Jones, Emery

-started SYL(speak your language) meaning only speaking spanish this entire week! Its rough sometimes because i struggle expressing my feelings and what i actually want to say and i feel like I'm being silenced half the time but it already has been such a big learning lesson for me and our district! Trying and learning to be patient with myself! -remember how i said last week that the other hermanas in my district and i sung a song in sacrament meeting with guitar?? Ya soooo we ended up auditioning for a musical number just to see what happens and we ended up getting chosen to sing in front of 1400 FSY kids yesterday and it was a PARTYYY it was actually so fun! Definitely something out of my comfort zone bc of performing and i had to memorize the words AND the chords but esta bien! It was fun! -my comp is gone today in AZ to get her visa so I'm in a trio which is low key trippy but we got to go to the Provo City Center temple and we rode all the way there just to find out it wa...

Hola mi familia! How are you guys all doing?? I want to hear updates from you please email me! No promises I'll be able to respond soon but I'll do my best I only have a week and a half left here at the mtc it's getting so real! I feel like a have a constant pit in my stomach knowing that when I get put to the field, its constant Spanish with no teachers to help but this week I saw the gift of tongues SO much! My Spanish is coming along! There's something so powerful about being here in the mtc with ALL of these missionaries. Sitting in the devotionals, or in the go and do overview, or in the cafeteria, I'm surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of faithful missionaries who are sacrificing a year and a half or two years to the Lord. There's such a beautiful power in the fact that every person i see here is doing the same thing as me. And this is just the provo mtc! Then i think about how many missionaries are currently in the field, and how many missionaries are in...