Sunday, October 16, 2016

So I finally made it to the mtc and it's awesome. When I was dropped off and pretty much that entire day I was just overly excited and it was spectacular.  Eventhough my ID card which you need to go anywhere got demagnitized so we had to fix that before I did anything else, but it worked out. I met my district♧ of three other guys and four girls then I met mia collega (companion) Anziano Macdonald♤.  Then we went to a new member meeting where I saw Josh Beck, Connor Campbell, and Sam Gates. Later I also saw Jaron Atkinson, Clinton Choi, Landen Gunnell, Dallyn McCracken, Chase Muir, kennedee king, and Miriam Stokes. We later ate cena (dinner) and yes there was unlimited chocolate milk and yes I have drank it almost every pasto (meal).  We went to a classe where we saw an example of teaching and we got to comment and stuff and then we went on a tour led by four Romanian missionari chi (who) left on Tuesday at 3 am. When the day ended mia collega e io met our roommates anzioni Drenk and Strong, they are pretty awesome.
The second day we met our investigator Alessia and we started to prepare to teach her tomorrow in full Italian which seems crazy.  We later went to another meeting and introduced ourselves to the zone which is full of missionari going to Italia, Roma e Italia, Milano e a few going to Romania.  Mia collega e io were assigned as the sacrament people so we are just in charge of that for the next three weeks.
So we taught our first lesson today (day 3) after we came out I could only describe it as le morte or the death.  We asked a few questions and it was fine but the instant she started talking everything went wrong perche we couldn't understand her and if we responded from the book we didn't know what each other was (mia collega and io). It was super humbling and crushing.  But the  we went to an uplifting gift of tongues seminar and we got back our shreds of confidence.  We feel we'll do better tomorrow. We also had un molto bello estudiar collega.
We taught alleviate again but this time it went much much much better molto bene. Especially since mia collega said "I know that if you pray that you will feel (he tried to say pace (peace) but instead said pesce (fish)" which was awesome. Then later in classe we learned about technology safeguards. Oh yah our teacher is fratello (brother) hatch he 2? At BYU and he is just a great teacher. 
Today was fast Sunday which was normal except we didn't go to breakfast or lunch. We had a good priesthood meeting taught by a Romanian and when we sang in Italian we struggled nut it was still super great.  Noi did basically the teachers jobs for sacrament meeting and people bore wonderfully heart felt testimonies. We also went on a great tempio Wallander took some pictures there◇. We sang in choir and that was way fun as well as one guy from my district Anziano Hughes was at Utah All State choir when I was and we talked about that and it was super cool. We were spoke to by brother Heaton and that was super spiritual and uplifting.
Four Suarez at the MTC is intense and awesome and it's one of the best ways to spend your excersice time. I got a bunch of stuff for my visa figured out and we memorized Moroni 10,5 in Italiano. Oh yah an elder got locked out of his room in only a towel because his companion left him to go to the vending machines, so leasson: always stay with your companion.
We had service this morning which was just taking out all of the trash for the entire four floor building which was actually much better than cleaning the bagno which is what everyone else did. We had choir again today where we finished learning "Precious Savior" and we eventually sang it at the MTC Devotional that night which was broadcast or sent to all the MTC's around the world.  The Amen at the end kf the song was beautiful and amazing Oh and we had Elder Bednar of the 12 apostles and his wife speak.  They both spoke to us but not before giving a shout out of sorts to a sorrella in my district, perche apparently they are neighbors.  He taught us how to really study and listen to conference talks and listening to the doctrine, the invitation, and the blessings, and how repentance can bring molto goaia(joy).
That night mia roommates and I played horse with a racquetball we found and trashcan. This was the only time we actually stayed past 11 ever at the MTC.
In classe we learned about Alma the younger's conversion story and how after their missions they talked about how great it was and boasted in God which is a good thing.  I played volleyball this time and it was also quite amazing. This last lesson with alleviate was our best ever we answered a question she had about how she can feel the holy ghost and we studied a  scripture for almost the whole time and was super spiritual.  It was so great she shared an experience of when she felt the spirit super strong and when  I tried to explain what it may have felt like I couldn't so we eventually got to calling it super grande sentimento which kind of describes it perfectly, then we had her pray and she asked us how she can feel the spirit all the time which is awesome and we will definitely have that as the vocal point for next lezziona. We are planning to teach about repentance and the joy it brings as well as the gift of the holy ghost by the laying on of hands and all that awesome stuff. Maybe the lesson after that we can talk about baptism.

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