Another week! It is so great here at the MTC! Many of you seem to have noted that I sound happy and well in my emails and that is completely true so I'm glad it shows in my writing. I really want to send individual letters to each of you but I just haven't found the time, I'm so sorry. I was able to take some time to write a letter and I decided to write Mom and Dad, which I'm sure you will all understand. However, I've heard from every one atleast once and I appreciate that so much. I feel your love for me and it helps so much. Although I'm having the time of my life, the work is very very challenging in many different ways and I love getting to hear from all of you. Also, thank you very much to those who have sent me packages. And yes Mom, the missionary email a letter thing (sorry I forgot the name) does work well.
I'm going to take some time to talk about work. God blesses us (and by that I mean everyone not just missionaries) when we do the work he wants us to. I want to share an experience I had. Yesterday I prayed a lot for help with the language for my companion and I. There was a point during the day that I was focussing on learning the language. During this time something happened, I'm not sure what, but I think what I was working on seemed more clear and I felt much better about where I was with the language and more confident in what I had learned. It was an important feeling to me because in trying to learn the language you can at times get down on yourself. Trying to teach a lesson in Hungarian and want to say something and express something but not be able to is so challenging. However, as us missionaries work as hard as we can and trust in God and have faith, we're blessed because this is a work our Lord wants us to do. I have faith that as all of you ask Heavenly Father in prayer what work you need to do, and then do that work dilligently, Heavenly Father will bless you immensly.
As I have said before, there are 10 of us in my district. We are all super tight and the missionaries in my district make the work very enjoyable (maybe too enjoyable). Recently one of the Elders in my district said that he thought our district had more fun than any other district. I definitely agree with him. At the MTC we do a lot of goal making (very effective). In adition to individual goals, we make companionship goals and district goals. One of my districts' goals is to be Shoop-Positive. I think its pretty awesome that they think I'm super positive, and thats something I try to do, it really makes a big difference I think. I also have an awesome zone, my zone is composed of all missionaries going to Hungary, Estonia, Albania, and Finland. Recently, everyone in my zone left for the mission field except for my district. So the 10 of us were alone in the zone for a few days. Just a few days ago the older Hungarians (like 6 weeks ahead of us) left. We miss themand their language experience a lot but are excited for them and to be with them soon. Just yesterday after like 2 days of my district being alone in the zone, we got 21 new missionaries in our zone (Going to Finland and Estonia)! We are super excited to have new missionaries in our zone, but we have to wait another like 2 weeks to get more Hungarians.
I only have a few minutes for like a sentence or two to each sibling:
Bill: Congrats on the graduation! I'm sure the 10-11 year old boys LOVE having you help them with scouts and teaching lessons.
Amy: Thanks so much for the letter you sent awhile ago with the pictures your kids drew!
Julie: That package you sent in my first week meant a ton! I got it like the second night and it meant so much!
Becky: Thats awesome about the Hungarian in the news, I was pretty close with all of the older Hungarians so I definitely knew him.
Kyle: So sorry about Liam! And I still havent translated your first letter, maybe I'll try again tonight.
Dan: Your package was awesome, and the letter meant so much, thank you.
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