Sister Jenna Connell

Xin Chao Gia Dinh va Cac Ban! As of  Sunday  I offically only have 4 more weeks until I leave the MTC!! Yay but also AHHH!!! Anyway this week has just been another average week in the MTC. Lots of learning and preaching the gospel! We are now up to 3 investigators and we got one to come to church! Speaking of church I gave a talk in church this last Sunday! We have to prepare talks every S unday  and you don't know if you are going to give them until they call you up to give it! I was excited though cuz it was on the Book of Mormon and I love the Book of Mormon. I thought it went well but our district leader fell asleep while I was talking so maybe it was boring haha idk! Also in church my and 3 other sisters sang "If the Savior Stood Beside Me." I love that song and I'm not much of a singer but here at the MTC you not only have the gift of tongues but the gift of singing! so yeah that was cool! Devotionals: I love the devotionals here! I feel li

Holy cow it has been quite a week!! and guess what! I have offically been here for one month!! which is crazy!! Anyway I started out the week with an awesome devotional from Brent H. Neilson of the 70. His wife spoke about missions and related it to a 10k she ran on the fourth of July this past summer! Oh my maybe it's cuz I ran once upon a time but it hit me so hard!! man it was good! but she made 4 points. She said: 1) "I knew very little about running but I knew enough to run the race".  As a missionary I know very little about being a missionary but I know enough to come out here and serve the Lord 2)"I learned I wasn't the best in the race but I wasn't the worst." I am not the best missionary out here. 'Ill be honest I thought I would (haha) be but it's been humbling to see I still need to improve a lot! But I am also not the worst. I am trusting in God and doing my best 3)"I wasnt running alone." I am not running alone.

Xin Chao Family and Friends! Well it has been another very packed week! The number one lesson I have learned this week is that when we learn Gods way then its line upon line, here a little and there a little. I have learned this as I study Vietnamese! Its frustrating because I just want to know it all right now. I want to be able to go out and teach and share my testimony and say whats in my heart. But that s not how it works. We learn a little bit at a time and if  we accept what we learn and use it the Lord will give us more. Anyway this week was pretty much the same as last week. We studied, we went to 6 hours of class a day, we learned so Vietnamese, we drank some chocolate milk and a whole bunch of other stuff. Although this week we started TRC's which is basically where we get to talk to just your everyday members of the church who come and volunteer at the MTC and we get to teach them little lessons like visiting teaching. Its super fun cuz its real people not just act

Xin Chao friends and family!!! I can't even believe I've been here a whole two weeks already!! the days go slow but the weeks just fly!! Anyway its been quite the week! The beginning of the week was kind of hard because I was a little homesick and stressed but I have learned one of the best things for me besides turning to the Lord in prayer and scripture study is first thing in the morning say "today is going to be a good day and I am going to be happy!" then it starts your day off right and you're good to go! Teaching: We taught our investigator, Anh Thien, 3 more times this last week! Each time got a little bit better and by the last lesson we were able to ask him questions and sorta have a conversation in Vietnamese! Also we found out that that would be the last time we would be teaching him so we decided to invite him to be baptized even though we hadn't really talked about baptism. We just said "Hey since this is the last time we are mee

Xin Chao family and friends! I hope all is going well! i love it here in the MTC! it seriously has such a sweet spirit and i LOVE it!! It is super duper hard work for sure and extremely humbling but awesome! im so glad i have the Lord on my side!! Week 1 Wednesday : got dropped off and all ready to go and as soon as i got into my class room i didnt hear a single word of english the next 4 hours! holy it was crazy. But then we had a devotional (all in english thank goodness) and the MTC presidents wife told us two things that MTC stands for  1) make this count- we have just a small amount of time hear so we must work our hardest 2) make the change- missionary life is so different from normal life and the sooner we can make the change into what the Lord wants us to be the better Thursday : today we had alot of class time and i still dont know much of what was said cuz its all vietnamese but you could feel the spirit. We had one elder in our district wh