Thursday, May 29, 2014

"Who was the first black president?"

Buna Familia Mea!! Si alt om:) (Hello my family!!)

This week at the MTC has been pretty awesome.  I hardly even remember my previous life, and my Spanish has all but completely been replaced with Romanian. I even got hit on by an Elder during a devotional, he kept brushing my arm and I was like nooooooo!!!!!!! DON'T touch the ELDERS!! And Elder's don't touch me!! One of the perks of the mission is not having to touch people more than a handshake, I am not a hug person:)  I sure have learned a lot with having a companion by my side always! The other day we had individual coaching sessions without our companion, and for 5 minutes I was completely alone and I didn't know what to do with my self! My own breathing all alone was annoying! Can't even imagine how much worse that feeling is going to get.
This week we had our investigator reveal himself as our other Romanian teacher which we all guessed, but it was fun to know that he really is a convert from Romania and served a mission English speaking in England.  I have been learning so much! We had another lesson with an investigator in complete Romanian and we did really bad. I really think it was because we didn't prepare enough and because of that it was hard for use to bring the spirit.  But yesterday Sora Quist and I worked so hard to prepare a good lesson for our investigator Ioana and it went really well! I mean, she was confused half of the time because our Romanian is pretty choppy but she agreed to pray and read Cartea Lui Mormon:) So that is cool!
The best time for me on the mission happens during Gym time and during Dinner.  My favorite Gym buddies left this week for their missions in Florida, so now no one wants to play a wicked game a volleyball with me anymore... sigh* Praying for some awesome Tongans to fly in soon so that I can play!!!
The food here is kinda... meh... All of us have been sick from it since we have been here.  I am feeling a lot better, probably because I am use to it but I mean the other day for breakfast we has pancake sausage corn dogs on a stick.... Gross! But during meal times are when we have the best times.  Yesterday Sister Gibson (another sister in my district) and I spoke in complete Romanian throughout the entire meal!! And while we were talking an elder walked passed rapidly trying to catch up to his companion asked, "Hey, wait, Elder Christensen, who was the first Black President?" In complete serious and all of us busted out laughing so hard because it was seriously the strangest out of context question ever...
Elder Nelson From the quorum of the 12 came to visit us yesterday! So cool! I am going to get use to all of this General authority stuff before I leave here and then feel like I am spiritually starved in the mission field.  He talked about the importance of finding people because when you find one person you find their posterity as well as their ancestors.  He also promised that every time we knock on a door the persons ancestors are begging them to take the lessons so they can have their work done.  super interesting:) For me the best part was when he walked in while we were singing our prelude songs, we stood up and he stayed standing and singing for 4 songs, during one of then he pretended to sit down so we all went to sit down and he stood back up.  Like an Apostle "Simon Says" game.  haha!! it was great:) Things become even funnier in the MTC than in real life:)
At a different devotional this week (I don't remember the speaker) I was also having a hard time earlier this week after my comp had told me some thing I need to change and I just felt a little down. I mean seriously coming to the MTC is like entering the hallowed halls of high school all over again, even though I am almost 22 years old:) The speaker got up and said, I am feeling like I need to talk about something other than what I prepared for you tonight. And we all laughed as he folded up his talk and put it away and he said, "So pray about your questions right now and I will try my best to listen to what they are."  I prayed that he would talk about a companionship and how to be a better companion. As I prayed I felt the spirit so strong!! I felt like I was pretty much begging for him to talk about that, and as Elder Nelson's Wife said to us yesterday, "sometimes the desperation we get from trials is what we need in order to knock on the door hard and earnestly enough to get and answer from the Lord."  Lo and behold his first topic was on companionships and how important and essential they are as well as what we could do to better improve them.
All I can end with is that the church is true!! I have felt this truth burn with in my heart.  And even though I am not even close to being a good missionary I have to potential to be a great one if I work as hard as I can and consecrate all my time and efforts to the building of this work.  I am so glad I am on a mission! I wouldn't change that decision for the world, a mission is super hard, but it is more than worth it.  Thank you so much to everyone who has written me! I am so grateful for you words of humor advice and love:)
Eu stiu daca vei aplica este pricipiu de credinta in viata mea vei stiu ce vorbesec este adevarat! (I know if you apply the uncertainty principle of faith is my life you know what is really vorbesec)
Heart,
Sora Long

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