Week 2/104

  

This week has been amazing, and it flew by!!! I only have 47 days left here in the MTC! I am losing my MIIINNNDDD! I cant spell english words correctly anymore, and I keep on writing my N backwards as well as using a c instead of an S. So you could say its getting pretty serious with the Russian here. The last few weeks have been really confusing for me. Its like God is rebuilding my testimony with a stronger foundation. All of those things I learned in Seminary and that I had such strong faith in all got wiped and all that was left was the doctrine. So God has been rebuilding my Testimony from the ground up, by basing my foundation of Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and the power of the atonement. I think the spirit is working on me like that so that when I am in the Ukraine, my testimony will be able to stand up to the questions, doubts, and fears thrown at me. He always gives me just enough questions to have to think about it and ask for help on a subject, but never too much to make me doubt. The spirit here is amazing and I have loved the devotionals here. This week had someone from the 70s here, he said exactly what I needed to here, the theme of his talk was that a Bold missionary is a humble missionary. IT was really awesome and I loved it. I got a "Love note" from my"Secret Admirer" on monday. Turns out it was just my district messing around with me and my comp, it was really funny and I saved the note. We had an elder go home on Monday as well. He was really having a tuff time with the language and he had some learning disablities, he is where he needs to be now, and plans to learn the language at his own pace until he feels he is ready to come back here again. It was really hard watching someone struggle so much with something that they had been called to do. Thanks for the Letters and Emails, I am out of poptarts, but dont send anymore candy because I am starting to get chubby, im gonna have to start running for gym time and going to the weight gym to fix it, only problem, my comp only ever wants to play 4 square when I want to exercise, and I only ever wanna play V ball or 4 square while he wants to lift. We will work on it.

Mom-So this week was good, I really appreciate all the socks and packages.  Ill send some good pics to the whole group in a minute, I havent had an opprotunity to get a pic of all of the dnepper people yet because most of them are in the other district.  So far Ive only had 1 night mare here and it was hilarious. (not for the blog;)  And then I woke up.  Here in the MTC, with no *****.  I just groaned and got out of bed got ready and went about my business, I told all of my Dom mates about it and they thought it was hillarious.  I love all the letters and they are the highlight of my day, at the end of the day to destress, I just sit there and organize the letters into the binder.  I miss you all so much and I almost cry everytime I read a letter.  The food here is starting to get to me, Ive felt kinda sick the last few days, and one of the Elders in the other district got food poisoning from the chicken.  The chocolate milk is great though.  My companion is a lot like Kade, except not nearly as happy as Kade always was.  We joke and laugh and have a good time.  My district is so hilarious and they are a really intelligent group of people.  I re-started the Bom on August 27 and am already to Helaman, I love reading it now, its like watching TV for me because its one of the few things not in Russian.