The time at the CTM is going really slowly. I want so bad to be out in the field, but I also know this will help me teach more effectively.
We did a lot of practice lessons this week. We had two TRC sessions, which is where you teach a member for 30 minutes about a gospel topic. This week was Revelation through the Book of Mormon. They´re always a little interesting, because most of the time we have enough material for about 20 min. and we are so happy when we get a guy that will elaborate on a subject and eat away time. They film these lessons and have us watch them. We end up just laughing at ourselves. I misunderstood one of the guys and handed him the wrong scripture to read. We just all ended up staring at each other in silence for 30 seconds(we counted). We also had two mock first visits and one of them went extremely well. Then we also kept teaching our other mock investigator.
We had an area authority of Brasil come and speak to us. They give us headphones to listen to and translator, but the system doesn't work so well and we get a lot of static. The seventy told us that we need to multiply and replenish the earth and not just one or two. As an example he talked about his grandfather who had 22 children. I guess he means to multiply by 11.
Today we had the chance to go to the São Paulo temple. It is just beautiful on the inside. It's cool to be able to say that I got to go to both temples.
Portuguese is coming along pretty well. I like some of the ways they phrase things. One example of this is that instead of asking someone to say a prayer you ask someone to make a prayer. It adds so much more meaning to it. It requires thought and effort to be put into it. One way that Portuguese is bad is it's ruining my spelling of everything.
Well I only have one more p-day left in the CTM!
Elder Quain
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