March 11th - Still Loving the MTC experience

March 11, 2013

This week was fantastic! So busy but the week flew buy so fast!

First of all, we talked with our investigator "Arek" 4 times all fully in Polish and it is so amazing to see how the Lord works here. The spirit is so strong and we have definitely seen the spirit working through us in our lessons it was so amazing!!

Sister Lidtka and I were planning our last lesson for him and we were getting tired and kind of stressed cause we know what we want to say to him in English but then we have to translate it all and it’s so hard! Oh also Arek has been blessed with attractiveness and we definitely noticed that from the beginning so we like to joke and talk about it sometimes. So I was flipping through this Polish workbook thing we use to find sentences we would use in our lesson and there was a page for like contacting or setting up another lesson and so I giggled and I said to her, "we should just say this instead of our lesson and I said it to her in Polish" and then showed her what it meant and it was.. Let’s exchange numbers. She burst out laughing and we laughed forever!! She then said and he'll reply with this. Said it in Polish and it was. Let’s write!

 It totally made my day because I love her so much and we have the same humor and can take a step back and just have fun and then we rock our lessons because the spirit is there! It’s just so fun! We then found out that Arek our teacher is from Germany! He’s also married... which made all the previous things we said about him awkward.. But it also made him completely not attractive to us so that’ll be less of a distraction so it’s good! Our other teacher Brad Tribe is the most amazing person ever! He’s so hilarious and he’s like our friend but still out teacher!

I miss you all so much! But I love every minute here at the MTC.I can’t go to the Salt Lake Temple because there are too many Canadians here... UNFAIR! I am still foreign so this really saddened my soul oh well the church is still true.

The food is good and my district is seriously sent straight from heaven.Each and everyone one of them is amazing and I love them all so much.

Thank you so much for the package!! Those Pres Monson quotes are the BEST everyone is super jealous that my mom is awesome and they also really liked the donuts :)

Our Temple walks on Sunday is one of the best things about my week. We get to go as a district and even though it’s crazy crowded we get to just go for a nice walk and relax and have fun! It is so nice! Also, I joined choir ! And next Tuesdays is apparently a very special day!!!! Which means someone super important is coming for our devotional!!!!!!!! I am so excited!!! Also we haven’t ruled out the conference thing! There is hope in singing at Conference.

 Polish is coming along great. At times I get discouraged because I want to just say everything but then I realize the amount I have learned in a week and a half since being here and I see that I’ve already been blessed with the gift of tongues!! It is so amazing and I love the language and I love the polish people even though I’m not there yet!

Every day here is such a blessing and I am so happy to be here! I know that the Lord has prepared me to be here right now and there’s nothing better than that feeling! Still pray for me to learn the language but by the time I am done here I feel like I may have progressed quite a ways! Well let’s hope! Oh and dear elder is the best! It’s so nice to hear from you and everyone else on a daily basis it’s sad I can only reply once a week but it’s all good!

Something amazing I have learned since being here is they ALWAYS talk about obedience with exactness and I’m like ya ya they always say that but THEN I have seen what it does in my own life and it’s so cool! So the saying is obedience brings blessings, but obedience with exactness brings miracles! BOOOOM it’s so cool!! Since I am learning to speak Polish I need miracles!

So that’s all for now! I love you and thank you for everything! Say hi to everyone and give them all a big hug for me! Oh and I got Granny’s dear elders tell her ill write her? Or email? Give me her email in case and that’s a super good m day gift and I’m so thrilled she’s going to Palm Springs! Hopefully I’ll talk to amber soon! I miss you all but there is no greater work than this :)

thank you!!!! LOVE YOU

Siostra Pearson

First Email from Sister Pearson- The MTC Experience

Sharing my first email from Sister Hailey Pearson!!

So I LOVE the mtc!! Seriously I got here and I haven’t stopped smiling since. Remember how we weren’t sure how many people would be going to my mission with me? Well MY WHOLE DISTRICT IS GOING TO POLAND!! There are 6 elders and 6 sisters and they are all so amazing and so uplifting! All 6 of us girls are in the same room I am starting to get use to it even though it’s so crowded but I love them all. My companion is AMAZING! Her name is siostra lidtka and she is from Washington and she looks like a tan version of Rachel mcadams the girl from the vow and the notebook. We get a long great and she is so kind. The lord has truly blessed me with my district. I feel so much love through him just by the people he gave me. So polish is really hard like really hard but it’s so good at the same time!! The first day I got here we went to these rooms where they had missionaries teaching an "investigator" and then they would leave and we would all teach them it was so fun!! And then I had to start polish.

I actually love it so much though and you would be so amazed of what I already know!! I can bear my testimony say a prayer and introduce my self as a missionary of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints! I would you could hear me say it its so cool! So on Friday my companion and me taught our first investigator named Arek. IN POLISH it was a gong show since we spoke like nothing and we would ask him a question like if he knew god and he would respond but we would have no idea what he said! So I pretty much laughed the entire time. I felt bad after but there’s not much we could do. Its really interesting because one of our teachers oh and by the way I heard my teacher speak English for the first time on Saturday. All of our lessons have been completely in polish and it’s like a giant game of charades the whole time. Its so fun but I just want to know it all right now!! But the lord is blessing me with the gift of tongues as we speak I already know so much for only having lessons for like 4 days anyways my teacher told us that they’re trying to overwhelm us cause its so much everyday! So much polish and so much learning! But she said that was there intentions because it’s the only way we will rely completely on the lord well learn to. Which makes total sense!! And that is exactly what I'm trying to do! I don’t think I’ve even prayed so much in my life! But the spirit is so strong here it’s impossible not to love every minute. And zero time is ever wasted here because I am on the Lord's errand and I need to make every minute of it count. Although p day is awesome!!! It’s so nice to have a little break-even this is all so busy to!! We went to the temple this morning and iom vbeing timed right now for emailing its os stressful!!! I feel like imp going to pop a vain! Missionary work is the best thing I have ever done in my life it brings me such joy! I miss you all so much but I'm so busy that I barely have time to miss you!!! You should be proud I haven’t cried once the entire time of being here. But everyone should dear elder me cause I get them that very day you send them and then I can just email you back and write you back! It’s so organized here!

I love you all so much and I miss you like crazy but I am having the best time of my life here!! Wish I had more time but I don’t! So write dear elder and me me al ill email again next Monday!!! wiem ze ksiega mormona za prawgwa to swientvo mi pomaga miech najaya (the spelling is way of but i didnt even look at it thats just from memory!!)

xoxoxoxox

Your Daughter

Siostra Pearson

The Beginning of Time.. 5 Days Left!!

Dzień dobry everybody!!

First things first incase you dont know who I am my name is Hailey Pearson and I am serving a mission for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! i have been called to serve in the Poland Warsaw mission! that's right, P O L A N D. To say I am excited would be the biggest understatement of the year!!! I report to the Mtc (missionary training center) in Provo in 5 days! so the time has actually come to go and I am reeeeaaallly looking forward to it!

I know that I will miss my life here, mainly my family and my friends, but I know there is absolutely positively nothing better i could be doing for the next year and a half! I get to go serve the Lord and devote all my time and energy into bringing forth this AMAZING gospel and be a part in his chosen army! It's not everyday you get to say that!  I am well aware that everyday may not be a walk in the park I mean hellur I am learning Polish! But I know that as long as I live everyday to the fullest and keep a positive attitude and remember why I am going on a mission I know i will have the mist amazing time and I wont regret one day of being out there!

So im packing everything up saying my goodbyes and heading out for one of the biggest adventures of MY ENTIRE LIFE! My very kind and amazingly helpful mother will be posting my weekly emails on this bad boy for all of you to enjoy and keep up with me and everything I am doing!! However, just because you know what im g=doing does not mean ill know what your doing so this is not an excuse to not write me because letters or the best, they're like water to a camel.. you just cant get enough!! So feel free to write me any day any time both my Mtc address and Mission address are included on the side bar thingy so now you have no excuse!

I love you all, even if I dont know you, and remember: D&C 4:2

Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with ALL your heart, might, mind and strength, that ya may stand blameless before God at the last day.

Stay Golden!!

much love,

Sister Hailey Pearson