Hi everyone welcome to my very first missionary email! Ahh Yay
So I’ve been a missionary for a week and a half and I already understand why missionaries say it’ll be the best and worst years of your life. The MTC has been hard. Learning Portuguese is HARD. Staring back at my teacher when she asks me a question and I have no idea what she said or how to answer in Portuguese is hard. Being on zoom alone in my room all day is hard. Giving up so many things is hard. Leaving my family and hoping that my little siblings will remember me when I get back is hard. BUT i know it’ll be worth it. Looking into an investigators eyes when they feel the peace and joy and hope that gospel brings- will make everything worth it. Telling a young, struggling family that there’s a God in heaven who knows and loves them- will make it all worth it. Bringing my heavenly brothers and sisters to Christ will be so so worth it.
Last Wednesday, I moved into the MTC (it’s really just the bedroom downstairs that my parents redecorated to make it feel like the mtc but don’t tell them I know their secret).
I met my district, companions, and teachers who I LOVE!! Our district is really small and I love it. We all get along so well and they’re so funny.
We have workshops pretty often and it’s cool because we’re the only Americans. I love hearing from the Brazilians (even if it’s through an interpreter because sadly I’m not so fluent in Portuguese at the moment) their testimonies are SO strong and you can feel the spirit so strong when they talk. Most of them are converts to the church. They just recently heard about the gospel and are so excited to sacrifice 18 months- 2 years of their lives to share this message that they love so much. It’s so inspiring.
Last but not least, i want to share with you a cool experience i had. Last week i was really struggling with feeling positively about myself. I felt like I was so bad at Portuguese (and I wasn’t wrong) and I was being really hard on myself. I watched a devotional with Elder Gong and guess what he talked about. Overcoming feelings of self doubt through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He said that those feelings are WRONG and that they do not come from God. It was exactly what I needed to hear and it gave me so much hope. Then, today I was preparing for my first TRC (a practice lesson all in Portuguese) and I was getting so frustrated. I know exactly what I want to say but it’s hard to translate it into Portuguese. And then guess what the devotional was about today. Elder Alliaud told us about when he got called into the 70 serving in the United States and he was so excited about it except for the fact that he was not very good at English. He told us that God can help us overcome our weaknesses as we serve Him.
I’m telling you, God knows us. He knows what we want and He knows what we need and He will always always be there for us when we reach out to Him.
So anyway, love you guys!!! come see me before I leave:)
Have a great week!!!
Love Sister Conover
here’s a couple pictures of my district
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