Hi everyone! Another week has gone by at the CTM, and I'm down to 3
left! It's been a pretty awesome week and I've had some good
experiences with my companions and district. I love being a
missionary! Even though I'm not able to go out and preach the
gospel for real yet, I can still feel the blessings and the joy that
come from serving the Lord. It's amazing. :)
Sooo, Sister Brundage and I were able to perform our musical number
as prelude for devotional last night!! I think I mentioned it in a
previous email, right? I played the piano for Sister Brundage and she
sang Savior Redeemer of My Soul. I LOVE that
song...it's so beautiful and expresses so much of how I feel about the
Savior so well. We were so excited when we got the sheet music for it
because it's really meaningful to both of us, and it was so amazing to
be able to finally perform it. It was a really
challenging accompaniment for me, so I've spent a lot of time over the
last few weeks practicing and practicing and trying to get it down. But
it went really well last night, and I'm so glad we had the opportunity
to share it with the rest of the CTM. Sister
Brundage was AMAZING, and so many people have been coming up to us with
compliments. :) Oh, and guess what? We're performing again on
Sunday! Haha, it's a good thing people love to hear Sister Brundage
sing so much, or they might get sick of us. :) This
time Sis. Brundage is singing a duet for the song His Hands with an
elder in our district, Elder Stott, and I'll of course be at the piano.
It's so much fun to be involved with the music here...I'm glad I have
so many great opportunities to play and share
my testimony through music!
Last Sunday I was called up to speak in Sacrament Meeting in our
branch...I wasn't as prepared as I would have liked to be, but I got up
and I spoke and I shared my testimony, and I think it went pretty well.
I used Elder Ballard's
Our Search For Happiness quite a bit, and I think that helped
to fill up the time...haha :) I am so amazed by how much the Lord has
helped me to grow from my mission already. I was thinking about my
farewell talks, and how I spent daaays and days
trying to prepare to speak, and then I looked at how I was able to
prepare this talk in a half hour or so. I think that's
amazing! I'm so grateful for all that I've learned and been able to do
with the Lord's help. :)
Everything else has been business as usual this week. Classes and
teaching and meals and gym and study.....same old, same old. :) My
companions and I have started really trying to master the conjugations
and different tenses of verbs this week. It's
SO HARD. I'm grateful for the time that I have to learn and study here
in the CTM, but even with these 9 weeks, I don't think I'll ever get
it! Imperfect and Preterit and Future Subjunctive....sheesh.
It's crazy stuff. :P But I'm definitely going to keep
working at it and hopefully it will come after a while! Any of you who
have advice on how to study a new language, send it my way...
It sounds like things are going well at home! Dad and Justin are
off at Scout Camp for the rest of the week? Make sure they tell me all
about it next week! That makes me miss Maple Dell and going to Family
Camp every summer. :) I loooooved all the
pictures you sent, thank you!!! Megan sure makes a creepy
Maleficent....haha :) I hope you have a recording of the play so I can
watch it in a year and a half! Congratulations to Jamie on the new
job! I
knew something amazing would come up for you sooner or later.
:) You're going to be amazing working at an assisted living center, I
can totally picture it! It reminds me of all the times back in high
school when you would go singing at Great-Grandma's
rest home, just because you wanted to. Do you remember the lady who
lost her cat...? Or the Stardust lady? Yep, this definitely sounds
like a job you'll be good at. You have such a big heart, and are so
good at working with people and bringing a smile
to their faces. You have to let me know how you like it!
Well, I'm out of time once again. Thanks so much for everything. I
love you all and am so grateful to have such an amazing family and so
much support from home. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to
serve the Lord here in Brazil!
Love you all, and can't wait to hear from you! Keep the letters and the prayers coming!!
Sister Melissa Gee
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