Back in the Motherland

Wow this past week has been crazy. I'm officially at the MTC (Missionary Training Center) and it's definitely true what they say about the days feeling like weeks and the weeks feeling like days. I have no idea where this past week went, but the days all felt soo long. Regardless I love it here. I have the same view of the mountains that I had at BYU cause it's like a mile down the road and it makes me so at home even though its all new. My class/disctrict has 6 elders y 4 hermanas and I love them all so much. Its amazing to me how easy my life has been after talking to some of the health, family, etc struggles that many of them have gone through. We all have so much fun together which really makes the time just fly. I've laughed so much in this past week! The Spanish is coming along. I continually feel super blessed that languages are something that I'm good at cause it's almost all we do here haha. Okay so that's not true. But they start by teaching language and then they start teaching you how to teach investigors. The past few lessons have been a little frustrating to me since they do it in that order, and also cause they kinda want you to learn by making mistakes. Figuring out the balance between being their friend and teaching the lessons have been a little bit of a struggle for me, but Hermano Nordfelt (one of our teachers) said it comes with practice. I can't think of too many specific stories to tell, we just laugh a lot as a district, especially us hermanas. Hermana Shaw is my companion and she is just awesome. She's from Seattle and just graduated high school, but also is somehow older than me which we laugh about all the time. Hermana Schaat is from rexburg and she's definitely the responsible one of the hermanas. Hermana Kinikini is just hilarious and super social. Like stops to meet random people and learn their life stories all the time. Shes visa waiting right now, but we really hope we get her for the whole 6 weeks. Like a couple of my friends have said, missionary work is exhausting. Despite getting 8 hours of sleep we are all just tired all the time. It's super funny to just look around during class, devotionals, lunch, etc and see who's falling asleep. I've seen so many friends here from BYU which has been such a blessing, including Talon (my brother who works at teh MTC). Our zone is awesome. All the hermanas are just the nicest people and have great stories to tell. I'm gonna miss all of them when we all leave. Other than that, P-Day is great! I'm so glad to be here, and to my family members I'm loving the letters! The gospel is true, love you all!

Hermana Bree

so the pictures aren't working on any of these computers so I'm sorry. I'll try again later