Here are pictures of Rachel's new haircut. I think it's pretty cute! Notice the pictures of family on the wall behind her. I sure do love that girl!!!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
The German Language
Here's a remark from Rachel's e-mail today:
thanks for everything that you sent me! thanks for my watch :) and the tape!!! oh my gosh mom and dad your part in the beginning when you're 'speaking' german almost kills me its SOOO funny!!! sister stewart and i die of laughter every time!! I LOVE IT so anytime you feel like speaking german PLEASE do it on a tape so i can hear it!!!!
I'm not sure how I feel about this... I took a year of German in Junior High... I think I know a little bit about what I'm doing... but apparently not!! Apparently my german is comical! I guess it's just good that we give her a good laugh every now and then. :)
She goes on to say:
speaking of german - its coming along really well! we're teaching the 2nd lesson for the LAST TIME next tuesday!!! can you believe it! we get our flight plans either today (although not likely) or tomorrow!!!! i can't believe how the time has flown by!!
anyway back to german, last night sister stewart and i were teaching sister balmer in the TEC and when we were finished she said that our german was so good and she was really impressed with us. she said that we had like an intellient conversation when we had taught her and she could understand us. now, i know that my german really isnt that good. i dont have the grammar down at all and i pronouce the words wrong i'm sure and i know i probably dont conjugate the verbs correctly. but she can understand me!! how cool is that! i think that that's really whats most important, that they can understand me and feel the spirit. everything else will come with time. but its a lot of fun i just open my mouth and try to speak and somehow it comes out in understandable sentences. Hahaha
This is good - apparently she has more talent with the german language than her parents do!
thanks for everything that you sent me! thanks for my watch :) and the tape!!! oh my gosh mom and dad your part in the beginning when you're 'speaking' german almost kills me its SOOO funny!!! sister stewart and i die of laughter every time!! I LOVE IT so anytime you feel like speaking german PLEASE do it on a tape so i can hear it!!!!
I'm not sure how I feel about this... I took a year of German in Junior High... I think I know a little bit about what I'm doing... but apparently not!! Apparently my german is comical! I guess it's just good that we give her a good laugh every now and then. :)
She goes on to say:
speaking of german - its coming along really well! we're teaching the 2nd lesson for the LAST TIME next tuesday!!! can you believe it! we get our flight plans either today (although not likely) or tomorrow!!!! i can't believe how the time has flown by!!
anyway back to german, last night sister stewart and i were teaching sister balmer in the TEC and when we were finished she said that our german was so good and she was really impressed with us. she said that we had like an intellient conversation when we had taught her and she could understand us. now, i know that my german really isnt that good. i dont have the grammar down at all and i pronouce the words wrong i'm sure and i know i probably dont conjugate the verbs correctly. but she can understand me!! how cool is that! i think that that's really whats most important, that they can understand me and feel the spirit. everything else will come with time. but its a lot of fun i just open my mouth and try to speak and somehow it comes out in understandable sentences. Hahaha
This is good - apparently she has more talent with the german language than her parents do!
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Ich Liebe Sie!
Thursday is now my favorite day of the week! I love getting an e-mail from Rachel. Here's the latest:
Time is seriously FLYING by! i think we get our flight plans like next week...AH! hahaha but i think i'll be ready. german is coming along - i'm able to speak it most of the day. on sunday and monday sister stewart and i spoke only german (although by the end of monday i was done and speaking in english haha) we're done teaching lesson 1 in german and now we're moving onto lesson 2 which we're teaching on tuesday in german. crazy huh!
oh my gosh!! so you will not believe who spoke to us at the devotional on tuesday night.....ELDER HOLLAND!!!!! he's my favorite apostle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was SO excited. he gave the most amazing talk. i love how bold and blunt he is, its wonderful. i'm making a copy of my notes that i'll send to you today. he's so funny too..at one point he was talking about how our younger siblings think of us as superheros with capes. dressed in missionary clothes but with capes... and he put his arms out like he was flying... and stood there pretending to fly for seriously a minute and then said: "Oh, I see evil - I will go down!" and then pretended to fly down. it was the funniest thing i've ever seen!! hahaha hes awesome
my knee was feeling really sore the other day - but i got some ice from the trainers and it hasnt hurt me since! its amazing! yesterday i played volleyball and sprinted around the track and my knee didnt hurt once! that hasnt happened in a long time, usually when i run it hurts but not this time. i enjoyed it :D
i'm praying for everyone every night... my prayers are so long - but they arent in spanish anymore... and theres hardly any english :D its wonderful
ICH LIEBE SIE! (I love you all!)
i've got lots of time today to send letters so be looking in your mailboxes!!!
thanks for your prayers - the church is true!!!
Time is seriously FLYING by! i think we get our flight plans like next week...AH! hahaha but i think i'll be ready. german is coming along - i'm able to speak it most of the day. on sunday and monday sister stewart and i spoke only german (although by the end of monday i was done and speaking in english haha) we're done teaching lesson 1 in german and now we're moving onto lesson 2 which we're teaching on tuesday in german. crazy huh!
oh my gosh!! so you will not believe who spoke to us at the devotional on tuesday night.....ELDER HOLLAND!!!!! he's my favorite apostle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was SO excited. he gave the most amazing talk. i love how bold and blunt he is, its wonderful. i'm making a copy of my notes that i'll send to you today. he's so funny too..at one point he was talking about how our younger siblings think of us as superheros with capes. dressed in missionary clothes but with capes... and he put his arms out like he was flying... and stood there pretending to fly for seriously a minute and then said: "Oh, I see evil - I will go down!" and then pretended to fly down. it was the funniest thing i've ever seen!! hahaha hes awesome
my knee was feeling really sore the other day - but i got some ice from the trainers and it hasnt hurt me since! its amazing! yesterday i played volleyball and sprinted around the track and my knee didnt hurt once! that hasnt happened in a long time, usually when i run it hurts but not this time. i enjoyed it :D
i'm praying for everyone every night... my prayers are so long - but they arent in spanish anymore... and theres hardly any english :D its wonderful
ICH LIEBE SIE! (I love you all!)
i've got lots of time today to send letters so be looking in your mailboxes!!!
thanks for your prayers - the church is true!!!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Rachel and Her Elders
This is a picture of Rachel, Sister Stewart and the Elders that they learn with every day. She has mentioned how much she loves them and how she's going to miss them when they leave for Germany because some are going to the Berlin mission. Rachel and Sister Stewart are the only girls in their district. Rachel seems to like it ok. Since she is the only girl in our family she's used to being around "guys". Plus, she mentioned that they get a lot of attention.
Rachel and Her MTC Companion
Rachel finally sent us some photos of life at the MTC. These pictures are from her companion's camera. She'll send me her photo card before she leaves for Germany and we'll get more pictures then.
This is Rachel with her companion, Sister Stewart who is from Orem, Utah. She said on a tape once that they share the same birthday, however Sister Stewart is taller... but it's all good because Rachel was born first - so they're even. Funny!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Seventeen More Months...
That's the mom counting down the time... not the missionary. She's survived the first month and is doing very well. Here's part of her e-mail from today:
* i accidently burned my ear with my hair straightener last week..yeah clamped the straightener right on my ear - it didnt hurt and i didnt know that it had actually burned my ear..its better now but i had a blister - and then today i was curling my hair and burned my fingers. haha i have problems!
* i see spencer halverson almost everyday - he looks like hes doing well.
* today was SOO beautiful outside! i wanted to go out an play soccer so bad! but we dont have gym on p-days and i dunno if they'll let us play outside yet.
* tell meg that i've written her and that she should look for it in the mail next week!
tell everyone thanks a bunch for their prayers and support! i wish i had time to write everyone back but know that i'm praying for everyone!
* so this week we started teaching in german - ahh!! haha i was SO nervous on tuesday and was really feeling bad about myself. but before we left to go teach my teacher had us read in chapter 1 of preach my gospel, the section how to become a successful missionary (or something like that) anyway it said - don't compare yourself to other missionaries....don't get discouraged. when you get discouraged then you lose faith. anyway i SO needed to read that - i prayed so hard to Heavenly Father that He would help me feel better about myself and that i wouldnt be discouraged. i felt so much better after reading that and i felt that i would do ok.
* so we got to the teaching thing and the people we taught knew about as much german as we did! it was awesome!! when we started teaching they had tons of questions about the holy ghost and baptism - we didnt even get to teach the lesson because they had so many questions and we kept answering them. the spirit was so strong and was helping us to answer their questions. we hadnt even practiced talking about any of that stuff in german but we were able to answer all their questions and resolve their concerns! I was even able to say stuff!! it was SO cool! i felt SO blessed - i know that Heavenly Father will help me when I get to Germany.
* last night sister stewart had a practice teaching appointment with a german teacher. again he had questions and such that we answered and hardly taught our lesson - again the spirit was there helping us. sister stewart did most of the talking which i felt was fine because i didnt know how to say anything. when we finished the teacher looked right at me and said "sister doty, you know so much more german than you think you do. if you ever feel like something should be said..just jump in there and try and say it. just open your mouth." as i thought about it there were times when i felt that someone should have been said but since i didnt know how to say it in german i just let sister stewart keep talking. but when that happens i really need to just try and say it. i know that if i do, that i'll show Heavenly Father that i have faith in Him and that i trust Him that if i just open my mouth, that whatever i thought should be said, will get said somehow. so i'm really glad that he pointed that out to me. so the next time i teach i'm going to pay more attention to what the spirit tells me to say and then i'll just open my mouth and try to say it! i'll let you know how it goes!
This makes me smile because never in her life has Rachel been afraid to "open her mouth"! I think she was born talking!
* i accidently burned my ear with my hair straightener last week..yeah clamped the straightener right on my ear - it didnt hurt and i didnt know that it had actually burned my ear..its better now but i had a blister - and then today i was curling my hair and burned my fingers. haha i have problems!
* i see spencer halverson almost everyday - he looks like hes doing well.
* today was SOO beautiful outside! i wanted to go out an play soccer so bad! but we dont have gym on p-days and i dunno if they'll let us play outside yet.
* tell meg that i've written her and that she should look for it in the mail next week!
tell everyone thanks a bunch for their prayers and support! i wish i had time to write everyone back but know that i'm praying for everyone!
* so this week we started teaching in german - ahh!! haha i was SO nervous on tuesday and was really feeling bad about myself. but before we left to go teach my teacher had us read in chapter 1 of preach my gospel, the section how to become a successful missionary (or something like that) anyway it said - don't compare yourself to other missionaries....don't get discouraged. when you get discouraged then you lose faith. anyway i SO needed to read that - i prayed so hard to Heavenly Father that He would help me feel better about myself and that i wouldnt be discouraged. i felt so much better after reading that and i felt that i would do ok.
* so we got to the teaching thing and the people we taught knew about as much german as we did! it was awesome!! when we started teaching they had tons of questions about the holy ghost and baptism - we didnt even get to teach the lesson because they had so many questions and we kept answering them. the spirit was so strong and was helping us to answer their questions. we hadnt even practiced talking about any of that stuff in german but we were able to answer all their questions and resolve their concerns! I was even able to say stuff!! it was SO cool! i felt SO blessed - i know that Heavenly Father will help me when I get to Germany.
* last night sister stewart had a practice teaching appointment with a german teacher. again he had questions and such that we answered and hardly taught our lesson - again the spirit was there helping us. sister stewart did most of the talking which i felt was fine because i didnt know how to say anything. when we finished the teacher looked right at me and said "sister doty, you know so much more german than you think you do. if you ever feel like something should be said..just jump in there and try and say it. just open your mouth." as i thought about it there were times when i felt that someone should have been said but since i didnt know how to say it in german i just let sister stewart keep talking. but when that happens i really need to just try and say it. i know that if i do, that i'll show Heavenly Father that i have faith in Him and that i trust Him that if i just open my mouth, that whatever i thought should be said, will get said somehow. so i'm really glad that he pointed that out to me. so the next time i teach i'm going to pay more attention to what the spirit tells me to say and then i'll just open my mouth and try to say it! i'll let you know how it goes!
This makes me smile because never in her life has Rachel been afraid to "open her mouth"! I think she was born talking!
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