Note: I wrote a lot more orignally, but I was moving between my phone and the MTC computers and it saved over my draft somehow with an old draft.... But here is some stuff
I swear the concept of time here is different than the rest of the world. It feels like I have known all my friends here forever yet at the same time I don't know how I have actually been here for 2 full weeks now. Turkish is slow but I can feel it coming. Our role play lessons are getting so much better and I can finally sort of understand what the person we are teaching is saying when he responds to our questions. It really is an awesome language and I think we are picking up on it pretty fast. If I know 4x the amount I know now when I leave the MTC then I'm not too worried. The new Germans came in on Wednesday and they are pretty cool. I took a look ath their German language learning books and I know quite a bit, I don't really know much gospel german, but since they are all living on my floor I'm sure that I will be able to pick up a lot of things before I leave. Each day is pretty much the same which is kinda why it goes by so fast casue every day sort of blends into all the other days.
The ASL missionaries are really nice and love to talk to us. None of them are 100% deaf, but many of them are hearing impaired. It is so awesome to hear them talk in sacrement and then have the translator speak english to us. In choir the ASL all sit together and sign along with the song -- it's really pretty dope. We get out of class at 9:15 every night then have from 9:15 till 10:30 to do whatever. I try to write in my journal everyday, but since I am getting much closer with all the missionaries here my journal entries are getting shorter and shorter becasue we stay up every night and talk till like 10:20 and then I write for about 5 minutes. I guess it's not too bad becasuse not a lot happens everyday, but I am trying to be better about recoring funny stories from each day so that I can remember them later. We got up early to do laundry this morning and it was a nightmare becasue everyone does the same thing so you have to camp out at a washer till it's done then hope and pray that the person will come pick it up so you can use it next. It tooks us 3 hours to do laundry today..... But it's o.k. becasue we have the rest of the day to do emails and go to the temple later.
I thought I would share a story about this week. So the Hungarian elder-- that lives with me and my turkish trio-- lost his piano music on Monday last week. He thought he left it in the practice room or in his classroom, but after searching literally almost every single classroom on the MTC campus we had no luck. It was really important to him and I could tell that he was really bumed out. By friday last week he had given up hope. In our morning companionship prayer he prayed that if he were going to find his binder that let him find it today and if he didn't find he said he would just move on and stop dwelling on it so he wouldn't have to be so anxious. Later that day, he was able to find the binder in the computer lab. Now, it may seem like a coincidence or happenstance -- but I would like to point out that he had been praying to be able to find it all week. He was searching for it all over the place and trying his best to find it -- but it was only when he was able to accpet the possoibliy that it was actually lost and accpet the idea of moving on, it was only after he did that that he was able to find it. It was a real testimony to me this week of the power of prayer, but also a testimony that God is always going to test us-- test our patience or our ability to accept circumstances beyond our control. It reminds me of the promise found in Ether 12:6 "Faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." The lord is going to give us trials, but when he have faith that we can edure those trials no matter what the end result is -- then can we receive that witness.
In Turkish we learned a new word this week
" Mukemmelleshtirilebileceksiniz
I love this place and I love the people here.
Notes on some of the pictures:
1) One of our turkish teachers Kardesh Jensen left this week cause BYU was starting up, he was an awesome teacher and we were sad to see him go.
2) the lunch line was 5 years long on Chick-fil-A day.
3) we found a dope spot outside to study that is always in the shade
4) the classic pointing at the map pic
5) some selfies that my zone took on my phone
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