こんにちは みなさん！ どうやっては先週でしたか？ (Not sure if that last one is right 
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This week has been another great week at Online MTC! I only have two weeks left in the MTC, so I'll have to be officially packing soon to ship out of here. I also need to do some more document stuff for the Gilbert Mission.
But yeah, we had tons of great lessons with our teachers, Brother Dillon and Sister Carver. My favorite parts are SYL activities (Speak your Language), Book of Mormon shares, and testimony meetings. We also had the cool opportunity to have Elder Sikahema from the Seventy and Sister Sikahema visit our MTC District. He spoke in this last October 2021 General Conference, so that was awesome! We talked about how Online MTC is progressing, challenges associated with it, thoughts about General Conference, and where we are going to our Japan mission and our reassigned mission.
Again our Helping Hands went really well this week and Elder Rahm and I had a cool Gift of Tongues moment. So near the end he shared an experience about how he gained a testimony by slowly reading the Book of Mormon. He also talked about how before that, he didn't really know if it was true or not. Even though I didn't understand what he said, right afterwards I shared a simple testimony about how even though I never saw Moroni, or even Joseph Smith, that I knew that the Book of Mormon was true. Anyway that was a cool experience because they worked together and built off each other.
We also had a great conversion with our teacher about not worrying about "not being good enough". Don't set an invisible bar that if you don't reach, you're a bad missionary. As long as you're trying, you're doing what's best. And sometimes your "trying" isn't all that great and not your best. But through consistent trying, Christ can help your "best" be reality. It's kind of paradoxical, but listen to Brad Wilcox's talk, "His Grace is Sufficient", different subject, but same concept of how Christ is always with us.
I also had the awesome opportunity to play Redeemer by Paul Cardall in Sacrament meeting! It really is honestly not a problem, but I have this thing where my hands just tremble all the time (I think it's called essential tremor, I could be very wrong about it though). Anyway, the shaking gets amplified ten fold while playing publicly. My goal is just to play in more public settings so I wouldn't be nervous, but for now I have to deal with it. But basically, it's hard when your hand literally is shaking out of the way of the note you want to play. But for the first time I remember, instead of focusing on how well I played, I just instead focused on the people listening and Christ. For me (and many, many others), music is like prayer. And I played it basically perfectly! Even though I shook, Christ made the song beautiful. I was still able to express my love for Him and my Ward through the song.
Many people commented on the Spirit they felt and it was as if it was more than me just playing. And it was! I cannot express how grateful I am for pray and Christ. Even for things like piano, Heavenly Father and Christ want you to succeed! Instead of focusing on me and the mistakes I might make, or my hands shaking while performing, I just said to myself, I'm doing this for Him, not for me. Apply that to life and your set! Have an amazing week! Sorry for the grammatical errors
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