Irma on our tag because in Cape Verde and Brazil it is just Sister. woot woot! I LOVE the MTC. It is a literal spiritual feast. My district is really legal (cool). There is Elder Brown, Gaertner, and Firouzi. Elder Firouzi is really having trouble. Some days he is having a great experience, other days he wants to hop the fence and go home. Please pray for him. My companions are incredible. Irma Wilde is so fun and boisterous and outgoing. She has taught me to communicate more openly. She took Portuguese at BYU so she really helps us with the language. Irma Rojo is Mexican and she is from California. She is a convert of 18 months and really gives us great insight of how the investigator might be feeling.
Portuguese is very overwhelming, but I already love it! I have learned so much already! We have already taught three lessons in Portuguese!!!! i already know how to pray in Portuguese and testify in portuguese!! AHHH!!!! OTIMO!!! (Awesome!) My zone is so otimo. Our Zone leaders Elders Funk and Clayton are HILARIOUS!!! They are an amazing example of a great companionship. They work off each other so well. One of the first nights in our room, some other Portuguese speaking sisters from our zone came to our room to talk to us. I was writing in my journal and so could listen to both of the conversations from my companions. My companions have had real horror and heartache in their lives. As I was listening I felt like my heart was being torn in half. I became overwhelmed of how I could possibly be able to help these sisters in anyway. i have had such a beautiful and relatively easy life. All my family are members of the church. Who am i to ever complain again?! i prayed to my Heavenly Father to know how to help my sisters. I got the answer that i just need to be myself. Tears are coming to my eyes as i remember. I just need to be me. That is all i can do and that is all they need. I am trying to serve them the best I can. We really get a long well. We talk to each other very openly. We pretty much have comp. inventory at least twice a day but we don't really call it that, it is just talking to each other about how we feel. Irma Rojo never gets any letters. i dont even think she got e-mails today. could you please write her? same MTC address, just different name. Anna Rojo. I think that would really help her.
Sunday was INCREDIBLE!!! The spirit was unreal. But it was real. :) We aren't allowed to listen to music in the MTC which is killing me. we are able to listen to music and the spoken work though on Sunday and the spirit spoke to me so much through the music. That was the first time I cried here. A lot of girls are having a really hard time. Lots of crying. I am hanging on for dear life to what Ben and Jackie told me before I came- "Don't get discouraged and don't compare yourself to others." It has made the difference. I am so happy to be here. i only have 18 months to serve a full time mission. i am drinking it in and really trying to put my whole soul into it. i LOVE being a missionary!!! That doesn't mean i don't get infuriatingly overwhelming.
Portuguese is hard. But i know it will come and i just go to work on it a little at a time. For our district meeting on Sunday, our branch president spoke to us about how in order to do our best, we need to repent. Repent everyday. i had a change in me. i wanted to become so humble and i have prayed so hard for it and my prayers are being answered. i am repenting really hard every day. i am striving to strip myself of everything that will keep me from the spirit. i have to be the best I can be so that I can teach the people in Portugal. i can feel the power of the mantle. i wouldn't trade this experience for anything in the whole wide world. Heavenly Father is changing me to who I need to become. i am trying my hardest to change. Our branch president told us not to pray and ask what Heavenly Father would have us do, but instead pray for what Heavenly Father would have you be. Me and my companions are striving for exact obedience. I am remembering to sorria :) (smile). I know that Jesus Christ lives. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. iT is such a powerful book!!! We need to study it every single day and it gives us so much power!!! Joseph smith is truly a prophet of God. Sincerely share the gospel with others with LOVE. Everyone responds to love.
Portuguese is hard. But i know it will come and i just go to work on it a little at a time. For our district meeting on Sunday, our branch president spoke to us about how in order to do our best, we need to repent. Repent everyday. i had a change in me. i wanted to become so humble and i have prayed so hard for it and my prayers are being answered. i am repenting really hard every day. i am striving to strip myself of everything that will keep me from the spirit. i have to be the best I can be so that I can teach the people in Portugal. i can feel the power of the mantle. i wouldn't trade this experience for anything in the whole wide world. Heavenly Father is changing me to who I need to become. i am trying my hardest to change. Our branch president told us not to pray and ask what Heavenly Father would have us do, but instead pray for what Heavenly Father would have you be. Me and my companions are striving for exact obedience. I am remembering to sorria :) (smile). I know that Jesus Christ lives. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. iT is such a powerful book!!! We need to study it every single day and it gives us so much power!!! Joseph smith is truly a prophet of God. Sincerely share the gospel with others with LOVE. Everyone responds to love.
Mum, can you send this to people? THANK YOU SO MUCH for organizing my things at Grandmas!!! You are the BEST!!!! I prayed to Heavenly Father that I am leaving my family in His hands while I am gone and i need Him to take care of you. i am so grateful He has answered my prayers- especially with Abby!!! I LOVE YOU LOVEY OU LOVEYOU!!!! Sorry typing is off, not a lot of time! :)
Thank yo SOOO much for my letters and dearelders- they make the biggest difference!!!
Love, Irma Tingey
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