That's Actually Crazy

Alles Klärchen, Gummibärchen?!

(roughly translates to alright little gummy bear!)

I hope this week has been good for all of you! Personally, it has been eventful. There is a HUGE time warp here in the MTC, and this week has felt like a blink and a year simultaneously. I'm running short on time here, so I'm just going to give you all the bullet point view of my week:

Companion

I know everyone wants to hear all about the companion. My companion is PHENOMENAL. She has a hard family life, and wasn't active in the church for a long time (and has a cool tattoo to show for it!). But she decided to come back to church with her brother because "reading the Book of Mormon made her happy." We are both introverted, so sometimes we walk around in silence. But it's comfortable silence, so it's okay. We have a lot of deep talks. 

Our Building

The MTC is beautiful. The classrooms have floor to ceiling windows with views of the mountains, and murals of Jesus and scripture quotes and natural light and decorative light fixtures. Well, that is, if you are in buildings T3 and T4. Those are the new buildings where most of the classes happen. My district, however, is in the "ghetto" of the MTC. We meet in T2- the overflow building straight out of the 80s. Our decor consists of a picture (taken in 1978) of an elder holding a pickaxe in Ukraine. We lovingly refer to him as the "serial killer." It's only a matter of time before our single elevator breaks down. 

Goofing Around

We goof around way too much:

- the elders have come up with a dress code routine for each week:

mini tie monday, terrible outfit tuesday, long tie thursday, studious saturday

- MEGA and FEUER and DER HAMMER are our new favorite German slang words

- we hit triceps extensions with our little shoulder bags when we walk around

- you know that feeling when you're with other people and you CANNOT stop laughing, and if someone even breathes wrong, you all lose it? That was us. In the temple. Enough words said there.

- Building T2 track and field events. The elders decided to see who could run around our floor the fastest. The time to beat is 26 seconds. We are toying with the idea of setting up some hurdles with the chairs laying around. 

- "left hand sunday" means we take notes, naturally, left handed.

Scripture: don't you dare skip 

Anyhow. I have been learning SO much about other people, about teaching, about my own weaknesses, etc. My favorite verse in the Book of Mormon is Ether 12:27-

"and if men come unto me, I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble, and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me, for if they humble themselves before me and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."

JESUS MAKES WEAK THINGS STRONG. I know this. 

I love you all. I LOVE LOVE LOVE getting your emails and messages. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep sending me long emails about your life. I love hearing about what's going on.

Tschus!

Sister Hunsaker

My Germany girls!

Elders losing their minds