Friday, July 29, 2016

MTC 5: Sadness and Despair with some fun somewhere in there....

July 11, 2016
Howdy y'all!

So.. This week has it's happy parts and it's sad parts. All of our zone left to go to the field. So the Dutch Turks and Albanians. They have been the coolest people ever and I am going to miss them! One of the Turks isn't allowed to leave for another week so he may be in our companionship this week! 

We did a TRC (where the missionaries teach members that speak Hungarian) and we had an actual Hungarian! It was super crazy. He spoke at, like, a million miles an hour and when I walked out of the room my room was fried from trying to focus and translate what he was saying! So something funny. As we were walking into the room (I was first into the room) I shook his hand and he said "Szia", which just means "Hello", but then he said something I didn't understand because he said it so fast, I was curious. So I listened hard while he shook my other companions hands. I realized that he was saying his name. So we sat down. And the first question that my companion asks was "what is your name?".... I guess we need to work on listening better to people instead of just asking questions. It was a pretty great lesson. From what I could understand he was a pretty great guy! 

I am getting better at volleyball! It is a very big sport here in the MTC! I love playing outside in the sand when the sand isn't trying to burn the skin off of my body! 

So something I have loved in the MTC is the choir. They let anybody who wants to go in and practice. It is so cool when we are reaching the end and everybody is singing out loud. You can feel the spirit so strongly! The MTC truly is an amazing spiritual place! For July 24 we are having the a Nashville Christian Rock band come to the MTC and preform! For choir we are practicing some songs so we can be a huge backup singing group to some of the bands songs. They are a pretty nasty piece of harmony to learn! But it is really fun! Our choir director (Brother Eggett) is hilarious!! He is also super spiritual. He will learn the story behind every song he has us sing and as we are practicing he will talk about the amazing the happened to the writer of the song. He has a huge testimony but he mingles it with funny humor that keeps the atmosphere really awesome! 

My companions are good. I get a long well with one of them. We have had a bunch of similar things happen pre-mission. So when it is just he and I we talk a lot. I get along alright with my other one. He picks up on languages pretty quick. But we don't like talking about the same things which can be rough ;D

We (my zone) are getting 24 new missionaries going to Dutch speaking missions and 2 weeks later we are getting 21 Albanian going missionaries and then the week after we are getting 2 Turks. We are going to have over 50 people in our district! It is super crazy! And our small Hungarian districts are going to be the only experienced people.

As everyone is leaving our branch is losing all of the people that were doing the assignment... So I, a quieter person than normal, was assigned to be the door greeter where I will have to talk with everyone coming in and help them feel accepted! Sweet!! *sigh* I guess the Lord knows where we need to be to best grow!! 

I hope all of you are having amazing lives!!

Elder Biesinger

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