Week #4 in Provo MTC

hello hello!

This week has been great! migraine free, full of the spirit and I am starting to see the wisdom in me staying at the provo mtc a little bit longer. i have learned so much this week. I learned about open-heart teaching in the TEC, and the Lord has just shown me a lot of things I need to work on and I am grateful for that. as far as my companions go, Elders Ward and Bott are great. It's like having tow little puppy dogs follow me around everywhere. they ask me what we're doing next, they come to pick me up for every activity from my residence hall, they are very aware when other elders are trying to flirt with me and inform me in a good way, and I havent opened a door in over a week.

but how was st george? we didnt get any snow here, we have been able to study outside for the first time since being here, its been beautiful! haha and guess what? I cant escape applebee's or the "melody mantra" because there is totally an elder in my zone that worked at applebees before the mission and he loved it, best job ever he says. so that was a good laugh. my spanish is coming along. prayers are the time that i realize i know the least and the most. its a good time to just talk to the lord and things i dont know how to say in my prayers i just write down and try and learn them for the next time, which is usually like ten minutes later on a mission, lets be honest :) but i love it. I feel so grateful to be learning spanish. when i think im having a hard time with the language, all i have to do is walk down the hall to the japanese and korean classrooms and say a prayer of thankfulness and my pity potty goes away. mol, the home deopt bags were quite the hit, i got so many great looks. thank you all so much for the packages! i can feel your love and i appreciate all your support so much! we taught our hermamna teacher yesterday as a district, just as our teacher not as a reg investigator. it was a cool experience because at the beginning when we were planning what to teach her we had no idea what to teach her because she is pretty much perfect. but then when we began to teach we all just got on the same page and taught her about how God loves her, her trials will be but a small moment and that the plan of salvation, especially the atonement, is real. then we sang i am a child of god in spanish and i started crying. the spirit was sooooooo strong, you all know i dont cry. i could barely finish my thought to close the lesson after. it was awesome. the food here is fine, havent gotten "sick" yet, which is a blessing compared to what some of the other missionaries have gone through. hahahaha i have a neurologist appt on fri at 1040, so i will most liekyl call you after and let you know. pray that whatever happens will be for the best! I would love to be able to go to Guatemala on next tuesday, but i am on the lord's errand and will do whatever he asks me to do, however hard it will be. i miss my hermanas! mol hna willima said you were great. sorry, out of time, heres the guate mtc address.

bulevar vista hermosa 23-71

Vista Hermosa I, Zona 15

01015 Guatemala

Guatemala

love you!!!!!

hna wetzel

3rd MTC Letter

first of all, thank you for all your love and prayers. some cool experiences i've had this week are as follow, they are way awesome so get ready. so first of all, my comps and i have been praying that we would get to hear an apostle come speak while we were here. it was kind of a long shot because we were only supposed to be here for two devotionals.but we prayed anyway. so lo and behold, on tuesday night, who walks in to speak to us? elder cook~~~ we were so exctited~sorry the exclamation point isn't working on this computer.but anyway, we were all like whoa, heavenly father loves us. then elder cook delivered an incredible message that i really needed to hear about how privileged we are to be serving right now and that no matter what other feelings we've had, we were all in the right place doing what the lord wants us to do. he gave us an incredible apostolic blessing and blessed us that our service now would not only be a blessing to us as missionaries, but to the people we teach, our children , grandchildren and posterity all the days of our lives. it was so powerful.

then another tender mercy came when we had been trying to track down this one teacher to teach us how to better use preach my gospel and create a doctrinal database. this teacher was quitting soon, but on wednesday our regular teacher announced that she had convinced hno taggart to come teach us~ i was so thrilled, i had intense spiritual fire lit under my fanny when he tauhgt. it was an incredible lesson and i received so much inspiration, revelation, and insight on how peach could become a better missionary, it was exactly what i personally needed. the lord truly does hear our prayers and loves us so much. he wants whats best for all his children. oh i just love being on a mission.

lets see, there is so much to say. we also had camille fronk olsen come speak to us un relief society this last sunday, she is a powerful speaker, i will send you my notes from her talk.the mtc is just so packed with spiritual people and experiences, i love it~ did i mention im the only sister in my zone now with 20 elders? yeah, about that. they are all great missionaries, it will just be weird to be the only girl(never thought you'd hear me say that, right?)jk.but its great to be surrounded by the priesthood. i love the temple. i love this work, love all of you and im praying for you. thanks for your prayers, love and support.

hasta luego~

hermana wetzel

2nd Letter from MTC

I have so much to say and only twenty minutes to do it. First of all, thank you soooo much for the packages and letters this week! Everyone has been so great and supportive and I really appreciate it. As far as this week goes, it was another great one at the MTC! My total number of days here is only going to be 19! I leave next Tues at 5 am for our 820 flight from slc to dallas then to guate! We can talk about a lot of the details from this week and more about my day to day routine when i call you next tuesday morning, so be sure to answer! I just got back from the temple and it was a wonderful experience. there were protestors on the street who came over from england just to protest in Utah. But the work still goes on, and we are still going on our missions :)

I love you all so much, i know this church is true.  love you!

First Letter from MTC

Ok so I Have limited time, this keyboard struggles and I have so much to tell you! Hello! The MTC is incredible! Talk about best decision ever, coming here. I just love it and I have made so many new friends! I just love talking to everyone and finding out where they are going and stuff, people are so nice here! My companion is so nice, super quiet but so sweet. I guess you could say I do enough tlaking for the both of us, in a good way. She is from Manti, Utah and is going to be a nurse missionary in Nicaraugua! All the elders in my district are going to Nicaragua too. My teachers are great.

Ah! there is so much to tell you. Spanish is coming along, I'm grateful for at least the background I had from high school, most of the missionaries dont have any experience, but speaking the language is so fun! MIssionary work is fun, but hard. You think you have a bomb lesson planned and then our teacher tells us we ahve to teach it in Espanol, no bueno. No, esta bien, I love everything about the MTC.

The food is fine, my other two hermanas that are in my room are with us all the time and they are going to my mission too, we have so much fun together. I am so grateful to be here at the time that I am, I know this is what's right for me! THank you, thank you for all your support and letters, you have no idea how sweet it is to get mail! the dearelders are fantastic because you guys can write me whenever and I get them everyday!!! please send a lot!!!! I wish i could begin to tell you some of the funny things that have happened, but time doesnt permit, later though, get ready to get your socks knocked off.

A cool experience that happened though was on Saturday night, my comp and I were on our way to dinner, which by the way is linner, at 4:30 and a lady stopped us in the hall and asked if we spoke spanish. she was probably confused because our nametags say espanol but then we were like, no we dont speak it! She ushered us over to another lady in the hall who spoke spanish and she translated for us. The lady who stopped us was probably about 60, from Honduras and she wanted us to fast for her daughter because she was inactive. It was so sweet to see how sincere this lady was and how desperately she wanted us to help because she was so concerned for her daughter. So we thanked her and told her we would fast for Izabella and we did. We just added her into our personal fasts as a whole district. WE probably wont ever find out what happened to Izabella but we were graeteful we could help.

The Lord is here for all of us, I know that Jesus Christ died for each of and I know that the Atonement is real! I have had so many blessings, not that I don't miss you guys, but I haven't been homesick, where some of the other sisters I know really have. But I know that we will all be together forever! Esta bien! Oh and here's a cute quote to comfort your hearts, "missionary: someone who leaves their family for a short time so others can be with their families for eternity". Cute, right? I know this gospel is true, live it everyday and you will be blessed. On a last parting note, we have decided to start something here at the MTC...you know you're a missionary when...it's 11:30 and you're on your way to eating lunch instead of breakfast. haha I havent even had a hard time waking up at 6:30, and we all know what a blessing that is!

THank you for all your prayers and support, I pray for you and think of you everyday! I will write a letter later today, but I just wanted to get this out there. Love you all very much! Write me lots!

With love, Hermana Wetzel of the MTC

Arrival at the MTC

Sister Wetzel arrived in the MTC today. She was full of the spirit. She could hardly wait to get out of the car. She will be in the Provo MTC for approximately three weeks. She will then go to the MTC in Guatemala. We love you Peach!