Oh my gosh!! I cannot believe that this is the end. We leave the MTC on Monday and that is absolutely crazy to me! I can't believe how fast this time has gone by here. And I have LOVED it! So this is probably going to be a really short email this week. Really not a lot has happened.
So this week. You are probably not going to believe this but we got ANOTHER apostle! L. Tom Perry came and spoke to us. That makes 6 that we have seen in the time that we have been here. I don't think that has ever happened in the history of the MTC! So we've had Elders Anderson, Christofferson, Oaks, Perry, Holland and Uchtdorf. Seriously?! I feel a little spoiled haha but I'm not complaining it's been awesome. He talked to us about the importance of companions and being a good teacher. He gave us some great pointers on teaching.
So consecration week! That was hard. I'm not going to lie there were some days I totally sucked at it. But Thursday, Friday and Saturday were good! We all did really well at just speaking Hungarian. Then Sunday came and we had interviews with the Branch President, and no one else speaks Hungarian so we ended up just giving up and speaking English. Then Monday we tried hard again to pick it up and by the end of the day at least I was struggling a little bit. But walking out of the temple today it was a good feeling because I didn't have to feel guilty about speaking English haha
We did our last lessons with "investigators" a few days ago. We had one day where Martineau, Nover and I had to teach 3 lessons! That was a bit rough. We had one lesson in the morning over skype with someone actually in Hungary. That went really well actually! That was the best skype lesson we've had yet. She was so nice - I hope I get to meet her in Hungary for real. Then we taught one of our investigators (who is our teacher) and that was one of our best lessons too. Both of our investigators accepted baptism :) And then we taught our last lesson (where two of our elders are playing investigators). That one was okay - a little rocky and we got interrupted but in the end we kind of just all laughed about it and ended it.
Well that's about it. We have in-field-orientation tomorrow and then Saturday our teacher is going to do a cultural day with us and tell us all about Hungary. I am so excited for that. I'm not going to lie I'm slightly insanely terrified right now to be going to Hungary in just a few days. But I'm also crazy excited to get out and start doing the real work. I know lots of people say that being in the MTC for so long is hard and you're just ready to get out. There are some things that are hard and yes I'm exhausted 24/7 but I have absolutely LOVED my experience here. I have made some amazing friends that I know I will be in contact with forever. I know when I get to Hungary I probably won't understand most of what people are saying but I'm excited to be able to pick up the language more and become fluent in it. It is such a cool language! (by the way for Lord of the Rings nerds apparently it's really similar to Elvish? .....don't ask me...;))
Szeretlek titeket!! Talk to you all again from HUNGARY!!!! :)
Simons Nővér
p.s. Please keep Zach and all of the missionaries that were evacuated from Ukraine in your prayers! I am so broken hearted for all of them and just can't even imagine what they must be feeling. I know that the Lord has a plan and they will be okay but that doesn't make it easy. So just keep them in your prayers! :)
class with our teacher runnels tesver
new clothes for my birthday
gross.....lol lots of starburst = red tongue
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