Last
quick letter before in the MTC Saturday, July
20, 2013
Since
Tuesday, not a ton has happened, but at the same time lots has happened.
Remember
how I told you that Hermana Klein and I would be singing at the new missionary
orientation (about 400 missionaries). Well Hermana Klein ended up having
a doctor’s appointment, so it ended up being a solo. So Wednesday we went
to the room to do a sound check, and I caught Aunt Diana so that she could
listen. I am so grateful for Aunt Diana and her family; they have been a
huge blessing to me here in Provo at BYU and the MTC.
Anyhow,
sound check went fine. I was ready. Or so I thought.
Have
you ever stood up in front of 400 people, and made up a new song on the
spot? It takes talent.
Basically,
I forgot the words. Which is a very important of a song in case you
didn’t know? The piano started playing, I am looking at 400 new, nervous
faces, and I blanked. Yup, what I could remember was stanzas. So I
guess I didn't completely forget all the words, just mostly. The song is
"I know that my Redeemer Lives". Luckily, the song has couplets
like "He lives to grant me daily breath, he lives so I can conquer
death" and so on. So since I couldn't remember what words went
where, I just made up a new version of the song. I mixed up the entire
arrangement. And at one part, I even added me own "I know he
Lives". I guess I really wanted them to know that I knew that my
Redeemer lives.
So,
you want to know the funny part? No one noticed. Inside I was panicking,
but on the outside, I was giving them my best smile.
In
the cafeteria I had several people come up to me and tell Hermana Easter and I
that we did well. Hermana Easter asked one of them if they noticed and they
had no idea what she was talking about. And she questioned this poor girl
pretty intensely. She genuinely seemed not to notice.
The
closest comment we got was "it was a cool arrangement."
Right
before I sang, I prayed to Heavenly Father that I wanted the new missionaries
to feel the spirit while I sang. I know how tough that first day is, and
I just wanted to offer them some comfort that I could.
Well
maybe that was his way of doing it. I'll never know. I still am not
sure what to think about the whole thing.
Sunday
night we are supposed to sing again for our departing devotional (400+
again). Hopefully that doesn't happen again.
Other
than that, we are just living up our last few hours here. We said goodbye
to Hermano Harris yesterday. His mission President from Uruguay just came home
so he went to go see him.
I'll
be leaving the MTC Monday night at 8:30. whoohoo!
New
favorite scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:10. I feel like the scripture
was made for me. Maybe some other time when I have more time I will
expand.
Love
your guts!!!!!!
Hermana
McClune
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