Last week in the MTC

I'm leaving in less than a week!

We're leaving here Monday at 7:40 am (so we have to leave the MTC at 4am, yeesh), and flying to Chicago. I get to Chicago at 11:50, and then leave there for Frankfurt at 3:50pm. From Frankfurt we're flying to Riga, Latvia, getting there at 1:35pm on Tuesday. Aiiii! So! I'll be calling you from my layover in Chicago. So fam, could you please all send me your cell phone numbers? And then answer a call from an unknown number on Monday :)

 

We're all so excited. It's pretty crazy. We have so much to do, but it's just so exciting. This week has been really, really good. I got a new teacher, he's 6'9" and even though I'll only have him for 1.5 weeks, it's been great, he just got home and has taught me a lot. I seriously love my teachers, I'm sad I have to say bye to them on Saturday. I wish they could all come with me and teach me there. Because I can't believe they're just going to plop me down with another missionary and expect us to get everything done!

 

Cals, I hope you're feeling better. Sister Zippro told me 'hi' for you :) it made me really happy. I hope the whole fam is feeling better, geez. Everybody was sick! Miss, Mands, how was the MK party? :) Dad, I'm glad your foot is healing. Dad, I love your idea for giving the YM PMG. There's like, so much to get out of it! And I could have been SO much more familiar with it before I came! There's so much good stuff in it. And I read it with one view, and then someone else puts a different spin on it, and it's crazy. I love PMG.

 

This week one of my goals has been to try to come up with analogies to use in my teaching. I realized that I absolutly love when people use them, and some people seem to just come up with them on the spot. So, pathetic of me to plan them in advance, but, whatever. The one I've come up with so far is, haha, my broken arm when I was little. How I broke it, and something didn't feel right, and it hurt, but I could still go about my life (through no choice of my own, ahem) and then it finally got so bad, I had to go to a doctor to fix it. That's like repentance--how something can be broken, but we're not sure what's wrong, or what to do, and we can still live our life, but not as well. But if we go to Christ, He'll tell us what's wrong, and heal us. Cool.

I've also been trying to think of my answers to questions that I keep asking investigators like, "What would it mean to you, that God loves you?" I ask them that, but, what does it mean to ME? It's cool, I'm trying to make myself think more :)

 

My district sang our departing song in Sacrament last week. We sang "How Firm A Foundation" in Latvian, Lithuanian, and then English. People like, thought I was going to do a solo or something, in Lithuanian...um..no. I was glad the Latvians were with me. But afterwards, some people said they liked Lithuanian better, just sayin'. It has a slight French sound to, it's pretty sometimes. I like it at least.

I have so many questions still, and have so much farther to go, I can't believe they're going to put me out there so soon! But, I'm so privileged to be a mish. Seriously, I'm so excited.

Love you fam, send me your numbas! (can I have them? can I? can I)