Week Six - Miracles

Family!

It feels like I just emailed you yesterday. The days are long, but the weeks go by so fast. Its the weirdest thing I tell you! It is so great to hear from all of you! Your emails are so inspiring and I'm

 really feeling the love guys. (I hope you can hear my sarcasm). On the realies no emails?! Its okay cause I know that you all love me. But I want to know what is going on with the family too! I teach families all day and I have no idea what is going on with mine. :P

So you know how I was telling you that we are the missionaries that people chat with when they go on mormon.org? Well to be perfectly honest I really don't like chatting. For one, I'm a slow typer compared to my companion, and most of the chats that I have received are trolls. Trolls are people who go on chat and like to mess with the missionaries and ask stupid questions like "How do magnets work" I hate it, because I feel like that I'm wasting my time talking to people like that. Anyways Sister Fisher keeps on telling me that there are so many chat miracles and that they will come. So earlier this week we were blessed with a chat miracle. Aimee is a student in Missiouri. She came on chat and the first thing that she said was "I really want to go to a Mormon church, but would it be weird if I attended if I wasn't a member?" We continued to tell her that everyone is welcomed to come to church, and we asked if she would be willing to meet with the missionaries in her local area. She said that she would love to! She also agreed for us to call her and teach her more about the church! The cool thing is that she is so prepared! She said that she has always been drawn to the Mormon faith and she wants to have the same truth and knowledge that her member friends have! I know that God is preparing people for me to teach. He is preparing all of his children to come unto him.

We are also teaching a Southern baptist from Tennessee who is getting baptized in two weeks! Alex is also an investigator that I met my second day here. And we have been teaching him over the phone and last night he agreed to meet with missionaries and to receive a Book of Mormon. I love teaching the gospel and it makes me so happy! I hope you all can understand if I don't want to come back home! :P

Cool thing that our mission is doing, is we are having a production called "Music from around the World" Where all the Temple Square sisters are preforming a song/dance from their country. I'm actually participating in the Polynesians number. We are singing a song from Hawaii and I'm in a Samoan dance thingy! I'm also in the Choir which is cool! They say that the Prophet is invited, so this is the only reason why I'm actually doing it. Haha how cool would it be if I were to sing Aloha Oi to Thomas S. Monson?! SO COOL! It is on March 15th and it is free and open to the public. It is going to be in the Assembly Hall at 7...7:30? It is open to the public so if you so happen to be in SLC that day you should come and watch! 

Conference is around the corner and we are all preparing for it. I heard that conference is crazy but so much fun. Everyone says that people are so prepared when they come to watch conference. Also all the members are so willing to give us referrals so we can call their friends and share with them the gospel. Plus we get to go watch a session of conference too. There are a lot of perks to being a missionary in Temple Square. Like how we get General Authorities speak to us during Relief Society and Sacrament. On Sunday Elder Richard G. Hinckley and Sister Jane Hinckely came and spoke to us sisters. When Elder Hinkley was speaking I would close my eyes and he sounded just like his father! For Relief Society we were able to hear from Carol Ann Stevens a counselor for the General Relief Society Presidency. The spirit that they bring in and the uplifting they give is amazing. Some told me that Temple Square missionaries are spoiled. They're right.

I love you family and I hope you email me soon!

Love,

Sister Opeda

P.S. Here are more pictures of my first day here.
P.S.S. Kuya may you please send me the pictures of when the family dropped me off at the MTC? I have no pictures of anyone and I would like some of my pretty, pretty family! :)