Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 Last letter from the MTC
...I will be leaving for heaven in about 14 hours, I mean Costa Rica!!! My companions and I are really excited, especially since it's starting to get a little too crowded here. The lines in the cafeteria are always huge and it sometimes it's hard to even find a table to sit at...however the MTC will be missed. I feel so blessed that I had the best district and best teachers here at the MTC. Hermano Zenger (one of my teachers) served in Puerto Rico a couple years ago but along with spanish he speaks about three other languages. Tonight is our last class time with him and I believe our whole district is going to cherish every minute with him. He said that they are going to be transferring him to the Mexico MTC to train teachers in the summer there. He is an inspiration to so many! We had our last class with hermana Collette who we also love so very much. She served her mission in Argentina and pronounces her "yu" sounds with "zsh" sounds; we like to give her a hard time and tell her to stop teaching us false doctrine.
On Saturday we had a teacher come in and talk to us about her mission in Costa Rica. She said that all they eat is rice and beans but the fruit there is amazing!!! Her best tip was just to love the people there and love their culture. She said the people are so much more receptive to the gospel when you become one with them...I am so excited to become a Costa Rican! However there is one thing she said that made me a little bit nervous. Most of you probably know that there are tons of big bugs in Costa Rica. I wasn't too worried about it though until she mentioned cockroaches that fly. She said to make sure just to zip up everything after you are done using it so they don't go crawling all inside. Haha...well I guess it's time to make my cockroach weakness a strong one. Maybe I'll learn to love flying cockroaches...especially if I have to be sleeping with them.
Yesterday was a great Sunday! We had one last district testimony meeting which included many tears. All the elders have grown so much stronger in their testimonies. And it has been humbling to see. I feel that my companions & I have also grown tremendously, as well. It's amazing what the gospel can do for you, especially when you are using it to bless others. Every Sunday meeting our branch president
calls someone random from our branch to give a 5 minute talk from which you should have prepared before church started. The whole 6 weeks of being here I thought I had dodged not giving a talk until yesterday when they called me and Elder Black. Took me by surprised but how glad I was that I had remembered to prepare a talk that morning during personal study. My talk wasn't very long, especially since it was in Spanish, but I was glad I could at least feel confident in bearing my testimony in the Spanish language. The lord has helped me numerous times with the language and I know there will be countless more tender mercies from the Lord while in Costa Rica.
The other day I was reading my Spanish book of Mormon along with my English set of scriptures. Before my study, I prayed that I would be able to recognize a subjunctive conjugation in the book of mormon (subjunctive has been a hard grammar concept for me to grasp). I received that recognition of subjunctive about 2 minutes before my study was over. How I love those answers to prayers. I then read the verse in English which was located in 1 Nephi 3:15. It says, "we will not go down to our father"..."until we have accomplished the thing which the Lord hath commanded us." I decided to make that same promise to my Heavenly Father. So parents...I promise that you will not see me until I can say I have done the thing which the Lord hath commanded me. I am gonna work as hard as I can in Costa Rica and I am going to pray as hard as I can! I love the Lord and the gospel is true!! I hope to send pictures next week!! Maybe some pictures with cockroaches:) Love you all! Pura Vida!!! Love, Hermana Pease
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