Dear Home,
The MTC is incredible! I had no idea how much time would start to
blur here. It doesn't feel like it's been a week since our last P-Day...
It's been full though.
We got to go to the Temple last week
and do sealings, -first time for all of the Elders in my district, so it
was cool to be there for that experience for them. Personally, Sealings
have always been my favorite. :) Anyway, looking forward to it again
today.
As I mentioned, I joined choir here, and that's been
great. Definitely one of the best stress relievers we have here. --Did
you know we can't play music at the MTC? Rough... Definitely makes me
appreciate hymns more. I might be singing at home more when I get back.
We can pull up conference recordings while studying, but nothing we
brought with us, and we can play anything in our rooms. It's good
though. The spirit is still there.
Anyway, tangents. Our investigator last week was
interesting. We finished teaching him Thursday I think. Definitely hard,
but it's getting easier, and we're understanding more. We started a new
one this week, and we're getting a second tomorrow. Teaching two at
once, in Korean? Multiple lesson plans... Crazy. Good thing I've got the
testimony bit down. Now we just need to learn how to teach and
effectively communicate... Might be a little more tricky. Our teacher
gave us a translation list of "How to begin teaching" in PMG. But in
more basic terms so we can learn them faster. That'll be fun to work on.
It came out to about 2 pages of English/Korean.
Anyway, no one wants to hear about the language. The
spirit of this place it far more important. And it's legit. Not going to
lie, I'm bone tired. From 6:30 to 10:30, there's no stopping, and your
mind is under constant pressure of learning a new language. I've started
having dreams in Korean, a little creepy. But even with the strain, the
spirit doesn't go away. I'm pretty sure it's the only reason we're
still functioning. And to me, that's pretty awesome.
No general authorities yet, but we get to watch talks
sometimes, and we've seen a few really good ones by David A Bednar.
"Characters of Christ," and "Recognizing the Spirit." Awesome talks. He
gave them during devotionals here, so they might not have them online,
but they're good.
I'm not sure what else there is to say. There's too
much to cover everything, and I don't know which to choose. Some native
Missionaries from Korean came in yesterday. I haven't had a chance to
meet most of them, but it's going to be pretty awesome around here. SYL,
everyday. They're not in our district, but they're in our zone, and
they live on the same floor. Odds are we'll run into them a lot.
On a light note, my weight has changed a lot here.
First week, I gained five pounds or something like that, but after
eating a little better, I dropped it this week. Feels pretty good now.
The lines for the salads and wraps are pretty long, but I've got a good
system. Eat the salad while waiting in line, don't waste time. And of
course, there's always studying. I've got a small notebook that I use to
practice vocab here. Works great. But seriously, I've gotten pretty
healthy here. =D
I hope no one is expecting anything super spiritual or
amazing from these letters. I try to get that in my handwritten ones,
since I have more time. Why rush the spirit, right? This is the light
hearted stuff that I don't really have time for here. Don't get me
wrong, there are a lot of jokes around here. "Everyday?", Two handed
fist pounding, stalkers, random stuff... Won't go into it.
I've only got about a few minutes left, so for now I'll
go over logistics. Thanks for the letters, by the way! Love them, makes
me happy. But for everyone but my Omoni (I think that's mom, no time
for the Korean keyboard...), this is goodbye. Going strong, love you
all, take care, keep the adversary on the run, I'll catch you later.
Elder Robarts
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