Music and Food

 Hello Everyone!

It has already been a good first week in the MTC and I love my district and teachers. We have made it a thing to find as many Danish words as we can and use them in everyday speech and it has made things interesting for the other people in our district. In order to make things make sense I first must explain that we are in a split district with four of us going to Denmark and the other 11 going to Hungary Budapest. It is really cool too because I get to be with Elder Wittwer AKA Elder Josh Sterling Wittwer District Leader Son of John Wittwer and Maria Wittwer. Due to our district being split we have some problems with organizing studies but it is nothing that can’t be worked out with another week of experimenting. First week in and we already feel the pressure of the mission field even though we have 4 more weeks.

The food in the MTC is pretty awesome with unlimited drinks and food and basically all of the dessert you want (my dream). I dread the day that I go into the field and have to cook for myself again but it is a noble sacrifice. Fast Sunday was rough but the food that night was much better than the other food probably because we simply hadn’t eaten. Another thing we realized this week is that the MTC exercise time is sick because of the gym. It's loaded with a lot of stuff and the field has a bunch of different things to do including spike ball and volleyball. It is definitely something to look forward to as a break from studying. 

One thing I have learned in the MTC already is to teach so much better. I came in and struggled to be able to teach in English alone but after a couple of practices and classes I realized it is much easier than I thought and now all we have to do is learn Danish. Currently we are about to go into the full immersion part of our MTC experience where we will attempt to do only Danish basically from now on. We love to hear it but also know we won’t basically understand anything that they are saying. 

There have been a couple devotionals in the time that we have been here and the biggest takeaway from them for me was to throw myself into the MTC and love the work. There was a moment during our devotional when we were singing in the choir (yes, I'm actually singing in a choir) and it really stood out to me and we talked about it as a district after. The moment was when the entire choir was singing the last notes of the devotional and we got to see the power of the organ with all of the voices along with it. It was very powerful and moved everyone and we all felt the spirit.

A moment that I really felt strongly about my mission and the MTC was on Sunday during fast Sunday during a part of the day called "Go and Do" which is a personal study time. During this time we got to listen to music provided and just study. I found this experience to be very opening as it truly was a time to just let the spirit guide me and study. I found that I could comprehend what I was studying easier during this time and really was able to find a lot of stuff that helped me in my studies. I really do know the Lord speaks to us and will guide us if we search with real intent. 

I also listened to the Superman Theme because it’s epic and the words “fly my son it's time” turned into “teach my son, its time”. Love that song. 

Well, I am so thankful to be at the MTC and I love the environment that we are surrounded by. 

I'll talk to y'all next week

Love,

Elder Lines