Nyob Zoo
The time is flying in the MTC. It blows my mind that I have been here 6 weeks. Only 3 more weeks to go and I will be out in Wisconsin. This week my companion needed to go to the doctor so we got to go out in the "real world" which was super fun and also really bizarre. I haven't been in the "real world" in over a month so it was felt really weird, but it also made me soooo excited to get out to Wisconsin. I can't describe how bad I want to get out there and start helping people. The time will fly and before I know it I will be out there. The MTC is awesome as well, but it is different than how it will be out there in my mission. I know I need to really enjoy these last few weeks and finish out strong. 9 out of the 15 Elders in my District are going somewhere else than where I am going. I really am going to miss them all as well as my teachers when I leave in 3 weeks.
Something also cool that happened this week...we got our Hmong name badges this week and they are soooo sick. I have been here 6 weeks now and I still can't say my name yet haha. I will put a picture of it down below.
The Utah vs BYU game was Saturday night. I was basically the only Utah fan. Everyone was cheering for BYU. The day of the game was for sure the hardest day of the MTC for me so far. If you guys know me, you know that I LOVE football. It was the first time I haven't been able to watch the big rival game in as long as I can remember. We could hear the fans cheering and screaming from the stadium in the MTC. We couldn't hear the announcer or the score, but we could hear all the fans cheering. It was the first time in a while that I really felt like I was missing out. Sometimes being a missionary is hard because we do give up so much, but at the same time, it is the greatest thing ever. I wouldn't trade this experience for anything. And I haven't even gotten to the best part yet. It is gonna be so sick when I get out to Wisconsin and can help the Hmong people.
Last thing for this week, we did our first Skype lesson yesterday. We Skyped a young kid named Tsim Meej from California. We were supposed to have 45 minutes to teach. We planned out a really good lesson on Jesus Christ and what he did for us. We ended up having a hard time connecting on Skype so we ended up only have 25 minutes to teach him. Since we had such limited time, we were just going to focus on the Atonement and Repentance. We started teaching and everything just felt weird. We prepared and practiced some of the words for the lesson, but something just felt off. In the lesson, we couldn't speak anything and everything we taught felt really weird. I decided to give a scripture that would maybe explain it since we couldn't say anything. The guy we were teaching said that he was struggling to understand the scriptures. So we just bagged our lesson completely and told him we would help him with that. He asked us if we would teach him in English so we did. It was a really cool experience and neat to see how the spirit works. That is how I think missionary work is supposed to be. We are just going to try to help people with whatever they need help with, whether it is in English or in Hmong, it doesn't matter. As long as we are helping people, that is what matters. I just can't wait to get out there even though I know I am going to get wrecked when I get out there. It is going to be so awesome.
That's all for this week. Miss you all and hope you have an awesome week!
Love,
Elder Tshwj
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| In the "Real World" |
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| New Name Badge |
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| Utah vs BYU football game |
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| Skype |
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| Model pic featuring the French elder - Elder Mocellin. He's going to San Fransico speaking Laotian |
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Model pic 2 - Elder Green also speaking Laotian
Some other pictures we got from Elder Rich this week
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| This tree smells like cream soda. It's bizarre |
