Hallo!
First 3 days have been the most fun and difficult days of
meine life! But I have never felt the Spirit so strong for so long until I got
here. The first day our teacher rallied off at us in Deutsch and I almost cried
hahaha but God for sure helped me get through the day.
Mein Meiterbieter ist Sister Yeck! She's from Highland Utah
and is 6'0" so she keeps up with my fast walking, but sometimes I have to
keep up with her. We haven't argued yet which has been gut and luckily she took
a few years of Deutsch in High School so we have something to build off on.
My district is AWESOME! Everyone in it is going to
Frankfurt. There are 8 people total. Elder Hughes (our DL) and ELder Dutson,
Elder Wright and Elder Rothwell, and Sister Jackson and Sister Shelley (They
basically are fluent in German). Elder Wright and I have the same problem with
speaking Spanish instead of Deutsch and it's super funny. We will say ‘porque’
or ‘adios’ and look at each other and laugh. But I'm definitely understanding
the majority of the things SIster Toma is teaching, she doesn't go too fast
either. It's hard to respond though. The second day though she asked what a
word meant and I said what it meant and my meitbeirter was like How did you
know that!?! Obviously I didn't but I had help from on high. We taught our
first Investigator yesterday and all I can do is laugh. It's frustrating to
want to help someone so bad but not have the words to do so. But I have already
grown to love Roland and want what is best for him. I just wish I could say it
in Deutsch!!! But hey it’s only been 3 days so I'm not being too hard on
myself. Even though we paused for 2 minutes at a time, I left being full of the
Spirit and being happy. Being positive is what I have been working on this
whole time because it isn't easy learning this language but I know I will one
day be able to get it down by trusting in Gott.
I don't know why I listened to people when they said the MTC
food is gut because it is disgusting. I run off of chocolate milche and fruit
for the most part. We have pizza nacht every fritag (friday) and the line was
soooo long! Hahah but it was final gut essen. The sisters in my district sit
together at every meal but the Elders are non existent, I'm pretty sure they
are avoiding us. One day we will all be freunden.
In our first Zone meeting with the Branch Presidency we each
had to stand up and share stuff about ourselves, there are 45 people going to
Deutschland, 18 to Frankfurt. When it came time for me to introduce myself I
said ‘Hi I'm Addison’....The 1st counselor’s face was the funniest thing I ever
saw because he was so shocked ahah I apologized and said ‘Sister Farner’.
Everyone laughed, I have the worst time with that. Today during volleyball two
elders introduced themselves to me and then I said ‘Hi I’m Elder.. I mean
Sister Farner’. I can’t get it right! hahaha
Every week we are supposed to write a 3-5 minuten talk in
Deutsch to give in Church on Saturday, an Elder and a Sister are picked at
random over the podium each Sunday so ya. Gut thing no one understands Deutsch
yet besides a few Elders and Sisters.
Oh ya we aren’t referred to Schwester because the Catholic
Nuns are called that.
Sister Johnson, my lovely cousin, called me a little fat
grandma in Deutsch and it really hurt my feelings haha her meiterbeiter is
fluent so I asked her what I could call her back and she said to call her a
demon child in Deutsch ( I don’t know how to spell it). So I did. Hahaha she
was stumped. Sister Johnson is in the room right next to me. So we get to see
each other but not too much.
I'm happy to be here and happy to be able to learn the
Celestial language. Ich danke der fur meine HImmlischer Vater and the liebe He
habe fur me. Praying in Deutsch is awesome and I can do it for the most part
without notes! The Gift of Tongues is real like everyone has said it is. You
don't really get that until you are out here trying to lerne ein foreign
language.
I could go on fur ever but the last thing that the MTC
president wife said was "Little growth occurs in a comfort zone and there
is little comfort in a growth zone
Liebe and miss you all!
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