"On Sunday I gave a talk in Russian and it was pretty awesome! It was about 5 minutes long and I barely had any issues with any of the words! My district also did the musical number which was singing Nearer My God to Thee in Russian. (In the MTC we have a special musical number every Sunday).
I never thought I would be so happy for the Mission
President seminar to be over. We are back to our regular food now, and I guess
you really just don't appreciate something until it is gone. We finally have
more than one choice for food again Hoorah!!!
Service is seriously the antidote for everything, I swear. I
have learned so much about serving other people in the short weeks that I have
been here! I love how it makes me feel when I can think about other people.
Our regular Russian teachers are both back in town finally,
so the schedule isn't quite so crazy anymore (we don't have a new teacher
everyday). It's good because they know what we have and haven't learned. I am
getting better and better at remembering and recognizing words everyday! We are
trying to memorize around 20 words a day, and it gets easier all of the time. I
am starting to recognize what type of endings Russian uses for verbs, nouns,
adjectives, etc. The cases are super tricky, though, and learning the masculine
and feminine words is a pain! However, seeing how far I have come in this short
time, I can't imagine where I will be in 18 months!! It's really cool to hear
the new missionaries in our zone learning so much already. When we have zone prayer,
we get to hear Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian praying! It's absolutely
amazing. This has got to be one of the coolest places in the world.
In other news, we can teach a lesson without looking at any
books now, it's a little hard, but we are getting so good! My companions are
amazing.
On Wednesday, we got to host new missionaries again. There
were only a couple hundred coming in this time instead of 800. I hosted a cute
sister going to Canada Calgary English speaking. She was so excited to serve her
mission. It's funny to watch people being dropped off because they're always
either super excited or super sad. I think I was a little of both!
There's not much else to say this week besides I love all of
you and I love being here! I cannot believe that I am halfway into my MTC stay.
I am sad that I will be leaving the other Sisters when they go to Russia, but I
am so blessed to have met them all. The friends I have made here will last a
lifetime!
Love,
Sister Jenne"
Unfortunately, Sister Jenne didn't caption the pictures, so I can't tell you what is going on in all of them, but it sure looks like she is still learning a lot and having an awesome time!! I chatted with her over email, and I know that she is absolutely loving it there so far! Stay tuned!!
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