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the train ordeal
hahaha note the socks (it was self-acclaimed America Day)
by the way the word for
Independence Day is onafhankelijkheidsdag and is my favorite word everCHOO-CHOO TRAIN |
Thank you Bon Jovi for
allowing me to sound clever in regards to this week's title.
HELLO Y'ALL
What a great week.
Yesterday was our hump day and so now we are in our last semester here at the
MTC. The Danish and Icelandics left early Monday morning and are now
in Copenhagen at the mission home so we're hoping all is well. Except for the fact
that Sunday afternoon a massive volcanic eruption occurred in Iceland
so even after 9 weeks of MTC training the poor Icelandics can't even fly to
their mission (HAHA but so sad). Every week now we say goodbye to people in the
zone with Monday being the Swedes andNext Monday the Surinames
which will be real hard. Today we get in more Danes, then in the next 2 weeks
get in 37 new missionaries with most of them sisters. #holybuckets haha all the
Swedes, Norweigans, Surinames, and Danes will be replaced and we become the
all-stars in the zone.
I was
released Sunday as district leader becuase we split 3 weeks in the
MTC. It's nice I don't have to go to a plethora of meetings anymore but I liked
the leadership role. But let's be real I had no idea what to do and so there is
no difference hahaha
Allison got here on
Wednesday and we've had a blast (not really HAHA) but it's cool to see her here
and she leaves next week. Comes in after me and leaves before me. that troll.
HAHA but I see her everyday at meals which is neat.
So I miracle happened
this week with my foot! I'm all solid now and don't need anything. I didn't
really to anything the doctor told me to do either so that's a bonus to my
pride hahahah but all is well there so much so that we played soccer
again Monday and Tuesday and the Dutchies have taken a
2-0-1 series lead over the Swedes.
Our onderzoekers are
doing awesome. I look forward to teaching everyday. Elder Hirsch and I try to
schedule appointments twice a day and have gotten ahead of the game so we have
to slow down with the curriculum. We taught probably 9 lessons this week with
the shortest one being 30 minutes. We've gotta cut down haha but it's so neat
to speak only Dutch for so long. I think that Elder Hirsch and I have such a
solid grip on the language and he is good at things I am absolutely pitiful at
haha such as getting to know the onderzoekers which is just a dandy skill to
not have hahahaha so I hope that will come soon. Yesterday, however, I became
so used to speaking becoming a hard thing with Dutch that I accidentally
dropped English words in a Nederland accent because verzoening and vandaag have
become more natural to my tongue than Atonement or today. hahahaha
congratulations to myself, I am a missionary Each of our onderzoekers are getting
baptized and are coming to church with us and have Boeken van Mormon so Elder
Hirsch and I are atop the 2 districts. It's real great but our onderzoekers
aren't super hard like some of the other companionships so that's where they
make up. Our teachers are phenomenal. Every single one is so great and have
return from either the Netherlands or Suriname within 3 years.
Elder Cook and I have
a real solid bond together and are always saying dumb things and laughing our
heads of at our stupidity. I'm telling you, he is just like you Dallin haha I'm
real excited that all 12 of us get to fly to Europe together, and hopefully
everyone receives visas in 2 weeks.
No super funny stories
this week because I've been in recovery haha but now all is good so I betcha
something incredibly ridiculous will happen to me. It always does. haha we did
however detach the bunk ladder with all 4 steps, using as a taxi and driving
around the hall with ties on our heads and shirts untucked so that was neat.
There's no TV here. We make our own entertainment and it is glorious.
I hope school is going
well for y'all that have begun or will be beginning. You'll do great if you
work hard, I promise. Thank you all so much for your prayers and gifts. I don't
have Aunt Geri or Aunt Wendy's addresses but I wanted to let you both know how
much I loved the cookies and cards you sent. Tell Bailey Austin and McKell that
I love their cards and they are hanging above my desk.
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| Last day with the Icelandics |
Even though school has
begun I want you all to know that you can still be happy haha go out and do
things that are adventurous and spontaneous. Every morning I wake to the
gorgeous Wasatch Front mountains and wish to venture up there so badly. We had
a rainstorm the other night that put snow atop Mount Timp too so that was cool
in August haha I encourage you all to enjoy the land that we live in because it
is majestic. How blessed are we to live in this nation. I love seeing our
banner everyday at the temple and the MTC waving our freedom. It will most
definitely be a hard thing to leave for 22 months. Get out there and live life
how it is meant to be lived. I dream of hiking canyons and mountains back home
and boasting our Stars and Stripes atop these peaks we call home. Relish our
liberties and freedoms for they are not seen everywhere. Know that I love this
land with all my heart and would be alongside you in the adventure you take.
Lastly, I really cool
message came to me this week from speakers in our devotionals. Christ has given
us all He hath so that we may return to heaven through Him. However we need
faith. Faith is our foundation and when planted like a seed can grow. We are
given strenuous times, such as college or maybe high school or a new job or
having to move or a mission so that we may test our faith. He carried His cross
to Calvary. Shall we not take but few steps to the hill ourselves? He died for
us. He suffered for us. He rose so we may live again. With that I say, give me
mountains to climb. Give me waters to swim. Give me trials that I may overcome
them as Christ my Savior would so He may know I live through His name. At first
I was a little bummed I didn't get called Spanish speaking with all I had
learned in school. But know I don't want it at all. I know without a doubt that
I am meant to serve this people. Dutch is not easy but it's absolutely possible
through His gift of tongues. I can already testify of that. A Swedish Elder has
a sister in Amsterdam that has been there for 2 months and has baptized 10.
That's nuts for Europe and the Netherlands. That drives me. 19 days until that
plane leaves Salt Lake City and I'm well on my way.
Liefde,
Elder Trevan Scott
Reese
P.S. I forgot on my
address last week that our box is Unit 1 which you need to know for dear
elders. thanks! letters work well at the MTC
Pictures
1) our zone before the
Danes left (Suriname, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium/Netherlands and the
Icelandics who are so rare they don't even have a flag haha) 2) us Elders thuggin.
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