Bonjour ma famille et mes amis!
This week was so crazy I feel like I've been here for years. If I had a life before the MTC I don't remember it anymore because they keep us so busy here.
So this week was the end of my Visitor's Center Training and everybody except me left for the mission field. I have no idea why they put me in Visitor's Center first because that's the one class where you teach REAL people (not trc's) I had zero foundation to work with in those lesson plans, but I know everything happens for a reason. They sent us to Temple Square this week to do online teaching and talk to some strangers and WOW I am so hyped to be in a Visitor's Center. I was with a new companion from England and we just answered phone calls about the church and so many people were just ready to be baptized and wanted to know how. One call was from an amputee and she said she was so ready for baptism she would "crawl to the font on her hands and knees." We were like "wow we're not going to make you do that but LOVE the enthusiasm." HA I also called a guy from Cleveland Ohio and who requested a Bible and we just talked about basketball and religion for a while. I felt he was ready for the missionaries and asked if he wanted to meet with them and he said YES?! I'm so new here and I have no idea what I'm doing and already we're making progress here. This is so exciting.
Also, I saw Elder Strebe here this week!!! Anybody that knows me knows this is one of my best friends. Can I tell you it is so sad not being able to hug the elders. We are both officially part of the white bag club! HA (don't ask, they need some interesting things for a Belgium Visa) But it's been cool to see people I know around here. There's not too many of us going to Paris.
Okay so my biggest pet peeve is super long missionary emails, but anybody who's a missionary understands how much happens in the space of a single week. I'll just leave ya'll with a spiritual thought, and if there's one thing you gain from this email have it be this. We listened to a talk this week by Elder Bednar about the character of Christ. After Christ suffered the greatest pain mankind has known, He emerged from Gethsemane to find His disciples asleep. Moments later, He was betrayed by one of His closest friends. Yet, when Peter cut off the ear of one of Judas's followers, Christ reached out and healed it. Christ, during the hardest time of His life, was still looking outward. We are here at the MTC on Christmas because we are slowly learning that this work is not about us. It's not about how we are feeling and it's not about our wants. The character of Christ is to look around and realize there's so many ways to love the people around us. Finding yourself does not come from turning inward. It comes from looking outward. So this Christmas season, I challenge everybody to think a little less about yourself, and focus a little more on loving and serving those around you.
Je vous aime
Soeur McOmber
Us happily about to take the WRONG train to Temple Square. We got lost and had to find our way back we cannot be trusted
Temple Square. I totally took this picture. Ignore the flowers in December. I photoshopped them in
Bryan and Madi (My sister-in-law) sent us Christmas decorations!!!!!! My whole room was so excited about this little tree.
Sister Sanerive taking pictures with our nativity HA
My comp Sister Jeon left :( I love her so so so much and she's gonna do amazing things in Los Angeles. We're making a "Korean heart" with our hands.
Gifts from Sister Jeon. I am rich. Not sure what that liquid is but it looks pretty cool
It snowed so we ran out to take a picture and the moment we got outside it stopped snowing HA.
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