First Week Shenanigans (Week 1)
The MTC is absolutely insane. You are so so so busy, and yet you kinda have all of the time in the world. I'm going to tell you what a typical day is like:
First I get up right exactly at 6:30 (still dragging myself out of bed, but it's getting better), get dressed and whatever, and then have daily planning with my 2 companions. After, we go eat breakfast at the cafeteria, and I consistently eat 2 hard boiled eggs and a bowl of oatmeal (don't worry, I'm not a new person, it's just the only edible thing to eat at the cafeteria and if I put enough brown sugar on top I can't taste its grossness). After breakfast we go exercise in the gym for an hour. This is actually may be my favorite part of the day (WHAT??) It is SO nice to get a break from language and spiritualness so I just eat it up. I try to run for half the time on the track, and then me and Sister Day (in my district) have found this new form of fun in playing basketball hahaha. I honestly never ever ever thought that I would look forward to shooting freethrows everyday, but I totally do. Then we do personal study (of which my goal is to read the Book of Mormon entirely in Danish not necessarily while I am in the MTC, but FOR SURE before the end of my mission), and companionship study (talk about what we studied in personal study, plan lessons for our Danish "investigators", etc.). We have class for 6 hours a day and it is entirely immersive. And somewhere in that afternoon we do an hour of personal language study. So I am EXHAUSTED by the end of the day. That helps with falling asleep at 10:30 which is GREAT because I have been so accustomed to my 12-2am bedtime. I LOVE MY DISTRICT! There are 10 of us Danes and we are BY FAR the best district at the MTC. We have 3 Elders and 7 sisters. They are all so great and so amazing, and we get along super well!
So let's talk about Danish. Danish is what would happen if German and English had a baby that was raised by a drunk French nanny. It's exceedingly difficult (mostly pronunciations, because some letters are pronounced very very differently in Danish than they would be in English). For instance, "My name is _______" is " Jeg hedder ____" but the double d's are pronounced as L's in the back of your throat, so it's really "Jeg hiller," and that is just one of the many confusing and terrible language pronunciations. BUT DANISH IS COMING. I can form completely sentences, pray, and bear my testimony all in Danish, and it's only been a week!! I still have A LOT to learn, but it's coming. Gift of tongues is real.
The MTC is great, and I cannot believe that I have only been here a week. It's felt like a year. But God is good, the church is true, and love is present here.
My testimony in Danish (which is limited, so bare with me):
Jeg ved at Gud elsker os. Jeg ved at gennem bøn, vi kan føle frel, have håp, og vi kan føle Guds ånden. Kirken er sand. Jeg ser dette ting i Jesu Kristi navn, Amen.
First I get up right exactly at 6:30 (still dragging myself out of bed, but it's getting better), get dressed and whatever, and then have daily planning with my 2 companions. After, we go eat breakfast at the cafeteria, and I consistently eat 2 hard boiled eggs and a bowl of oatmeal (don't worry, I'm not a new person, it's just the only edible thing to eat at the cafeteria and if I put enough brown sugar on top I can't taste its grossness). After breakfast we go exercise in the gym for an hour. This is actually may be my favorite part of the day (WHAT??) It is SO nice to get a break from language and spiritualness so I just eat it up. I try to run for half the time on the track, and then me and Sister Day (in my district) have found this new form of fun in playing basketball hahaha. I honestly never ever ever thought that I would look forward to shooting freethrows everyday, but I totally do. Then we do personal study (of which my goal is to read the Book of Mormon entirely in Danish not necessarily while I am in the MTC, but FOR SURE before the end of my mission), and companionship study (talk about what we studied in personal study, plan lessons for our Danish "investigators", etc.). We have class for 6 hours a day and it is entirely immersive. And somewhere in that afternoon we do an hour of personal language study. So I am EXHAUSTED by the end of the day. That helps with falling asleep at 10:30 which is GREAT because I have been so accustomed to my 12-2am bedtime. I LOVE MY DISTRICT! There are 10 of us Danes and we are BY FAR the best district at the MTC. We have 3 Elders and 7 sisters. They are all so great and so amazing, and we get along super well!
So let's talk about Danish. Danish is what would happen if German and English had a baby that was raised by a drunk French nanny. It's exceedingly difficult (mostly pronunciations, because some letters are pronounced very very differently in Danish than they would be in English). For instance, "My name is _______" is " Jeg hedder ____" but the double d's are pronounced as L's in the back of your throat, so it's really "Jeg hiller," and that is just one of the many confusing and terrible language pronunciations. BUT DANISH IS COMING. I can form completely sentences, pray, and bear my testimony all in Danish, and it's only been a week!! I still have A LOT to learn, but it's coming. Gift of tongues is real.
The MTC is great, and I cannot believe that I have only been here a week. It's felt like a year. But God is good, the church is true, and love is present here.
My testimony in Danish (which is limited, so bare with me):
Jeg ved at Gud elsker os. Jeg ved at gennem bøn, vi kan føle frel, have håp, og vi kan føle Guds ånden. Kirken er sand. Jeg ser dette ting i Jesu Kristi navn, Amen.
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