Bad first: I've been pretty emotional and I've been sick the last few days; coughing, sore throat, runny nose. I almost threw up one morning, but I think that was unrelated. It was very random. Other than that, the week has flown by!
On Sunday, three of my favourite hymns were played/sung: Brightly Beams, Lead Kindly Light and I know that My Redeemer lives.
There's an amazing sister in our zone and she has a very sweet conversion story that she actually got up and told at the devotional on Sunday. She grew up a Quaker and went on a mini mission for 5 weeks during high school. At the end her leaders asked if there was anything she'd like to pray about and for them to pray about. She asked them to pray that God would help her find out more about Him and Christ and come closer to them. She prayed and after a while she felt like she should ask this boy to homecoming.
Totally unrelated, she thought.
He was Mormon and they talked about religion and agreed to pray about whose church was right. She prayed and, to quote her, "He was right" she started meeting with the missionaries and the boy was able to baptize her on her 19th birthday.
When she got here, the speaker said something about how a lot of times when he asked for stories, people from the conversion stories were there. When he said that, a bunch of elders started pointing at one elder, who was the boy the baptized her. He got up and bore his testimony about the amazing Spirit he felt as he baptized her. It was so sweet and such an amazing story.
The MTC Choir director is so amazing!!!! On Sunday he was telling funny stories about "man moments" from him going on the snow cave camp out with his deacons and having them act as the dogs on a sled they built out of pvc pipe.
On a more spiritual side, I love the stories he tells us about Joseph Smith. It makes him seem so much more real to him. He was an amazing man. This week we're singing, “Where can I turn for Peace”.
Every song is a story with this choir.
We're singing the first half of the song from the point of view of a couple of investigators who are looking for peace and comfort. And then the second half is missionaries testifying of Christ. In relation to the line "reaches my reaching" our choir director talked a lot about Peter when he walked on water and started sinking. He made the story a lot more personal. It reminded me that Peter was a real person and that he was unique, like each of the apostles must have been. He was the only one to ask to try walking on the water. And he trusted Christ to save him. The choir director likened this to repentance and said that we could sink all the way to the sea floor and Christ would still be there when we reached up for Him because He has descended below all things.
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