What's up!!
So on Saturday was officially our half way point in the
MTC!!! I can't believe I'm already a month done and half way with the MTC! We
partied it up with Sparkling Cider ;) courtesy of my wonderful parents! I
don't feel like I'm ready to go out into the field just because there is so
much I need to learn about the language that we haven't covered yet but it's
all good!
Update on my fake investigator Eszter, Fisher
Elder and I (that's how we pronounce names in Hungarian) have been teaching her
about the commandments the Lord has set for us. Learning the vocab for each
lesson has been tough but the spirit definitely helps me learn it faster! Some
lessons we teach are definitely better than others but that's okay because we
can't expect a perfect lesson each time; however, with the Lord's help we can
teach with the spirit!
I got to host again on Wednesday for the third time! There
were almost 700 missionaries that arrived that day so it was insane! I hosted
around 4 missionaries! We also had all the new Dutch missionaries come on
Wednesday!!! I had the fantastic opportunity to welcome them and help them with
their first day at the MTC! Remembering how loved I felt on my first day at the
MTC, I really tried to make sure they felt the same way! Being a zone leader is
hard but I love serving and helping the missionaries have a great MTC
experience!
On Tuesday we had a fantastic devotional on having faith and
charity in our investigators. I truly felt that in order to teach with the
spirit, I have to love the people I am teaching.
Yesterday because of all the new missionaries, we had 2100
missionaries at our MTC choir practice! I have never seen so many at choir
before!
Okay so this awesome experience happened yesterday at the
devotional. So for the devotional, the MTC President and his wife (it
turns out both of them are from Fisher Elder's ward so I kind of know them now) told us that for our Sunday devotional we would be re-watching
"The Character of Christ" by Elder Bednar (the talk I told you
all about in my first letter) because there was so many new missionaries.
After watching the talk, ELDER BEDNAR HIMSELF came into the room!!!! I started
flipping out and everyone stood up as he and his wife and an area seventy from
Europe all came in!!! The spirit was incredibly strong when he came in and I
was completely shocked! He had a question and answer session with all of us
about the character of Christ and how we can all become more like Christ! One
thing that Elder Bednar said that was kind of like that "drop the mic
quote" was that "Charity isn't something that we do, it's who we
become!" That struck me hard because that's who Jesus Christ was. He was
charity! I'll never forget that feeling and experience!
Those were pretty much the highlights of this week! We will
be having the Nashville Tribute Band performing on Pioneer Day and we will be
singing with them so I can't wait to email you on that!
Szeretek vagytok!
Elder Ballard
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