This week was awesome! So much has happened, I wish you were all here with me to experience it! (Feel free to sneak in and join me lol-- jkjk that is definitely a joke)
Many funny things happened haha many of which are probably "you just had to be there;" I wish I had space to tell them all. First of all, in class on Monday we were a bit distracted and our teacher Sora Trebas used a Romanian expression meaning "let's gather the sheep." Anyways what I thought she said was "Let's pray now" so I stood up and closed my eyes and folded my arms ( we always stand in a circle ). Anyways now I am constantly teased every time our teacher needs to "gather the sheep." Super fun ;)
I cannot roll my Rs haha. Romanian is going well, except for the fact that every R is rolled and 70% of the words seem to have multiple Rs in them. Our teacher is trying to teach me, but it's so hard and I'm supposed to walk around saying "arrrrrt" all day haha. But the gift of tongues is working and our Romanian is coming along unbelievably fast.
Weird fact about the MTC: they love to sing hymns. And I like to sing hymns too so it's awesome! You think you are singing the opening song of a meeting or devotional when really you are singing hymn 1/5 of the prelude songs before the opening song.
Last of all, I wanted to talk about our amazing devotional on Tuesday! It was the anniversary of the martyrdom of Joseph Smith in case any of you didn't know, and Elder Bednar was coming to speak since all the mission presidents were here being trained! Anyways, we were really confused when Elder Ballard walked in instead of Elder Bednar. Then Elders Cook, Rasband, Stevenson, Holland, Christofferson, Oaks, Anderson, and Renlund walked in!!! Then Elder Bednar came in and spoke. TEN of the quorum of the twelve apostles walked in and it was so cool! Basically our own General Conference right there. It was amazing to see how important missionary work is to this church that ten of them took the time to be there. We learned so much about the power of God's word and the power of Christ growing within each one of us. So awesome!
Anyways, the MTC is still amazing, still a ton of work, and still so much fun!!!
I love it here and I miss you all.
Cu iubeste,
Sister Emilie Ebert
PS if you want a Romanian tongue twister say this 10x fast: "Oaia aia-i a ei" (remember to pronounce every letter separately-- it's really hard) it means "that sheep is hers"
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