Hello! How are you all? I'm healthy (I'm doing well!)
It's been an amazing first full week at the MTC! It's incredible how the Spirit is just constantly there. The other missionaries were right, the days are long, but the weeks fly by. That probably doesn't make much sense haha.
Every Sunday and Tuesday evening we have a devotional. Every week there's a rumor that Jeffrey R. Holland will come, but so far he hasn't since we've been here. They have really great speakers come. On Sunday Tracy W. Wattson, who's in charge of putting together Preach My Gospel and the District 3 video series, spoke on our purpose as missionaries. He also had two sister missionaries from District 3 come along with one of their investigators who bore his testimony. It was really powerful. Tuesday we had Richard J. Maynes of the Seventy come, and he focused on the impact one missionary can have. Sunday night we also got to watch a video of Elder Bednar's devotional, "Character of Christ." It was incredible and extremely eye-opening. If you can find it, I highly recommend watching it!
The MTC is still going great! Really enjoying my time here. We've been having lots of practice teaching lessons, so I've been learning a lot. We've also come a long way with the language, even if we're still not that great haha. Turns out the investigator we taught in Kiribati was actually just a pretend-investigator helping us practice teaching in our language. Half the time we had no idea what he was saying haha. He gave us some really good advice with teaching and the language after our last time teaching him.
There are eleven elders and one sister in my district, which consists of those speaking Kiribati. Most of them are from Utah, but there are some from Hawaii, Idaho, and North Carolina.
One of my teachers, Brother Packer, told us something really interesting as to why 'ti' makes the 's' sound in Kiribati. Hyrum Bingam is the person who made Kiribati a written language. When writing down the language, the 's' key on his typewriter was broken, so he would type 'ti' in place of it. Eventually, when he got a new typewriter, he decided that Iesu Kirsto (Jesus Christ) would be the only thing in Kiribati to have the letter 's'. I just thought that was really cool.
Thank you for all your kind words and support!
I tangiringkami ngai! I love you all!
Elder Schoeny
The picture with all of us and one guy with glasses in the front is us with a teacher who pretended to be our investigator, Bateriki. He had to stop working because of classes at BYU.
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