Bellota
I have no idea why the Subject of this week's' email was "Bellota", but we'll go with it.
The day after p-day being Sunday. It was the first church
service at the MTC because of General Conference. It was as a branch. The
branch contained the Mong speaking district, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish
speaking districts. We have to prepare talks before Sunday because during
sacrament meeting the one conducting will randomly pick five missionaries to
talk. I lucked out my first day and missed it. Two Mong elders got picked and
it was really cool to hear the language. We also had Priesthood and Sunday
school.
We had a Devotional at the end of the day. Anytime we had
between stuff Sunday was for us, which meant naps or studies. The Devotional
was someone that wrote biographies for some
Prophets and Apostles. She talked about some missionary work and
President Nelson going around gathering Israel.
Monday was classes and more Spanish learning. We had TRC
(Teaching Resource Center) in Spanish this last week and it was kind of rough.
I couldn't understand a lot and my vocab was basic.
Tuesday classes again and another Devotional. This time
Elder Quentin L. Cook came and spoke with us. He talked about the Book of
Mormon and how important it is for missionaries to use. He brought a historical
artifact guy from the church that brought the original manuscript of Alma 34
and the printed manuscript of 3 Nephi 16 and Alma 34. It was amazing to see
these pages and the work put into them. I had tutoring on Tuesday as well to
learn Spanish better and how to actually study it.
Wednesday was classes again and TRC was bad. Still in
Spanish but with a lesson. Monday was just getting to know them. We even had
the teacher observe our visit. Which is a good thing otherwise I wouldn't have
been able to answer her question. We had a basic idea of what she was saying so
my companion did his best to teach the restoration which was hard because its
past tense verbs and we are now learning it. She saw that we struggled and
wrote down her question for us to plan around. I just felt bad and realized how
hard this Spanish really is.
Thursday was classes and the last TRC for the week. Knowing
her question my companion and I were able to prepare for the question she had
and taught about the Savior’s time on earth, the great apostasy, then the
restoration one more time so she got a better idea. Thursday I was able to
understand more than I used to.
Friday or P-day eve was classes again. Classes all week just
to know the gospel and Spanish. It's like being in high school again. Classes
all day and the food isn't the best. But the days start to blend together. The
food is starting to reappear and same things every day. The 5th week is going
to be crazy and jokes are going to be so dumb.
The Mong elders are here for 9 weeks and they have only 1
left. The whole branch is on the same floor in a residence hall. So we see how
everyone is feeling and meet others. Well, the Mong elders built armor out of
cardboard boxes and had a knighting ceremony.
For exercise time we played lots of soccer and this week
some volleyball. I kicked the volleyball with no shoes and hurt my big toe.
Then playing soccer I ran into some one’s foot very hard and hurt it more. I am
walking it off.
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