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
She's a great missionary! Please keep posting her letters.
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