If You're Crazy and You Know it Shake Your Pills

Sziatok! McBride Nover Vagyok es missionarius As Utolso Napok Szenjeink Jezus Krisztus Egyhaza Vagyok!

So this week has been pretty solid! Found out on Friday I don't have nerve damage and that the problems with my shoulder can be resolved while I am at the MTC and even while going into my mission! So this email is going to be a little all over the place because I have a lot to say! First off God is good. He is so good to me and I freaking love being Team Jesus. For real though how awesome is our God? Anyways so Saturday not a whole lot happened went to class learned some Hungarian, I'm all caught up now and it's coming pretty well! I've memorized the first half of Joseph Smith's account of the first vision and it's pretty incredible. Hungarian is so beautiful, hard and scary but beautiful.  I've set some personal goals for myself since I am still in residence still but able to go to class for an hour or so each block. So my goals for this week include
Memorize 2 phrases in Hungarian
Read at least 2 chapters out loud from The Book of Mormon in Hungarian
Memorize "My Purpose" from PMG and Joseph Smiths Account of the First Vision
Memorize 2 Scriptures in Hungarian
Memorize core four language charts ( Past/Present/Conditional/Subjunctive) [each category has 2 so technically the core 8 but core 4 sounds better]
It's been pretty awesome and I'm seeing my efforts pay off even though I am not in class as much as I'd like! The Lord is blessing me in my afflictions and trials [D&C 121:7-9]. So Kennedy Fam! Elder Garrison and I have the same schedule so we see each other a lot and are pretty much best friends, no big deal. He's kind of my favorite and every time he sees me He asks how I am doing. He'll Rock Poland no doubt! I told him we have to get a picture together so we will try to sometime this week! So I have a really funny story for you guys about my shoulder. Buckle up because I will never ever live this down according to Hawker Nover... So I got four cordizone shots in my shoulders on Tuesday and with these bad boys they put the needle in and tell you to tell them when you feel a lot of pain so they know they are injecting into the right muscle. So he does two, (by the way my fear of needles is completely non-existent now due to my MTC stay. WINNING) and I am going strong still feeling fine. Third one done, no problem. We get to the last one and he sticks in the needle I tell him when it hurts and he injects. All of a sudden I feel dizzy, and light headed thinking to myself, What the french toast is happening. I finally tell him "I kinda feel light headed.." not even 10 seconds later boom I was out. I had passed out with a freaking needle in my back, luckily this doctor is awesome and pulled it out so I didn't fall on it. Anyways I wake up from my quick cat nap and the doctor is laughing asking if I am okay and Hawker is dying laughing too. So That was fun. He said it was a natural reaction for these shots cause your body is in a ton of pain so it just kinda checks out and says  "freak I'm done with this, I'm out" then clicks off. So honestly I am doing great I am just taking it a day at a time, still in pain but the shots take about 4-6 days to work and we have a follow up on Tuesday to see how everything is going! Your prayers are helping Hawker Nover and I a TON. Sure this trial sucks but hey better here at the MTC in the USA then while in Hungary. Enough of that boring stuff time for the good stuff. So in our Zone with have Finnish, Estonians, Albanians and the Hungarians. The Finnish were here 4 weeks before us and pretty much were the coolest people ever. The Finns left us on Monday and I am pretty sure it was the worst thing in the world. We said our goodbyes on Sunday night and were allowed to give quick hugs to everyone to wish them luck. So there is this Vanhin (elder) that is pretty great His name is Vanhin Ford. I went to go give him a hug and it was the most awkward hug of my entire life. I literally said "wow that was awkward" right after the hug, thats how awkward it was... and Ford could not handle the fact that it was awkward so he comes up to me and Hawker and says lets try this again. He gives me another hug, still super awkward but I just said "yup that was a little better!" He still could not handle it I felt so bad for the poor elder... He then catches me off guard picks me up and hugs me then puts me down and while walking away puts his hands in the air and said "WHAT NOW, NOT AWKWARD!" so hilarious. He is going to do amazing things in Finland along with Sisar Jordan, Sisar Hales, Sisar Harris, Sisar Wunderli,  Sisar Herrman, Vanhin Merrill, Vanhin Monterosso, Vanhin Nissin, Vanhin Edwards, and Vanhin Galey! Love all the Finns. We got the New fins in yesterday so it'll be fun to not be the new people in our branch anymore. Two of the Elders are from Australia its just fun to listen to them to talk. So on Sundays after Devo we get to watch a movie or talk of our choice to calm down for the night and I love it. We watched a Devotional that happened on Christmas Day with Elder Bednar called Character of Christ. It's so amazing. The whole thing is talking about how we are all so selfish we are always turning inward and helping ourselves. Having pity on our selves and wanting people to pay attention to us. When Christ is just the opposite. He turns out ward when others would turn inward. He talked about a Sister in his stake who called him one day telling him that there were three girls in young womens who were in a terrible car crash. 2 of the girls were alive one died at the scene. She called him asking him to go to the hospital where they were located to see if he could identify them. He said he realized at that moment that this woman was on the phone with the nurse who was with these three girls and that nurse had just told her they positively identified one of the three girls, the girl who had passed away was her daughter. Bednar said he had waited for a response from her and the first thing she said was "President we need to call the other mothers and let them know that their daughters are okay." AMAZING WOMAN. She wasn't even thinking about her self. Her daughter had just died and she was thinking about others. So this woman was also the relief society president in her ward, and a single mother, and this daughter who had died was her only daughter. On the day of her Daughters funeral, she gets a nasty call from one of the members exclaiming how mad she was that she had been sick for a week and no one came to deliver her food. This woman APOLOGIZED, and brought this selfish self centered woman a meal that she prepared on the way to her only daughters funeral. Talk about having the true Character of Christ. I challenge you all to look outward more and stop focusing on yourself. I've noticed already in my own life the blessings I have been getting when I stop thinking about my trials and serve others in the ways that I can.  I love you all, and I miss you all! If you ever miss me just know I am needed else where! Ya'll are about to be overloaded with photos so brace yourself!!

The Church is True!

Write me! DearElders all that Jazz, tell me about world news too! It's nice to know whats happening!


Mom and Dad if you could send me in my next package some of these things that would be awesome!
4X6 photos of family/dogs
Those skirts from petersons that I said I didn't like but mom did and said I should get but I didn't listen because I am dumb and moms are always right [the flowy ones I tried on a navy and olive green one]
Hoodie [ITS FREEZING]
Some dress flats or a pair of toms size 8
Szeretlek,

McBride Nover

It's the Final Count Down

ONE MONTH DOWN ONE TO GO. So this week hasn't been too eventful I wasn't able to be in class due to my stinking shoulder. Weirdly enough I am not that worried about the language... I know the Lord will bless me as long as I am trying my hardest to learn the language with continuous study of the Gospel! We have had some AMAZING devotionals this weekend. Can I just say that Sunday and Tuesdays at the MTC are pretty much the best days besides P-day. No Joke. Devotional on Monday was from one of the branch presidents and his wife! President and Sister Lindahl, were amazing! I wish I would of brought my notes in here with me but I'll share a few things with you that I can remember that made me just think "Holy Crap this Woman is speaking to me". She talked about how we are all worthy and we know we are worthy when we have the spirit with us. She talked about how Satan doesn't give up just because we are in the MTC, he works harder and we need to work even harder than him. She told us that the Lord will not fail us, the Lord answers prayers, sometimes he tries our patience to make us Strong. He doesn't want us to lose faith he wants us to grow it, but trials and hard times are what also increase our faith. I mean how can you really grow if you aren't stretched a little or tried? It totally makes sense. You don't get results by doing nothing that's for sure. It just made me realize that the Lord truly is mindful of me and my trials and that He knows exactly what I am going through and what I feel. He has shown me time and time again and I am pretty sure at this point when I ask for him to give me reassurance of what I am doing he laughs and says "Again? Honey how many times do you need to be reassured of my love for you. Are my words not enough?" Then at that point I get a smack in the face of humility like He you don't be dumb you're a Daughter of God and He loves you. Then I aggressively say the Young Women's theme in my head to eye of the Tiger and my day is 110% better. So Tuesday was amazing we had the First Councilor of the General Bishopric Presidency Elder Causse and His Wife. They talked about being Bold Missionaries. Not being afraid to just go up to someone and preach to them. Not being afraid to ask them to be baptized. How that we are all super heroes to these people that our 'Super Power" is the Holy Ghost. That just like Spider-man had to exercise his powers to be a great super hero, we do to through prayer. scriptures, service, ect. [ The whole spiderman thing was really funny because I guess one time I went up to Hawker Nover while I was on Oxi and told her that it made me have spidey senses ... I know pretty great.] Anyways it was pretty much just a huge pump up at this point!! Made me want to walk up to everyone on temple walk to day and be like "Have you been baptized? Well if not you're gonna be!" It's been pretty awesome! So time to let ya'll know about the medical stuff. Fun Fun Fun! Your prayers have been amazing and Hakwer Nover and I seriously appreciate it. We had some answers to prayers today for sure. So we've been passed around from doctor to doctor for the past two weeks getting no where being prescribed pretty much anything and everything at this point. With not being able to go to class it was super frustrating, but we read from the Hungarian Book of Mormon and Wrote out our prayers and testimonies in Hungarian during the week so we didn't feel super useless. I don't know if I told you that or not... anyways back to the boring stuff. I had X-rays done on Friday, and an MRI on Monday both came back negative which was super discouraging but also a blessing since everything was in tact! Hawker and I were very discouraged because nothing was looking up at that point we didn't know what was going on. Doctors weren't listening and didn't really hear what we were saying when it came to what was hurting and all that jazz so we were literally stuck until today. We went to see Dr. Jackson who is also a Branch President here and he is an awesome guy, seriously love that man. Anyways his assistant does some motions with me and I felt to ask him ' could it be nerve damage' I felt super smart at that point cause I never thought of it really until then and He looked at me and said well yeah it really could be that's the one thing that hasn't been tested! He calls for x-rays of my neck. I was looking at with Hawker and jokingly said "My neck looks weird, I guess it matches the rest of me" Well I was right it turns out your neck is suppose to do a gradual lazy "c" shape my does not. It is a backwards "c" which is very serious and on top of it I have Spinal Spasms which make the pain worse. So the discovered that I do indeed have nerve damage in my trap. Good news is we find out tomorrow how bad it is from another doctor at 11:30 am to decided if I need surgery or not. Fingers crossed there is a magic pill to fix me up! I am just so happy and thrilled the doctors found out what was wrong. I cannot even describe to you how happy I am to have that prayer answered. The rest is in the Lords hands but keep them prayers coming 'cause we need them!! Now that we are all done with that boring mush, I want you all to know how much I love you and miss you! Keep the DearElders Coming and thank you so much for the package!!! I love it! You'll see in these pictures coming that Hawker Nover and I used a large pill bottle for our salsa cup, what can I say ghetto house wives for the win. I want you to know in English that I know the church is true and that we have a lovely Heavenly Father who is mindful of us even when we thing we are alone. There is no such thing. I know the Holy Ghost is the real teacher and that my broken Hungarian and myself are just the small interments in the Lords hands. I know that this is my calling and that no matter what happens tomorrow that my time here was not a failure. I know that I love this Gospel more than anything in this world and that nothing will even compare to the happiness and joy it brings me. I love trials, yes I love trials. They suck and they are hard but when you look for what you are suppose to learn from them and how much you have grown outside of that one trial you wouldn't trade it for the world. I know the Lord knows me personally because of the Branch President I have, the Companion I have, and the District I have. I know that God lives. I know that my Redeemer Lives, I know all of these things to be true, in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.


Szeretlek!!
Tudom Hogy Jo Megvaltom El!!
McBride Nover

Day 4 of Imprisonment

So we've been stuck in residence since Monday night and let me tell you it's been pretty interesting. My shoulder bursitis has gotten worse, I took the anti-inflammatory pills  that my doctor prescribed all up till last Saturday... I started having every negative side effect you can possibly have when it comes to taking that type of medication... So yesterday we finally got to see Dr. Rich again and they gave me two cordazone (he was awesome and charged me for one - the dude who gave the shots) shots in my shoulder which did not feel too pleasant and which made me very loopy and energetic for about 4 hours thanks to the steroids in them bad boys. They told me it takes about 48 hours for it to work for the pain to stop IF it works. So I have to go to the doctor here to talk with them about all this jazz to see if it's healed. If not back to square one. The good news is Dr. Rich says it was not a preexisting condition so did the guy that gave me shots. So the Missionary insurance should kick in now. I don't know if it'll reimburse anything else at this point seeing as I had to blow a ton of money on the freaking co-pay. It's so dumb. We will see though so at this point the church will finally help out with medical expenses. Praying that this is still bursitis and that it'll heal if not I'm sure they will figure it out since we are able to do more testings at this point and time with the insurance since it happened under church watch. So this week has been interesting. I talked with my branch president on Tuesday after devotional and he gave me an amazing blessing. Advising me that no matter what happens the Lord is pleased with my willingness to serve. That there are people on both sides of the veil praying for me. He then stopped and said "I feel prompted to tell you of a vision I am having at this time. It is of your parents, on their knees in prayer. Praying for you earnestly, their prayers are being answered. I advise you to look for what you are suppose to learn in this trial Andi. The lord would have you healthy if he wanted you healthy. I advise your companion as well to search for the reason of this trial too. That it may be for her benefit and not yours. I bless you has you have faith and the desire to teach the words will come to you. Even with being out of your class for so long. The Lord will make up the rest. It's not about you. It's not about what you feel you should do. It's about what the Lord feels you should do. Remember it's his work and you're just an interment in his Hands." it was a humbling experience. I have been having my faith tried a lot since I've been here I feel like the spirit hasn't been with me as much as i like lately. It's been because of my negativity and my annoyance with my shoulder. I am honestly so blessed to have Hawker Nover has my companion. She is the sweetest person alive. She's been having to deal with my medical crap and with my drugged up self and she's been a trooper. So yesterday here are some of the phrases I said while on heavy medication according to Hawker "I totally understand (I was agreeing with a mexican sister who said everyone hated her in cali cause she was a mexican... I guess I for got my skin color for a bit.) "I love the new missionaries like Motra Pierce Loves cats... I just want to hug them and say 'come into my bosom my children let me love you." (motra pirece is going to the the adriatic south mission and has an unhealthy obession of cats....) well I'll leave it at that cause the other portions aren't very appropriate as missionary I was just very, very overly honest about my feelings and my poor companion almost peed her pants from laughing. So We are learning to laugh out our trials and our mistakes. That is one thing we are learning for sure. We have started to hate our residence hall and are going insane but we try to study hungarian when ever we get the chance since we are behind. I think I'm going to be learning to trust in the lord through all this honestly... I have to have faith that he will make up what I lack through faith and through my desires and the work I have put into it. I just gotta make sure I do my part in all this! Over all not much has changed I learned how say "eight cow woman" in hungarian so we tell our elders that they are eight cow elders! "neyolc tehen elderek" It's been pretty fun. The Lord is good as always and without Him I am nothing. I am loving the prayers, I need them and thank you so much for writing me. Someone should send me DearElders with the news... Something about the outside world. I feel like I've been birthed from these walls... OHHHH we did intitatories today and they were Hungarian names it was so cool because I could pronounce their names properly it felt pretty cool :) Also I found some things on family search of Uncle John Terebesi of his family and siblings and all that Jazz so have Neal or someone look over it to see if it's correct. Tell Neal to help me with the Hungarian names, I would love that if he'd put it into family search if he has it already... Another fun thing in one of our lessons last week Hawker Nover tried to say "tell me about yourself?" and the investigator started cracking up I guess she called him a fairy or something he then corrected her kindly and it was pretty memorable.  Not much else though really. Mom and Dad - I put your son Mikey on an ugly shirt search for the package you are sending so just so you know, if you haven't already sent it yet. I need it for my for square turnoment that I will have once I am healed when that day comes. I'm looking for the silver lining in every gray cloud and learning to laugh at my hard times and mistakes. My faith is and will continue to strengthen through relying on my Savior. I have an amazing support system and amazing doctors. I know that Everything will be okay. I love you guys a lot! I hope you get feeling better mom and Brooke! I love you lots and lots.
I love you miss Jane! Grace is keeping me company and keeping me safe! I love you Owen Ryan and Kate! Mikey your my favorite brother! Erin your my favorite Sister! Jacob your rock. Brooke you're amazing and I love you! Dad I miss you and taco time dates only a little over 500 days and I'll be home! Love you all!!


Tudom Hogy Megvalto el. Tudom Hogy Joseph Smithen Igaz Profeta Isten. Tudom Hogy Isten es Jezus Krisztus Seretem Teged. Szeretem Jezus Krisztus. Tudom Hoy Isten es Jezus Krisztus Szeretem Misszionarusok.

My Purpose as a Messenger of the Savior Jesus Christ
Celom: Másokat Krisztushoz hívni azáltal, hogy segítesz nekik elfogadni a visszaállított evangéliumot a Jézus Krisztusba és engesztelŒ áldozatába vetett hit, a bınbánat, a keresztelés, a Szentlélek ajándékának elnyerése és a mindvégig kitartás által.

Szeretlek,

McBride Nover

2 of 9 Weeks Down

Sziatok!

This week has been rough honestly, but hey I got the Lord on my side! The language has been rough and I seem to be falling behind in practically everything it seems... In my lessons I seem to drive the struggle bus as opposed to riding the struggle bus. Good news is that my shoulder is treatable! Shoulder Bursitis is what I have it still sucks a ton but hey I'll be okay with physical therapy and the drugs the doctor gave me. Other than my faith being tried a lot this week, things have been pretty good! Hawker Nover and I still have an amazing relationship, we had a pretty intense heart to heart this last week to where she broke down in front of me and we went into an empty class room and just talked about everything. That was a building moment for me and for us honestly. She isn't the emotional type at all, and I am totally okay with that I love her the way she is, and she is amazing. The fact that she trusted me enough to cry and confide in me was amazing, I love that girl. So remember Seeger? The amazing Elder in the Finnish District that gave me an amazing blessing that made me want to convert everyone I talked to? Well... He got sent home the day after my blessing. He was diagnosed with Server OCD and the councilor  said that it could turn violent if he didn't get it taken care of. It seriously broke my heart, he was one of the most amazing Elders here. He had faith like a giant and a power house testimony. I wish him the best and still continue to pray for him. We teach two "member lessons" tonight with return missionary Hungarians, they each have to be 20 minutes long and we need to get to know our members. That'll be at seven tonight so that'll be a challenge but one I am looking forward to! I've been stressing but I'm trying not to because Iv'e noticed with you stress your faith wavers. So I'm working on that, been an interesting two weeks! I saw Annie Averett today! She is lives in my residence hall too! How crazy is that?! Too bad I couldn't get a picture with her... I was pretty bummed I couldn't but next letter for sure! Uhm... The MTC food makes me want to die a little bit everyday I am not going to lie... My stomach has been freaking out and my body does not agree with what I have been putting into it. Except for Ice Cream, Ice Cream is always good for you. So fun fact, I've lost like 5 pounds since I've been here.... super weird right? I thought I was going to gain 5 not lose them... I'm trying to think if there is anything I'm missing... OH! Mom and Dad I got your package and you guys are awesome. We hung the Darth Vader poster on the door and put "serving our Father" on the door! Our other roommates smell pretty bad honestly... I thought It was me for awhile but it's not! Two of the three other girls shower maybe once a week it's pretty bad... Today we walked into our residence and it smelt like feet and BO so we went and got air fresheners from the book store and masked the entire room with it... Saved my life this morning. Kennedy's I got your package too! Thank you so much you guys are awesome! Sorry this email is all over the place my mind is just going a million miles a minute honestly. I keep thinking about the 3 hour study  of Hungarian that is coming up since my companion wants to take a nap and I feel so behind so I'll be hitting the books praying that I'll help me out this week and tonight! Well I survived week two of the nine weeks i'll be at the MTC! It's been a roller coaster but I know it'll be worth it in the end. I know the Lord won't give me anything I can't handle and that sometimes he just wants to stretch me a little bit. I'm okay with that! Even if I'm not I'll keep telling myself that I am! There are three things that keep me going and keep here here every day when I think them they are.

You have the Savior of the World on Your Side How Can You Fail?
Preach the Gospel at All times, and when necessary use words.
"Be The Hero Jane Things You Are and That Heavenly Father Knows You Can Become" (thanks Erin!)
Here are some of the phrases I say a lot:

NEM WAY (No Way!)
AH NEM (oh no!)
Forcsa vagy (you're weird)
It's been pretty fun I guess during a lesson Rogers Elder was dealing with an investigator who said prayer was weird and without hesitation he says "NEM FORCSA" so anytime someone talks about prayer we are obligated to say that.

Also got made fun of by some Elders today for doing lunges on the way to the book store... I appreciated pants.... but not as much as I do now. There is so much more room for activities...

PLEASE keep the Dear Elders Coming just tell me about you, what's going on with you and all that Jazz. Gospel stuff is great but I want to hear about you!

Mom and Dad, will you send me my Pirates Hat, and navy blue shirt with the Cat Pocket? When and if you can of course! I love you guys and I'm surviving and enduring to the end! Here is a little taste of my testimony in Hungarian. It's super rusty but here it goes....


Tudom Hogy Isten Szeret McBride Nover es vagy. Szeretem Jezus Kristus. Tudom Communcal Fonos Jezus Krisztus es Mennyi Aytank. Szeretem evangeluim es engesteles, Tudom Isten elo. Jezus Krisztus Neveben Amen.


** I challenge the ward to find family names and do the work for them. I know they will be blessed as they do this. Those people that you do the work for are your personal guardian angels and I personally have felt them lift me up every single day this rough week. Especially Aunt Baby. I love you guys I'll see you next week :)

I Will Not Drive The Golf Cart

So this week has been super rough not going to lie. As soon as I walked into the door my teacher was speaking Hungarian right off the bat. I have only heard her speak English twice. Once was yesterday when I broke down crying and she felt like I needed a hug and gave me a pep talk in English. My companion is Hawker Nover she is from Utah Syracuse area and she is pretty awesome! We level each other out, I'm the one who wants to learn the entire language right now and look at how far I have to go to become fluent, and she's the one who says "Look at how much we have learned!" We are both easy going and are pretty much down for anything. We've been teaching an "investigator"  Zsuzsa and the first lesson was super awkward because we said the closing prayer and she thought it was the opening prayer (we forgot to open with a prayer) so she just kept staring at us and asking us questions in Hungarian and we just looked at her like a dear in the head lights. I was pretty sure I was in a game show at that point cause she was trying to act out what she was saying the whole time since we had NO idea what she was saying. The second and third lesson was pretty great! we taught her about prayer and the spirit was so strong, we left the room and literally jumped for joy when we got out of the room! AWESOME not even the coolest part yet.... We taught a second lesson on how God loves his children and how families are important to God's plan. We had challenged her to pray before and she never did because she was so busy and forgot. But we asked her to say the closing prayer and she didn't know to so I looked at her and pointed to myself and said "Ima?" which is prayer then said "Ima and pointed at her. She got the idea with my limited Hungarian so I prayed first starting with Draga Mennyi Antyank (dear heavenly father) and ended with Jezus Krisztus Neve ben Amen (In the name of Jesus Christ Amen) and then asked her to pray so she did and after the pray she asked us why we were so happy! So I told her my family, the gospel and the book of mormon. Then Hawker Nover breaks out in fluent Hungarian and tells her, her testimony IN HUNGARIAN PEOPLE. We both left that appointment walking on sunshine. I guess at points I was speaking things I didn't even remember speaking as well during the lesson and was saying some Hungarian shenanigans too. Pretty cool how the spirit works! We missed our appointment last night due to my shoulder being jacked up and Hawker Nover being super sick so we both were in bed by 8 PM (There is a God!) We didn't even wake up with the Estonians came in! it was soooo crazy, we ended up falling asleep in study time 3 different times we are so beat and Hungarian isn't getting any easier. I still have like 5 charts to memorize and I have to memorize 20 words a day 2 scriptures a week. Yeah it's been pretty rough honestly....

We have amazing people in our area.. I love love love the Finns. I got a blessing yesterday for my shoulder from Vaghin Seager from Kansas, it was pretty awesome and it helped a little even though I feel like my arm is going to fall off today. Pray for my arm please cause it's not getting any better, it's getting worse if anything. I went to the Physical Therapist yesterday for the first time and dang it was weird leaving the MTC... anyways when I was there he did a bunch of tests and he told me "you've tested positive for everything that could be wrong with your shoulder... mainly because your muscles around it are so swollen we can't tell what it is. So we are going to avoid doing anything to make it worse. We just want the swelling to go down so that we can see what it is without any MRI's or X-rays. Bless that man for understanding. He served his mission in Mexico.

So everything has been pretty great, but I honestly wake up every morning thinking "why the heck am I here" It's been super rough but I'm just going to keep pushing along because at the end of the day everything seems to be better. Pain, sickness and all. The MTC food isn't bad but it isn't great. I honestly have a hard time keeping it down 90% of the time. So I stick with cereal a lot and fruit. I'll eat a salad every once in awhile but not very often because we know how much I love vegetables...

Anyways as for the title "I will not drive the golf cart" Hawker and I were walking back to residence the other day and two Elders where talking and one very sternly looks at the other and says "ELDER I WILL NOT DRIVE THE GOLF CART! I'LL GET KICKED OUT" so everytime we don't want to do something we just say "I will not drive the golf cart!" it's been pretty awesome honestly. Hawker also likes to say "it's my dream" to everything so I've been kinda picking up on it and anytime one of us says it we quote Tangled "Go live your dream" "I will" "Your dream sucks. I was talking to her" I'm pretty sure people think we are crazy but what's new? Also so Hawker is one of the most unemotional people I know. Like she doesn't know what to do when people start talking about feelings. It makes her uncomfortable (so she's been getting better with her overly emotional companion). Anyways someone wrote a Love Letter to Bradshaw Elder from Her and Instantly the Elders all laughed because they knew that was the complete opposite of Hawker it made things pretty interesting for sure! All in all I love my mission but it's the hardest thing I've had to do thus far. Hungarian is kicking my trash but it'll come eventually! I mean seriously who makes k's possessive and who makes t's accusative? I thought arabic was hard but man was I wrong. I'm shocked I haven't exploded yet.

So there is this Greek Elder Here from Iowa and he is hilarious I guess a lot of the words are super similar in greek so when he was teaching a lesson he told his investagator to
Go climb a mountain
Shut the ****** up
Heavenly Father's Name is Thomas
That He needs to Explode with Heavenly Father
So whenever I am down about my language I just tell myself at least I haven't cursed at my investigator!

Time for the Temple and for more cereal! Love you guys!


Send me stuff.
Food
Letters
Money
Letters
Dear Elders
ANYTHING.

I feel like I've been born out of these walls here already.


Szereltek,

McBride Nover

PS Danielle Rogers Little Brother is in my group!!! how crazy is that?!?

Andi's Farewell Talk/Outline



·      Introduce yourself

o   You and family

o   Mission Details

As I have reflected on what I wanted to say today, I couldn’t help but think of the many things that in my own life have helped prepare to get where I am today.

1.     Young Women’s Theme

a.     WE WILL BE PREPARED to strengthen home and family, make and keep sacred covenants, receive the ordinances of the temple, and enjoy the blessings of exaltation.

2.     Boy Scouts Motto “Be Prepared”

3.     Family Home Evening

4.     Regularly Attending Church

5.     Prayer

6.     Scripture Study

7.     Attending the Temple as a Youth

8.     Examples of Friends and Family

9.     Most Importantly the Atonement

All of these things have helped me get on track to be able to stand up here today before my lovely ward family. I have learned through studying this topic that preparation really does bring peace. In this earthly life we are here to be tested and tried. Here is where we prepare to meet God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.  We are preparing for the Second Coming.

Elder Oaks said that “While we are powerless to alter the fact of the Second Coming and unable to know it’s exact time, we can accelerate our own preparation and try to influence the preparation of those around us. “  After I read that the parable of the ten virgins came to mind, so I went to the 25 chapter of Matthew. As I read, I read it a little differently. This is a way that my dad had put it for us to understand how it would be in our day.  I will be likening the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints unto the 10 virgins which took their lives works and went forth to meet the Savior.

·      50% of the church was wise and 50% were foolish.

·      They that were foolish took their lives works and took no oil with them. Their oil being Home Teaching or Visiting Teaching, Church Attendance, Service in His Church, Tithing and Fast Offerings, Bearing your Testimony and so much more.

·      But the wise took their Church Service, Tithing, Visiting Teaching & Church Attendance in their vessel with their lives works.

·      While the Savior tarried they all slumbered and slept

·      At Midnight there was a cry made, “Behold the Savior Cometh Go Ye Out To Meet Him”

·      Then All the Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints rose and brought there lives works.

·      The foolish said unto the wise, give us of your testimonies; your services in the church, your sacrament attendance, your tithes and offerings for our lives works are incomplete.

·      The wise answered saying we would love to help you. But how can I give you my blessings of tithing, How can I give you my experience in service in church callings, How can I give you my experiences in Home teaching and visiting teaching? Lest there be not enough for me, but Go Ye rather to serve and Pay your tithing and gain those experiences you need for yourselves.

·      While they went to earn their experiences, the Savior came and they that were ready went in with him to be Him and the door was shut.

·      Afterword came also the other 50% of the church say “ Lord, Lord open to us”

·      The Savior answered, “how knoweth a man the master, whom he has not served and whom is a stranger unto him, and is far from the thoughts and interests of his heart?” You never knew me, and “I know you not” (Matt. 25:23) (Mosiah 5:13)

There have been many teachings and warnings for us to prepare for that Great day of the Second Coming of our Savior in the Scriptures.

In Alma chapter 34 verse 32 it says “ For Behold this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.” Are we preparing?

In Doctrine Covenants chapter 1 verse 12 the Lord declares “Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come, for the Lord is nigh”

He warns us also in section 34 and 133 of the Doctrine Covenants “Yea, let the cry go forth among all people awake and arise and go forth to meet the Bridegroom; behold and lo, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Prepare yourselves for the great day of the Lord”

Elder Oaks says, “ What if the day of His coming were tomorrow? If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow—through our premature death or through His unexpected coming—what would we do today? What confessions would we make? What practices would we discontinue? What accounts would we settle? What forgiveness would we extend? What testimonies would we ear? If we would do those things then, why not now? Why not seek peace while peace can be obtained? If our lamps of preparation are drawn down, let us start immediately to replenish them.”

I too have been at a point in my life where my lamp was drawn out, with not but a drop of oil in my lamp. I pushed against everything I used to stand for; I had begun to dislike my family for caring and trying to help me come unto Christ. When they pleaded for one thing, I’d turn to the polar opposite of what they wanted regardless of what I knew deep in my heart what to be true. My lamp was truly drawn out, my light was gone, and I truly was foolish. One day I stumbled upon my Personal Progress book and opened it and flipped the project I had completed in the value Knowledge.  At the end of each ten-hour project we write and evaluation of the project we did. My evaluation took place in October of 2006 where I wrote, “I learned it’s not as easy as it looks. I thought I would die it took so long. At times I felt discouraged but I kept going. My dad will finish the harder stuff.” As I read that line in my head, I heard in my heart and mind “It’s not as easy as it looks, the road is long, and at times you will feel discouraged, but Heavenly Father will finish the harder stuff.”  Because my parents helped prepare me as a young woman with the personal progress program I was able to come back to this years later when I was struggling. That simple line that 12 year old me wrote is one many of the reasons of why I am here today standing at this pulpit still preparing and ready to serve the Lord worthily with my whole heart and soul for 18 months as a Missionary of  (Az Ut-lo-sho Na-poke Sent-kayne-eky Jyeezuez Krish-too-ose Egg-has-oh) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I still need oil in my lamp, I still on occasion need to trim my lamp, but I make sure that I keep my light of the Savior burning at all times and in all things and in all places. I strive for that even though as an imperfect being I stumble, and need to tend to my lamp and oil.

I know as we prepare ourselves today to become more like the Savior we will have more peace. I know as we prepare our children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, sisters, brothers, and friends we as a whole will find peace in our Savior. I cannot wait for the day with the Lord stretches his arms for a warm embraces and says “Well done”.

Remember brothers and sisters the Savior tells us “be faithful, praying always having your lamps trimmed and burning, and oil with you, that you may be ready at the coming of the Bride Groom—For behold, verily, verily I say unto you, that I com quickly.

TESTIMONY

·      Atonement

·      Prayer

·      Mission Call

·      Family

·      Temple

·      Scriptures