This week started out with haha lots of tears (something along the lines of I love my District but they don’t love me back.. which is so funny and dramatic now that I’m looking back) but ended up being probably the most wholesome good week yet.
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this in an email before, but my big toe was hurting super 100 bad and I started walking weird so it would hurt less. Anyways I thought it would be stupid to go into the clinic over because nothing happened that made it start hurting BUT my Branch President happens to be a foot and ankle surgeon so (after some pep talks from the other Hermanas because I felt really stupid) I asked him after Sacrament meeting if he could tell me how to make my toe not hurt and he just went in to Doctor mode and told me everything about how my feet work. He said “Hermana do you not see the bruising and swelling on your toe?” And then said I just had some mild tendonitis and told me all these things I should do to help it and my toe hasn’t bothered me again this whole week. It was a lesson to me in not being..mm.. tonto.. and asking for help when I need it even if it’s something as dumb as my toe.
We started teaching a new person for TRC this week and she is FUN. She spices it up by asking lots of questions that challenge us and force us to abandon our lesson plans. We record our lessons so we can go back and remember what happened and do things better or translate something they said that totally went over our heads but always when we listen back there’s random English that we say totally subconsciously and makes me want to die cause I don’t even realize I’m saying it and I ALWAYS know the Spanish word that I said in English. Like one time I just randomly said “Capítulo four” Instead of cuatro and my brain didn’t even recognize that I did it. It’s always that or I say things like “so entonces..”. It’s schoo stupid and I hate it.
Anyways. We also SANG in one of our lessons! We mentioned that we like to sing and she said “sing one of your church songs for me at our next lesson” so we did and it wasn’t even as awkward as I thought. OH, and. We had a lesson with her about the Fall of Adam and Eve and then we planned on teaching about the Atonement for the next lesson so we invited her to read some verses in the Book of Mormon that talk about the Atonement. But as we were talking after the lesson we said “hmm we want to make sure she actually understands the Fall and feels comfortable with it before moving on” and like 5 minutes later we had this AWFUL realization that we assigned her a totally random scripture to read because I had a brain fart while writing the chapter and verses on a sticky note. So we rushed to look at what the heck we invited her to read and it just HAPPENED to be about THE FALL! You know that quote from President Monson that says “God can turn a mistake into a miracle”? That’s like.. exactly what happened. It was cool.
The MTC holds auditions for missionaries to perform at one of four events and we said “oh that sounds fun” so we auditioned (Hermana Hopkin and I singing "Be Thou My Vision" with Hermana Rollins on the flute, and Elder Peters on the piano) and we got not one but TWO performances out of the four (once at the Devotional for all departing missionaries and once at the Devotional for Senior missionaries)! And the audition list was FULL. We’re sorely excited about it.
Anyways I think that’s all I’ve got from this week. I know my life is about to get real uncomfy in like 9ish days so I’m trying to appreciate the luxuries of the MTC while I can.
......ok see ya, bye, love ya, talk to you all next week....
-Hermana Tolman
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| Me With My Love Letters From the MTC Inviting Me to Sing for Them. |
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| I made Hermana Hopkin laugh while she was drinking water so she spit it out and was coughing and I think she looks like Anakin in the third Star Wars when he says “I hate you”. |
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| Silly Fountain Ducks |
Here's a recording of us practicing Be Thou My Vision with Hna Hopkin singing soprano, me singing Alto, Hna Rollins on the flute, Hna McCormack as our (dance) mom who supports us and holds our coats, and Elder Peters from the Zone on piano!
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