Well, this week was really good. I memorized all 6 Cases for the language, and Elder Knorpp and I are getting along much better(Especially since now he is the sick one, and couldnt talk the last 2 days). The adverse consequence of him being unable to talk is that I had to teach the lesson to our investigators basically all by myself. He is getting better though and were seeing the doctor today so thats good. Remember last week when I said that Russians could talk like Yoda and still be understood? It was so much worse than I could ever had imagined. Heres how it works: IF you wanted to convey to the investigator that God wants them to pray, and you just translated that exactly, they would hear: God wants you.(however you want to interperet that) To pray. It literally makes no sense to them if you dont do it exactly right, and if it sounds stupid when you say it in english, then your doing it right, to get that same message across you would have to say. "God wants so that you prayed to him" and in english that means "God wants you to pray to him". It only makes sense in Russian. So amongst the strange rules and cases, I am slowly getting better, unfortunately Elder Knorpp is struggling with the language and that may have been the cause of some of our contention. He is getting slowly better though and I know that if he works hard he can do it. We get new Elders and Sisters in our zone today and I am stoked!!! ITs like Christmas morning but instead of presents you get people! I appreciate the letters, emails, and packages, sometimes looking forward to reading my mail gets me through the day. The best things that happened this week Language: I memorized the cases
Companion: We got to take a nap yesterday because he was sick
In general: So this one is really kind of terrible but outstandingly hillarious becasue it wasnt me. SO in one of the english districts on our floor, an elder got a jar of Queso from his family, his district, takes 24 laxative pills and dissolves it into the queso while he is gone. THey are supposed to leave at 6 am for poccatello Idaho, He eats, the entire jar of queso. And his district thought it was funny! They freaking poisoned the Elder and they thought it was funny! 30 minutes later hes in the bathroom wondering what in the world happened, they tell him and he ends up having to go to the front desk to find out if he needs to go to the hospital, I just went to bed so I dont know if he went or not, but he had to stay here for a couple of days to make sure it was out of his system. That got me to wondering, what would 24 laxitives do to you? Id imagine hes spent most of his time in the bathroom while his companion who had to stay with him is rethinking his decision to help poison his companion. THere is a rumor the elder ate the queso on a Dare, but either way that was the stupidest thing Ive seen yet. Thats one of those things that is really funny unless it happpens to you. Other than that it was an uneventful week here at the MTC, Im getting my haircut today so this will be the first time IVe let anyone but my mom touch my hair, really nervous!
-Elder Jaxon Hunter Jorgensen
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