Week 4

Biggie Cheese = The Sickest (Week 4)

This week has definitely been an interesting one...

So normally my roommates and I are pretty good at going to bed at 10:30pm, where we just crash immediately after the long day. However, Sunday night, for whatever reason, we had this "debate" to figure out which person/tv character/historical figure was the so-called "realest" one. The goal was to name the most obscure/unknown character from our childhood within the deepest parts of our brains by saying, "You know who's realer than ______? ______." and then fill in the blanks with things like "The Guy" from "Spy Kids 3" or the hunter who shot Bambi's mom. This has easily been the hardest I've laughed since I've gotten here (sorry neighbors who were trying to sleep). We eventually came to the conclusion that the so-called "realest" one is Cookie, from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, with honorable mentions being the rat that brought the black plague, and Dante, from "Dante's Inferno".

After staying up til midnight talking about that, and regretting it the next day, we did the same exact thing the next night, except we tried to figure out the "sickest" one. For this one, we concluded that, by a long shot, Biggie Cheese, the over-sized rodent from "Barnyard" that sings "Mista' Boombastic" was indeed the "sickest". My roommates are the best!

Also the Elders on my floor had the brilliant idea to create a sauna in the bathroom by turning on all of the showers to the hottest setting and hanging a sheet on the outside to prevent the steam from escaping. Seeing about 15 cramped half-naked Elders being super hyped about a sauna is a sight I don't think I'll forget.

On the more spiritual side, the devotional last night, given by S. Gifford Nielsen of the Seventy and his wife had many great messages of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Before God and Christ came down to the earth to answer Joseph's, Satan tried everything in his power to prevent Joseph Smith from praying to God by swelling his tongue and filling his mind with nonspiritual thoughts and images.

Now a lesson that we can learn from this is that before every one of our happy experiences, we are also gonna have not-so-happy experiences. And vice versa, if any of us are struggling with something in our lives, just know that there is joy to come. Just keep pressing on - ask for help whenever you're struggling with anything to take some of the weight of your burdens off of your shoulders.

También es muy divertido a aprender y enseñar mis conocimientos en una idioma diferente. Habían sido algunos tiempos cuando mi distrito y yo no hablamos en ingles for todo el día, y he visto el don de lenguas en mi vida y en las vidas de otros misioneros. Estoy agradecido por todas las personas que me han ayudado a estar aquí.

Other than that everything is the same ol' same ol' here at the MTC. ¡Hasta luego!

Elder Terry

Fotos:

1. Two onion rings fried together and it looks like a sombrero --> SOMBRERO BURGER