Water Sounds -- Week 3

Cassidy & Ellie... we see each other almost every day.

Sister Cruz and Sister Blake (my comps)

Okay so this week we taught our fake investigators once again...surprise right? hahah just kidding. We taught Mandy about Jesus and his earthly ministry. We decided to show a short video of Jesus getting baptized and baptizing others. So we downloaded it in Cantonese on our iPads. In English the video is less than 2 minutes....I guess we forgot to look how long it was in Cantonese. It was like 5 minutes long! And most of it was just water sounds hahah. Sister Blake and I were trying not to laugh in the lesson, and had no idea when it would be over.

our zone (who most leave between early this morning and Wednesday)

This week was good. Yesterday was amazing. We had the 12 apostles come to our Sunday night devotional. The only members not in attendance were the First Presidency.   I felt the spirit so strong while singing. Like when they walked in we were all singing the intro music, and we all stood, and it was so cool, and then a lot of the mission presidents turned around and would just look at all the missionaries. It was kind of a cool experience.

Elder Cook gave the devotional. It was a worldwide devotional, so all the MTCs around the world were watching. He talked about the 4 loves of missionary work. 

1. Love your companion.

2. Love the people of your mission.

3. Love your mission president and his wife

4. Love your Lord Jesus Christ

One of the coolest things he said was at the end of his message. He said, "My dear friends, you have our prayers, our blessings, and our love." I really loved that. 

Also this week we got to officially meet our mission president and his wife. They are so cute. 

Chips & Salsa from mom

Oh one more quick story. When I was walking back to my class with the rest of my district, I was playing with my ID card and mindlessly swinging it around my fingers. The executive secretary of the MTC decided to stop me and ask if he could tell me something. I said sure, and then he said, "If Elder Bednar was walking around these halls, would he do that?" I then stopped and apologized for swinging my ID card. Now it's a joke between us all and all week we have been on the lookout for Elder Bednar hahah.

Today:  There was a cute sister in the temple who came up to us as we walked out of the celestial room. She asked if we were missionaries and said she could see something different. She served in the Philippines and so when she found out Sis Mangubat was from there she was so happy. They spoke Cebauno to each other. She said she has just found out that someone she loved from her mission died, and so she went to the temple looking for something to help and that she could speak her mission language and talk about the Philippines to someone was exactly what she was looking for. An answer to prayers. So that was kinda cool

Anyway, hope you all are good. Thanks for all the prayers. They are much appreciated. Hope you have a great week.

Sister Clegg

The fancy desert they served the mission presidents, but had extra

The Hermana's -- Week 2

I see Cass almost every day..

Okay so this week was definitely hard, lots of tears, but also so good.

So every night we do Zone Prayer in the older Sister's room, and so Sister Blake and I were walking down the hall to go to pray. It goes our room, then Sister Law and Mangubat's room, next is the Mandarin Sister's room, then a random room with Hermana's, and then the older Sister's room (where we go for prayer every night). I accidentally walked into the Hermana's room. They all stared at me....I said, "wrong room" and walked out. Sister Blake still laughs at me. She tells me every night not to go in that room hahah. 

(Our District)

My companions and I also had to give the lesson in relief society on Sunday. It was about agency. So it was a lot of storytelling of things we have all done wrong and learned from. It was all over the place, but we took up the whole hour, so I think it was great. hahah. Maybe God didn't think so.

I learned a lot of things this week. It's amazing what you learn when you actually listen and aren't distracted on your phone hahah. But seriously one of my favorite things I learned was about agency. My teacher Brother Anderson (one of our Cantonese teachers) said something that helped a lot. We (the 5 of us in our class learning Cantonese) were all struggling a lot with the language. He then said, "None of you chose to speak Cantonese. It's one of the hardest languages in the world to learn and speak properly, yet God thinks you can do it." He then said, "the minute you submitted your mission papers you gave up your agency. You didn't choose where you were going to serve or what you were going to speak, but you did choose to serve the Lord." Next, he said that when the Lord requires us to give up agency he is then obligated to help us. So since we gave up our agency and were called to speak Cantonese, he now will help us. I really liked that.

My comps & I

The other thing I loved this week was again with Brother Anderson. We talked about 1 Nephi 1. But the thing I loved was in verse 14. it says, "thou wilt not suffer those who come unto thee that they shall perish!" I loved it because if we turn to Christ, and come unto the Lord we will not perish. 

Thanks for all of the prayers. They are much appreciated. I hope you all have a great week.

Sister Clegg

MTC VS. PRISON!! -- Week 1

This morning when we went to the temple, on the walk back we were talking and one of the Sisters said, "What is the difference between the MTC and prison?" and the other sister said, "In prison you can have visitors" hahah.

I'm in a trio companionship. My companions are sister Cruz from Cali, and sister Blake from North Carolina. We all get along pretty well. So far that is. Sister Cruz speaks a little Mandarin, so that's kinda helpful, but not really haha. Our district is 5 sisters. There are a total of 7 sisters speaking Cantonese and no elders. So our whole zone and branch are made up of all Mandarin speakers, and the 7 of us who speak Cantonese. So that means all of the songs and stuff at church are done is Mandarin haha.

Apparently Cantonese is the second or third hardest language to learn, so RIP to me. We taught our fake investigator twice. I had no idea what she was saying most of the time. I could pick up little words like Book of Mormon, but not a lot. Our first lesson was honestly horrible. We had no idea what she would ask. Our second lesson went a lot better. We taught about the Book of Mormon. When she would ask questions about my comps. and I would quickly try to figure out what she said and then flip through our book that has phrases in it and say a simple phrase using all the wrong tones and hope she could somewhat understand, and deep down hope she didn't have any more questions hahah. But she usually did. 

The MTC is for sure weird. But good. Language is hard, but I do like the class. So that's good I guess hahah. 

Feel free to email anytime. I am able to read emails any day of the week. 

Hope all is good. I'll send a separate email with pictures. Thanks for all of the prayers! Love you all.

Sister Clegg

"I MADE IT!!" Day 1.

Twin sisters:  June 2018-December 2019
Ellie Clegg/China, Hong Kong Mission
Cassidy Clegg/Germany, Frankfurt Mission

Well everyone I made it to the MTC. The first thing they do is give you your name tag, and then they put it on you. When mine was put on it was in Spanish. hahahah. So that was exciting. 

They only talk to me in Cantonese and I don't understand anything hahah.

Hope everyone is well. Love you all.

Sister Clegg