Wassuppp!! This week has been killer!
MTC Culture Zingers:
1. Free cookies n cream chocolate milk from the BYU creamery
is a straight blessing
2. The murals in the new buildings are THE BEST. I highly
encourage you to take a tour if you haven't seen them.
3. On Fast Sundays you actually don't get the choice to fast
because they actually don't even serve food lol. However, although Fast Sundays
may be slow, when you have thousands of missionaries all fasting, you can FEEL
power. It's amazing.
This weeks details: This week was amazing!! I forgot to
mention that on Thanksgiving they turned on all of the Christmas lights here at
the MTC! There is a beautiful nativity and lights on all the trees. It is
absolutely gorgeous. It is a special time to be here at the MTC. We taught our
first REAL people this week. One of them was from Albania and her Albanian is
so beautiful. The more I learn the language the more I realize how soft and
beautiful the Albanian language really is. Fun fact: Albanian's don't refer to
their language as Albanian. They refer to their country as Shqiperia and their
language as Shqip (pronouced shcheep). We had lots of snow this week and it was
beautiful! The two Australian's in our district have never seen snow before so
they absolutely LOVED IT. They were going crazy it was so fun. We even bowled in
the snow with snowballs and snowball pins. I'm meeting so many amazing friends
here and I hope to stay close to them forever! 
Good laughs:
1. My mom sent us this secret elf that we pass between
districts in our zone! We hide it in people's pockets or in their classrooms
and it's so funny to see how into it everyone gets. We're all terrified to be
"elfed".
2. Our best friends (the Hungarians) leave in 2 weeks so
four square has become INTENSE. Our two districts are the best players by far.
We are now making killer champion nicknames and we aren't holding anything
back. My competitive spirit is flying with high colors out here. It's really
the only time that we can actually be competitive so I leave it all on the
court haha.
3. Motra Tolhurst gave a lesson to an investigator and
instead of saying, " I will say the prayer." she said, "Une jam
lutje." which means I am the prayer. The investigator started giggling and
we all thought it was hilarious. Albanian is so difficult but so fun at the
same time.
4. I'm also taking applications for what you think my spirit
animal may be. Everyone here thinks I am a golden retriever. Let me know your
thoughts.
Spiritual thoughts:
1. Fast Sunday was amazing. We had fast and testimony
meeting and everyone bore their testimonies in their mission languages. The
spirit was unbelievably strong in that room. Even though we couldn't understand
them, we could feel what they were saying was true and it was so powerful. The
Elders speaking Farsi gave the sacrament prayers and bore their testimonies in
Farsi and it was crazy. I never thought I would ever hear the sacrament prayers
in the Farsi language but here I am. It was amazing. We also heard from the
Hungarians, Germans, Albanians, Turkish people, and the ASL missionaries. It
was such a powerful day.
2. On Saturday we prepared a lesson for an investigator. We
went into the lesson after much preparation and didn't even use our lesson
plan. The spirit guided each person in our companionship to go off the lesson
and give a different lesson and commitment. It was crazy how we all knew
exactly what to say once we walked into that room. I can testify that the
spirit will guide you when you're listening. It was so cool.
3. Sunday night was the amazing Christmas devotional! If you
haven't gotten the chance to watch it I encourage you to do so! President
Nelson said, "True disciples of Christ will find unspeakable joy
forever." I loved that.
4. We had a heart to heart in our district and Elder Dixon
quoted from someone else saying, "If you're not feeling inadequate you're
not doing it right." This inspired us to work harder and more diligently
and we have seen so many blessings because of that.
5. Last but not least, we took a tour to a different
building to look at the gorgeous murals at the MTC. Our teacher told us to look
at every mural and ponder where the "light" comes from in each mural.
After that she wanted us to think about what we could do to "light the
world" this Christmas season. As we were walking to the murals an Elder in
our district told me he had actually never felt the spirit before (or at least
he thought he hadn't. I told him to try praying to our Heavenly Father for help
to recognize the spirit when it was near. As we looked at one of the murals he
sat down to pray. He said, "Heavenly Father... what would thou havest me
do." he didn't get an answer so he asked again saying, "Heavenly
Father... what would thou havest me do as THY servant". This time he got
an answer as clear as day. The answer said, "Act like it". Since then
our district has had many heart to hearts talking about acting like TRUE
missionaries and disciples of Jesus Christ. We've decided to ACT more like true
disciples.
6. Motra Kelly (our teacher) told us something amazing this
week. We started getting down on ourselves because of the stress of the
language. We've learned so much but have so much more to go. She told us that
what we have already done is impossible. She said, "This work is
impossible. However, with the Lord on your side anything is possible."
We've taken that and ran with it all week and let me be the first to tell you,
we are doing the impossible.
I just want to leave you all with my testimony. I know this
church is true. I have a testimony of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and of the
Plan of Salvation. I know God knows me and each of you by name. I have a
testimony of the power of the Holy Ghost that it will guide you through your
trials and struggles. I love this gospel and am so thankful for this
opportunity to serve. Continue to Light the World this Christmas season and
remember the true meaning of Christmas! I love you all and am so thankful for
all the wonderful support I've gotten. Thank you!!
There is this website where you can send me free letters
online called DearElder.com! I'm District G. Getting letters and packages are
the best so if you get the chance I would love to hear from you!! Also my
address is:
Sister Hannah Sutton
JAN16 ADRTCS
2005 N 900 E Unit 306
Provo Ut 84602
SOOO MUCH LOVE FOR YOU ALL!! 
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