June 26, 2019
Translation (In both senses of the word)
გამარჯობა!
Well boys, we did it, our second week at the MTC is no
more. Let me tell you, I for one had a great week here at the old
Missionary Training Center. The new mission president training was this
week which means something very exciting for us. Every member of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency was here this
week. Elder Butterfield and I were joking about seeing the prophet's car,
which was a Toyota Highlander. This was the meme of the day. Well, a couple days later on our way to
class, we really did see the prophet's car. It drove up to one of the
buildings, President Nelson got out and Elder Uchtdorf greeted him. WE WERE RIGHT THERE!!! They waved at us
as they went in. It was pretty
neat. On Sunday, our devotional was
given by Elder Holland. Sitting on the
stand was every member of the Quorum of the Twelve, President Oaks, and their
wives. Elder Holland's message was so simple, but gave us a lot of
discussion material for our district council meeting. We are growing sooooooooooooooooooooo much
here, it is insane!!
Well, you see, I don't have too much to say, so I will have
to fill this out with a dream I had. It probably won't be very
entertaining for you all, but it was to the district, so here you
go.
ACT I: We start out in a building much like our
residence buildings, but different. All the cabinets are gone and
replaced with different sized beds. The
sisters are also with us for some reason. We end up discovering the
existence of what we will now be calling the laundry society. They meet in the basement. All you have
to do to be inducted is let them do a load of laundry for you. Oh, and my roommate from last semester Elder
Wing (Davis) was there too. He went down to the basement to see if it
really was that easy to be inducted into the laundry society. He didn't think he had enough laundry, so I
gave him some of mine. I go down a bit later and find my pajamas strewn
across the floor. This was of course
completely normal sounding to me. To get
your laundry done it had to fit into this really small bag. End of act
one.
ACT II: We are back in our room (the entire
district is there, although I don't remember seeing them, I just had some
feeling that they were there.) This act is short and it consists only of
two little six-year-olds. Some random
girl in a camp counselor outfit was reading a bedtime story, then these two
little boys just got up in workout clothes. We asked where they were
going and they said they wanted to go to the gym between 10pm and midnight
because no one was scheduled to be there at that time. Like, WHAT?
Does the gym get busy for six-year-olds right at 12:01am? Really
weird. Okay end of act two.
ACT III: In this version of our room, there
were a huge number of windows. It was super bright outside, I was trying
to close all the blinds, but for some reason it was incredibly hard. I
had to make some curtains with the extra blankets for the thin upper windows,
and no one seemed to care that it was really late and really bright
outside. While this is going on, Sister Goldrich and Sister Wall were
getting at each other about whose math skills were better. They were going at it. For some reason they knew exactly what high
school math classes each one took at what schools they went to. It was
weird and then it ended.
This week, ძმა მუირი (Brother Muir) was not here for a
couple days, so I had several subs. Sister Hopwood, one of the Hungarian
teachers came in and I taught her some grammar and we labeled stuff in the room
with Georgian. The other days, I had Brother Richmond and Brother Alvord,
which meant that I would be joining the Armenians. It was okay.
I kinda just did my own thing whilst they spoke in tongues. It was
pretty fun to study with them. They get
mad at how many cognates are in Georgian.
Computer, Internet, telephone, university, school, mouse. Library, church and problem are just Spanish
cognates, so there are some good parts of Georgian.
I have been studying the last words of the prophets in each
of the standard works. I am starting with the Book of Mormon. It is really interesting to compare them,
because they are so different. I just finished Alma the younger, and his
are very interesting. Of course we have
his teachings to each of his sons, but his true last words are
interesting. They prophesy of the destiny of the Nephites. He says that 400 years after the Lord comes,
the Nephites and Lamanites will destroy themselves. That's about it. Then he just leaves and is
never heard from again. That is something that is not very common in the
Book of Mormon. Mormon gives his
commentary that he may have been translated like Moses, but that is really it. Pretty unique as far as last words of
prophets go.
So much more has happened, but I do not feel like typing it all
out. And that's the way it is on this the 26th of June 2019.
ნახვამდის!
--უხუცესი ფიშერი
Brother Alvord - Armenian teacher
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