Dear Family,
I got the opportunity to
host new missionaries yesterday. If you
don't know what that is, I was there when they were dropped off, and then I
showed them where to go to find their residence, classroom, and get their stuff. Hosting was pretty amazing, I loved it. It was nice to help the new
missionaries. I say new, but they're not
much newer than me. :)
Every morning we have time
to exercise, I usually play soccer because there's not much else to do,
sometimes volleyball.
We watched a talk by Elder
Bednar called The Character of Christ
just recently. It was pretty amazing, if
you can find it you should definitely watch it. The main point of his talk was that the character of Christ is to turn
outward when the natural man would turn inward. It was fantastic :)
[Elder Bruce C. Hafen spoke
at last week's devotional] . . . it was pretty good, the best thing he said
was, "the easiest way to come close to Christ is to witness of him"
and that's more than being a missionary, that means the way you live your life.
So I was talking to Elder
Skouson, he is big into growing fruit trees/plants. He actually started a grapefruit tree fairly
recently, he's growing a pineapple plant, and some banana plants. So he has a leg up on me with the bananas :)
For choir we sang Nearer, My God, To Thee. It was the most amazing arrangement of that
hymn that I've ever heard. It had a
beautiful deceptive cadence toward the end too. It is arranged by Gregory Lawrence Duffin, if you can find a performance
of it online, it would be worth your time. [Listen here] The choir director is really cool, he always tells us stories about the
piece we're working on. Apparently Nearer, My God, To Thee is based off the
story of Jacob, as in Isaac's son. Read
Genesis Chapters 27 and 28, and then look at the lyrics of the song. It's really cool to see the relation because
it is so subtle.
So I heard from one of the
elders here that about a month before I came in, the CIA came to the MTC to
figure out how missionaries learn languages so fast. They took videos and everything, but couldn't
figure it out. I thought that was pretty
funny. One of the Elders was joking,
saying we should give them a copy of the Book
of Mormon and say, "this book can tell you how we do it."
We get to teach
investigators completely in Korean almost every day. It is a really neat experience, especially
when the investigator asks questions and my companion and I are able to answer
them in Korean on the spot. The Spirit
is so amazing :)
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Hines
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| Elder Hines and Elder Baugh (the missing Elder from the district) |
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