Sziasztok!
So this week was kind of crazy! Good thing is that I am now
know enough Hungarian where I can hold conversations without having to check
notes or anything like that. We set a goal as a companionship to learn 20 vocab
words a day and it is paying off! We had an Emeritus Seventy on our Tuesday
devotional and we got to sing one of my favorite songs "Where can I Turn
for Peace?" I never truly realized that that song is the question
investigators are asking. "Where can we turn for peace?" The message
I'm bringing is to answer that question. We can all turn to Jesus Christ to
feel peace. I know that to be true!
I cannot believe we are getting our flight plans this
Friday! These past couple of weeks flew by but I am so grateful for the MTC and
all the things I have learned from it! Only two more weeks!
On Wednesday we had the new Albanians come in and me and
Fisher Elder helped them with orientation and such. It turns our one of the the
elders was in my EFY group four years ago!!! It was so insane seeing him again
and catching up on things!! Unfortunately, it's a little more difficult growing
close to them because they are in a different building and there are so many
missionaries at the MTC right now. I think the MTC is reaching it's max this
Wednesday so that will be interesting to see haha.
Yesterday for our Sunday devotional we had Stephen Allen, an
official who works for the general authorities, come and speak to us about
being like Christ and trying to love our companions which is something I have
been trying to work on especially this past week. Also yesterday I was released
as zone leader and honestly it was so fun being in that position and welcoming
all the new missionaries! It was super fun getting to help and serve the new
missionaries in my zone and all the things I learned from being in that
position will definitely help me in the field.
So regarding the title, my tooth hasn't completely healed
from a couple of weeks ago when I got hit playing basketball so I got to go to
one of the dental offices here in Provo to get it checked out. It was kind of
weird actually leaving the MTC. Sometimes being in the MTC for so many weeks
kind makes you think that the world is the MTC. It turns out that my tooth
will be okay. The dentists took some x-rays of it and they said one of the
bones is broken around my tooth but that it will heal just fine. One of the
dentists at the dental office went to Hungary for his mission and we were able
to talk to him in Hungarian which was pretty cool.
A fun thing that will be happening this week is that four
new Turk missionaries will arrive on Wednesday. My misisonary friends in Turkey
are in Germany right now because of the stuff going on in Turkey right now but
I hope that things normalize there. I love and miss you all and have a
fantasztikus week!
Szeretetek,
Elder Ballard
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