Hej Alla!
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| 3) Me and min kamrat |
Today has been another great week here at the MTC! This past week I was assigned to serve as District Leader (DL for short) and so now I am in charge of 8 other missionaries in my district. One of my responsibilities is to check the mail so now according to everyone in my district, I'm their favorite person ever. It really is such a great time and I was blessed with the best district ever. We all work so hard each and every day and we have such strong testimonies of Jesu Kristi evangelium (the gospel of Jesus Christ).
This past Sunday was probably the craziest day of the week starting off with a fast from food and water for 24 hours straight. My whole life I would eat all the way up until midnight and then eat right after church at like 1pm so this was a big change for me! I also had a lot of meetings to go to for leadership training and mission conference. At nighttime, we had choir(before coming to the MTC i could not sing to save my life, but somehow I can now sing more than just a high and low note, miracles are happening here!), devotional, and movie watching all in the same room so everyone was sick and tired of just sitting in uncomfortable chair for so long. The movie we all watched was an old devotional by Elder David A. Bednar (one of the twelve apostles of our church) about the Character of Christ and how we need to turn outward. Well, just as were about to give up physically and go to sleep, the MTC presidency announced: Elder Bednar and his wife will now answer questions for the next hour and everyone went absolutely nuts. It was so awesome to see an apostle answer our questions directly and hear him speak outside of general conference. He always knew the right things to say. Probably the funniest part of the Q&A was when an elder asked how Elder Bednar got so good at interpreting scriptures. Elder Bednar made the elder open his scriptures and read out prophets, seers, and revelators and basically told the missionary that he wouldn't be able to interpret scriptures the way he does unless he was an apostle...boom roasted.
The Swedish is coming along nicely and I learned two really funny things this week about the language:
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| 2) They finally flew the Swedish flag |
1. The word for vegetables in Swedish is grönsaker which literally translates to green things. Vikings are geniuses.
2. Swedes are a bunch of hicks. In order to say this book or that girl, etc., you would have to say this here book, or that there girl.
Other than that, things are going so great! I also got a free haircut yesterday and man it is looking clean! We head to Sweden in just 18 short days! The days drag on, but the weeks fly by. I enjoy hearing from a lot of you throughout the week! Jag älskar er!
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1) Last P-Day after emailing we all ate real crickets, seasoned with sour cream and onion. It was wild.
2) They finally flew the Swedish flag
3) Me and min kamrat
--Äldste Steele
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| 1) Last P-Day after emailing we all ate real crickets, seasoned with sour cream and onion. It was wild. |
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