Last MTC Email 10/26

*Kaitlyn leaves for Arizona next Tuesday so all letters should be sent to her by the end of the week. Next week she'll be in Arizona and we'll post her new address!


Kaitlyn's email:


ONE WEEK!

We got our travel plans! Everyone in my district leaves on Monday and Hma R and I leave Tuesday morning. My flight is at 8:45.

Okay so this week has been good. I think we all kind of have senioritis and are ready to get out of here. It's really hard to focus!

We've had a few funny things happen this week. For starters I have a room full of sleep talkers...not cool! So the first night it happened it was Hermana Kl and at like 2 a.m. she mumbles some gibberish really loud and then Hermana K responded in her sleep yelling "YO" which we aren't sure if it was like a Spanish yo or a gangster yo. She doesn't remember it. Next night Hermana B at 3 a.m. bloody murder screams "MMOOOOMMM!!" which scares the crap out of everyone! I asked her if she was okay or just having a nightmare and in a little 3 year old voice she said it was just a nightmare. LOL. The next morning she was embarrassed she was yelling at her Mom in her dream LOL. Then the next night at 11 o'clock, Hermana K yells out "STOP, NO LIKE SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS THAT?!" and she sat up and then two seconds later was passed out again. She doesn't remember this but all of us were terrified there was something in our room...until we remembered we are in the MTC and it would be impossible to break in here. So then last night - AGAIN - Hermana Kl was talking gibberish!! What the heck is up with my roomies?! It's scary and I'm like their Mom asking if they're okay and Hermana R is too freaked out to say anything because she always thinks something is in the room when they scream so she freezes...

Next - Okay so on of the nights this week our teacher called in sick, so we didn't have a teacher. So all the other teachers in the zone were trying to check in with us every now and then to make sure we were staying on task...which we weren't. Hermana M (from Spain and has the funniest accent) came in and we were all passed out, so she taught us a little song to wake us up. It's called "Who is the King of the Jungle" or "Quien es el rey de la jungla." And there are sound effects and motions that are awesome. So basically it says:

Who is the king of the jungle? Hoo-hoo
Who is the king of the sea? Lava-lava-lava
Who is the king of the universe?
The jungle and the sea lava-lava-lava
I'll tell you J-E-S-U-S
YES He is my King
He is the King of the universe,
The jungle and the sea lava-lava-lava hoo-hoo

So in Spanish - it's awesome:

Quien es el rey de la jungla?
Quien es el rey del mar?
Quien es el rey del universo y la jungla y del mar?
Te lo dijo J-E-S-U-S (we spell it out in Spanish jote-ee-ese-ee-ese)
Si! El es mi rey...
(with the sound effects too)

Okay so you get the point...so we decided to turn it into a musical for our teacher to make her laugh. So the next day we performed a full-out musical where literally, in the middle of class, Hermana R raised her hand and said "Hermana K, Quien es el rey de la jungla?" (Who is the King of the Jungle?) And then we all joined in with different parts as we danced across the classroom. One kid sliding his chair across the room, on singing on his desk. Half way through the song none of us could breathe, we were laughing so hard. I was crying, I couldn't breathe, and the teacher was laying on the ground laughing and at the end of it, we all went back to our seats and acted like nothing happened. And she was like, "What just happened?!" Maybe you had to be there, but it was hilarious!

We have been really hyper and off task lately but we deserve it. We teach about four lessons a day in Spanish. We're really ahead of all the other classes. We have gotten through all the lessons twice and had a few fake baptisms...which were embarrassing because they occurred in the hall...

So cool spiritual thing really quick - One of our fake progressing investigators is Saul/ Hermano G. We haven't been able to commit him to keeping the Sabbath day holy because he owns a bread store and thinks he needs to work on Sunday. By the way, all of the investigators they are pretending to be are people they really taught on their missions. So the other night Hma R was sick, so it was just me and Hma K and we had planned a lesson on baptismal covenants. We started it and kept feeling like we should ask him about Sabbath day stuff, so we got back into that. He asked us if he went to church in the morning was it okay if he worked that night. So we told him no, and kept going. Our Spanish was better than it has ever been, especially with just the two of us. So I kept feeling like I should recommit him, so I did, and said something like, "Saul, will you take a step of faith and show your willingness to follow Christ by keeping the Sabbath day holy and not working?" (but in Spanish) The Saul/ Hermano G started crying!! And he is not a cryer...so we didn't know what to do!! So then we tried to keep going, and he paused our lesson and said, "STOP Hermanas, lets talk." And he never does that!! So he was still crying and started telling us what really happened with Saul. How he promised to keep the Sabbath day holy but then didn't after his baptism. He stopped going to church and Hermano G hasn't talked to him since. But the reason he cried was because the exact words I said to commit him was exactly what he said to Saul in real life. Hermano G was crying and told us if Saul had been in our lesson he knows Saul would have committed and stayed with the church. Even though it was fake, the Spirit was really strong. Cool, huh?

Um I have a minute
Talk to you in a few days!
Love,
Kaitlyn