Week 4 in the Provo MTC - 17 Feb 2015

Hi Family!!

First thank you so much for the package! Mail is the best thing ever! I got the slip saying I had a package and me and my companion literally ran all the way to the mail room :) It was the best! Thank you!!! Also every one was so happy to eat girl scout cookies!!

So this week has been really good. A lot of the same things as the other weeks in all honesty. We are teaching so many people now so we have to be preparing lessons constantly. We are teaching Ivan, Adrianna, Ben, and Antonio every day. This Friday we get to skype with some members in Brazil and talk with them! I am so excited and also nervous because my Portuguese is just not that great. 

I did have two great experiences while teaching this week. First we were teaching Ivan about repentance and we were reading in Alma 36 about Alma the Younger. Well I was bearing my testimony about the Atonement and I just felt the Spirit so strong. It was amazing. I didn't feel like I could say much in Portuguese, but even the simple things I could say I knew were true. The second experience was when teaching Adrianna. We taught her about Joseph Smith and I got to recite the First Vision in Portuguese. I never realized before how much power is behind those words. But I felt it. 

My visa has been processed so I will be leaving to Brazil in two weeks from today! Crazy. I am actually so grateful that I have been here in Provo though. Heavenly Father blessed me with great friends and great teachers!

So this week I did have a few rough days with the language and one night I was super frustrated and was just venting about it in my journal when I had this thought, "Are you looking at the Savior or the stormy sea?" It really hit me because I really had been looking at all the bad things that had happened and not the miracles right in front of my face. Well this thought led me to write this poem that I wanted to share:

Wherefore, Didst Thou Doubt?

When the day seems long

with no end in sight,

or each step a strain

up a mountain height,

when the sun is not there

to warm up your face,

and pressing darkness 

takes up all the space,

when all the wrong 

seems to hide the right,

where are your eyes, 

What is in their sight?

Do you put your trust 

in the God you love,

pleading for help

from up above?

Or do you look else where

to find some relief,

not knowing the danger

in this simple belief?

Where do you look

when life gets quite tough?

Do you look to the Savior,

or the seas, stormy and rough?

~Matthew 14:25-31

Anyway, the past few weeks have really forced me to learn how to rely completely on the Savior. I could not do any of this without Him. 

Eu sei que Jesus Cristo é meu Salvador e Redentor. Eu sei que Ele vive. Eu sei que O Livro de Mormon è verdardeiro porque tenho lia o livro. Eu sei que Deus é meu Pai Celestial. Eu sei que Ele no ama muito! Eu amo Ele muito muito! 

Eu sou grato por minha família. Eu amo vocês! 

Have a great week!!

Love, Sister Jacobson

Hello cute sister! 

My name is Sister Schultz, and last Friday you and your friends were just sitting outside soaking up the sun, so here is cute photo of you all :)