Today marks exactly one month until I report to the MTC. I am so excited!!! Our stake started a mission preparation class about three weeks ago, and I have gone every Sunday. Today is when we got to begin to put into practice what we have been learning and studying. we split up into companionships and taught a couple other people in the class about a certain topic in the first lesson. The first time you teach, whether it is to members or nonmembers, is scary!!! For one family home evening activity in college we did this same practice teaching and I was so embarrassed. I second guessed everything that I thought I knew and stumbled so much. I feel much more prepared as I have studied Preach My Gospel and learned more of what a missionary does. The greatest thing I learned was that missionaries are never perfect.
Missionaries are human beings like everyone else. There will be times where missionaries stumble over their words, but the Spirit does not require eloquence to be in a lesson. The Spirit will testify of truth regardless of the ineloquence of the speaker. If the missionary has been praying and sincerely serving the Lord and trying to do His will, the Spirit will be there to attend him and touch the investigator.
As I taught the part of the lesson today I could feel my confidence growing. I stumbled and messed up, but the Spirit was still there. I know that as I go out into the mission field I will experience the same inadequacies I do now, but the Lord will make up for my weaknesses as long as I am serving Him with all my heart, might, mind, and strength. The missionaries are not on their own errand, but on the errand of the Lord. This is the Lord's work and He is in charge.
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