This week has passed by so quickly, I'm not really sure where all the time went and what all we did! We had a lot of really good big group meetings though. On Sunday, our fireside was given by Richard Heaton, who talked about teaching with the Spirit, and having faith and confidence in the Lord that as we do all we can to prepare and teach, the Spirit will be with us. It was a really good talk, and encouraging because trying to teach with the Spirit is probably the hardest part for me.
On Tuesday the devotional was by Lynn Robbins from the Quorum of the Seventy. He gave a really good talk about planning, and the importance of planning in having success. I loved that he said "success is not luck, it is planned" because that really is true! We don't just have lucky mistakes that work out well, we must plan and prepare and then we will be blessed with success. He talked about planning each day being an act of faith, and as we do such, God will bless us to be successful. It was good.
So, the way the MTC works is that the main event of each week is the TRC, which means that each Thursday morning we have an activity where we contact in Portuguese and then teach a lesson in English. Most of our language study and lesson study focuses on the upcoming TRC. Yesterday we door knocked in Portuguese and then taught the first lesson about the Restoration of the Gospel in English. My companion and I had been preparing all week, and really praying that we could have the Spirit and be able to have an impact on the volunteer investigator. It is amazing how prayer really does work. We had such a good lesson yesterday, and it wasn't at all because of us. The Spirit was really strong, and the whole thing just flowed as we taught. I am so grateful that we do not have to do this work alone! The Spirit is very much the Senior Companion in all companionships.
Today being P-day, we got to go to the temple, and it was so good. I love the feeling of cleanliness and peace in the temple. I am so grateful that we have the gift of the Holy Ghost, so that we truly can always have that spirit to be with us. I know that that Spirit blesses our lives.