Things are still great here at the MTC! Just the same old schedule with our two teachers and two investigators. Crazy it's been about a month here, in 13 days I'll be off the the Great White North!
Our little district of three is still teaching together and working with our two amis, Victor and Patience. We've been getting better at teaching in unity and teaching them simply. Teaching simply is one of the hardest yet most important things to do here! You want to tell them everything but you can't really do that and not overwhelm them. Also, we've learned the importance of asking inspired questions to really get them to open up and think about the things we're teaching. It's so important to stop talking and listen to them and to the spirit to help them! Our amis both have baptismal dates that we've set with them, April 11! They're still just characters played by our teachers but it's cool to see them progress
The teachers here are great. They're all great examples of the missionary I'd like to be! Some of the teachers who went to Montréal have been getting us really excited to head out! They've told us about how cool the Mission President is, the best poutine places, how many -40 days they had (each just had one, phew!). I feel bad for the missionaries who have to be here longer than 6 weeks, It's starting to get kinda monotonous! At least it's been warm here!
The French has been coming along well I feel. I'm just afraid of the accent! Tomorrow we have this activity where we skype members who are native French speakers and teach them a lesson. We're going to be talking with people from Québec! Hope I can understand haha. I'm glad I had a base for my French learning here, that's really helped me a lot. But learning languages here is pretty amazing. Sometimes, I'm kind of jealous of the missionaries learning hard languages like Mandarin or Japanese or Russian, because probably never again will we have a month of two of just language learning of having the Holy Ghost to help! But I'm still really glad I got called French speaking. And I'm pretty sure I'll have to learn Spanish in the field, talking with some of the Montréal RMs. And the fact that I have Spanish nametags. Mi llamo es Elder Rosenlof. That's all I know. And I don't even think that's right. Hope I'll do ok with that haha...
I'm super excited for this weekend with General Conference and Easter!!! Hope all of you have a great weekend. I challenge all of you to go into conference with 3 to 5 questions you've been thinking and really ponder on the messages shared. I know if you do that, you'll find answers! I'm so glad we have a living prophet and other church leaders who share so much great counsel! A la prochaine tout le monde! Je vous aime!!
Elder Rosenlof
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