Wednesday! the cook here is named steven and he sings opera and so if you're walking by the cafeteria you can hear him singing so loud its so cool, he's amazing! he tried out for Britain's got talent and just barely didn't make it because he didn't have a cool enough story. So my companion got mad at me for some reason after exercise time and then she wouldn't talk to me and was just being so rude so i straight up was like, "No, we're not doing this anymore, we are going to talk about whatever you're mad at me for." So we went into the laundry room because that's literally the only place to be alone and i was like "I'm done with all your shit. if you have a problem with me just tell me straight up" and she was just getting mad at me for all these stupid reasons. Long story short, we talked through all our problems said a prayer and now were good! haha but i really am glad she is my companion. we have had our ups and downs but i have learned a lot being her companion and i am so grateful for that. but for real i have been craving Mexican food since i got here, and i saw on the menu for today that we were having burritos and i was so excited! and then when i tasted it it just wasn't the same as, Pedro's Tacos. i was so sad hahahha i really miss our good Mexican food. we had elder Hirst from the 70 come talk to us and it was about our value and our worth and it was super cool! our last week here in the mtc we are able to skype anyone from home and have a little lesson with them and something really cool was this sister here skyped her dad and his wife and they're not members but she told me that they were all crying as she bore her testimony and that her dad and his wife really want to read the book of mormon, it was so cool and i was so happy for her.
Thursday! we had German shnitzel for lunch today! (i don't know if i spelt that correct) but it was so good!! Me and my comp were going in to teach our investigator and we both really like one spot on the couch better than the other one and my companion was like, "ok i get the arm of the couch this time" and i was like "no way dude", and so we got into the investigator room and we subtly but not so subtly tried to sit by the arm of the couch and i obviously beat her to it. Se wasn't too happy about that haha. But something i learned from her in that lesson was that she is so inspired and feels the spirit so strongly during and before our lesson. like i was in the lesson with Prince(that was the investigators name) and i was saying something to Prince and to myself i was thinking, "wow, what i am saying right now is really good" and then my comp said something to him and i was like "what?" then when we got out and the teacher came to us and said what my companion said to Prince was exactly what he needed to hear. so yeah that was a tough pill to swallow but i really learned from that experience. We also practiced door knocking that night. when we knocked on the door Ed answered it and we were trying to think of creative ways to get him let us in. i was talking to him and then i just started spitting out random crap about how pretty his house and garden is and as the words were coming out of my mouth i was like i just need to stop talking right now and it was just went terrible haha it it was fun practicing lol.
Friday! Oh man, i was so excited for dinner that night and right as i was about to take my first bite i saw a long, thick, black hair in my food and just about threw up and so all i ate that night was rolls and cookies which was actually really good haha oh yeah! we taught an actual real life member today! like some one from the outside came into the MTC and we got to teach him and it was so cool! and everything just went so great we were all sharing personal experiences with prayer and the spirit was so strong! We had our end of the MTC meetings with President Bunker and can i just say, wow President Bunker is amazing, i love him so much! There is a teacher from Ireland who knows how to like Irish jig and some of you guys might now i have been practicing my Irish jig so when i found out he knew how to do it i asked him to teach us during our exercise time and dang, let me just say i though i was good at Irish jigging but i was just terrible and i was practicing it wrong the whole time hahah but it was fun.
Saturday! We did this lesson practice with my whole district in class today with my teacher. my district was one big companionship teaching my teacher as an investigator and he would just pick a random topic out of preach my gospel and we had about a minute to prepare for it and we all had 4 mins to teach it. so one person would start and then at any point the teacher would say switch and then call one of our names at random and we had to pick up teaching where the last person left off. it was pretty fricken scary hahha i got to skype my family on saturday and teach them a short lesson and it was so nice to see all of them! We had salmon for dinner and yikes it was so gross so i just ate the banana caramel cream pie hahahha Then when Elder Von Mollendorf got up to refill his drink and elder o'connor poured salt on his pie and we tried to play it off like it was sugar and i even ate some of it so he would believe us but he didn't believe us and so i just ate salted pie for no reason. haha Also last night i decided i was going to cut my hair because there is this chick here who is a sister and she is from italy and back home she cuts hair for a living. but the problem is she speaks like no english so the only was to talk to her is by using hand motions so it was pretty sketchy. but its all good hahah
Sunday! we had fast and testimony meeting this morning. it was pretty good, but we're fasting today and fasting is so dang hard hahah but it's good too haha but the reason i am emailing today is because on tuesday we head over to Scotland finally! i am so excited.
me and elder midelf, he is from sweden and his mom sent him 15 pounds of straight chocolate so he gives me chocolate all the time hahah
our district
me and sis duke
