Alrighty. Let's see. I dont have as
much to write you guys about this week so hopefully I will have time for
everything AND sending pics! yay! pictures! hahah
Anyways this week
has been good! Still loving the MTC. It's
just the best. I see Irmao Nothum all the time and I see Elder Anderson like at
least 3 times a day cuz his meal times are scheduled right after mine so that's
fun. We talk at each other in Russian and Portugues, and by talk I mean he
talks to me and I just kind of say any random Portugues words that pop into my
head... so that's fun. hahah It's kind of super hard not to call him Ethan
though, Im always messing up with that... but that's ok I guess. =]
Still haven't hit the 'ohmygoodnesswhatonearthamidoinghereletmedrowninmytearsofoverwhelmedness'
point yet, still going strong. soooo hopefully that will never happen and my
whole mishh will just be full of rainbows and butterflies and unicorns and
baptisms. Wouldn't that be nice?
Portugues has
been going good. Still teaching lessons in all portugues, though we do use some
notes in some of them... It's kind of difficult cuz you feel like you know
nothing and need to know more more MORE and then you realize that you've
only been here for two weeks and you are praying and teaching whole lessons in
portugues already and that is pretty fire actually. hahah it's going good
though... the grammar part of it is annoying and hurts my head though. We
learned about subjunctive tenses yesterday and out teacher explained it as
talking about possible alternate realities... and i may or may not have totally
spaced out at that point and was only able to think about Pete's World and how
the Doctor had to leave Rose on that beach and how horrible it was... hahaha
So the big news of the
week is that Sister Doman (one of the sisters in my district) got her VISA!
WHOOOOOOO! She's leaving for Brazil on Tuesday!! We are all so excited for
her!! And a little sad. It's sad that the district is already starting to break
up (the breaking of the fellowship anyone?? I would totally be listening to
that song all day on Tuesday if we were allowed to listen to music at the MTC).
But like I said we are super happy and excited for her, even though we will
miss her to death back here in spirit prison... I mean the Provo MTC... hahah
OH! And also cool, Sister Doman's brother, who is here at the MTC as well (he
is actually in the district next to us), and is also going to Brazil got his
Visa too! So they are leaving for Brazil together! BOOM. Awesome. They're
from Missouri, Kirksville actually, and so our visas prob went through the same
government place thingy... I can't remember the name for it, so uh keep your
fingers crossed and pray that I'll get mine soon! =]
Let's
seeeeee.... What else has happened?? Sunday we had our first temple walk. The
temple is closed until Aug. 11th so we haven't been able to go to any sessions
since we've been here but just being able to go over onto the grounds is a
wonderful break from being stuck in our classroom 24/7. OH! and there
were picketers there! People were picketing us! There wasn't very many but it
was kind of awesome. I've never been picketed before so uh that was pretty
cool. Other than that the temple was pretty wonderful. Sister Ray
and I took a couple pictures and then just sat on one of the benches talking.
Which is when these two elders passed us speaking some language, I wasn't
paying attention at the time, but they ended up stopping and talking to us cuz
they saw the Potugues on our name tags and they were from Brazil!! They
are serving in the Salt Lake City and the Boston Missions and they knew
absolutely no English before coming here (the same day we got here I might
add...) and we were having full convos in English with them. I was so
impressed! Seriously their English was fab. And it was kind of super
embarrassing cuz Sister Ray and I couldn't think of any Portugues to say to
them (we are lacking in the normal everyday normal conversational portugues...
but I can totally tell you about God's love and the BOM in two seconds... and
by two seconds i mean half an hour...) But talking to them totally gave me hope
about when we finally get down to Brazil and how quickly we are going to pick
it up once we are completely immersed in it... or at least I hope that's what's
going to happen...
We also
started teaching a new investigator named Alex this week... Weelll, I say
new... really he's just our teacher Irmao Mummey... who was our investigator
Arisvan last week... so it's a little weird... but whatevs... Alex is way
harder than Arisvan... Our first lesson with him was probably my worst and best
lesson so far. The worst cuz I continue to butcher the language... it was
pretty bad, worst than the baptism invitation to Arisvan... hahah but it was
kind of the best ever because I could totally understand what he was saying to
us! And I responded to what he was saying!! It was in horrible Portugues but I
was able to answer his questions/concerns and it was FREAKING AWESOME. Funny
story about that though. So it got to the point in the lesson were we were
going to have him read the last two paragraphs of the BOM introduction, and so
I open it up and hand it to him and point to the last two paragraphs on the
page and ask him to read them for us, in portugues of course, and so he starts
reading it and he gets to what i thought was the end of the last two paragraphs
and turns the page and i realize that whatever he is reading is totally not the
last two paragraphs cuz the last two paragraphs are on the page he just turned
to and I have no idea what we just had him read.... And so he gets done reading
and Sister Ray who at this point doesn't know what has happened asks him how he
feels about what he just read and he goes in to this big long thing about how
he doesn't understand how the BOM could be more important than the Bible cuz
his whole life he's been reading the bible and why do we even need the BOM, all
of which i understood btdubs, so i was able to somehow explain that the BOM and
the Bible work together and how we need both and blah blah blah blah blah and
we actually managed to patch it up pretty good even though we had no idea what
he had read. And so afterwards we look it up and we had had him read the part
about how Joseph Smith had said the BOM is the most correct book of any book
ever and everything!! We kind of died! So stinking funny that that was what we
actually had him read in our first lesson! hahah His response totally made
sense after that, but we are still kind of mortified. hahah
Ok ok....um
let's see... Oh we got a new teacher this week. Out old one, the first one we
had, Imrao Duerden, got asked to leave us and go teach a brand new district,
which is totally lame cuz he was awesome. But it means that by the end of this
week we will have had 6 teachers here at the MTC in two weeks... which is not
normal. But it's cool, more knowledge right??
Alright... I am
running out of time, but some last minute things before I go. We learned how
Brazilians would pronounce our names and my name is now pronounced Sister
Hee-see. The 'r's in portugues make 'h' sounds and the 'i's make 'e' sounds and
it's kind of awesome. Except that Sister Ray likes to call me Sister HeShe...
ha ha She's so funny right??
Um also a couple
requests. If someone could send me that one quote I love by Mariane Williams I
think it is... I dont remember what it's called... It's the one that's all like
'our biggest fear isn't that we are blahblahblah... but that we are
blahblahlbah...' hahah I know that's a bunch to go off of but it'd be great if
you could find it and send it... ALSO. the lyrics to 'this little light
of mine'. we sing it all the time and there is like a 2nd and 3rd verse and i
cant remember it and it is so frustrating so if you could send me the lyrics
that would be magical.
Um also speakers.
If you could maybe somehow possibly send me some that would be divine. they
dont have to be super intense or expensive, just something simple that i could
use would be awesome!
But other than that stuff I'm doing
great! Thank you so much for all your letters and packages and DearElders! it
is so wonderful to hear from you guys throughout the week! i love you all and
cant wait to talk to you again next week!!
Love, Sister Rice (Hee-see =])
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