Well, this week has been a blur, but I'll try to write what I can remember. To start off we have had many more mock discussions and it kind of is a rollercoaster on how well I do with the language. It is difficult but I am seeing improvement. It was kind of fun to find out that our first mock investigator became our second teacher. The hard part about it was that I'm pretty sure he only said maybe 5 words in english the entire 3 hour lesson. Surprisingly I was able to understand most of it, saying anything was another matter. I have mixed feelings, I can't wait to get out in the field, but I'm happy I still have 4 weeks to learn the language, or as much as possible.
On Tuesday Elder Nelson gave a devotional here. We got there early, but didn't make it into the room and had to watch from a different room. You pretty much had to be in the choir to make it in, but it was still a good talk.
The most different day is Sunday. We are able to take a break from studying. We still hah more that 3 hours, but we also got to walk to the temple and go to church. It was fun walking the temple with all the guys in my district. It's the last big event we got to do as a whole district. At sacrament meeting they randomly call on two missionaries from our branch to speak in Portuguese. They expect everyone to prepare a lesson, which I did, but I am so glad I wasn't called on. The talk assignment was obedience and my vocab is limited to " God gave us commandments to protect us."
We went to a missionary travel seminar to prepare us to head out to SP. It wasn't supposed to be memorable, but there was around 400 people there and they asked people from the congregation to speak. The guy in front of me and my companion volunteered. They proceeded to put a camera on him which caught me and my companion in the view. Simply put neither of us know how to act naturally. We had quite a few people cracking up as we tried to hide from the camera. I guess we lightened the mood a little. After that we went to dinner and it was better then normal, tostadas. I saw Sister Carr and we said bye. She's heading up to the Kobe, Japan mission and I know she'll do great. Then we had a devotional and watched a talk from President Utchdorf. His talk was really good and talked about the long term affect of missionary work bringing families together. Me and my companion sat down and I noticed we were right next to Elder Abernethy. He is just super positive and seems to be loving the language (Russian), then I went to sleep.
Random thoughts:
- I'm getting used to shaving every day
- I'm not as tired as I was last week
- About to leave the country for the first time
- I want to know more of the language to be a more effective servant of the Lord
- Apparently I am doing good scripture study, because my roommates caught me asking, how something came to pass?
- And I'm not really used to being in a classroom this long, I was just sitting there and the Newsies song Santa Fe kept popping into my head "I want space, or just air. give me wind in my face I don't care." this kind of made me laugh.
Elder Quain
Elder Quain's Provo MTC district
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