So, on my rush to get over here I forgot the paper that had everything that I wanted to write about.... hahaha, so sorry if this email is lame.
Let's see, obviously I am super excited because this is my last week in the MTC! I leave on Monday and I'm so super excited/ a little bit nervous. Mostly I'm just nervous about the Spanish, but that will come as I go along my mission and have to hear it and speak it all the time. Our teachers have warned us that we might be learning a lot of Spanglish since we're serving in the States, which I hope isn't true for me because I want to learn legit Spanish! :)
So this week we had our last TRC (the place where we go practice teaching and there's volunteers from the outside world) but this week there weren't enough volunteers so we had our teacher just pretent to be an investigator so we had someone to teach. She played a real investigator that she had on her mission, and we had to teach her the second lesson (The Plan of Salvation) in Spanish along with Tithing. So, we start teaching and everything is going fine, but then she just wasn't understanding the importance of the stuff that we were teaching her and we had her read scriptures to try and help her understand the questions she had and the scriptures totally answered the questions, it just wasn't clicking in her head. So that was a little bit frustrating, but then she's leaning forward on the table and is resting her head with her hand under her chin and I'm talking and all the sudden her eyes close and I chuckled and was like esta bien?" and she's flings her eyes open and is like, "¨¡sí!" so then I was trying WAY hard not to laugh! I was really trying to contain myself because I didn't think it would be very good if I just started busted up laughing!
Anyways, we finished the lesson and it was probably the most horrible lesson we've taught (even worse than our very first lesson ever when we got here) and I was a little bit frustrated but mostly I just couldn't stop laughing and how funny it was that she had "fallen asleep" during our lesson! But our teacher afterwards said she really taught someone like that and she worked all through the night at the airport so whenever they taught her she was super exhausted and had a hard time staying awake. And I'm sure it will happen in the field too, so it was a good experience I guess :)
So normally people only have 2 or 4 teachers during their MTC time, but we've counted and our district has had 9!! It's crazy! We've had so many substitutes. We got a totally brand new teacher last week but then he got married so we had a sub for him, but then the sub when to Mexico yesterday so we have another sub today. So basically we have a sub for the sub. Haha it's crazy! It's interesting though because they all teach so differently and they all teach you the things that they think are the most important, so I like it in that aspect that we get to see what all these people think is the most important part of being a missionary.
The Spanish is coming along fairly well! I'm still having a hard time with the grammer stuff, but I know I've learned a ton more than when I first got here! And I try not to dwell too much on the grammar stuff because I know that they still understand me (for the most part...haha). But I'm really grateful that I'm able to learn Spanish and I'm sure it will be useful for the rest of my life!
The very first day new missionaries come to the MTC they do this teaching demonstration thing where basically this huge group of new missionaries come in and they sit down and there's a fake investigator in this room and two missionaries who have been in the MTC for a while come in and begin the first part of teaching so the new missionaries are able to see how it works. Honestly, the missionaries we had in our demonstration were not that great and I didn't learn a whole lot from it :) But, last night Hermana Johansen and I got volunteered to be the missionaries doing the demonstration and it was SO crazy to think that we were in the same spot as the new missionaries but we were there 8 weeks ago! It doesn't feel like it was that long ago AT ALL! It's insane, but I'm definitely ready to leave the MTC.
The other day I was writing in my journal and I thought, "I wonder how long it's going to take me to fill this up. Then I'll have to go buy a new one." And then I realized that I would be out in the field and I could go to a NORMAL STORE and buy any journal that I wanted!! Haha it was so funny, I was like, "oh my heck! That's going to be so weird!!" But then it also got me super excited! I'm excited to be able to go teach real people and to be forced to speak Spanish so I can learn it better and quicker! It's going to be exciting, but I'll probably be freaking out a little bit on Sunday night :)
There's 6 people in our district and 2 of us are leaving this Monday and then the rest are leaving on Wednesday and they're all so jealous! I know 2 days doesn't sound like much, but it can feel like an eternity when it comes to MTC time :)
I'm trying to think of what else happened this week................. we went to the temple this morning for the last time! I wonder how often I'll be able to go once I'm in Denver. I've heard it totally depends on your mission president, but I hope I'm able to go at least a couple time while I'm out in the field.
I've been reading Jesus the Christ lately and I recommend you all read it! It's a HUGE book and he uses big words, but it's really good. It's interesting reading stuff like that and getting a new perspective on things, but I love it. I have to be in the right mood to read it or else everything just goes over my head and I have no idea what it's saying :)
The other thing I am MOST excited for is that on Monday I will be able to listen to music finally!! Not that we haven't listened to ANY music here, but we're not even allowed to listen to hymns in our classrooms while studying, and that's what I'm most excited about, is listening to hymns while I'm studying because that helps me a lot. My teacher yesterday was talking about a really cool version of Come Thou Fount he likes and the rest of the day I so badly wanted to listen to the version I had! And I said, "Thanks a lot, Hermano Airmet! Now I REALLY, REALLY want to listen to that song!" And he's all, "don't worry Hermana Roberts, just wait until Monday..." But Monday seems really far away sometimes :)
I'm pretty sure that when I come home I am going to sleep for two weeks straight, so no one bother me when I come home :) I don't believe I will ever get used to waking up at 6:30, but it's all good because it's for 16 months and that's really not that long in the grand scheme of things.
Well, sorry if this email is boring and really random :) Next week I'll remember to bring my paper of good things I want to talk about!
I will write you all next week sometime! I'm not sure when because my P-day will probably be different, but I miss you and love you ALL!
-Hermana Roberts
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