On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 11:05 AM Lily Biesinger <lily.biesinger@missionary.org> wrote:
Hello, Hello, Hello!
Howdy, Howdy, Howdy!
This week has been going great and it has only gotten better because I found out yesterday that I will be leaving for Australia on Monday! It's going to be a 20+ flight, so my comp and I decided we were going to try to read the whole Book of Mormon on that flight :).
EPIC!
My mom got me four two pound bags of Jelly Belly's and the sister's in my district and I already almost finished 2 of them off in the one week we have been here, so thanks mom for the Jellybeans!
No prob, love-kins :D!
Just so you know my emails are going to be all over the place, so just a heads up!
Love it so much!
So far, every time I've been to the gym I've got hit in the face with a ball of some sort, but it's been really fun playing volleyball with my comp and I feel like I've been getting better at actually setting the ball for some people.
I hope you get some chances to play in the mission field! We want to set up a volleyball tournament for our Stake and just have people show up, be put on teams, and play. Could be fun!
After a Helping Others lesson that went really well, my comp and I talked about it and felt so happy and just so immersed in God's love for us and for the joy that comes from living the gospel. We also were able to connect "The Lorax'' to the Restoration and it's all laid out in some pictures down there.
I would love to hear how you did that, ;)
Fast Sundays at the MTC probably have the best testimony meetings ever, it was really beautiful hearing people that have decided to serve God, bear testimony about the beauty and peace that has come into their life.
That is so cool that you had that kind of spiritual experience! What do you think made it so different for you? Xai has born testimony about the Big Bang theory for two fast Sundays in a row. What a cutie! He is sure a deep thinker, though.
My comp and I went to choir (for anyone going to the MTC, choir is so much fun and would 100% recommend go even if you can't sing) and the director likened the Urak-hai that was lighting the bomb in Helm's Deep to Joseph Smith and how the people that were trying to shot him down were like Satan trying to stop the work. So like I said, choir is the best :).
Choir directors are the BEST kind of people. Super cool! What songs did you sing? I remember Dad singing in the MTC, and he sang, "Here I Am." He told me how cool it was so I went out and bought a copy and learned it, lol. (I was a little in love, wouldn't you say?
For the devotional on Tuesday, Gerrit W. Gong came and talked to us about perfectionism and afterwards he came and shook a lot of people's hands.
Was it like a long line of people wanting to shake his hand? Did you or anyone in your district do it?
Yesterday, 620+ new missionaries came to the MTC and I was a part of the welcoming crew and it was lots of fun getting them hyped up about it and telling them all about the awesome things. It was also interesting the different ways families said goodbye to their missionaries.
Oh yeah? Like what kind of ways did they say goodbye? Like weepy people, hi-five people, congo line kind of people?
There was an elder from another district that pretended that he didn't know english or know how to tie a tie, so he asked the elders in our district to help him and after a couple days after one of our elders finished tying the elder's tie he was like "Thanks man" and proceeded to exit the room :).
Weird.
How was your flight? Did you get through the Book of Mormon? Did it go uneventfully? I need to get my passport so I can go to Australia, Montreal, Hungary and any other cool places all over the world I might be going. You never know when you might need a passport, right? ;)
Penelope is running around in circles right now because it is crazy late, but I miss you and writing to you feels like you are right there on the other side of the computer. How was the food? The people? Were all you missionaries in one big group on the plane or were you spread out? I loved the picture you sent from the airport. It looked like y'all were having a fun time.
Here y'all go! Next time you hear from me, I'll be in the Land Down Under :).
Sister Biesinger :)
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