Another Week at the MTC

Ciao la mia famiglia!

Another week completed at the good old MTC. Here are the deets.

 

Thursday was p-day and rocking. Seriously, they save my life. I was able to get so much accomplished and no nap for me :) No wasting the Lord's time.

 

Friday: Class, gym, class. haha This will be your life Becca. Gym time is the most divinely inspired 50 minutes of the day. I usually run or play volleyball, which I happen to be crazy good at not. If I had played like this is High school that would have been pretty awesome. It is a hoot because we have some missionaries that played in college who are of course, insanely good and then we have the missionaries who look like they are swinging a bat when serving :) It always proves to be an adventure. I've been able to lift some weights before and am trying to stop flabbing arms from occurning :) and I haven't gained a pound thank you very much! go me go me, go go go me!

 

Saturday. Class; gym; language assessments. hahaha we talk into these head phones and answer questions which are recorded and sent to our teachers. It's hilarious. Tons of missionaries stress out about it but I usually try my best, bear my testimony in 10 words and then leave a funny joke in english for my teacher. Gotta keep it light, ya know....The weirdest part of the week is Saturday night. Everyone and their grandma's cat are out doing something awesome and I sit in class :) A strange adjustment.

 

Sundays are money in the MTC. For Relief Society this funny women who was the fist sister missionary to serve in the Far East (included all of Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Malasia, and the philliphines) spoke about her experiences. She was the funniest woman I have ever heard. She gave some wonderful advice about learning to speak a 2nd language. To sum it all up, the language of love is far more important than any other 2nd language. If I can learn the language of love; thus being the language of Christ, than I WILL learn Italian. My two favorite quotes from her-

"The best that I could, was the best that I had, and the best that I had became the best of me."

"Don't touch the Elders. Just don't. But keep track of the ones you'd like to..." Thank you Mary Edmunds. Best talk ever.

 

Our Sunday night devotional was the media guy from the church. He talked about Mormon Media and how much of an impact it has. Cool stuff! They are doing some sweet media compagnians (holy flip, how do you spell that now!?!?!) in England to combat the newly opening Book of Mormon musical. If you can look it up, do. Pretty neat. Heavenly Father is far more smarter than Satan. Take that little devil! I also love Sunday nights because we get to watch church movies. This week; Legacy. All the missionaries went crazy during the kissing and romance scenes. We are all starving for physical attention. Handshakes suck :)

 

Monday. Class. Gym. Class. Contemplate sneaking out to see Rachel but deciding Provo is far to scary a place to venture out. Must stay in bat-ridden, safe MTC.

 

Tuesday. We have "service" and clean other girls showers. Stephen would flip. This girls are the worst. So much hair everywhere and soggy toilet paper in the showers. Good thing it is service or I wouldn't do it. I make Sorella Nelson clean out the hair and I do the srubby part. Tuesday night we had a little surprise. We have devotional from 7-8 but we never know who the speaker will be until they walk in two seconds before it starts. this week. ELDER RICHARD G. SCOTT!!!!!! Wooooowooooo the mormons go crazy!!! He gave awesome advice about strengthing our prayers and recognizing personal revelation. He was an answer to many of my prayers! So he gives his talk, we sing, a girl gets up to pray. Elder Scott literally sprints back to the podium and cuts the girl saying the prayer off. He is surprisingly loosey goosey for a man his age. He totally works out....Anyway.....He tells us he feels the need to say a little more. Then we gives us an apostolic blessing! Close your jealous mouths!!!! Yes, he did. He said that not only will we all be blessed to learn our language but we will MASTER it. Hello tears that have suddenly sprung to my eyes. How cool is that?!?!?!?!?! Everything will work out. I was called to succeed not to fail! Woo. Okay, you can breathe again.

 

Wednesday: See Monday. Except for we have an "investigator" Fabbio. These investigators are played by our teachers but are all real people they met in their missions. So we have taught Fabbio a few times and I felt the need to just hit him the baptismal invitation. "Fabbio, Sequira l'esempio di Gesu Cristo facedonsi battezare da qualcono che detiene l'aurtorita del sacerdozio di Dio!? (Fabbio, will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone who holds the priesthood authority of God?").....wait for it....I'm on the edge of my seat......staring him in the eyes.....proud of myself for remembering the entire thing....Spirit is as thick as a hairy man's chest...Fabbio: Si!!!!!!! (yes). Yup, I nearly broke. Tears sprung to the eyes! YES!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CHURCH IS TRUEEEEEEE!!!!!! Such a wonderful moment. If I have just 1 of these moments with a real investigator the entire 18 months will be worth it. Yay.

 

Well fam, that is about it!

 

Have you guys been Dear Eldering me? I never go any repsonses about the bat story or the "i know God will kill you" story. Both of which were awesome. Make sure you put mtc mailbox 105 and departure day 0430 when sending them :) You are the best! Also, thank you all again for the packages! They are wonderful and bring so much joy. Legit we have the best fam. LOVE YOU ALL

 

I get my travel plans to Italy sometime today.....heeeeeeckkk ya

 

over and out -

 

Sorella Alley