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!


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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?!?