Dear all of you who are reading this,
I have made it one week! Wahoo! Lets just say thats a miracle in itself because there for the first few days it took everything I had not to say okay just kidding I think I'd rather just go back to school! haha Everyone kept telling me that you just had to make it to sunday and I kept thinking right... but by monday I was good! Well sort of. Let me start back at the beginning of this wonderful time at the MTC. So the rest of Wednesday went fine, by about 3 I got hungry and really tired seeing as I hadn't slept or eaten much in the week before I left. So dinner was awesome, we had fried chickedn and mashed potatoes. Yeah mom yours are much better. after that we did this large group investigator thing, I don't know it was wierd but helpful. My district is amazing! here are some things about them:
My companion is Sister Cordova, she is from Arizona and we get along great! She is a lot better at teaching than me so its been nice to learn from her but we also agree and think a lot a like so no fights! The other sisters in my district are Sis. Sotelle from SLC, sis. Ellis from Hawaii, (awesome right?? ahhh!!) Sister Bender if from Ohio (they are all going to san jose with me) and then there is Sis. Child who is hilarious, when we went around saying our first names she was like "my name is Alphonse" we all died. its really Sara by the way. Then there is Sis Roberson, and Sis Orr. They are all going to Arcadia California. The elders are Elder Hendricks, and Elder Tolpa, and Elder Buckanan an Elder Schwendiman. They are are hillarious, Schwendiman is basically a Tom Christenson so I just laugh at him all the time. We all get a long great and I totally love it! Unfortunatly I don't room with my district, all of the girls are in one room and Sis Cordova and I are in the next room with some other girls who are really nice but really dramatic. If I hear one more thing about a boyfriend... :)
So lets talk about food! They feed you non stop here. and a lot. I see Elders get like 4 plates. Holy crap I can't even finish one plate. haha I just want normal food! But they have really good cookies and cake and donuts! Basically the deserts are good. And the fruit they have a lot of fruit so I eat that a lot.
I will say the MTC is a whole new experience its been tough and teaching people is tough and man over all I am not one of the people that like it here. Its fine and I can live until next Wednesday but anytime we can go out to the fields or we got to go to the Marriott center last night I just start jumping for joy. Im not a fan of the whole "On campus prison type place" Yeah... But Ill survive. I have really good teachers though and I am starting to feel good about teaching investigators. We did this TRC investigator appointment yesterday and I loved the lady we taught! I have no idea if she is a member acting or if she really is an investigator but I loved it! One pair of Elders in our district thought differently because they got kicked right back out by their investigator.. haha oh well good learning experience!
I have also got to see a lot of people I know in here! I had no clue I would know so many girls! I have seen Hillary Webb, and Nicki Hadley and Tayler Barrett and Camille Jasperson and Kelsi Wall and Blair Higbee and Becca Packer and Cami Bernards and I even found Natalie Belnap today! (yes I know you probably have no idea who half these people are) I also have found a few from SUU that I had met! So much fun!
I also got to take a quick 20 minute nap on Monday. yep life was great.
So as for devotionals and such, they have some really good ones here, Sunday relief society was great and Last night we had a wonderful devotional at the Marriott Center. they have to walk us all down there now for all the missionaries to fit! Crazy! Also we get to go down there for the World wide broadcast this sunday with Pres. Monson, they are keeping things pretty hush hush as to what they are going to talk about but I am excited to go! If you can watch it look for me I will be one of the missionaries NOT in the choir. :) haha I will probably have a white or blue shirt on too. Well I think my email is going to try and kick me off in a second, we are supposed to have an hour but its only registering 30 minutes so I better send this before I loose it!
I love you all and will hopefully send more in a minute,
I miss you guys so much, Happy late fathers day, and thanks for all that you guys have done for me!
Love Annlie
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