We Got Kicked Out of Our Room?!?! *not clickbait
Man, my last
week in the MTC. I've come to love everyone in my district so much. I'm gonna
miss them all so much when we all leave. Not too much happened this week
unfortunately so this email may not be as funny as last weeks. I'll try my
best.
So, on
Sunday my comp and I had to teach our Priesthood lesson on Christlike
attributes. It actually went really well, but in the middle of the lesson, a
member of our branch presidency had to slip me a note telling me to stop saying
“guys” because I was saying it so much. I don't know if I ever mentioned that,
but we're not allowed to refer to groups of people as guys. It is not easy, and
I never realized how much I did it.
Alright so
the way that they do sacrament is a little different. They never assign
speakers, the branch president just calls up a few people from the pulpit to
speak for a little bit. You guys don't know real anxiety until you have to sit
in sacrament meeting and not know if you're gonna have to speak until moments
before you speak. Absolutely terrifying.
So now to
the title of the email. For some reason on Wednesday morning basically everyone
at the MTC had to change rooms so that branches were like all in the same
building, and on the same floor. It was honestly so inconvenient to pack
literally everything up, move rooms, unpack everything, all for like 5 days. I
will say tho, we met a super cool Elder who is in a trio with the zone leaders,
and apparently they're super rude to him, so he hangs out with us whenever he
can. His companions leave Sunday, but he doesn't leave till Monday, so he
emailed our branch president, and he's gonna join our companionship for like a
day.
Another fun
thing we found to do here is drop hand sanitizer from six flights of stairs. I
don't know why, but the way it falls is just the funniest thing, and every once
in a while it hits someone and that's when things get real wild for us. It's
like everything else we do is childish, but we only have a few more days here,
so we're really enjoying it.
I also want
to thank everyone for all the packages. Y'all did not disappoint. The best
package by far though was from Dana. We had probably the best time with her
package. There was a bunch of little plastic musical instruments, and you
better believe we went Christmas caroling. It was so dope, and I wish I had a
video, but unfortunately, I don't. Regardless it was a grand time. I'm only
here till Tuesday so I'm not sure any more packages will make it to me. Oh,
also there was a whoopee cushion and I can't even start to tell you how much
we've used that. I'll try to get a picture of us with our instruments
though.
So, I made
the mistake of showing the Elders in my district 2 Kings 6:29, and they all
lost their minds. If you aren't familiar with it, then get familiar with it.
Anyway, we were in class and our teacher asked people to share their favorite
scriptures, and he stands up and I just knew that he was gonna share that. He
goes to the front of the class and reads it. I was losing my mind, and
thankfully everyone else started laughing, and then my teacher asked why he
liked it, and without smiling or laughing he just said "I think it just
shows a great lesson on motherly love. She didn't let her son get eaten because
she hid him, and I just think that's awesome." My teacher 100% thought he
was serious, and I was just in the back losing my freaking mind.
Well I guess
I should leave y'all with something spiritual. So here at the MTC we teach
lessons to actor's/actual non members, but we don't know which is which. Anyway,
at the beginning of our journey here, we planned our lessons way too much, and
we were way too scripted. One time we just decided to not really prepare too
much. Like obviously we prepared some, but we tried not to be so scripted, and
just teach by the spirit. It was honestly one of the best lesson's we've ever
taught. So, the lesson is to trust the spirit. As missionaries it is the most
important part of teaching. We consider it to be our third companion. At our
devotional on Tuesday we had Brent H. Nielson come and basically just do a question
and answer with us. One question that was asked was how do we know if we have
the spirit with us, and he responded, "you'll know if you don't have
it." I thought that was pretty neat.
Well I think
that's all I've got for this week. Catch me next week coming at ya from the
great state of Kansas.
Also, if you
look close in that pic out the window, the EFY kids are posing for our
picture
Oh, and in
case you were wondering, we're starting a boy band.
