tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30376150182539785162024-03-14T11:01:23.404-07:00Elder Tyler Allgaier's Mission BlogAdriatic South Mission (Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia) Tyler Allgaierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09491909712362477860noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-47443179965992287942014-01-15T18:28:00.001-08:002014-01-15T18:28:47.880-08:00Hey Everyone -<br />
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So I am not really sure how to say this, but I am home now. Actually, I have been home for about 4 weeks now (sorry for the SUPER late update). I arrived home in Maryland on Dec. 17th in the evening and was immediately released by President Cook (my stake president). I was sent home for medical reasons that the doctors believed needed immediate attention. That being said, I was honorably released and I have the option of returning in 6 months if: 1) the doctors approve and 2) I prayerfully decide that going out on a mission is right for me. I haven't decided yet what I will do, but I am planning on staying home AND going back on a mission. This means that I anticipate my recovery and assume that I will feel ready to go back out, but if that doesn't happen I am also making plans to attend BYU in April.<br />
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I apologize for getting this post out so late because I know many of you read this and I don't have the opportunity to see all of you in person (especially my missionary buddies! I love you guys!) I just wanted to let you know where I have been and what has been happening.<br />
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As for my life right now, I am a percussion instructor at Urbana High School and I am living the "good" life. I have had an amazing amount of support from family and friends that welcomed me home with hugs, smiles, and words of encouragement. I am so thankful for them. Thank you everyone for the support you have given me the past 7 months and if you see me, holler at me!<br />
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Sorry for not writing last week. It was a very long P-day and I didn't have the energy to write any big emails. (Writing half decent emails can be very difficult sometimes). I also wanted to thank Hollie and Aunt Mary for sending me packages! Thank you Mary for the food and the Emergen-C, especially. That has really helped me lately. Hollie, I apologize, but I opened your package before Christmas. I forgot that it was the Christmas package until I looked into it. I assure you that I will wait until Christmas to use any of the stuff : )</div>
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Since I didn't write an email last week I suppose I should tell you a little bit about the Thanksgiving here. Every year all of the missionaries in the Adriatic South Mission go down (or up) to Tirana for a day of missionary training/Thanksgiving dinner and festivities. The dinner was phenomenal and we had REAL turkey. Don't ask me where we got it because that is still a mystery to me. After the dinner we had a talent show and dessert followed by a testimony meeting for the missionaries that are leaving at the end of this month (shout out to Elder Peterson). It was a really good day of food, fun, and remembering all the things that we are thankful for. </div>
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Last Wednesday we had our Zone training in Prishtina and all the missionaries from Prishtina, Gjakova, Shkoder, and Skopje (Macedonia) met up at the church building in Prishtina. I wanted to share 2 scriptures from that training that I really liked:</div>
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Many of you have asked about people that we are teaching, so I will tell you about one of my favorite families that I have taught so far. We have been teaching Mergim, Marigona, and their mom Jenny, for about 2 weeks now and it is easily the highlight of my week teaching them. After teaching so many people in Albanian, its nice to be able to teach someone in English. We usually go over to their house 2 or 3 times a week and have a relatively short lesson planned, but we almost always end up staying for 2 or 3 hours just answering their questions. Marigona, who is 13, has been asking really good questions like "If we knew each other before we were born, why don't we remember?" I LOVE getting questions like that and it makes the lessons with them so awesome. We also were able to teach them how to pray and it was so cool getting to see Mergim and Marigona pray. I really look forward to seeing where they go in the next month or two! I also know that they are reading my blog, so hey guys!</div>
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Christmas is coming up soon and I am really excited to be a part of the Christmas season in a different part of the world. I know that it won't be as full blown as it would be if I was back home, but it will certainly be something special. I am really looking forward to Skyping with my family! That will probably happen around 12 noon your time, by the way. </div>
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The weather up here is getting quite chilly. It has snowed a couple times and there is constant ice on the ground. They don't use salt up here on the sidewalks and that makes it really dangerous to walk around. I heard you guys got snow back home? Nice. I am starting to really love the snow and cold more and more. You can always add clothes, but you can't always take them off : )</div>
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Anyway, that is all for me this week. Stay safe everyone, and enjoy the snow!</div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-80732558377929656012013-12-05T06:59:00.002-08:002013-12-05T07:00:40.204-08:00A picture is worth a thousand words! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-14924783756025753862013-12-01T21:23:00.002-08:002013-12-01T21:23:39.391-08:00Weekly Email Again (Sorry for the un-creative title)<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hello Dear Family and Friends - </span><br />
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Another week down here in grand 'ol Gjakovë. I just want to thank everyone who has sent me mail in the past month and a half because I just got it all yesterday! Also, a big thank you to grandma Allgaier for the blanket she made me. It kept me very warm last night. </div>
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As for the weekly round up of events, I don't have many to report on. Things have been relatively slow here, but we did have a fun day in Prishtina yesterday that I will tell you about. </div>
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We had Elder Christopher Charles of the area seventy come and visit Kosovo yesterday and he was able to speak at our sacrament meeting in Prishtina. Obviously with a member of the area seventy coming we wanted as many members as possible to hear him. So we rallied the members here in Gjakova (about 20 all together) and took 2 vans to Prishtina at about 8:30 in the morning. When we finally got there we went into the little church building that we have in Prishtina and it was PACKED full of missionaries, members, and military (they come to church from the military base). I have never seen that building so crowded and it was awesome to know that we were all there for a good purpose. During the meeting, the new members gave their testimonies, President Ford spoke, a soldier woman sang a beautiful song, and Brother Charles gave a really good talk. That was the first full-length sacrament meeting I had been to since I left Utah 3 months ago and it was really good!</div>
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After the meeting we all gathered together for a delicious lunch that included roast beef sandwiches, chips, and more brownies than I have ever seen in one place. In was a pretty good meal to say the least.</div>
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So that's really the only story I have to tell you all. Enjoy Thanksgiving this week and remember to thank people for the things that they do for you! I promise it wont go unnoticed. I love you all and stay safe!</div>
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Happy Thanksgiving!</div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-9835663251682459902013-11-19T09:58:00.000-08:002013-11-19T09:59:11.872-08:00Weekly email<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hey everyone -</span><br />
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It has been a pretty good week and I have had the opportunity to meet some really cool people. Last Thursday, my companion and I were out tabling in the center and a teen-aged boy comes up to us and asks, "Are you guys from England?" in perfect English. Turns out that he was born and raised in Michigan and just moved back here to Gjakovë with his family last September. He has an equally cool sister. They are 16 and 13 years old, respectively (I think). We have spent a lot of time with them and playing ping pong at the church and hopefully we can keep seeing them! It is always nice to chat with other Americans.</div>
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This past Saturday we had yet ANOTHER baptism! It wasn't our investigator though, it was a man who has been taught by the other two elders in Gjakovë. He is the husband of one of the members in our little branch. </div>
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On a completely unrelated note, Spencer won states on Saturday! Congratulations to him and on his undefeated season!</div>
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There is a girl in our branch and she is getting married to another member really soon. Because of the wedding, her sister flew in from America with her kids (her husband will come out soon) and they will be here for the next month or so. With this visiting family and the kids from Michigan, we might as well start an English branch out here! Just kidding, but that would be something special.</div>
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Aside from those few things, there isn't much else to report on. The weather is getting pretty chilly up here and I really look forward to the first snow fall. We are going to be heading down to Tirana on the 27th for Mission Conference and thanksgiving at the mission home. I am really looking forward to that. </div>
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I guess that is all from me for this week. I love you all and stay safe!</div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-72253767329417412862013-11-14T15:05:00.002-08:002013-11-15T19:36:43.317-08:00November 11, 2013<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hey Everyone - </span><br />
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I have been getting some emails about where to send packages, so I decided to address the issue on the blog so everyone can see it. Packages can be sent to this address:</div>
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That is the address for regular letters and packages. If you have a special need for a special address, talk to my mom about that and we can work something out. Thank you for thinking of me!</div>
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So now for the weekly recap. The beginning of last week started off a little rough because of some safety concerns that we have had here in Kosovo. We were directed to spend most of our time indoors and just to be careful. The 4 Gjakova elders all stayed together for a few days, and during those few days we had some good fun. We did an ab workout program that about destroyed my stomach. </div>
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This past Saturday we had a baptism for 2 of our investigators, a husband and wife. They have come such a long way since the other two elders started teaching them 2 months ago. My companion and I picked up teaching them about a month ago and they have changed so much since then, as well. Their baptism was held at Hotel Pastriku (the same place as a young woman) and my companion baptized them both. The Prishtina group even came down here for the baptism and it was really good to see them. It's always fun to have more people at a baptism because 1) it shows the new members that they have a large group of people that are happy and support them and 2) we like to see our Prishtina friends. The following day I had the opportunity to give both Mirlind and Vlora the Holy Ghost. It is really hard to describe the feeling that I have when I give someone else a blessing like that in another language. I don't mean to boast at all because I will be the first one to admit that the blessings were far from grammatically correct, but the important part was the gift that they received from God. And I did that correctly. Baptisms like these are amazing because we can see the kingdom of God growing and we get to see people make changes in their lives that make them happier. </div>
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I don't have much else to say because it was a relatively uneventful week (aside from the baptism, of course) so I will end with a shout-out to my brother Spencer. YOU GUYS BETTER GO WIN STATES!!!!!!!</div>
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I love you all so much and I appreciate the support you give to my family. I wouldn't be able to be here without you guys. Stay safe!</div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-49808625860333044102013-11-08T03:29:00.002-08:002013-11-15T20:34:10.665-08:00One Day Late... (and two days later because of Mom!)<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hey everyone</span><br />
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This has been quite the week here in this part of the world, to say the least. As of Sunday, I am now 1/6 of the way done with my mission. That also means that I have now been in the field for as long as I was in the MTC.... crazy. I feel like I haven't been on my mission for that long (and I really haven't), but time is flying by out here. I look forward to the next 20 months.</div>
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Last Wednesday while Harvey and I were talking to people in the Center, 2 teen aged boys came up to us and started talking to us in half decent English. They were probably 17 or 18 years old. The first thing they asked us was, "Can we have visas to America?" Obviously we said no, but they decided to stick around anyway and chat with us. Long story short, it is a bummer to see how skewed the youth's (and some adult's) view of America is. The kids here have such potential.</div>
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As all you Americans know, the 31st was Halloween and much to my surprise, we had Halloween here too! Although it was celebrated a little bit differently, it was still fun to have that holiday. Instead of going door-to-door asking for candy, the kids just dress up in costumes and walk around the town with their friends or parents. It's basically just an opportunity for the kids to dress up and hangout with their pals. That night my companion and I went to my favorite pizza stand called "Të Cimi". Since it was Halloween night, the line was ridiculously long. We decided it would be fun to order 10 pizzas just for ourselves. At 1 euro a pizza, it seemed like a great idea. So we did. And everyone behind us got mad. Oh well....</div>
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Saturday was a super awesome day. We had an 8 AM baptism for one of our investigators. He is in his 30's and we met him about 2 months ago while we were waiting to pick up another member (Dafina) to go to church. The baptism was held in a local river because the hotel we usually use was being renovated. At 8 AM you can probably guess how cold the water was.... yes, freezing. Luckily for me, one of our members baptized him. So now for the funny part: The first time he went under the water his knees didn't go all the way under so they had to redo it. As he was being pulled out of the water the current knocked them both over and they fell completely into the river. Pretty funny. Then the second time he got dipped, he was so cold and worried about not going completely under that he just curled up into a ball and rolled over into the river. Again, pretty funny. At the same time, though, it was a spiritual moment and I got to see someone who I had taught from start to finish get baptized. After the baptism at the river, we all went back to the church to finish the program. I even gave a talk on the Holy Ghost, which was fun. </div>
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The day after the baptism we had church at the normal 11 AM and as part of the program, Shkumbin was given the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Guess who did it...... THIS GUY! I had no idea he wanted me to do it until we all stood up in the circle and he pointed to me. My heart flipped out, but I gave the blessing and it was awesome. that was the first time I have ever given anyone the Holy Ghost and it was in Albanian, too! As a completely unrelated side note, we got our piano at the church (its a really nice electric keyboard). The cool thing with this piano is that it has all the LDS hymns pre-loaded onto it and you can play them by just tapping one key to the beat. Because it was that easy to play it, I volunteered to be the pianist for Church. Totally awesome. </div>
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Yesterday for P-day the Gjakova district went to Macedonia! This was a really special trip for us because usually missionaries aren't allowed there unless they have serious business to do.... we didn't. We really wanted to get our passport stamped. That was about as serious as it got. I wont cover the whole trip because that would take forever (plus, you can just look at the pictures) so I will just talk about the highlights. The Macedonian elders have the only dryer in the entire mission, the have Domino's pizza, Burger King, and a radio built into their shower. Talk about high-rollers. For lunch we ordered 4 pizzas from Domino's and it was nothing short of spectacular. Sometimes you just need American pizza to make you feel good. We also go to see a castle and walk around the city for a bit. Skopje (the capital) is sooo clean compared to the rest of the mission. </div>
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So that's about all I have for this week. I apologize for writing it a day late, but I had a really busy day yesterday and didn't have time to get on the computer. I hope you are all doing well, and stay safe!</div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">(I'm working on adding more pictures of the trip to Macedonia. Keep checking back!.)</span><br />
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Let me first begin by thanking everyone for all the mail you have sent me. I only get it about once or twice a month because it has to come up from Tirana with someone from the mission so it is quite the treat to get letters and packages. </div>
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So now for the stories and other miscellaneous things that I am assuming you came here for...</div>
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Tuesday's and Saturday's are the English class days and I love English class so much. It is a great opportunity for me to speak English with the natives and to just have a good time with the youth here. There isn't any gospel lesson, just English, except for a little thought at the end of class about how we can improve our lives and how we can better the lives of others (pretty non-denominational, I believe). We also close every lesson with a prayer, whether it be a prayer offered by a missionary or one of the Muslim kids. It is so cool to have so many different faiths come together and pray. The lessons that we teach are almost as cool, but not quite. This past Tuesday we taught about adverbs and adjectives. About 15 minutes into the lesson I realized that I had no idea what an adverb was. To any of my English teachers that may be reading this, I apologize from the very depths of my soul. I still couldn't tell you the difference between the two. </div>
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The following day, Wednesday, my companion and I did about 4 hours of finding. Finding involves a mix between knocking on doors (tracting), talking to people on the street (street contacting), and tabling (setting up a table with pamphlets and Books of Mormon and letting people come to us). Of the 3, tabling is by far my favorite method. It gives people the opportunity to come to us with questions and shows desire on their part instead of us walking up to them and scaring them. Tracting is my next favorite. We get to visit a bunch of different houses and apartments and meet people in a semi-formal environment. But my least favorite method by quite a long shot is street contacting. We have such a difficult time getting any serious investigators from this because we sometimes scare people off and they think we are being rude. If we do have a gospel-oriented conversation and ask them for their number (to meet again), they give us either a wrong number or tells us they don't want to meet when we actually do call them. 'Tis the joy of missionary work, I suppose.</div>
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President Ford and his wife came to our humble little city of Gjakovë on Thursday to have individual interviews with the missionaries and to check on our progress. Since they live in Tirana, they brought up all our mail with them. I got a package and a letter from Hollie, a letter from Bro. Collings, 2 letters from Grandma and Grandpa Allgaier, and a dearelder. It was awesome!</div>
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So to wrap up this email, I am going to share one story. This story took place on the 25th of this month. It was one of the coolest lessons that we have ever had with this family. Before I tell the story, let me give a little bit of background info. Their family has 6 people: the dad, the mom, son (16), daughter (13?), son (8), and daughter (8). The mom and her 3 youngest children were all baptized together and are currently the only members in their family. The dad has received all the lessons but hasn't been baptized for reasons that are unknown to me. The 16-year-old boy has not had any lessons and has had almost no contact with the missionaries or church. So that night at the lesson, all 4 of us Gjakovë elders went to deliver a washing machine to their house and to share a short message. At first, everyone except the 16 year old was there as we were discussing the Atonement and repentance to the dad. But about 10 minutes in we hear the front door open and close. The mom gets up and leaves and comes back with the 16 year old son. This is the first time he has sat in on a lesson and it is also the first time that they have been taught as a family. The mother was almost tearing up as we continued teaching. It was so spiritual. At the end, the mom gave the closing prayer. That very well could have been the first time that they have prayed as a family. </div>
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As a concluding thought, I want to ask you all what you think about this question: Why do we close our eyes when we pray?</div>
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Thank you for everything that you all do for me and my family. Stay safe!</div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-37514466813192781712013-10-23T09:07:00.002-07:002013-10-23T09:11:33.362-07:00I Am Currently Lacking A Creative Title<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hey Fam-Fam -</span><br />
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Spencer, congratulations on the perfect season! I am excited to hear how your play-off season goes. Maybe win states for me? Urbana needs it.<br />
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It was a pretty good week but I won't be able to remember much of it because I forgot my journal at home. We just barely got home from a day long trip to Pejë and I forgot to grab it on my way out this morning. So, I will do my best to recollect everything based on pictures.</div>
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As a Gjakovë branch, we have started doing family nights here at the church, which is basically another way for us to encourage all the families to spend time with each other. We try and watch some kind of movie and have treats. It's not too spectacular yet, but it has only been a week. As soon as we get the ping-pong table here we can have game nights and things like that (yes, we are actually getting one). </div>
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Along with family nights, English class has officially started! The turn out has been pretty good so far (about 20 kids each day) and we hope to have more come. We teach the beginners the alphabet and simple phrases, the medium class more phrases and how to have simple conversation, and the advanced class we just talk with them and help them fix any mistakes that they make and help them focus on their accent. Its a lot of fun and it is a great way for us to get to know the community and make friends. Last week we had one of the students give a prayer at the end and he was Muslim. He gave a prayer in Arabic and it was so cool. </div>
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Church yesterday was interesting to say the least. Everything was going fine until aright after sacrament meeting. A little 2 year old boy (who ALWAYS causes problems) happened to lock himself in the bathroom. We couldn't use the key from the outside because he had locked the key from the inside. We tried for about 15 minutes to get the door open, but it wouldn't budge. Finally his dad told us all to just leave and go back to classes. So we did. About 5 minutes later I went back to check on the boy and his dad, but I found the door open and no one was there. Turns out, his dad knocked the door in and broke the frame. Awesome. I thought it was pretty funny and everyone made it out alive. </div>
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Today we took a trip to a city named "Pejë". Its about an hour outside of Gjakovë and we went there with the Zone Leaders, the sister missionaries, the senior couple missionaries (all from Prishtinë) and our little Gjakovë district. We visited a secured Greek <span style="color: #e69138;">(I think he meant Serbian) </span>Orthodox Monastery that was protected by the K-4 (Italian police I think). We had to show our passports to get in. The reason it is so protected is because of the war between the Serbians and the Kosovars. If it wasn't protected, the Kosovars would go in and clean house. Sad, but true. Anyway, this place was so serene and peaceful and absolutely gorgeous. It was a nice break from the dirty city of Gjakovë.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Dang... Time is really flying by. It has already been 3 and a half months since I have seen you guys and it feels like it was just yesterday that I was saying goodbye at the airport. Hopefully this pace can keep up for the next 20.5 months. </span></div>
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So, do you remember how I told you about the weight-loss "program" that we have? Apparently it got pretty bad with a few other elders. The senior couple in Prishtinë helped us all get some stool samples to a lab to check them for diseases or anything serious. Luckily, we all passed with flying colors and no one is dead. </div>
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On a completely different note, we are about to start our first English class this weekend! The past couple weeks we have been handing out flyers and telling everyone about it. I did notice a trend, however, while passing out the flyers. Everyone is super excited about the class until the see "Jezu Krishtit" written on the paper. Then they just turn and walk away. It makes me kind of sad, but that's just how it is here. Anyway, we have 3 different classes: beginner, medium, and advanced. It is about 95% teenage girls so it should be really interesting to see how seriously they take it. A lot of the girls here (if not all) just want to go to America and are trying to find anyone to take them whether it be through marriage or something else. Thankfully I don't have to worry about any of that. I have someone better in the great U.S. of A.</div>
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A couple days ago my companion and I went to the center (the place where the nënë Tereza statue is) and did a tabling session for a few hours. We had a couple people come up to us and ask us questions and my companion took them by himself to go teach, leaving me at the table. I was a little nervous, I'll be honest, especially when a lady came up to me. I had a complete conversation with her in Albanian and told her about the Book of Mormon, the things we believe, and even joked a little bit. I understood every word she said and I am pretty sure she understood me. It was so cool to finally see my language skills being put to the test... and to succeed!</div>
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To make the story even better, after that lady left a Muslim guy came up and asked about our church. I started introducing everything in Albanian and he said in English, "If you want, you can just speak in English". Thank heavens. So we had about a 45 minute conversation about what we believed and what his faith believed. It was interesting to see the similarities that Islam and our faith have. He was a really cool guy and I hope that we will be able to talk again!</div>
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Now let me finish up by telling you a quick story: There is a girl that I would see all the time with her friends on the street and she would always giggle and say "Hello" in an Albanian accent. We see a lot of girls do this, by the way. One day I walked by her and told her "të puth fortë" in a joking way (I can say that kind of stuff because I am still learning the language, right?) and she almost lost it. I'm pretty sure she giggled all the way home. So late one night we were tracting (or knocking doors) at a pilatë (or apartment complex). We didn't have any luck until we got to the last door. The person who answered it was the same 12 year old girl from the street. Talk about amazing coincidence. She went a got her dad and we had a lesson with him about our beliefs and it went really well. During this entire 30-40 minute lesson, I could see out of the corner of my eye this girl taking pictures of me with her iPad. It was pretty funny. After the lesson I asked her if she had any good pictures. She laughed pretty hard and her face got all red. The end. </div>
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So that was my week. I hope you all enjoyed it and stay tuned for next week! Stay safe!</div>
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPENCER!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
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I have decided to try a different method to writing these weekly emails. As I'm sure many of you experience weekly disappointment at the shortness of my emails and have an unquenchable desire to know more about me and what fun things I do, I will begin recalling my weekly events by using my journal. Yes, I know. My very own personal journal. So buckle your seat-belts and prepare yourselves for one of the most barely above average emails you have ever read in your life.</div>
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Let's take it all the way back to October 1st, or last Tuesday. Apparently the Adriatic South Mission is pretty notorious for the weight-loss "program" that all the missionaries go on during their 18 or 24 month stay. I have begun that journey. If any of you want to join this program, it starts with camping out in the bathroom and is similar to preparing for a colonoscopy. So, that being said, I have lost a record 11 pounds since entering the MTC and now I weigh 185.6 pounds! Woot Woot!</div>
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On that same day I also went on an exchange with one of the Zone Leaders (ZL) to Prishtinë. We had 4 lessons planned within a 2 hour time block and only one of them dropped! I'd say that is a huge success. All 3 of the lessons went really well and the investigators are really cool people. The next morning in Prishtinë we taught the owner of the local bus station and that was a very interesting lesson. We walked into his office and were greeted by a healthy dose of smoke. Probably enough to kill an elephant or 2. Anyway, he had two of his buddies there and we tried to get a lesson going. It didn't start very well and it was looking like we should just leave, but one of the boss's workers leans over to us and starts asking us questions about the Church while the boss kept chatting away with the other guy in the room. We had a relatively successful lesson and gave him our number and asked to meet him again. Hopefully the ZL's will have a chance to teach him more.</div>
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After the lesson in the bus station we went to buy a suit and eat lunch before heading back. The food was amazing, but the suit makes me look irresistible (Pictures to follow next week). </div>
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Wednesday, not much happened but I did get my haircut and my face shaved with a straight razor. I have never looked so European in my life. Look out ladies! (Just kidding, I love you Hollie!)</div>
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Friday was a fun day. Every week we try to get out to play either basketball or soccer at the local high school to talk with the kids about the English class we are getting ready to start up. We (mostly me) played soccer with the kids and I had a really good time. It's so cool to see how good basically everyone is at soccer here. Whenever we walk around the city with a soccer ball, random kids ask for it and start juggling it. You would never see that in America.</div>
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Saturday was probably the best day of the week. My companion and one of the other elders weren't feeling to good so the other elder and I went on an exchange to Prizren while they stayed home and rested (Aren't we so caring?). Prizren is a city about an hour south-east of Gjakovë and in my opinion, is a lot more gorgeous. According to the other elder, it is a lot more tourist friendly, too. If you have a chance to look at the pictures, Prizren is a lot bigger than Gjakovë and the people there seem to be so much happier. Sadly, it's not an official area of the mission yet but hopefully if we can get a couple members there, it will open up sometime next year! I would love to work there. So, back to the missionary aspect of Prizren. The other elder had a couple lessons planned out. One of which was a young couple (20 and 24) that seemed really awesome. We waited on a bench by the canal that ran through the city and they never showed up. Bummer. Why let something like that ruin a good day? We went suit shopping for the other elder and I got a new pair of shoes and a belt at a store. The ladies that worked there were flirting like crazy. I had to use my best defenses to lure them away. "Sorry, I am a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ). It works wonders, let me tell you.</div>
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And now for the highlight of the Prizren trip. We visited the castle that was there and it was awesome! The castle was pretty beat up from the Serbian and Kosovo war, but it was still really cool to see. If I go back there in 10 years or so, I signed my name on a rock and I can tell my kid(s) how cool I was. He will totally believe me. </div>
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It was a pretty good week and I had many adventures. The work in Gjakovë is still moving along and we are starting to bundle up for the chilly weather that has come. Its been down to about 7 degrees Celsius (no idea what that is in Fahrenheit) and its only the beginning of October. </div>
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I love you all so much and thank you for the support and love you give me and my family. Stay safe!</div>
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The family we are teaching has an unofficial baptismal date of October 27th! We still have to teach them a couple doctrine principles and make sure they follow them, but I think they will do well and I look forward to writing about them in the next month or so. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been talking about the food here lately and I have have picked up a new favorite drink. Its chamomile <span style="color: #e69138;">(herbal) </span>tea. Super delicious and because everyone here drinks tea, It shouldn't be a problem to get a hold of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Im sorry these letters home are so staggered and unorganized. I was talking with Hollie and we both agree that it is so hard to fit a weeks worth of events into a single email, especially when you don't have anything to help you remember. I do keep a pretty good journal that I try to update daily, and I have only missed a few days here and there. So maybe when that fills up I can send it home and you can scavenge through that for a good story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here is my spiritual food for thought: (from one of the apostles)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The senior couple in Kosovo (the Jones')</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Mexican Specialty</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Anglisht menu at a restaurant we went to</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Its gorgeous outside Gjakovë</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outside Gjakovë</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the trash we picked up outside our church doing service.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The basement of the church flooded with about 2" of rain. Elder Peterson doing work with the shop-vac.</td></tr>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-47487809947432696772013-09-24T10:54:00.003-07:002013-09-24T10:56:28.206-07:00Another Week<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hello my dear family and friends!</span><br />
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First, let me answer all the questions that you sent me in the last email.</div>
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1) <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;">What kinds of food are you eating? Your companion's dad said that the missionaries sometimes take the members and investigators out to dinner there since you have more money than they do. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> - I am eating a lot of interesting things. Nothing that wouldn't be completely out of place in America, though. Today I had a qofte sandwich which is basically a piece of bread with little burger sliders in it, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. Its really good! Sadly, we don't have enough money to take the members out to eat. I would really like to because a lot of them are struggling financially, but so are we. Its tough to live on 200 Euro a month. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">2) </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Do you have a favorite dish yet?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">- So far, my favorite dish is a breakfast item. It's called a samun (sah-moon). What we do is we go around town and pick up sygyk (sausage, basically), eggs, and some cheese. We take all those ingredients to the local brick oven bakery and have them put it all on a a piece of bread and cook it. Ill try and take a picture of it this next week. It is so good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">3) </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;">What's the weather like there?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">- The weather is really nice. Its a little dryer than MD and it rains quite a bit. Its getting chillier here and I love it. Its probably getting to around 10 degrees Celsius here at night. And apparently in the winter, it snows a ton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So those are the questions. Now I will do my very best to recall the weeks events and put them into a captivating and exciting story that will amaze the masses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We had zone conference this week (which is when Prishtina, Gjakova, Shkoder, and Macedonia all meet up to discuss the work) up in Prishtina. We left around 6 AM and got back to Gjakova at around 9:30 PM. good times were had by all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The other Gjakova elders have been teaching this family that have been super awesome. They have been coming to church ever since they met the husband and they have been really interested in all the lessons. The church is true, we are missionaries and we are all children of God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">One last little story. We have made it a goal to start doing more activities that are outside of church to invite more people to learn about our church. We are gonna try and start and movie night, start an english class, and have a weekly sports night where we play basketball or soccer. Obviously, I have been a bit more zealous to get the soccer night started and we have had a couple days where we played. One was last week and the other was today. We invite a bunch of people to play and we usually have a really good turn out. The only reason they play with us though is because we are American and tall. But hey, whatever works.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The church sign in front of our building</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The church!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newly baptized member and missionaries (Elder Allgaier is far right.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We set this table up every Saturday</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The set up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Didn't have many clothes, so I wore a jacket and Xhaxhi to the ATM.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Xhaxhi shoe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture taken of Elder Allgaier when it was "stolen" by a little girl who is a member of the church. <br />
He calls her "Sassy Pants".</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and the poor broken car. <span style="color: #e69138;">(The wrong gas was put in by ? and so it needed to be towed.)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The best juice in the world!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rivers here are very dirty.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hotel Kosvegas!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking the kids to school--one of them is "Fancy Pants" who is precious. </td></tr>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-22055638031043580842013-09-16T10:27:00.003-07:002013-09-16T10:27:52.035-07:00<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This weekend I had my first baptism for a girl named Dafina. Since we don't have baptismal fonts out here, we rented out the pool in a local hotel (hotel Pastriku) and had our baptism in that. It was a really cool experience. I also forgot to tell you all that last Sunday I had the opportunity to be in the circle to ordain Niki and Almir to the Aaronic Priesthood. This was also a really fun and spiritual experience. I remember Andy told me a story about how his first week or two in the country everything sounded like white noise. I could not agree any more with him on that. I have no idea what these people are saying and I struggle to hold a conversation. Luckily for me, the members are forgiving enough and dont get upset when I dont understand them. Yesterday I taught a lesson with the Marku family (their oldest son is Niki) and we taught about enduring to the end. They have a girl who is about 12 years old and I had her read a paragraph out of a pamphlet that I brought. I didnt know that she struggled with reading and it took her a good couple minutes to make it through this paragraph. At the end I told her, "Ne durimi deri në fund për këtë paragraf". That basically means that we endured to the end of that paragraph. I couldn't believe I said that. I meant to tell her that she did a good job enduring to the end and she did well reading, or something like that. Oh well, everyone had a good laugh.</span><br />
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Im gonna write another short letter later today with pictures and stuff so you can add that one to the blog as well. <span style="color: #e69138;">(He ran out of time to write more, but he was able to send some pictures.)</span></div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-56617840345151309172013-09-09T10:54:00.004-07:002013-09-09T10:54:38.628-07:00Hello from good 'ol Gjakova!<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Well I am officially not in America. I am in the great thriving metropolis of Gjakova, Kosovo! This place is absolutely crazy,</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> But first, let me tell you about my travels from the MTC. So we woke up at 3:45 AM to catch the bus and then a train to SLC airport. We flew from SLC to Dulles (and thats where I talked to you guys!!!!!!) and then to Munich on a super awesome airplane. We had tv's on the back of every headrest so I basically played bejewled for 6 of the 8 hours it took to get to Munich. Ballin' huh? When we got to Munich I thought I had lost my wallet. I freaked out and checked through all of my pockets and both of the backpacks that I had as my carry-ons. I couldnt find it! I ran back to the terminal to have an airline employee check my seat for it and they still couldnt find it. I said a quick prayer and i went back to where I had left my stuff in the airport and looked through my bags one last time. I found my wallet sitting right on top inside one of the zippers. Either I was a super retarded and didnt check all the pockets or my prayer was answered. Definitely the latter.</span><br />
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Anyway, after that little fiasco we made the 1.5 hour flight to Tirana. That is one hick ariport. As soon as we landed I knew that my mission had finally started and that I would be a foreigner for the next 2 years. Everybody was speaking Albanian and I was completely lost. We took a car to the mission home in Tirana (btw, the driving is CRAZY) and dropped our stuff off. We then met up with our temporary companions for the day and went proselyting in Tirana. That was the hardest thing I have ever done. I had no idea what anyone was saying and I basically said the same thing everytime I knocked on a door. Just a quick fun fact; Albania speaks a dialect called Tosk and Kosovo speaks a dialect called Gheg. We learn Tosk in the MTC and I am more lost in Kosovo than I was in Tirana. Anywhoooo, the next day we got assigned our areas and our trainers. I got put with Elder Harvey and sent to Gjakova, Kosovo. </div>
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Kosovo is cray cray!!!! Its like a smaller and cleaner Mexico City. Im trying to think of ways to describe it but I cant. You all need to see it. I got here on Thursday and I have already gotten a girl to agree to baptism and yesterday at church we had the highest number of people at church in Gjakova's history... 25! Elder Harvey and I have taught a few lessons and I mostly sit there and play with the kids or say a prayer. The hardest part isnt speaking, but knowing what the natives are saying. One day I will know this language and Im gonna baptize everyone I talk to.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view outside the room #1</td></tr>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-77719954139258496732013-09-07T14:29:00.000-07:002013-09-07T14:29:04.725-07:00He has arrived!!<span style="color: #e69138;">I received an email from the Albania, Tirana Mission President, Andrew Michael Ford, confirming that Elder Allgaier has arrived "safe and sound" in Albania!!! He arrived on the evening of September 4th and has been assigned to serve in the Gjakova group in the district of Tirana with a new, experienced companion. He even included in the email a few pictures. We can't wait to hear from Elder Allgaier himself! If you want to write to him, the address should look like this: </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After 33 hours of travel, Elder Tyler Allgaier arrives at the mission home in Tirana, Albania. Pictured with (L to R) mission president, Andrew Michael Ford, Elder Harvey (his new companion), Elder Tyler Allgaier and Sister Ford.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Tyler Allgaier finally arrives in the mission field! He and his new companion, Elder Harvey.</td></tr>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-82907769488953202302013-08-30T10:18:00.001-07:002013-09-04T06:27:59.539-07:00Last Missionary Training Center (MTC) Preparation Day (P-day)<br />
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Good afternoon my fellow Americans. Today is the last and final time I will be writing you from this great nation we call the United States of America. I leave for Albania next tuesday morning at around 4:30 AM (that is when we head to the airport). The flight plans are in a picture but I will briefly go over the stops on the way there. We fly from SLC to Dulles (home sweet home! only for 2.5 hours) then from Dulles to Munich and finally to Tiranë. That means we will be in transit for about 33 hours....in suits. Woohoo! Luckily we will be able to sleep on the plane and eat real american food one last time in the airports. I will be in Albania (or Shqiperia, as we natives call it) on Wednesday afternoon. It will be a fun trip and I am so excited to start some real missionary work.<br />
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So as you may or may not know, this past week was consecration week and I couldnt speak any English. I would be a liar if I said that I only spoke Albanian all week, because I didn't. Although, about 99% of the time I did and my speaking skills have grown so much because of it. I feel a lot more comfortable with muhabet (small talk) and I am a lot more comfortable with bearing my testimony (2 very important parts of missionary work in Albania). When I talk to my family on tuesday you can ask them how awesome I sound. </div>
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This week's devotional was pretty good. Neil L. Andersen of the 12 <span style="color: #f6b26b;">(Quorum of the 12 apostles)</span> spoke to us and it was really powerful stuff. He said that "We sacrifice for the things we love and we love the things we sacrifice for". This is so true with missionary work especially. I left my family at home and I left Hollie at home and I left school and marching band (which I am finding myself missing more and more everyday). These are all sacrifices that I have made because I love them so much. Being on a mission, I am learning how to put the "I" away and start focusing on others while putting my own interests aside for 2 years. If you know me, you know how hard this will be. Today, I will actually be getting my eyebrows waxed to prep for Albania. Yes, Im a princess. </div>
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The walk home from the devotional was also pretty sweet. It was raining a bunch and we had to walk the 20 minute walk in the pouring rain in our suits. I loved it. It was the closest to being swimming as I will be for the next couple years. </div>
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Thank you everyone for the packages and letters you have been sending me these past 9 weeks. They have seriously made my MTC stay so much better. Since I will be leaving the states next week, my address wont be the same. (mom, Ill tell you the address when I call you tuesday). If you want to continue sending me things, the best way to do that is by email or by sending packages to the mission home in Albania. </div>
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I love you all so much and I look forward to writing you from Albania</div>
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- Elder Allgaier</div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Until I get his new address of where Elder Allgaier will be living in the mission field, we can still write emails to his mylds.mail.net address which he will get on his p-days. As far as I know, though, the missionaries are unable to print those emails up and take them with them. So, he will only be able to view the emails in the small window of time when he can check his email, and that's it. If you need his full email address again or the address of the mission home, let me know in the comments and I'll email you directly.--Elder Allgaier's mom</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Our entertainment for the month was watching a guy cut down a tree in front of our classroom (just like TV!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Price and I at the last devotional in the Marriott Center</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This week will be a very interesting week because....drum roll please..... NO ENGLISH! This week is consecration week and everyone in the Albanian group will only be speaking Albanian. IT'll be tough but I think we are all ready to do this. It will also be the last full week before I fly out to Albania and let me just say that I am about done with the MTC. I am ready to go back into the real world and immerse myself in the advertisement filled metropolis of Albania. Just kidding. They arent very high tech. Regardless, I am super stoked to finally go. We actually get our flight plans this friday and we get to see what time we leave in the morning and what airports we fly to. I have heard from one of our teachers that we leave at 3 AM.....bummer. I was hoping to get my beauty rest and for those who have ever flown know that it is near impossible to get any beauty rest on an airplane, much less look graceful while doing it. </span><br />
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So anyway, this week was pretty good. My favorite part by far was the tuesday night devotional at the Marriott Center. I cant remember who the speaker was, but the choir number that we sang was amazing. It was an arrangement of "Dear Redeemer, Precious Savior" (that may be flip-flopped). I had Elder Jorgensen record it on his camera (dont tell anyone!) but I'll have to do some computer magic to get that from him. maybe by the end of my mission you all can hear it. </div>
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This morning we went to the temple and had breakfast afterwards. I cant remember if I talked about it last week, but the temple food is amazing. That is either embarrassing for the MTC food, or the temple should open up its own restaurant. I had a waffle with strawberries and whip cream, an omelet, sausage, and some milk. It was delicious. </div>
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There is a little thing going around our mission and it is kind of like a disease. We call it "Wupping" or "one-upping". It basically goes like this: Someone tells a story about something they think is cool or something they use to do before their mission and then out of nowhere, somebody else talks about doing or having something similar but theirs is 10x cooler. Its drives me nuts! Im excited to do this consecration week when no one can "wupp" anyone. It'll be sweet bliss. </div>
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Im not gonna end the letter on a sour note, so I will bear my testimony in my broken Shqip:</div>
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Unë dëshmoj që Jezu Krishti është Biri i Përëndisë. E di së Jozef Smithi ishte profeti dhe Ai përktheu Libri i Mormonit nëpërmjet fuqise së Përëndia. E di së Përëndia na do dhe Ai do të në jetojmë me Ai përseri. I themi këto gjëra ne emrin e Jezu Krishti, amen. </div>
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Dang that was rough. Autocorrect doesnt do me any good. Anyway, it is all true and I hope you can forgive the colossal spelling errors (you wont know unless you put it into Google translate and im assuming 99% of you will). </div>
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I love you all and I will report back to you next week when I can flas Anglisht!</div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-33830678611332626262013-08-16T11:24:00.001-07:002013-08-23T08:45:05.105-07:00Week # 6? I cant remember<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hey everybody!</span><br />
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So the weeks are definitely all blending together now and I cant picture my life outside of this little plot of land we call the MTC. Sometimes I even dream about going places by myself and taking a nap whenever I want (or just a nap in general). Next wednesday we start consecration week (one week of Albanian only, no english) and I am scared out of my mind. We leave in 3 weeks for Albania!!!!! and the last week is a lot of orientation (in english, thank heavens) and general excitement to leave. I know I had a few grey hairs going in, but I am willing to bet a large sum of money that when I get home I will look like Anderson Cooper, and thats not necessarily a bad thing. What I am trying to say is that I AM STRESSED. Woah buddy, does this place ever humble you. On top of learning one of the hardest and most unknown languages on the Earth, we have to do it with a smile on our face. Now forgive me if it sounds like I am complaining, because I am not. I am learning so many lessons here not only about the gospel, but about what it means to be a man. One of our weekly mottos was: "Jini Burrë". </div>
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This past tuedsay we had Elder Richard G. Scott of the 12 come and speak to all of the missionaries at the Marriott Center. Let me just write down a couple notes that I took:</div>
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- We will learn that we have strength beyond what we thought we had</div>
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Elder Scott was Definitely one of the best speakers we have had so far and obviously he made several good points about prayer and missionary work. </div>
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Today we went to the Temple for the first time since we have been at the MTC. Normally we would go every week, but it has been closed for cleaning. It was such an awesome experience to go with the people that I have grown to love in the past 6 weeks. Its really hard to have any negative feelings in the temple. After we finished a session, we all were able to eat in the cafeteria at the temple. Now before you point and laugh, let me just tell you that we have been suffering from a lack of good food as of late. The temple had AMAZING food. I had a ham and cheese omelet, 3 sausage links, a massive waffle with blueberries and whip cream, and a ton of milk to wash it all down. It was probably the best breakfast I have had since Kneaders the morning before I got to the MTC. </div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-45699306525787929122013-08-09T16:42:00.002-07:002013-08-09T16:42:49.110-07:00Weekly email update -- week 5 <br />
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The weeks are going by so fast now. Im not sure if that is because I am numbed to MTC rules, or if that is because I am finally getting into a routine (hopefully the latter). Im in week 5 (I think?) now and that means that I am officially more than halfway done with my MTC stay. One would think that being 5 weeks into the MTC, I would have a pretty decent grasp on the language........ Nope. This is the hardest language in the world. If you dont believe me, try learning it yourself and tell me how it goes. My notebooks are full of "T-charts" and vocab and lesson plans for my investigators. Just last night I finally put together a master page. or a cheat sheet, with all of the charts that I have learned so far. Putting together one grammaticaly correct sentence continues to be a minute long endeavor. Its all fine and dandy to struggle with the language until we have to go teach our teachers a lesson in Shqip. Holy cow...... those are easily the most stressful 30-45 minutes of my day. I just pray that my trainer (the person who trains me for 12 weeks when I first get to Albania) is a patient man.</div>
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Anway, this past sunday I was released as District Leader (they change District Leaders halfway through) and my companion Elder Hald is the new one. We have very different personalities and I am curious to see how things in the district change. Tuesday night was another MTC-wide devotional and Elder Jensen (Emeritus member of the 70) spoke on scripture study. He gave a TON of tips on how to effectively study and how to mark your scriptures so that you can recall spiritual insights that you may have had while reading. He easily had the most powerpoint slides of anyone that has spoken so far. I was in the choir for this devotional again, and it continues to be a great experience to sing with so many missionaries.</div>
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Speaking of choir, the choir director Brother Eggett gave a spiritual thought 2 tuesdays ago that I want to share (Spencer has my notes on this fictional story).</div>
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Imagine this: You and some friends are going on a trip after you graduate to a foreign country to celebrate your accomplishments. You are traveling with 3 of your closest friends and there are no adults. The country you are going to has an unoffical tourist location that your friends insist that you must visit. After you land, check into the hotel, and get settled in, you and your friends go to this location. This "unoffical tourist location" is a big concrete wall that appears to have been freshly painted over. Your friends tell you that everytime someone visits, they spray paint their name onto the wall. They begin doing that and you notice that there are signs that say "Do not vandalize. Serious Penalties will occur". They encourage you to sign your name, but you decline. "You have to do it! We came all this way and you wont even sign your name?" Eventually you give in and spray your name onto the wall. The second you finish, the flashing lights of police cars turn on behind you and you immediately know that you are busted. The cops take you to the police department and fill out all the paperwork and hold you and your 3 friends there. The next day they let all your friends go back home to the United States, but keep you to serve as an example. Since it is a foreign country, the can have whatever punishment they want for crime. Your punishment is to have your hand nailed to the wall where you spray painted and to keep you there until you wither away. They will feed you and clothe you, but you are to never leave. Eventually the US Embassy catches wind of this and immediately shuts it down. You are taken back to the local police station and held there until they figure out what to do with you. A couple days later a US Embassy representative comes to the jail and tells you that you are allowed to go back to the states and live your life the way you want it, but that a family member must take your place on the wall. This family member volunteers themselves to have their hand nailed to the wall, but instead of staying there forever, they have the option to pull their hand through the nail and if they do that, they are free to go home. You get a call within the hour saying that your older brother has volunteered to take your place on the wall and he will be flying to that country the next day. So the next day you are escorted by police to the airport to wait for your older brother. (This next part gets me every time) Eventually you see him walk out of the plane terminal and you briefly make eye contact. He smiles at you and you know that He has everything taken care of and that you wont have to suffer anymore. You have that 3 second long moment before the cops dash over and beat him with the clubs in order to subdue him. They cuff his hands and drag him out of the airport right before your eyes. You fly home that afternoon and when you get home you are devastated. You arent sure when you will see Him again so you have a picture of Him next to your bed. You think to yourself, "Why would I do such a stupid and small thing? Now because of my mistakes my older brother, who did nothing wrong, has to suffer for me". This older brother is (figuratively) Jesus Christ. He is the older brother that sacrificed himself so that we can live our lives. He is the older brother that we should all strive to be. We need to constantly remember the things that He did for us and live our lives to be like Him.</div>
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That is my favorite story that I have heard here so far and I hope you all enjoy it like I did. I dont have much more time, so I will wrap up. I love all of you and the support that you give to me and especially to my family. Stay safe and enjoy the real world!</div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-55663152437977528272013-08-02T05:45:00.002-07:002013-08-02T05:45:24.204-07:00Keeping busy at the MTC -- Week 4<br />
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I have learned that I cannot recall anything that I have done during the past week without using some kind of journal. So for this email I will be recalling events as they are written in my journal.</div>
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Last friday: Elder Hald and I taught our progressing investigators (our teachers who role-play) and we taught 2 awesome lessons. I cant remember what they were about, but it is so awesome to see how much better I am getting at the language. We have been teaching the past several lessons without any notes and just using the Book of Mormon. We also had Papa Johns for dinner that night. The MTC buys it for the whole west campus and it is delicious. I used to think that i loved pizza, but after eating, how do you say, less than pleasant food for the past 4 weeks, pizza is God's gift to us missionaries. Friday was also our first SYL (speak your language) day. It is so hard to speak only in albanian when you have to try and explain a topic in class, especially when you dont understand the concept in the first place. We played 4 square and that was always super fun (we play volleyball now because our district got too good at 4 square).Only 24,000,000 seconds left in my mission!</div>
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saturday: Elder Hald and I taught one of our investigators named Shpetim about what happens after we die. I knew i had this lesson in the bag. We taught from Alma 40 and taught him about the "happy place" that we can go to. I bore my testimony that I know our families can be together forever and that we can be happy if we follow God's commandments. He asked what he needed to do and we said baptism. So long story short, He is getting baptized sometime in August (I forgot what day because I just said a random number that I cant remember).<span style="color: #f1c232;"> [Shpetim is not a "real" investigator. He's a teacher role-playing as an investigator...otherwise, I'm sure the date would have been a BIG deal!] : ) </span></div>
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Sunday: I shaved one of my legs.......... pictures included. Missionaries do the weirdest things to stay occupied. Also, church was good.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Tuesday: (I didnt write on monday) I sang in the choir again and the main speaker for the devotional was H. Bryan Richards. During his talk he showed a video on Elder Holland speaking. He spoke about Jesus asking in the garden of Gethsemane if what he was doing could be any easier. The same thing goes for missionaries. Although what we do is hard, the work that we will do will echo for eternity.</span></div>
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Wednesday: (yesterday) I am getting so many packages and letters and I love them! thank you so much everyone. If i had time to write all of you, I totally would but time is really tight here.</div>
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Thank you everyone for all the letters, dear elders, postcards, and packages. Getting the mail is easily the highlight of my day. It is the only contact with the outside world that I have. Our district often jokes that if the zombie apocalypse started or if all of America was destroyed, except for provo, we would have no idea. There is a lot of truth to that statement, though. Regarding the Dear Elders and physical mail: You can address it to either Elder Tyler Allgaier or Elder Jonathan Allgaier. It gets to me either way. And make sure (if this is even an option) to have them print <br />
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Its so cool to hear about you guys being able to visit Palmyra and watch the pageant. I would love to do that when I get back, for sure. It also sounds like everyone is staying very busy with camps and having sleepovers (Hi Kristyn). Mom, I know you are probably having some fun too, but if not, I ask that all of my mom's friends invite her out to lunch and take care of her! My siblings cant have all the fun. <span style="color: #e69138;">[Very sweet of Tyler to think of me, but I am doing just fine! : ) ]</span></div>
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Garrett! I am stoked that you are going to a leadership camp. I know that it will help you so much and that if you pay attention to things that they teach you, you will benefit from it so much. You are definitely a natural leader. Keep up the good work.</div>
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I think for the first time since Ive been at the MTC, I had a fast week. It honestly feels like I was just emailing you guys yesterday. Hopefully this fast pace stays because I am ready to leave and go to Albania. That being said, I do not have the language down. It is so tough but I can see how all of the principles and rules are all starting to fit together. Our district does a thing every now and then called SYL. It stands for Speak Your Language. Basically what you do is only speak Shqip for the allotted time and absolutely no English. I both hate it and love it. We are always taught that being on a mission will put you outside of your comfort zone, and I totally agree. In about 4 weeks we will begin Consecration Week. Consecration week is one whole week (Wednesday to Wednesday) where you only speak Shqip. That is gonna be HARD! Hopefully by then I will be able to understand a decent amount (at least enough to survive).</div>
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I was able to sing in the Tuesday night devotional choir again this week. It is so much fun and its my only outlet for music since we cant listen to music at the MTC. Luckily this week I sat by Elder Baker (he is in my district) and another guy who had decent pitch. Last week was horrible. I had to sit by an Elder that may have never sung in his life, even though he insisted that he had been in choir all through high school. Anyway.... I digress.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Me and Vellai (Brother) McGlothin. He is my other teacher.</span></td></tr>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-44409124958573737322013-07-19T08:57:00.000-07:002013-07-20T06:29:01.788-07:00Week two (in the Provo Missionary Training Center West)<br />
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This past week has been a lot more calming than the first. Ill try to make a chronological list of the events that happened since last thursday after i emailed you.</div>
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We went to a place in Brigham's Landing (yes, West Campus is allowed to go there on P-day. its awesome) and we ate at Burger Supreme. While we were there a guy came up to us a started talking with us. Towards the end of the conversation he pulls out his wallet and gives us $100 and says it is for next weeks lunch! turns out that he used to work at the MTC and taught spanish. It is so cool to meet people that love missionaries because I know it wont be like that in Albania.</div>
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I cant remember the rest of the days so ill just talk about things that happened in random order. I sang in the choir this past Tuesday for the MTC devotional that we have every week. It turns out that it was a recorded broadcast that is going to be sent to the 14 other MTC's. How cool is that?! I'll probably get music contract offers while im here, no big deal. Also, the guy that I was singing next to drove me nuts. He was bragging the entire time about how he was in choir in high school and how good he was. then we started singing..... That man could not have been more off-key. Iff it wasnt for the amazing spirit, he may have ruined it. Anyway, i digress.</div>
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After the devtotional tuesday night our mission (my district plus the other albanian district) met up for a testimony meeting. I bore my testimony on the power of music and the spirit that it brings and how singing as a district can strengthen us so much. I also bore my testimony that I know I was called to the Adriatic South mission for a reason. Not because I circled "5" on the application, but because I needed to be challenged and humbled. I promise you that I have been humbled and challenged here more than I have ever been in my life. (Read spencer's email for the full story)</div>
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Last week our district started to get really rowdy and we were joking around too much. So as district leader, this week i made it a goal to encourage everyone to try their best to be exactly obedient and to keep the Spirit with them as much as possible. I told them that if they do that, they will receive the blessings that they have been praying for and that their families will be blessed even more. Now that it is Thursday, everyone has told me that they have felt a complete change and that they are learning the language so much better. I am so happy for them and i hope that I will get the blessings that they have received as well.</div>
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I love you all and it makes me feel so much better knowing that you all are being blessed and watched over because of the things that I am doing. It is one of the biggest motivators that i have. Also, thank you everyone for the letters you have been sending. They make me feel so loved!</div>
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too bad about not making the callbacks. Dont worry about it too much. I hear you are going to the DC United academy tryouts, so make sure to brush up on your spanish. Coming from a seasoned veteran, there are a lot of politics in soccer and sometimes it isnt fair to those of us who truly deserve it and work for it, but that just proves that the Lord has other plans for us (listen to me, im getting all churchy). Seriously though, since ive been in the MTC ive had more times than I can count where i seriously doubt that i should go to Albania. The language is so hard and I sometimes want to ask to go to an english speaking mission. But tuesday night we had a testimony meeting and i told everyone that i know we are called to this mission for a reason and that the lord called us here knowing that we would be challenged and challenged just to the point of giving up. but if we have the strength and courage and pererverance to keep working, the Lord has promised us so many blessings; more than we can even count.</div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-18149940078704485432013-07-12T15:10:00.000-07:002013-07-14T08:01:24.537-07:00First Update from MTCMy P-Day is Thursdays here at the MTC and I only get one hour to read and respond to all my emails. I would recommend using <a href="http://www.dearelder.com/" target="_blank">Dear Elder</a> because I can write hand letters back and I have more time for that. Sister Daniels is the only one that has sent me one so far. Thank you Sister Daniels! (By the way, physical letters are super awesome. I cant believe how excited I get when someone writes me.) There is an Elder in my district named Elder Clawson and he gets like 5 letters a day. He is officially "That Guy". (FYI: <span style="color: #ffe599;">Elder Allgaier's most updated address for physical letters is: Elder Jonathan Tyler Allgaier, SEP04 ADRTCS, 2023 North 900 East Unit 815, Provo, UT 84602</span>)<br />
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My typical day here at the MTC starts off by waking up at 6:15 AM every morning. Yes, every morning without fail. We then go to breakfast, usually as a district at 6:45. The breakfast is the exact same every morning: Bagels, milk, OJ, some donuts, and a banana. After breakfast we go to class for 3 hours learning either Shqip (Albanian) or how to teach effective lessons. Then we have some additional study time before lunch at 11:20. lunch is ALWAYS either a salad or sub-par sandwich. It's making me sick. After lunch we have more class learning language or gospel study for an additional 3 hours followed by more study. Dinner then rolls around at an unusually early hour of 4:20 (who eats dinner at 4:20?). Anyway, after dinner we will have gym time for 50 minutes and then additional study time. If you haven't noticed already, there is an exorbant amount of study and class time. Easily amounting to 15 hours a day and it fries my brain. (If you write me a Dear Elder I will remember to take a picture of my schedule and send it to you.) Finally, we get together as a district everynight and read the Albanian scriptures. It is a really awesome experience to see our district grow closer together and learn the language.<br />
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My companion for the next 8 weeks is named Elder Hald. He is originally from Denmark but has been living in Provo for the last 7 years. He is a BIG DUDE. He is 6'5". Needless to say, I feel pretty small sometimes. He goes to BYU and is majoring in Opera Performance. Sometimes we can hear him singing in the shower.<br />
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On the 4th of July the West MTC (where I live) had a devotional that night. After the devotional, we all went outside to watch the fireworks that were going off in the LeVell Edwards stadium after a Mariah Carrey (sp?) concert. It was super awesome. I hear Pioneer day is also a big deal here but I dont know what kind of special events we have planned.<br />
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I already talked about it a little bit, but the food is no bueno. You'll have to get the info from Spencer's email to hear about it, but needless to say, I can't wait to leave and eat Albanian food.<br />
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The language is definitely difficult. I knew it would be coming in here but I have to remind myself that it has only been a week and I can already pray, teach lessons, bear my testimony, and say "C'Kemi!" (Hey!). I'm waiting for the gift of tongues to kick in so I can really start being a good teacher. Speaking of teaching, The second day in the MTC they told us we had to prepare to teach a progressing investigator (He was an Albanian teacher at the MTC so it wasn't a real investigator). they also told us it had to be in Shqip! It was extremely difficult but my companion and I were able to do it. Just yesterday we finsihed our 3rd lesson with him and asked him to baptized. He said he needed more time but i think he will be ready next time we teach him.<br />
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My apartment is old BYU student family housing and it has 6 guys in it. We areall in the same district and the other two district membersr live downstairs. by the way, I was called to be the District Leader and it is super fun! I have to make sure that all 8 of us stay on track spiritually and with our learning. It's a big task, especially since we have only been here a week, but I know I can do it.<br />
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I don't have much more time so I will have to wrap it up, but I love all of you guys and think about you everyday! Write me some letters and Dear Elder's so I can hear from you during the week! it makes it so much better. 'Till next week. Te dua!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07335747137073733685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037615018253978516.post-84772094504789119102013-07-03T21:31:00.003-07:002013-07-03T21:34:01.729-07:00Entering the MTCToday was the day for which we have waited so long...the day Elder Allgaier entered the MTC (the Missionary Training Center)! It is here that he will learn about the customs and cultures of the people in the area in which he will serve. It is also where he will learn the Albanian language. He is expected to be in the MTC for 11 weeks. We talked with him for a few minutes before he went in and he seemed a little nervous, but happy and anxious to begin the Lord's work. Aunt Lauren said that the spirit at the MTC was "tremendous"! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some things have changed at the MTC since we were last there. <br />
One thing is that the "Missionary Training Center" sign is no longer there. <br />
So, this was as close as they could get to getting that memorable picture. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking to his new home for the next 11 weeks. He is one of the first missionaries to live in the new housing...necessary because of the great influx in the number of missionaries entering the MTC now. </td></tr>
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The next post will be directly from Elder Allgaier's first letter! Thank you for everyone's support!Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05923875586128187845noreply@blogger.com1