Semana 4!!! Dominican Republic MTC

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This has hands down been the best weekend of my life!!!!

So to start off I got a new latina roomate! and shes from the DR and speaks alot of spanish so im getting alot of practice which is nice!!! I only have 2 more weeks in the CCM before I head out to puerto rico and i am SO EXCITED!!!! 

One things she asked me the other day was super cute!!! she asked "where are you from?" "arizona!!" "hmm does everyone in arizona speak super fast???" hahahah so true I talk so fast they even niotice it here!!

SO I GOT TO MEET THE PROPHET ON SATURDAY!!! okay lets start from the top.  So saturday morning at 7 am we had to be on the buses to head out to the stake center down the road.  So it was about a 10 minute drive (I thought I was going to die, theyre insane here!!) and we got to the stake center.  Which was way smaller than any church building id ever seen ha! so we went inside and sat down and waited for the President Nelson to come. We were told that he wanted to take pictures with each mission and the CCM and then meet each of us individually! so when the prophet got to the building, we all lined up and took a picture with him! theres only about 60 missionaries at the CCM with me so it was a fairly small group! and I dont have the picture, but Im super close to the prophet!!! so when I get it ill send it! 

 after we took the picture we all lines up to shake his hand and I walked up to him and he looked at me and I got to talk to him!! then I got to shake elder renlunds hand and elder alanso and elder gonzales!!! theyre all in the quorum of the 12 or 70!!! so it was super cool to meet them face to face!!

then the meeting started and It was so amazing!!! the prophet gave us alot of advice and talked about the mission and learning languages!! it was super awesome! he talked to us about how amazing it is that this day and age was propohecied about in 1st nephi 15 vs 18, 600 YEARS before. christ. and how amazing it is that we get to participate in the gathering of isreal!! he talked about so much that I cant put it into words so Im just going to share some key quotes with you!!! 

"elevate your thoughts"

"SERVCE SERVE SERVE"

"lead with your faith not your doubts"

"some of you might be worried about your famlies but I can guarentee that the lord is takin g better care of your family than you could."

Theres so so much more that I cant include cause Im so short on time but I did like this one~! i dont remember who said it

"jesus can turn a MESS into a MESSAGE, your TRIALS into TRIUMPHS and he will take your TEST and turn it into your TESTIMONY!!!" ahhhh I love this gospel so much and I am so grateful for everyone and what they went through to restore it!!!!! Have a good week I love you all!!!

1. my latino roomate hermana espinosa

and i cant attach more.. cause that file is too large so ill send more next week! love you all!

Pictures

1. My latino roommate hermana espinosa

2. Hermana Vasquez, Hermana Olsen and Me
3. Hermana Olsen and Me exploring the DR
4. The DR MTC with President Nelson

Hermana Espinosa

recess with Hermana Vasquez, Hermana Olsen and Me

Me and Hermana Olsen exploring on PDAY

President Nelson with the Dominican Republic MTC - Courtney in on the first row :)

I got this text from a mother of one of Courtney's friends Hermana Clegg - Courtney sighting! I just screen shotted these, don't you LOVE that they are the CHATTY Girls... LOL! The CCM is such a fun place.

You have to read the caption that is above the pictures in this message lol!!