Amandas second mailed letter home

This letter came after we got her first email. It was also sent in the mail hand written that I typed up. She also sent some pictures of her and her companion. Enjoy!

Dear Family,

Here are some better pictures of me and my companion. We have a temple walk every Sunday.

There is something funny in Mosiah 12:1. Read it and see what the mistake is. If you give up tell me and I will tell you later.

I had a pretty bad teaching experience the other day teaching a person in class. I was not prepared for it. We were supposed to use only questions and scriptures. I did not pick the correct scriptures and I was stumbling over my words and my brain was going a million miles an hour. It was so bad. I was freaking out and I had tears in my eyes afterwards. It was hard to not cry but the tears did not escape. I learned a lesson though. If I want the spirit to direct me, I can’t “make” the subject make sense. The spirit is only with me when I am calm and collected. If I did that, then I would have done better. Then I thought of my patriarchal blessing and what it said and I know that I will be a good teacher some day.

I taught Arnold after that though and it went tons better. I felt the spirit and it was awesome where the spirit took the conversation. Some questions I did not know how to answer but I did through the spirit. It went much better this time.

I get to critical when people share their musical talents. I realized I try to look for mistakes. Maybe I should try to stop that.

I thought of an analogy with the spirit. Think of the holy ghost as a piece of fabric. When we sin, we wear a hole in the fabric making it not as strong. When we repent, we get to patch up that hole and make it new. So remember to repent to keep the Holy Ghost whole.

I also thought of something with Adam and Eve. So Eve was made of the rib of Adam. I was thinking about our bodies and how we have floating ribs. I was thinking…maybe we have floating ribs because Eve was made out of the part that connected them to the other ribs/sternum. Did that make and sense? So if Eve was never made of a rib, we would not have floating ribs. Just something silly I thought of.

The rest of my thoughts are in the email I sent. Hope you all are doing great! I miss you.

Sister Amanda Ralph