Apostles, Flight Plans, and Bosoms Burning 7/31/2017
This week has been so cool. We started teaching our TRC investigators. It's about as close to real teaching as we can get here in this Hogwarts/Temple hybrid. And it is awesome. Our first lesson with our investigator, Lauren, was hard... We asked her how she was and to tell us a little bit about herself, and all she said for the whole lesson was "my name is Lauren" Sooooo that was rough. But we got through to her and she's read some of the BOM, asking good questions, and praying. Our other investigator, Karson, didn't really have an idea of what God was exactly, but believed he was there. He wanted to know how he could know for sure that He was. We asked him to read D&C 9:8-9, which mentions burning in the bosom as a way the Spirit is felt. He originally thought that was weird. But when we closed the lesson we asked him to pray, and after he closed he was a little choked up, and said "I get what that burning bosom thing means guys" It was so cool. However, the literal COOLEST thing that has happened in any TRC lesson ever, happened to us. We took Lauren on a tour of the new buildings, and showed her the huge murals of Moses, the Brother of Jared, and Christ's ministry. She loved them, and we talked about the acts of faith and the priesthood power and such. On the way back to our TRC room, we were redirected to another door because there was a tour going on. (little did we know...) As we walked she asked us about Apostles, so we were talking about what their purpose is, and seeing if she knew of some, past or present. She only knew of the original 12 who were with Christ. As we began to explain that we have Apostles today, we walked through the door and saw the huge tour group. However, it was not a regular tour group. IT WAS ELDER HENRY B EYRING AND HIS WHOLE FAMILY. So we told Lauren, "Yes we do indeed have Apostles today, and that man over there is one of them." We waved and he waved back. It was so perfect. Apparently we missed Elder Holland by a couple minutes, but he was there as well. What better way to teach about Apostles, than to be in the same room as one?
So that was the cool spiritual part, now for some funny stories. My roommates are so awesome. And there are quite a few funny stories. Elder Glassey, my companion, was looking through his medical kit and said something about Amoxycillin. Elder Wheeler heard that and yelled "Wait you've got some of those shoes like the Indians wore??" If you don't understand that, or don't think it's funny, just move on...
Another funny story, once again involves Elder Wheeler. He's from San Pete County, and makes fun of all the stereotypes openly, and embraces them. Someone starting talking about family and cousins during a break in class, and Elder Johnson said "it's uncomfortable to have attractive cousins." (This conversation is already going downhill, I know). Some other Elder responded with some joke about accidentally kissing a cousin, and Elder Wheeler goes "Darnit now you've got me all homesick" and left the room. Even the teacher lost it 😂😂
Another great story, last night, Elder Nye fell asleep right when we got back from exercise time, at like 9:00. We still had companion study, so Elder Wheeler and I decided we should wake him up. So. We got out someone's electric shaver (with the cover on) and pretended to shave a bald spot in the back of Elder Nye's hair. That woke him up quick. And we all were dying laughing and Elder Wheeler and I were pretending to be mad at each other saying "I told you that was a bad idea, I knew it was gonna work." Elder Nye was freaking out, so he ran to the next room full of Elders and asked if there was a bald spot. Little did he know, we had the whole floor involved. So everyone he asked laughed and told him he was going to need a haircut, or get a hat approved. Our DL came in and pretended to get mad at me and Elder Wheeler, saying we were going to have to explain this to our Branch Presidency. Elder Nye was in between shock, tears, and being rather upset. For like 20 minutes he was freaking out and we had people lining up out the door to see his "bald spot". Eventually we felt bad and told him it was fake. He took it well....😂😂😂
There are a lot of fun guys in our district, and we have a lot of fun, but believe me when I say we can get very spiritual. It's such an awesome group, I'm gonna miss the half of them who are going to the Cincinnati Mission. We got our flight plans on Friday, and the Utica group was happy to see we have to report, fully packed and ready, to the Travel Office at 3:30 AM, on Tuesday the 8th..... Crazy to think I've barely got 1 more week in the MTC, before 20 of us take Utica by storm. The MTC is amazing, it's been amazing so far, and it's going to be another amazing week. But I'm more than ready to head to NY. The food here was great. For a day or two. But now we've realized it all tastes the same, and it definitely ain't good. Which leads me to my next point, my room has decided to start a competition to see who can get the most mail/packages in our last week. Homemade treats are worth 20 points, a package of any kind is 10, handwritten letters are 2, and DearElder.com is 1. First person to 50 wins, and gets to take a tie from all the losers. So people, friends, family, acquaintances, don't let me lose my favorite tie. Send some love to:
Elder Ryan Kent Lindberg
AUG08 NY-UTI
2005 N 900 E Unit 78
Provo UT 84602
Thanks for all your support and messages. Love you all
PS
If anyone sees my Jeep driving around Kaysville, either remind my dad to use it to its full potential (turn the subwoofer back up, turn all the lights on, and honk at people), orrrrr to drive his own car.
So that was the cool spiritual part, now for some funny stories. My roommates are so awesome. And there are quite a few funny stories. Elder Glassey, my companion, was looking through his medical kit and said something about Amoxycillin. Elder Wheeler heard that and yelled "Wait you've got some of those shoes like the Indians wore??" If you don't understand that, or don't think it's funny, just move on...
Another funny story, once again involves Elder Wheeler. He's from San Pete County, and makes fun of all the stereotypes openly, and embraces them. Someone starting talking about family and cousins during a break in class, and Elder Johnson said "it's uncomfortable to have attractive cousins." (This conversation is already going downhill, I know). Some other Elder responded with some joke about accidentally kissing a cousin, and Elder Wheeler goes "Darnit now you've got me all homesick" and left the room. Even the teacher lost it 😂😂
Another great story, last night, Elder Nye fell asleep right when we got back from exercise time, at like 9:00. We still had companion study, so Elder Wheeler and I decided we should wake him up. So. We got out someone's electric shaver (with the cover on) and pretended to shave a bald spot in the back of Elder Nye's hair. That woke him up quick. And we all were dying laughing and Elder Wheeler and I were pretending to be mad at each other saying "I told you that was a bad idea, I knew it was gonna work." Elder Nye was freaking out, so he ran to the next room full of Elders and asked if there was a bald spot. Little did he know, we had the whole floor involved. So everyone he asked laughed and told him he was going to need a haircut, or get a hat approved. Our DL came in and pretended to get mad at me and Elder Wheeler, saying we were going to have to explain this to our Branch Presidency. Elder Nye was in between shock, tears, and being rather upset. For like 20 minutes he was freaking out and we had people lining up out the door to see his "bald spot". Eventually we felt bad and told him it was fake. He took it well....😂😂😂
There are a lot of fun guys in our district, and we have a lot of fun, but believe me when I say we can get very spiritual. It's such an awesome group, I'm gonna miss the half of them who are going to the Cincinnati Mission. We got our flight plans on Friday, and the Utica group was happy to see we have to report, fully packed and ready, to the Travel Office at 3:30 AM, on Tuesday the 8th..... Crazy to think I've barely got 1 more week in the MTC, before 20 of us take Utica by storm. The MTC is amazing, it's been amazing so far, and it's going to be another amazing week. But I'm more than ready to head to NY. The food here was great. For a day or two. But now we've realized it all tastes the same, and it definitely ain't good. Which leads me to my next point, my room has decided to start a competition to see who can get the most mail/packages in our last week. Homemade treats are worth 20 points, a package of any kind is 10, handwritten letters are 2, and DearElder.com is 1. First person to 50 wins, and gets to take a tie from all the losers. So people, friends, family, acquaintances, don't let me lose my favorite tie. Send some love to:
Elder Ryan Kent Lindberg
AUG08 NY-UTI
2005 N 900 E Unit 78
Provo UT 84602
Thanks for all your support and messages. Love you all
PS
If anyone sees my Jeep driving around Kaysville, either remind my dad to use it to its full potential (turn the subwoofer back up, turn all the lights on, and honk at people), orrrrr to drive his own car.
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