*How are you liking the MTC?
I love the MTC! I am starting to realize more and more all of the things I am going to miss about it... like the food!
*How's your Spanish?
Ummmmm... It's fairly good. I am learning that part of the gift of tongues is people being able to feel the spirit testify of what I am trying to say along with helping me get the words. We kind of meet half way. My grammar is pretty terrible and I felt like I didn't progress at all the the past week and a half really, but I will explain latter why I have progressed more in the past 24 hours than I have in the past week.
*What's your favorite hymn in the CCM?
Still Lead Kindly Light but also Tengo Gozo in Mi Alma Hoy (There is Sunshine in My Soul Today). And that one is mostly because A. its always in my head and B. I actually know the words haha I also love singing Called to Serve! When we sing "poder" we all shout "PODER!!!!" It means power and Presidente said he learned it from the "expressive brazilians" hahah
*What is church like there? Do you have Sunday School and Relief Society?
We have an American Sacrament Meeting and Relief Society and Spanish one. We only go to the American one though. This Sunday is our first Sunday with two Spanish talks though! It'll be fun!
*What has been the best, the most challenging, and the yummiest things of the week?
The transfer we had was definitely the best and the most challenging thing this week. On Sunday, Presidente said he was planning on splitting up the threesomes. And he did! On Tuesday, alll of the Latinos left to go out into the field for real time. So, the rest of us crammed into a room and were given the details on the new companionships and stuff. He started by splitting us up but Hermana Simmons and I are staying together. Then he switched the elders out of our district and made another hermana threesome in that one and moved some hermanas into our district. Our district was best friends with each other, but that is okay. I honestly think that this is THE most inspired thing to come about since the invention of the wheel (JK obviously there are more things!) Presidente said that the teachers have noticed that having threesomes make development of teaching patterns and Spanish worse because we have two people to share our talking time with instead of one. I fully agree. I love Hermana Sabolsky and she is going to do such a great job. I also moved rooms! Instead of having two bathrooms for 8 girls, we have one for 6. It'll be a learning experience, but I already like my new room a lot!
The yummiest? They gave us squash last night that was absolutely amazing!
Also, we got a new missionary in last night. She is from Australia and her name is Morton. She's amazing! She is in our room, so we'll see her a lot!
Let's see, I went proselyting on Saturday! I don't have time to share everything, though I want to tell y'all EVERYTHING! I think I have a great advantage at this MTC. We get better food, we get to go out and proselyte in our mission language every week, we have native missionaries here with us and native teachers! It's great!
So, the three of us were dropped off on a busy road in front of a toy store. We took about ten minutes figuring out our map and trying to find out what area we were in and then ate our lunch. Eventually, we started walking around and talking to people. The people here are AMAZING! They are so nice to people learning the language, just like Presidente Benton said they would be. We could walk up to people and introduce ourselves as Yankees in our worse Spanish we could conjure, or just the best... its still pretty bad, and people would be like ohhh! Cute! Talk to us! haha Apparently they think we sound like little kids when we talk, so they think its cute. We spent about a half hour talking to these two sweet old grandpas. They were so nice and LOVED Hermana Sabolsky because shes a tall blue-eyed jumpy, bubbly girl! Hermana Simmons and I look kind of native. When we left we gave them the first pass along card we could grab. Turns out is said, "Where do you go when you die?" *facesmack* We didn't have time to figure out what the cards said before we met them! Then we talked to a few more people! One guy prayed with us... he said the entire Catholic Mary prayer (I forgot the name) to us... or he was casting out spirits. We couldn't tell what he was saying, but I heard Maria and Padre Celestial! It was so much fun to go out and talk to those amazing people! And I gained a testimony of the spirit and how it would prompt us to do little things.
The elders the other day were like, "hey... do you want to sync our watches" Elder A ".... Flip yeah I do" *silence* *beep**beep**beep* "cool" "word." Elders are dumb.
So Presidente Benton is hilarious. This is such a small closely knit CCM. The other day, while we were playing volleyball outside, he leaned out of the top floor window and was like "I need Hermana SoandSo!" over and over and then when she went over he said with a huge goofy smile "You have a package from your family!" in Spanish of course. Its hilarious how chill he is. Also, on Sundays, almost every Sunday like clock work after our class with him he says, "Now I would like to suggest that you all go ponder the Lord in your beds for a while." Which means take a nap. He always tries to fit naps into P-Days and Sundays. Its hilarious. When we found out our district was being split up, we did a mock survivor where we voted who would be kicked out of the district. I was Jeff. It was a good time. Hermana Sabolsky and Elder taylor were voted off. It came true!
(Sari asked Larry and I this but I am going to throw it out there to everyone and maybe someone has an answer:)
Also, I've had a big question on my mind: why is it that some people can not study and fall asleep and get Spanish and lessons down in a second while Im sitting here studying my butt off and going crazy trying to learn it all and I learn about 50% of what I try. Why does it work like that? It made sense in school because it was all academic but this is primarily spiritual. Why does that happen?
Verse for the week! It applies to everything, but I used it in my Word of Wisdom lesson this week.
Mosiah 7:33 "But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart and put your trust in him and serve him with ALL diligence of mind, if ye do this he will according to his own will and pleasure deliver you out of bondage."
Cool verse. Take from it what you will.
I love you all and I miss you!! Kiss the shrine for me!
Hermana Sant
Tif's note: This is "the shrine" that Sari was referring to:
This was my Christmas present - a bunch of pictures of Sari, from Sari. It makes me laugh every time I see it. Especially the bottom, middle picture.
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