Amber's 5th Week in MTC - I'm so excited to go to Mongolia!

Hi everybody!
This week has been really good especially when we taught the second lesson again at the TRC. We had switched sections from the week before so we had to use new vocabulary and learn different gospel subjects. This week me and my companion decided to focus more on the investigator, even though they were returned missionaries. We decided to try and make it as really as an experience as possible. So we prepared scriptures and questions that we could ask. We also resolved to bear testimony throughout the whole lesson. I also resolved to change my attitude about it and not think about my lack of language ability and to focus on the needs of the investigator. So before we started teaching we asked her about the first lesson and if she had any questions and then if she had read 3 Nephi 11 which we had committed to her to read. She started asking us questions which made it seem more like we were really teaching someone. But she had to talk slowly and had to do a little hand motions to help us figure out what she was saying in Mongolian. After we figured out what she was saying we wanted so badly to answer her but our language skills are lacking. We comminicated with her in our broken Mongolian. We taught her the lesson and her read scriptures that applied and then we would ask her if she understood, even though we knew if she had questions we would have to work really hard to understand. That lesson was an amazing experience! We could feel the Spirit even though we were slow in speaking and our language skills were poor. It comes to show that the investigator is the real focus of your work.
So Brother Cannon, our teacher, on vacation this past week to Mongolia. He came back with stories about the work there and the mission, and the mission president. It made our class so excited to go! We learned that we can openly say that we are missionaries so we don't have to wait for someone to ask us what we do. There are five companionships that are tracting everyday to see how it goes and the mission president has found that it has been really successful. The mission president has three programs: 10 contacts a day-where we will share a short message with someone on the street and ask if we can teach more, and then inviting the investigators and members to share the gospel with people they know and then each companionship is given five inactive families to visit everyweek. Because of that inactive families who are visited 300-500 more members have been coming to church. Also, over the past few years there has been 500-800 baptisms a year. There is at least one baptism every weekend at each baptismal font available. They predict that in 7 years there will be a temple. There are six American sisters there, so we are going to double it! Some other interesting facts are that 98% of Mongolian people can read and write. Mongolian women are very career oriented and very educated. My mongolian teacher (a woman) says that the Mongolian women are carrying Mongolia.
So all the stories that Brother Cannon was telling us was making us so excited! The only thing that scares me is the language. I know I won't be prepared when it comes for us to leave and I feel that I will struggle with the language in Mongolia. The grammar is pretty simple after you get use to the sentence structure but the pronounciation is the killer! I have a heard time speaking English somedays. I'm afraid that my quiet nature will keep me from speaking because I will say it wrong. It's going to be a goal of mine and my companion and Sister Marta have been very supportive and willing to help me overcome that weakness.
Quote of the day:
Neal A. Maxwell- "The more we adjust to this world, the less we are adjusted for the next world."
Scripture: Mosiah 7:33
The church is true and keep the faith!
Sister Sumsion