Week 7   It is OUT!

THE BOOK OF MORMON IS OUT IN GEORGIAN!! Well, currently only online,... but it is out! It happened last Thursday which I will explain more later, but I was too excited and wanted to say this first thing. The hard copy book version won't come out for a couple more months. Some words in Georgian cannot be hyphenated so my teacher, Brother Muir, is actually going through a list of them and working on the book version. I get to be in Georgia when the 1^st box of the new Georgian BOMs come out. I will be the part of the 1^st generation of missionaries with the BOM in Georgian! Which is soooo cool!

Anyways the week: Thursday I taught twice which was cool. That night I walked into class and Brother Muir had the lds.org site up and all of it was in Georgian. I asked him what it was and he said, very nonchalantly, “the Book of Mormon”. I flipped out! He was so chill about it, like what the heck! I fangirled the whole class! [parent note: for those who don’t know what fangirling is, its when you are sooo excited about something you can't contain yourself so you might jump up and down and scream.  The word stems from the pop culture world to describe the excited behavior of young girls at a concert] This made my week and my whole mission. I am soooooo excited. We read the Book of Mormon in Georgian every class now and I still get so happy and excited about it. It truly is a miracle! The first Georgian copy I get, I will cherish forever. Friday I did another activity in which I used the motion verb. I had to say where I was going to go in future, present, and then past using the correct conjugation and correct pre-verb. If I messed up I had to restart, which was fun.....at times. I’ve learned that my brain is confusing at times. I confuse Brother Muir a lot, let's just say. If you give me a sentence I can translate it perfectly, but when I try doing it myself on the fly....I'm not as perfect. Brother Muir is very much confused by this. I guess I see it as a math problem with different formulas so that helps, but when I am making up my own numbers it gets complicated and I mess up.....practice makes perfect I guess. Saturday wasn't really that interesting, I taught my new teacher (Brother Van Allen.....I think...) so that's cool. Sunday I gave a talk in sacrament meeting...which was all in Georgian so no one understood because as you all know by now, no one speaks Georgian. Everyone said I sounded fluent, so that was awesome, but like I am way far from that. I found out my new companions are the Armenian sisters in my district which is awesome. I moved my stuff over that night to their room. However, I slept in my room that night, as it was my last time with my first companions before they left for Russia the next day. Saying goodbye to Sister Johnson and Sister Burrap was weird. It was like, oh yeah we are going to be leaving soon for our missions very far away, and yeah I am not going to see these awesome people for a long time. It definitely was hard closing my room door for the last time. I'm a nostalgic person what can I say. Armenian sisters are awesome though!

Monday was the day my first companions left. The Armenian sisters have a different schedule than mine, so on Mondays and Fridays I am with the Lithuanian sisters. They are so cool and so sweet as well as our sister training leaders. Class that night was interesting. I had two teachers Brother Muir and Brother Van Allen. I had to teach both of them the Law of Chasity which was.........nice. I think they did that on purpose so I could get over the awkwardness of the topic, especially because it is something that is very much a prevalent problem in Georgia they have told me. Tuesday I had a Skype TRC and again I got a return missionary instead of a real Georgina. In fact the same dude from last time. It's cool though because I feel that I would be way too nervous with a real Georgian. I told myself with this Skype TRC I wouldn't have any pre-translated stuff, besides a few questions just to make sure. I basically went in knowing somewhat what I wanted to say in English. It actually went well! I still had like no idea what he said at times because he talked so fast, but I was able to have a conversation with him!!! Woot woot progress! At the ending he asked a question and I had no idea what he said let alone that it was a question. Let’s just say I skipped over his question....yup. But everything else was good! And here we are today. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we have a devotional from one of the Apostles. I heard rumors that it might be Elder Bednar. I’m not sure if I trust that info or not. I don't want to get my hopes up. We will do service tomorrow, so we will have no classes which is nice, but will seem weird.

Spiritual thought is "it fell on the day moments". This is the title of a devotional given by one of the Quorum of the Seventy. The gist of the talk is that God is seriously in the details of our lives. I have pondered about this a lot these past couple of weeks. The people I meet...I am meant to meet. And the places I go...I am meant to go. I can completely see that because so far the people I have meet have really touched me. My teachers are really similar to me and understand where I am coming from. They know how to teach me and know how to inspire me. Seriously, it is so amazing. The missionaries in my district are all so nice and so spiritual and so ready to serve. We all just get along so well. I am excited to see how many "it fell on a day moments" I will have on my mission.

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