Last
Thursday we took pictures at the temple. I will have a few down there,
and I have a couple pictures of my Frenchie friends. I get to speak
French with them, but only one of them speaks slow enough for me to
understand them. No nose bleeds today, yay! I spoke with the Indonesian
missionaries a lot too.
Friday, we learned a ton of new things in Malay. It was nice to
know these things, because we were given an oral test on this night to
see how fluent we are in the language from 1 to 7. I used the stuff I
learned to help me on the test, and I did super super well. I was a
little nervous but our teacher told us that most people on average get a
3 before they leave the MTC. I found out on Saturday, but I got a 5!!!
Man, I didn't know I was that good. My teacher told me to reach to get a
6 before my mission, but I doubt that will happen. It's really hard to
do that in the MTC....
Saturday, we taught another lesson today and my teacher had nothing
bad to say about it. He even struggled to think of ways we could
improve. Not every lesson will go this well, though. We have a couple
days planned ahead, so we won't have to work so much on Sunday.
Sunday - Really slow day, hurray. I was so glad to take a break
from it all. I still did some studying, but I wasn't so stressed.
Watched a couple short videos about the lives of a couple members of the
church in the 1800s. One was a stone cutter and the other donated a lot
of money to help the church in building the Kirtland temple. I got a
short nap, which meant everything to me. My eyes are constantly red (not
completely) because I don't get enough sleep every night, and the hour
of computer time I get hurts my eyes because I'm not used to looking at
computer screens.
Monday went by so fast that I don't remember much of what
happened. Before I knew it, I was at dinner eating, thinking that it was
lunch time. But I also remember that we had an awesome lesson with our
investigator Ng (pronounced like Dung, but without the D). Elder
Holland was also directly below me. We hoped that he would eat with us,
but his meeting went until after our lunch period. Today we thought of
weird rumors like we are going to be reassigned to go to China, because
our zone leaders had a meeting with the MTC president, and we thought it
was about our flight to Singapore. (We might have a very long layover
in Hong Kong, but I'll find out next week!)
Tuesday- So today was really short as well. It was really awesome, I
saw Ethan and Brigham at choir today! Elder Andersen spoke today, and
he shook hands with some of the people, but I was too far back. It's so
nice to see both of them. Ethan seems to be doing well from what he told
me, and his companion is a lot like him (I didn't meet him, he didn't
come to choir) so hopefully that works out well. Brigham won't be coming
to the Wyview MTC where I'm at, unfortunately until after I leave. But I
will see him and Ethan once more before I leave.
So Tuesday, we have a 30 minute walk back to our classroom at about
8:00pm, but it was raining a ton! Not enough to get us soaked like in
Singapore, but I had my nice watch and camera, so I was worried. I just
put my suit over them and walked in it. It was awesome ride back. :D :D
Wednesday I went to get my pills
for Malaria, so I found out that I will basically have to take them
once a day, and make a spray out of a few items to spray on my clothes
every 3 months, so that I don't get malaria. I will have to take these
pills even after my mission for a whole month. It's insane. I also
bought a Kitab Mormon in Malay! they finally had them in the book
store. I have one on my way to the mail, so it will be still good to
have 2, but I was just so excited to get one. My district and I started
reading together with an English Book of Mormon so we know what
"menggemukakan" means. One other thing I did was laminate my pictures in
my wallet so they don't get ruined.
Anyway, very busy busy week and the next week is
even busier. I teach 5 times a week now, and I pretend to be an
investigator for another missionary companionship, which is pretty fun
to do. :D
I hope you are doing very well and having a nice life. Enjoy school
for those that are going to school again. :D I completely forgot that
it is coming up.
Here are a few pictures of my week. :) :)
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