Thursday, May 26, 2011

Eighth Week in the MTC

Hello everyone!
This week has been a wonderful week, and I have been learning so much about the language and the gospel this week. My language is just coming along super! About two weeks ago I couldn't speak the language very fast; I had to pause after each word, and I stuttered a bit. I also still needed to use English words quite a bit. But over the last week, my language skills have gone way up! I can speak with quite a bit more fluency (not a ton, but I don't have to pause after each word) and I don't have to use English quite as often! I am just learning tons of words. The hardest part has been teaching the lessons. We have to focus on the needs of our investigator, and the Spirit while teaching, so we can't really focus on the language at all. When we run into a word that we don't know, we have to try and find our way around it in the lesson! Sometimes you can't find a way around it! Like this past Saturday at the T.R.C., I was teaching the Plan of Salvation with my companion, and I needed to say the next part of the plan, or the next step, or what happens next, or something like that, and I just couldn't find a way around it, so I just had to switch around a little bit, I hope that I didn't confuse my investigator too much.
Can you believe that I have been in the MTC for 55 days?? That is insane! I can't believe that time has gone by so fast. I am so excited for Cambodia! We leave in exactly three weeks from today! Hooray! 
On Wednesday I had the opportunity to host! It was a wonderful experience, but sometimes it was really hard to take the missionaries away from their families, but it was awesome to be the first person they met at the MTC! It was great to see the excitement and joy they have as they enter their first "field of work" in the mission. I hosted 3 elders and 1 sister. The sister I just helped take her things to where the other sisters were waiting to help her with everything. The experience was just super rewarding, and I am glad I had the opportunity to do that! We would greet the missionaries at their cars as they pulled up, and unload their luggage for them, and watch them say their goodbyes (this was the hard part), and then take the missionaries to the door of the main building and drop them off. The missionary would go through the building and get their name tags, and a few other items. I would walk around the building with all of their luggage, and wait for them to come out with their name tag and envelope with their information on it. I would take them to their residence hall, have them grab their scriptures, Preach My Gospel, and note-taking materials, and we would be off within 5 minutes. We would then go to the bookstore to get their bag which has their learning materials in it, and I would take them to their classroom where their teacher would be waiting, and I would leave them there! Quite a quick process, that's for sure. I remember when I went through it, it was all just kind of really fast, and like wow... ha ha! After I dropped them off, I would go to pick up another missionary. It was raining quite a bit that day! The volunteer said that she had been doing this for 2 years, and it had never rained like that in 2 years. Lucky me! Ha ha! No, it wasn't bad at all, and besides, I need to get used to the rain!

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