Week 6

Hello Family and Friends!!

Well 6 weeks down in the MTC! Only 3 more weeks from today and I will be boarding a plane to go to the Ukraine!! I can't believe I am leaving for the field so soon. I am seriously so excited to get out there and start serving the people! One of my good friends from the MTC left to Kiev three weeks ago and I get his weekly emails every week. After reading them It has made me so much more excited to get out there. He is having a blast!

This past week was so amazing. First off last Wednesday I got to host Jacob when he showed up here at the MTC! It was the greatest experience ever. I was so excited to see him and just welcome him to the MTC. It was awesome to see his parents too! Its always nice to see familiar faces. I took jacob and checked him in and them we went to his dorm and we just chilled for like 30 minutes and talked about life. It was so nice to be back together with him. I then took him on a tour of the MTC and showed him everything and then I took him to class. I see him every single day during all of our meal times. It is so much fun to see him and ask him how things are going and see how Romanian is coming along. Also while being an escort at the beginning I escorted a early arrival missionary from Canada. He was from Medicine Hat and going to serve in the Winnipeg mission. It was pretty funny to talk to him about Canada and everything. He was a good guy.

This past week has been crazy busy. Being Zone Leader is very difficult but so much fun. I have gotten to know almost every missionary in our zone very well. Our zone is so big so it has been hard. We are still the biggest in the MTC. I have alot of responsibilities but my campanion and I have been doing well. I love our Branch Presidency so much. My Branch President was a mission president of the Moscow mission so he is fluent in Russian. He talks to us all teh time in Russian and I have no clue what he is saying. It is prettty funny!

So at our Sunday night Fireside we had Chad Lewis come to speake to us!!! For those of you who dont know him he played in the NFL for the Eagles for about 10 years. He served a mission in Taiwan. It was seriously one of the greatest talks ever. It made me so stoked to go and preach the gospel. It was like a giant pump up talk. It brought me back to the old days when Coach Curran used to give us pre game speeches to get us excited and ready to play. Chad Lewis was basically giving the whole MTC a giant pre game speech before we head out of here. It was so awesome. He talked about his time in the NFL and how since he served a mission chinese that he is now the Chinese Ambassador of the NFL. He is seriously so amazing!

So we started a new schedule last week. I absolutely love it so much. We have alot more time for studying. We also have an extra 45 minutes in the morning to get ready. Lately my campanion and I have gone running in the morning and have been doing some crazy workouts. It has been so fun. We still get our normal Gym everyday so we play basketball almost everyday.

Our lessons this past week were so amazing. My comapanion and I have been working super hard so our lessons can go more smooth. We have been teaching full 20 minutes lessons without any notes at all. We taught all teh commandments this past week which were very difficult because of all the new vocabuluary but they went awesome. Also we combined with one of the new districts and we practiced teaching them. I got to teach and elder one on one the whole first lesson about the Restoration. I was so shocked how much Russian I knew and my ability to teach him without using any notes or anything. It was so crazy. Russian is so fun and interesting actually. Almost every single word you say, you have to change the ending and put it into a case. We have 6 cases. But about 30 different endings. It is so hard to put them in the right case but once you get the hang of it, it is pretty sweet. You dont have to put your sentences in any order at all. Because of the endings the words can go anywhere!

Well I love all of you. Thank you so much for all the Dear Elders and letters. I love them so much and they make my days so much better. Love you all.

я люблю вас

жизен хорошо

мне наравитса мтс

я благодарный быт здесь

люблюв,

старейшина грокмал

Elder Grochmal.