Speaking of which, I got half-way package and I loved it!!! Thank you to all who contributed. My roommates all think I have the coolest family, which I also know to be true. It was a much-needed pick-me-up, and I've been eating all the snacks often (probably too often...).
Spanish adventures of the week:
We learned the difference between Imperfect and Preterit past tenses, and how/where to use it. The most interesting part of that was conjugating "hablar" into imperfect and ending up with the word "hablabamos." Clearly my adventures at the MTC are much more exciting than anything anyone else could be experiencing. ;)
On Wednesday we "hosted," which means we helped bring in new missionaries. We must have a pretty special district because we got asked to host last week, again this week, and we've been ushers/given prayers during devotionals. Most other people I know keep asking "how do you get to host, etc?" and they've been here longer than us and have never been asked to do anything. Weird, but I don't really mind :) I hosted two girls, and it was fun to remember what I was thinking and feeling on my first day.
In other adventures, some girls have started sleep-talking in our room (they've also started snoring, but that just comes with the inability to sleep, but no interesting stories). I was awakened the other night by Sister Robison sitting up and starting to talk incoherently, but her sentence ended with "preach my gospel." Ha, I guess the immersion is getting to all of us.
Oh! Exciting news. I was talking to Sister (Jessica) Christensen, and she said we should get together and do a musical number (you can try out and play for devotionals, etc). She said she brought the music to Savior, Redeemer of my Soul that she sang for her farewell and Brooke accompanied her. Then the next day, Hermana Wilson (who went through the temple the same day as I did and now resides in the bedroom next door) ran into me in the bathroom and was like "Hey, I hear you play piano really well. I was talking to some people and we want to do a musical number. I played Savior Redeemer of my Soul for my farewell on the violin, so we could do it and it would be cool." I was super confused and thought there were two separate people wanting to play that..
Turns out that her friend was in Jessica's district, and knew that Hermana Wilson played violin so when Jessica said she needed a violinist for the musical number they connected them. So I practiced a little bit and it was harder than I thought it might be, especially since I haven't been playing piano recently. And then the morning we were supposed to audition I was practicing and then heard someone in the next room over playing the exact same song as me! So I was pretty nervous. We ran through it a couple of times and just prayed that we would be able to perform well. We went to the room to audition, and the people you audition for are the wives of the MTC Presidency. Yikes. But as soon as we started playing I was able to be calm and my abilities were miraculously increased. After the audition they said they loved it, and would put it in the "yes pile." We need to work on getting it a little bit faster so that it fits in the time restraint, and just because it's in the yes pile doesn't mean we'll for sure perform it, but they said we probably will sometime in my last week here. Yay!
Also, we have incredible teachers. Ever since the second week here I've seriously considered coming back to the MTC post-mission to teach. Obviously I have a lot of time to decide about that, but it's been an option. The other day in class our teacher had us each get up and try teaching a concept to the rest of the class so we could better understand it, and it was so fun. I love teaching. And the things that our teachers do and the people they are are so inspirational. Also the workers who clean are awesome. Twice a week we do service, and Hermana Taukafa and I always try to get building 10M, since we've made friends with those workers. Their names are Sydney and Karl and they're super awesome, and we just talk and all try to do jobs that we can be close so we can talk while we're working. On Thursday Sydney was talking about how she'll be so sad when we leave, and then said that for their favorite missionaries she'll get money from them and then go get Cafe Rio and then we can all eat lunch together one day, so we'll be doing that soon :) yay!
I realize that most of you have been in Utah so this really isn't news, but the weather here has been amazing the past couple of days. Yesterday we studied outside, and I haven't been having to wear my coat around. Right now it's almost the same temperature as it is in McAllen usually. Kind of crazy! It's been a little tender mercy, as I've been perishing from cold. Our classroom is like a refrigerator, so being able to thaw outside is a little miracle.
Okay, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for interesting things to tell you know. Life is good, the MTC is great, the food is mediocre, and I'm super duper happy. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment