MTC – Week 8

We are all really excited about going.

Our Skype lesson last Monday seemed to go better then the first one. We have another one today so I am excited to see how we do with another week of Thai under our belt.

We had our nun Thais come in on Wednesday. They seem to be learning the language well, and doing well at the MTC. We got to carry out a fun tradition with them. The tradition is that after their first lesson in Thai you show them this video from

 LDS.org https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2012-06-1870-school-bus?lang=eng

It is really funny because we have everyone talk before about how this video changed their perspective on life and helped them through the first week. Some of the people are even able to tear up to make it believable. In reality, the video is a joke that really doesn't make you feel better about anything. Afterward, we shared a good spiritual thought to help them out.

The Christmas devotional last night was great. We got to watch that instead of our regularly scheduled Sunday devotional. It does feel weird that it is Christmas time. Even though they have Christmas lights around the MTC, it does not feel like the same exposure as the outside world. I am not sure what exactly Christmas will be like in Thailand. Our teachers say it is only really celebrated in big cities and it is very commercialized. It has been fun singing all the Christmas songs in our Thai hymnbook. I remember when I heard Silent Night in Thai before I left and it just sound like random noises but now I am able to sing the song and know, for the most part, what it is saying.

Reading Thai is getting way better every day. I remember when we first started learning how to speak script and I took me two weeks to read through 1st Nephi chapter one. I haven’t really tried just reading through chapters like that in a while, but I think it would take me about twice as long as normal, but that is still a huge upgrade.

Not that much else has been going on. I might not be able to write next week because of our flight to Thailand but I am sure I will have tons to write about the week after that.

Elder Cheney