Hermana Timothie Jessica Maughan

Hola hola mi familia and amigos!!

Como estas?

Well this week has been quite a week...it has felt very long and yet so crazy!!! I think people are starting to get used to the fact that I’m gone on a mission now since the mail has definitely slowed down for me...but esta bien. I am grateful for every letter that I received and am just glad that I have gotten mail!

But this is the update with what happened this week:

Tuesday! it was the Tuesday night devotional and as such me and hna west went to choir so we could have saved seats for the devotional. but because elder nelson had come and spoke to us the week before we were all thinking that it wasn’t going to be anyone big and then we noticed that they were amping up security and just little things...as such you know who came? Elder SCOTT!! It was soooooo awesome! 2 apostles in a row pretty fan-cussing-tastic! The spirit that was with Elder Scott was so powerful and just sooo amazing. I was overfull with the love that god has for me and for others. He gave us a paper with his life learning’s on how to receive and know your receiving personal revelation and he used his apostolic power and envoked some very cool blessings on us as missionaries and then us specifically as family. Words cannot descirbe how just amazing it was. this church is true and in every instance here I am knowing and feeling that more and more that Christ’s church really is on the earth today and that we do have living prophet today and we can receive personal revelation. ITS JUST SOOOO COOOL!!!!!!!

Wednesday: Our district was asked to be hosts...this is where you help the new missionaries that are coming in and you take them to their class room their room, get them their books from the bookstore and kind give them a low down on where things are and what its gonna be like here in the mtc. I love being a host...mostly because I remember how much I hated the first day and am glad that I don’t have to have, have that feeling or that day over again. hahaha that day seriously felt like the longest 4 days crammed in one...it was like going through puberty and that awkward phase...blah. glad I experienced but I’m glad I’m done with it...and then its cool to be the first one to help the sisters and answer any questions that they might have.

Thursday: this was our TRC where its like a investigator simulation thing, where volunteers come and act like investigators and your teach them... this week our task was to give directions to church and then teach the second lesson and the word of wisdom and it had to all be in Spanish.... so we go in to give the directions for the "investigator" to go to church and turns out that she is a total native. she doesnt speak or understand any English and she is straight from Honduras! It was soo awesome. fue muy duro but fue muy bueno at the mismo tiempo. it honestly made me that much more excited to get to Chicago!  and start speaking this espanol mucho mucho mas....

Friday: mail time came around and me and hna west had this envelope addressed to the both of us from the mtc..we were like what the heck is this? we open it up and there is this little pink piece of paper and on it says that we are doing this thing for the newbie missionaries when they come in...ok so let me explain. just like how we have the trc every week on the first day that the missionaries are there they split up into like 3 groups and go around to three different rooms where there are "investigators" and these missionaries come in and they start the lesson off and getting to know the investigator kind of thing...like a demonstration to the newbie’s how to teach and stuff... and ya then the group teaches the investigator..so me and hna west have been asked to be the missionaries’ that come in and show the newbie’s how to teach and get to know the investigator and see them as a person kind of thing!!! so basically I will be teaching in front of anywhere between 300 and 600 new missionaries’!!! sooo scary. so we have a training meeting today and then we go and do this thing on Wednesday... crazy huh?

Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT MY TRAVEL PLANSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYY!!!!!

Ok so I am leaving the mtc Tuesday November 9th. I have to check in at the travel office here at the mtc at 4:00am and then we drive to airport and our flight leaves from salt lake at 7:10am and then its a straight shot to Chicago! the plane should land at 11:15am... so crazyyy!! So I get to call you familia from the airport and I think it will probably be around 5-6am ish here to call you! :) How do you want to do this? dear elder me and let me know whose phone you want me to call, if I need to call both of you since you’ll be at work or whatever...but yayaya I get to hear your voice and I’m sooo excited!!

Then on Sunday it was Halloween!! So since we don’t really celebrate it here at the mtc us girls in our district decided to do something about that. so we all went as each other yesterday....I went as Hna Wilson, she went at Hna West and hna west went as hna putnam who then went as me....so funny. Our branch presidency and district sure got a kick out of it...Ill be sure to send you a picture when I get it developed... :)

As for the "new way" training.. I’m not really sure if mine is the new way or the old way but basically we are constantly taught to follow the spirit in our lessons and not just stick to the lesson plans. you teach whatever is gonna help the investigator come closer to Christ. we teach people. not lessons. so basically you could teach about the spirit world and then about the book of Mormon in one lesson or you could teach about the law of chastity first...idk but basically its just all about filling the needs of the investigator and helping them come closer to Christ through the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

I will send one more email on Monday and then I’m outtie on Tuesday!

I love you all so much and look forward to mail!!

Love you!! Hermana Maughan.