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| Preparation Day! |
Hello everybody!
So this week we had another Area Seventy come.
His name is Elder
Hirst, and he talked to us about becoming our next
best person; look at who we are today, and imagine who we want to be. It may
seem impossible, but before you know it, you will be there (more about Elder Hirst). That was on Wednesday.
Thursday, we had lots of Greek studies
and lessons.
Friday, I don't really remember what went
on. That's what most days are like in the MTC. By the end of the day, we can't
remember what happened in the morning. Every night, we get together as a
district and talk about what our favorite parts of the day are.
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| Greek Grammar |
I don't remember if it was Friday or
not, but we had one day where we spoke almost the entire day in Greek. It was
awesome. It forces us to really expand our vocabulary and figure out the grammar.
I think I sent the pictures of our grammar principles. THOSE AREN'T EVEN ALL OF
THEM (hahahaha)!
Yeah we are drowning in grammar. One verb can
be conjugated in over thirty-six different variations/meanings. So “I read” is “διαβαζω,”
but “I was reading” is “διαβαζα.” Now, that is the easy part. If you put it
into the passive simple future tense, then you have to find the continuous
root, remove the accent, take away the conjugation; now, all you have to do is
conjugate the verb using the six conjugations for passive simple future. Yeah,
super easy. Oh, and move the accent mark to three syllables from the end of the
word—all while speaking. Yeah, we can't do it either.
Saturday, I have no idea what happened.
Sunday, it was amazing, probably one of the
best days in the MTC so far! Sister S. gave a talk in Sacrament meeting and
killed it! We had a great district meeting and elders’ quorum. The afternoon
was spent jamming with Sister S. and Elder P. Sister S. was on the flute, I was
on the piano, and Elder P. was singing with his pumping bass voice. It was so
much fun. Family home evening was great as usual (What is Family Home Evening?). President Bunker (the MTC president) gave a lesson on the 4 Cs
of unhappiness: Complain, Criticize, Compare, and Cynical. If we are unhappy,
we should probably look at these four principles and fix one of them. We had
testimony meeting with all the departing missionaries. It was amazing.
Sister Bunker shared the following story about
missionaries and what they are like.
Imagine a perfect mom who has a perfect house
and three kids, and everything is always spotless, and she somehow juggles
everything and never seems flustered. Now, imagine that the oldest kid wants to
really help his mom. So, when mom goes to run errands, he asks his siblings to
help clean up the house just like mom always does. “Maybe, we can even bake her
some cookies,” he says. “I'm sure mom would love that.” And so, they clean and
bake all day long just to try and make their mom proud and happy. When mom gets
home, she sees the couches in the wrong places, the carpet half vacuumed, and
three little kids covered in flour running up to her with a plate of burnt
cookies. They are exhausted but happy to see their mom. They say, “MOM, we
cleaned up the house and baked you these cookies. We hope you love them!”
Their mom looks at the house that isn't as
clean as it should be, and the cookies that taste like coal. And she says, “Thank
you so much for cleaning up the house boys; these are the best cookies I've ever
tasted. I love you. Good job.”
We are just like those little kids. We work
all day as hard as we can. And at the end of the day, we kneel down and talk to
our Father. And we say, "I know I didn't quite sweep all of the corners,
and the cookies weren't very sweet. But, I tried my best."
And, our Father says, "Thank you for all
of your hard work. It is perfect to me."
So yeah, everybody had a great Sunday.
Monday, we had amazing physical activity. The
German speakers had workshops because they left on Tuesday. So, it was just
us and the new arriving German speakers at sport. Six versus six football is a
lot of fun, the best sport that we have had so far. One of our teachers,
Brother S., is literally my spirit animal. Except, he looks more like a
hedgehog than I do. Just kidding, I love him. Our other teacher holds the title
of “Most English Man Alive.” Brother P. is legendary.
Today has been good. Sadly, our German
speakers left today. We have been together for six weeks, and they are family.
They got on a bus at the same time we walked to the temple. Hopefully, they got
to Germany safely. They are serving in the Alpine German Speaking Mission. We
went into town and just got back. I'm exhausted but wishing everyone the best.
Please email lots! I read every email but physically don't have time to reply.
So if you don't get a reply, please don't stop sending them or get offended!!!
I promise they are read and appreciated.
Fun fact about out district: We sing “Called
to Serve” in Greek better than the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Love you all!
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| Greek is Killing Elder Müller! |
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| Studying Greek |
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| Preston, England Temple |
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| Studying the Gospel |
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| Missionaries! |
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| Elder Müller Having Fun With His District! |
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| Preparation Day |
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