Hi everyone!!
So this week was pretty
amazingly awesome!! We had a group of 23 Dutch speaking missionaries
come in! They are a blast and add so much spunk to our used-to-be-small
zone! We are also receiving 21 new Albanian speaking missionaries this
upcoming week! It will be so much fun!
The gym
was closed all this last week and most of the week before for redoing
the floor. So we were stuck outside for and hour each day playing in the
blazing sun! We played a lot of beach volleyball! It was so fun! When I
came to the MTC I was horrible at volleyball, now I can somewhat
consistently hit it over the net, even when I do flying dives! On Friday
I had sand all through my hair even after I showered. I guess that is
just an indication of how much I got into it!
So
our devotional on Sunday was fun! We usually have a live speaker talk
from 6:45-8 and then a missionary approved movie or a past recorded
devotional. One of the movies that is always showing each Sunday is "The
Character of Christ" by David A Bednar. It is highly suggested/required
for new missionaries to watch that on their first week. The MTC
presidency announced that as a gift for the new missionaries they would,
instead of a live speaker, show "The Character of Christ" for the
Sunday devotional. It is an incredible talk so I wasn't really bugged
about it. After the recording ended we, the missionaries, were getting
ready to sing our closing him and when all of the sudden, who should
come through the door. ELDER BEDNAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the flesh!!
Everyone, after a few dazed moments, shot to their feet! We spent the
next hour and a half having a Q & A session with a quorum of the
twelve and his wife about the video we just watched. It was amazing. The
spirit was there strongly when the video was playing, but when he got
there it shot up. It was an amazing experience. When he testified to us I
can now see how some people in the scriptures would become dumbfounded
when an apostle or prophet of Christ testifies.
This
is a funny thing he said. "When a Sister does 10 things, she is perfect
in 9 and makes a tiny tiny mistake on the 10th one. She frets and
stresses about the mistake she made. When an Elder does 10 things, he
fails at 9 and is barely passable at the 10th one. While the sister
would be in a coma from that mistake, the Elder hits his chest and says
'that is how it is done!'" Elder Bednar is hilarious! And if any of you
watch the face2face with Bednar he kind of called his wife old and not
as beautiful as earlier years. Well.... She is still getting back at
him. When he had her answer a question she totally threw him under the
bus!! It was hilarious! I could listen to Elder and Sister Bednar talk
all day!!
So... We have Sacrament meeting
Sunday mornings at 8-ish/8:30-ish. I was the greeter for the first time.
Besides being a greeter I have no other calling in the Branch. One of
my jobs is to open and close the doors before the Sacrament. I was also
asked to pass the sacrament.... As I was closing the doors in the back I
was half listening to the Branch President announcing the rest of the
meeting. I was having a nice day, feeling confident about future things,
when the worst sentence I heard ripped my out of my thoughts "following
Sister Wester's talk we will be blessed to hear from Elder
Biesinger.....". WHAT??!?!?!?!??! We have always had the Zone and Sister
training leaders give talks the first Sunday after they were assigned!!
This was NOT supposed to happen. But I, being an Eagle Scout and just
an all around cool person, still had a talk prepared. I gave my talk in
Hungarian and, yeah.... Hence the subject "Greeters don't talk first". I
think that that phrase needs to be taught to all of the Branch
Presidents! It wasn't that bad :D Just very unexpected. I also taught in
priesthood and district meeting (the other two scheduled class times on
Sunday!) Very busy day! By the district meeting (at about 5 in the
evening.) I was exhausted and brain dead from language study. During the
evaluation that one of the Branch presidency leads after our district
meeting, one of the "things to do better on" was "have Elder Biesinger
talk more, he didn't really talk." Hmmm..... I wonder why :D
We
found out this week that, instead of teaching Hungarian speaking
members who volunteer in the MTC, we are going to by skyping members
from Hungarian next week!! YEAH!!!! It is going to be awesome!!
So
some of the Sisters in my Zone have a quote wall where they put things
that need to be remembered forever. The order of them goes like this:
Elder Biesinger
Sister....
Elder...
Elder Biesinger
Elder Biesinger
SIs...
Elder Biesinger
Needless
to say. I will not be forgotten in this Hungarian district for a while.
The quotes get passed on to the new Hungarians that come after we
leave, so I may always be known as the weird Hungarian Elder! Not the
worst thing I have been know for! ;D
It is so
fun to read emails and get letters from some of you! It is so nice! You
never know how awesome letters are until you go on a mission, well at
least I didn't!
Life is great and the Gospel is always true!!
Love you all!
Elder Biesinger!
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