MTC WEEK 2

Szervus Csalad! (Hello Family)

Time is flying by so fast in the MTC! I can't believe it is p-day already. This week has been a great week. I love the MTC!!!! It is amazing to feel the spirit here and to see so many young people learning about Christ and learning how to teach others about Christ. My favorite part about the MTC: every Sunday and Tuesday night we get to have devotional and before the devotional starts we get to sing songs. It is amazing how powerful all the missionaries singing together is! We really are going to make a difference in the world.

The language is still harder than ever. My companions have been AMAZING and have been still tutoring me so I get the language. This week we learned the longest word that our teacher knew of in Hungarian....I forgot to bring it with me and I have no idea how to say it let alone spell it. It is 42 letters long though! It's quite the word! We learned that Hungarian has 25 cases on top of all the conjugations too and they have been really hard to memorize! I am slowly getting it though :) We teach pretty much every day in Hungarian...this week we will teach 8 times. It is really frustrating not being able to understand a word the investigator says and then they ask you a question and you have the answer but you can't communicate that to them. It is really hard but it makes me appreciate the little language I do learn much more. I can only say a few things in my testimony, but its the most important things and that is all I need right now. It will keep coming.

Yesterday my teacher told us a story about Satan. She said that he was having a garage sell and had a whole bunch of things on sale for a really good price: adultry, gambling, drinking, drugs, etc. Everyone was shopping and buying them because they were such a good deal. In the back of the garage though, there was a tiny little clear box with a sign that said not for sale. In the box was a tiny little wedge labeled: discouragement. She explained that that is all Satan needs to get to us. If he can get in that little wedge of discouragement, then everything else comes and it draws us farther away from the Lord. It really hit me hard that I can't get discouraged and have to just keep trying my absolute best. It will come with time.

Camrie left the MTC yesterday! I am super sad she is already gone but I am so excited for her! She is going to be the greastest missionary! I just love her to death! I've also got to see Jordan Galbraith and talk to him a bit. I also got to see Benson twice this week! I can't believe we actually saw each other with so many missionaries here. It was really cool to see him! I also got to sit by President Erying's granddaughter at a devotional and that was pretty neat. She is going to Ukraine and will be here for just about as long as we are. It was really cool hearing stories from her!

Wednesday's are pretty much the best days ever....we get to go to the temple in the morning and then we have breakfast afterwards. It is sure nice to have a break from the MTC food.

My district is so awesome! We have really been starting to get closer and work together to understand the language. Sometimes that is a good thing and sometimes it's a bad thing because we like to talk a lot and sometimes we lose focus. We are going to make a new goal starting this friday that we can only speak Hungarian for the whole day. That will be hard but it will force us to really start using the language so we will remember it! It's crazy how fast everything comes at us! But it's so good to be totally focused and busy.

On Sunday, the first counselor in our branch presidency came and spoke to the girls. He told us about his life and some of the challenges he has been through. He talked about how getting married in the temple was the best day of his life and then about 7 years ago, his wife was going in for a small surgery and they found cancer all over inside of her. She fought through it for 3 years before she passed away. It was probably the highlight of my week because the spirit was so strong and it put into perspective the trials I was going through. I really have been so blessed with such a wonderful, supportive family.

I have grown so much over the past two weeks! I know that the Lord is very aware of where I am and what I am trying to accomplish through Him. I also know that Satan is very aware of that also. I know that Jesus Christ knows each of us individually and is watching over us, pleading with us to come unto Him and receive Him into our lives. It amazes me time and time again how patient and loving the Lord is to us. I know that the atonement is real. It gives us power beyond our own to accomplish miracles. It is through small and simple everyday tasks that we are able to bring about great and marvelous things. The MTC is the best place I have ever been. You get to see the light of Christ shining so brightly in so many young people. There is no other place in the world that you can find so many young people who are so kind, so happy, so full of life and love, and testifying of the Savior. The spirit it so incredibly strong here and I love being able to see and feel that every day. It is hard but at the end of the day I have seen so many miracles and tender mercies that the Lord has given to me. I've really come to realize more and more each day that although trials are hard and not a whole lot of fun, they are what really bring me closer to the Savior and humbles me enough to rely on Him and the Atonement. I am growing to love my trials that I go through because it is making me stronger. During our devotional last night there was a quote I really liked: Love and Faith are like a muscle in my arm - the more I exercise it, the stronger it gets. If I put it in a sling, it will deteriorate and become useless. I realized that I do need to exercise my faith and charity towards others. It may be a little sore as I start to exercise it, but it will become strong and I will be able to use it to let the Lord work through me. I am so happy for the opportunity to be a missionary. There really is nothing I would rather be doing than serving a mission and coming closer to the Savior right now. I am so grateful to the Savior for letting me have the experience I am having and for being patient with me as I grow. I LOVE this gospel. I know it brings joy and happiness and peace into our lives and to our hearts. Everything will work out as long as we keep our eyes on the Savior and listen for His voice.

I hope everything is going well back home! I love you guys a lot! I am sure incredibly blessed to have such a wonderful family! Thanks for all you do and thanks again for the package and letters!

Szerettetel

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