Elder Pier Dick

Hey everyone! This week has been a spiritual strengthening one for sure.  On Sunday I got to sing with the MTC Choir as backup for the Nashville Tribute Band.  They sing gospel songs, like LDS gospel, and they're super country.  But their message is one that relates to any religion so y'all should look them up and listen to some!   The spiritual strengthening part of my week goes as thus: I've started holding myself accountable to Heavenly Father.  Like at the beginning of each day, in my prayers I'll tell Him my goals for the day,  like "study _____ in my language. Get ____ memorized.  Plan ____ lesson" things like that.  And then at the end of the day, I'll tell Him how I did.  Let me tell you, that's intimidating!  He certainly knows when you aren't living up to your potential.  It's only scary because I can hear Him tell me I didn't do well, and where and how I can do better, when I ask.  But when I do all that I can

7/11/16 I've been here since Wednesday! I've seen over 20 friends that I knew from BYU.  Like TJ Mix, who used to be in the Wilmington Stake, and was my EQ Secretary.  And Landon Paskett, and Isaac Morisse, and Davis Webb, and so many others.  It's so cool to see the Lord's Army out here doing work. Every day we study Portuguese, for over 10 hours.  10 hours.  TEN HOURS.  yeah.  It's really hard. School was nothing compared to this. Haha.  It's kind of annoying to see the English speaking missionaries because they actually have so much free time.  So their time in the MTC is definitely so much easier.  But in the mission field, I feel like they'll probably have it much harder, Americans are kinda brutal when it comes to questioning the church.  Like, the practice investigators they have ask questions like "So Christ came to America?  Why didn't he go to Brazil? Or Mexico? Does He not think they're worthy of being saved?"  So, bas