Sestra Sariah Sadler: Week 1 MTC

First Companions! Sestra Ludlow, Sestra Sadler, & Sestra Pulley

Hey!

So, I got here on Wednesday afternoon. After being dropped off, we got our badges and keys, then we went to our rooms to drop everything off, and off to class we went (no time to unpack...). I went into class, and Cesky (Czech) was already being spoken. Everyone was introducing themselves except for those of us who had just gotten there. There's a total of 10 of us, we have 6 Elders (boys) and 4 sestri (sisters) (girls) in the Czech class, on top of that though we have one sestra in the Slovak class whose going to Slovakia and she has two Elders in her class who are going to Leeds in the U.K. Slovak speaking which is so cool.

Top-Sestra Pulley, Sestra Ludlow (with hand up), Sestra Johnson,
Sestra Sadler (Sariah), Sestra Hayden (front/far right)

(Cesky is coming along okay, considering I've only had a week, I can say a super simple prayer, and can introduce myself. I can read really well - I'd say I'm pretty good at pronunciation and class is super awesome, We all love each other, and the Å¡i (pretend investigators/teachers) are hilarious so we all get along super well. We have two teachers, one sestra and one bratr (Brother) who are both awesome and push us to keep learning so much. We're all pretty okay at understanding what our teachers say because they use a lot of hand movements or write on the board the translation, but understanding our (fake... don't tell anyone hahaha) investigator Aja (pronounced Ay-a) is another thing entirely, she'll ask us if we rozumite (understand) and we have to answer nerozumin quite a few times. Oh well! At least we know we're getting better. Right now though we're trying to memorize so much in Cesky which is a little difficult, like the 1st vision, the commitment to be baptized, Moroni 10:4-5, and our purpose. Lots!

Studying Czech

Silly Sestra photo time!

I love the MTC so much, it's so wonderful!!! It feels like we've been here for at least two and a half weeks already, we already all have tons of inside jokes, and yet it's only been one week! On Sunday, we had Relief Society, then lunch, then Sacrament, then a Sunday school type of a thing with just our district (the Ceski group). Our zone – the Ceskis, Slovaks, the Bulgarians, and the Polish all went to walk around the temple grounds after that. It was so pretty and we got some pretty good pictures!