It has been an good second week in the MTC but it has
flown by. The past week felt about as long as the first 2 days. I am
learning a lot, it is hard but it is happening. I recognize that I am
incapable of learning a language at this point so I know that without
the help from the Lord Deus and o Espirtio Santo it isn't going to
happen. So I am very glad that we get their help in getting that done
and remembering what we have already learned. We have a new teacher now
his name is Irmao Staples and he seems to be a good teacher even though
we have only been with him once. We are having to deal with
progressively more difficult teacher investigators and more of them so
that will be a challenge but it is awesome when they ask you a question
that you can kind of answer in a broken sentence. It makes you feel
really good because it is not that common for me at least.
Sunday I spotted Elder Schenk twice. I saw him
walking once in the morning and was able to pay him back the 5 dollars
that I owed him and have been carrying around all week. I then spotted
him standing up looking around for me before the Sunday night devotional
and was able to go talk to him for a little bit and say goodbye as he
leaves to day at 4 to enter the field. I was glad that I got to do
that. He seemed humble and ready to go so I am sure that he will do
great out there.
It is not easy trying to stay in shape and healthy.
But from my district and zone there are several guys that after we are
done playing soccer minus all the stupid rules that make it more
civilized and less like real football we come back and do abs and push
ups and pull ups which helps but those are getting old really fast and
there is never enough time to get the exercise that I want and need.
Also spending just about all my day shaded from the sun, I no longer
look like a river guide I am not very tan, I got a haircut today which
was fun. The barbershop was nice had a great view out over the trees at
8 so with the morning light on the mountains it was very pleasant.
Plus their was classical music playing and the barber I found out has
been there since 92 so he knew what he was doing and was nice to talk
to. Plus I was the only one in there so it was just great. But all of
my blonde hair is gone and it looked weird to see myself with dark not
curly hair for the first time in months. I do miss the sun. Especially
since even when you are walking in between buildings the paths are
covered so you still don't get the sun that you need. I think that
might have been part of the reason that I along with most everyone in
our district has been a little sick. I am over it now so that is good.
because it is really difficult to try to catch up on sleep here without
feeling guilty for missing study time.
As I mentioned to Mom earlier we shipped our 3rd
member of the trio off the the MTC in Sao Paulo this morning at 6 am and
so it is back down to Elder Beeton and I. We are the more mellow of
the three of us so that should mean we get more time that we are focused
which is one of the biggest challenges here since you just want to talk
to everyone and get to know as many people as possible. We will miss
Elder Burgquist though because he is a character.
So one night this week my District leader Elder
Wilkes had a bunch of Elders in our residence write letters to his
girlfriend that he thinks he is going to marry when he gets home. (she
is 16 and going into her Junior year of high school so I think it is
retarded, there is a lot more of that then I was expecting around here.
Them Utards all want to get married.) So i went with the approach of
trying to make sure she realizes that how important it is she doesn't
mess up eternity on a goofball like Elder Wilkes. There were some really
funny letters from the other Elders.
This week I have read a lot in the scriptures and have been able to do it while staying awake for the most part which is awesome. When I get to just read the Good old English Book of Mormon is usually one of my favorite parts of the day because it is relaxing you don't have to fight past the language to get the spiritual stuff, it is just sitting there for you. But I have also started reading the Bible in Portuguese with Elder Sutton from my district where we go through and try to figure out what every word means before looking at it in English. Which seemed to be very educational and helpful. Also the Bible that we have is the King James version minus the footnotes and JSTs because the Church doesn't have that for the Portuguese Bible which I found surprising. It took us over an hour to get though the first 2 chapters in Genesis so it is pretty slow going.
On Sunday we
watched a talk by Elder Bednar that he gave at the MTC a couple years
ago called the Characteristics of Christ. It was quite possibly the
best talk that I have ever listened to and I definitely suggest that you
all take the time to watch it.
I better go
take a nap now so I don't fall asleep at the temple. I hope you all
have a great week. I will continue to work hard and strive to not waste
any of the time that I have dedicated to the Lord. You will all be in
my prayers. I love all of you and that love grows more and more each
day. Until next week.
Love,
Elder Hobson
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