Called to Serve Him : Power of the Priesthood.

Hello everyone!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

It is so weird that I won't be in a place that celebrates one of my favorite holidays! The 4th is the best.

It has been such a good week here in Mexico!

One of the best parts about being here in the MTC is that the spirit can always be felt and through it, lessons can always be learned. This past Sunday, I learned a great lesson about the power of the Priesthood.

Here in the MTC, a ton of people have been getting sick with an intestinal virus. One girl from my district became so sick, she was not able to leave her house. She asked my companion and I to go find some elders from the district to come and give her a blessing. After finding the elders, we were able to go with them back to her house while they administered a blessing to her. It was a beautiful blessing and the spirit was incredibly strong. In it, she was promised that she would be healed and that she would be able to return to the work.

After the blessing was finished, I began thinking about what I had just witnessed. Four boys.. three of them 18 years old and one 19, exercised the same power and authority that Jesus Christ used to perform miracles while he was on the earth. Jesus Christ healed the sick, raised the dead, caused the blind to be able to see again, and performed so many more miracles by the same authority. The spirit burned inside of me as I realized that the Priesthood is real.

Here are just a few things that have been happening here:

1. I have taught about 10 lessons in Spanish now. I still can't speak it very well.. but I am so excited to be able to learn it and teach the Spanish people in Houston the gospel in their own language! It is amazing.

2. Raining season is a real thing. I never would have guessed that living in Riverton, where it rains for like 5 minutes and then stops for like a year. It rains so hard here that the streets basically turn into rivers, and we walk in water up to our ankles. It is nuts!

3. Every couple of days, we hear like a million gun shots being fired outside. At first it was a little bit scary just because we didn't know what it was.. We just started calling it execution day in Mexico. We finally figured out just a few days ago that the Catholic church uses cannons instead of bells to announce that their service is starting haha. It is so interesting!

4. Our district had the opportunity to go to the Mexico City temple! Unfortunately, it is under construction so we did not get to go inside, but the outside was beautiful! We went on a tour around the visitors center (which is massive). It was so nice to be able to leave the walls of the MTC for a few hours!

5. Weekends don't exist anymore. The other night, we were going to bed and there was the loudest Spanish music playing outside of the MTC. We had all forgotten it was Saturday haha.

Anyway, I hope all is well for everybody. I am so grateful to be out here serving the Lord!

The church is true!

Love,

Hermana Rupp