#95 diànlì (Power/electricity)

Well everyone I have officially survived my first full week of home MTC! It's been crazy considering most things are in chinese and the crazier part is I am starting to catch on! But the craziest part of the week was tuesday. As some of you may know (or personally experienced) There were absolutely insane winds in the SLC valley. This caused many power outages around the valley, My block was one of those unfortunate few... The power went out at about 11am on tuesday and is still not back on. This is why I am writing to you all from my grandparents house! It has been crazy how something so small and often taken for granted can make a huge difference when it is not there. Noticing this has led me to something I would like to share with you today. 

This thought has been growing inside me for almost the full week with the power outage, but peaked when Me and Elder Miller taught our first TRC (this is basically just practice teaching). We met with a 21 year old girl named Grace, Grace had been feeling lately as though her prayers always go unanswered (Grace grew up Catholic and had never said her own prayer before) We then got to teach her more about how to say a prayer and how to make them more personal. We also taught her about Heavenly Father's timing. This led me to a profound peak of what I have been feeling this week.

Never ever take our ability to pray for granted. because like electricity you need it so much more than you know. Wew have the ability to directly communicate with our heavenly father and that blessing is huge. Please say your prayers, even if you feel like they go unanswered, trust in the Lord and his timing and everything will turn out ok.

A funny story for the week comes from thursday morning. We are sitting in class and our teacher warns us that her Wifi is crappy so we were sort of braced, none of us really knew what to do though when She cut out right in the middle of her prayer. We laughed a little but she got right back on. 

Anyway here are some good pics

1. The Old District

2. P-day lunch with the boys