MTC 4: Ruling the world and stitching my leg!

Hello Everyone!

This week has been quite similar to last week! I still have not seen any General Authorities which is annoying because they were all here last week and everyone else in my Zone saw, like, two different ones. But I guess that means my companions and I just have strong enough testimonies we don't need confirmations. Right?

We celebrated the Fourth of July on Saturday, because that is when they did the Stadium of Fire at BYU. The MTC piled all of the missionaries in a parking lot and we all had to stand and watch the show. We were allowed to stay up an hour later than our normal curfew, but we still had to wake up at 6:30, so it was miserable the day after! Our companion got called to the front desk at like 11:40 so we had to go with him, so we took small naps on Sunday. I took mine during a study session. One of my companions kept falling asleep during one of the devotionals and would drop his notebook whenever he did, so it was pretty hilarious!

So our hour of exercise has been so fun! It is nice to de-stressify for an hour each day. One of the days we were throwing a softball. The mitts weren't very good and my hand was starting to sweat,, so I took off the glove and continued to catch it with my bare hands. One of my companions , Gajdos Elder, threw a high lob to me, when I tried to catch it the ball went right through my hands and smashed into the side of me knee. It was pretty painful! I had a huge bruise and stitch marks from the ball almost immediately afterwards! It was pretty cool! 

This week we had a lesson every day in our language with an "investigator". She was our teacher, so she knew everything we should know... Needless to say, the first lesson was really bad! We were nervous and would forget things, then our teacher would graciously ask us hard questions that we weren't really prepared for. It was pretty bad! The rest of the lessons were really good though! We felt the spirit in all of them and were able to answer all of her questions!

We hosted a new batch of missionaries this week, and will be doing it again this upcoming Wednesday! It is so cool to be the Elders/Sisters first view of the MTC! It is crazy awesome to be able to continue the favor of comforting the new people! It is cool to see that, as you continue to talk and direct them, their worry and nervousness kind of starts to leave their body and they start to talk more! It is so cool!

So each Sunday we have the opportunity to watch either a movie or a recorded, past, devotional. Yesterday we watched "The Testaments", and let me tell you! It is a very different experience when you are watching it with a room full of missionaries! Especially during the love scenes where he either kisses the girl or asks her to marry him. It is very funny! The missionaries all start "freaking out" and there is a buzz of conversation for the next, like, five minutes! It is so great!

The Hungarian is coming along mostly great! I found a more simple Hungarian book that I brought with me that I am going to use to get the basics! I have to learn a whole different English to understand our normal grammar book! It is a pretty miserable read!! I am learning some pretty awesome phrases. We where working on our sentence making skills and this is one that I did that made the teacher laugh pretty hard (cause she was the only one that understood it!) "The young men walked into the grave yard and sacrificed the monkey!" It is a pretty important phase to know! But hey, sometimes you need somethings to unwind! And a good laugh always works! There are approx. 30 commonly used cases in Hungarian, and we have to memorize all of them! It is super crazy and annoying!!

My Zone leader interviewed me last week, cause I was the District leader, and he shared a scripture with me. It is Hebrews 12. It talks about how God gives us challenges because he loves us. It is a really really good chapter that I would recommend to anyone! 

I think that sums up my week! If you have any specific questions feel free to ask! Love y'all!!

Elder Biesinger

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Oh I forgot. Last Monday we helped rip up seating and carpet in the temple so that they could rotate everything out! It was a lot of fun!! We have a BYU lineman in our zone and he was a beast! He could run across and area of carpet we were working on ripping up, and grab a corner and just rip the whole hunk of faster than 2 or 3 of the other elders, together, could! It was pretty impressive!