6 Bar Wednesday

Home MTC
Is not so easy
From 6:30 wake time
to 10 hours of facetime (we use zoom)
Cram Russian and the gospel
We can't watch Nosgúls
Yet something about this work brings true meaning
I sit at computers all day and keep thinking
The work I'm preparing to do out abroad
Will bring souls, great souls, just like ours, unto God
Time spent is so worth it, the spirit's so strong
T'is truly a pleasure, to pass the word along


        It has been a great week! I have learned so much Russian so fast. I just try to study the flashcards, and pay attention in class. They taught us a lot about the gift of tongues, and what we need to do to access it. I have been trying to work very hard so that way I can have that gift, and I have definitely caught glimpses of it. Sometimes, I will be studying after class, and I will see a word come up that I saw once like 2 days ago, and there should be no way I should be able to know the meaning of it, but then I do! It has been really awesome to see the Lord bless me to learn these early parts of the language pretty fast. I have also felt the spirit so strong all week. 


        Yesterday, my district watched a devotional given by Jeffrey R. Holland, and I was blown away. There have been only a handful of times when I have felt the spirit so strong. The MTC is sick! The other day we were practicing teaching friends (investigators) the first lesson. The friend was just another Sister from our district. Towards the end of the lesson, I wanted to have a little fun, so I started talking about working towards goals and then asked this Sister if she was willing to set a date for baptism. Everyone in the zoom room was thrown off, but she stayed in character and we set her date. Basically, I haven't been in the MTC for 2 weeks but I've already got someone (who is already baptized) on date. Talk to me nice!


        Anyways, it's been a good week. The Book of Mormon is true. It brings one closer to Christ. Read It!


Love y'all,
      Elder Sheppert


PS- If you got the LOTR reference without looking it up, you are a real one.


Also there are no pictures, sorry.

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