Hola mi familia!
Wow hey! My P-day is
Wednesday so I had to wait a whole week to write to you guys. First of
all, thanks so much for all your letters! Getting letters is the best
thing ever! I really appreciate your words of advice and encouragement, I
carry them with me all day! So, since it's been a week I've got a lot
to write. The first couples days I got to the MTC were very
overwhelming. They say it's like trying to drink from a fire hose, and
that's actually pretty accurate. I thought it was ironic that the first
morning here I had a shower that came out like a freezing cold fire hose
ha. They didn't tell us much, they just let us loose and let us figure
it out on our own. Just after I got dropped off at the curb and starting
walking in with my host Sister Stabenow came running up and hugged me
and we were way excited. It was soo good to see her! We live in the same
residence hall on the same floor even, so I get to talk to her every
night before bed. The first day we went to an orientation and met our
district. It was a busy dan, I hardly had time to write in my journal.
My companion's name is Hna. Madsen. She's from Sandy and we get along
really well! I love all the sisters in my district. There are four of us
sisters and four elders. I love my district! We all get along really
well and have a lot of fun. We've learned a lot together too. Spanish
has been so fun to learn. I'm so grateful for my Spanish classes I took
before! I can't imagine trying to learn without that background. My
teacher, Hno. Rockwood is awesome. He teaches me how to be a good
teacher as well as teaching me Spanish.
The first few days of us being here felt a little
unstructured. We had some workshops about getting to know people and
seeing them as our Heavenly Father sees them. Our first day we had a big
group meeting where we all taught an investigator together. That was
pretty cool, but I'm glad we get to do it in companionship's now. The
second night we met some of the other districts in our zone and we have
some hilarious elders. It's so cool that we're all here doing the same
thing, and it's because we love the Lord. I've made some pretty good
friends already, especially within my district and zone. Our district
leader is named Elder Fankhouser, he's from Sandy too actually. All of
us in our district are waiting for our visas, we were all supposed to go
to Peru first. We've heard that we'll probably be here the whole six
weeks from some people. Some people have told us we'll go stateside for a
while. Some people told us we'll get to go to the CCM in Peru, so it's
pretty much up in the air right now. We've taught three lessons to our
investigator already. His name is Eduardo. The first lesson was on the
third day. Everyone in our zone told us that the first lesson usually
goes pretty terrible, so I wasn't really nervous because I just expected
it to be a learning experience. Well, it didn't go terribly, but it
could have been better ha. The Spanish for me actually came pretty
easily! My comp struggled with it a little, but we had only been there
for three days, so it was just a learning experience. I think each
lesson has gotten better and better. I love teaching with the Spirit!
It's such an amazing feeling to teach someone the gospel as a missionary
when you have the Spirit. Hna. Madsen is really good at following
promptings, which is something I need to work on. We will be done
teaching Eduardo on Thursday I think, then after that he will become our
teacher along with Hno. Rockwood. Then both of them will be our
investigators. It's nerve wracking sometimes, but it's good. I love it!
Gym time here is so much fun! The first time we did insanity,
and lately we've been playing four square. We've had some really good
devotionals! We had members of the seventy speak to us about using the
MTC to help us learn and grow, instead of treating it like a prison
basically. In the Tuesday devotional my sisters in my district and I
sang in the choir and KSL came and filmed us singing! They said during
conference sessions they're doing a special on the MTC, so I might be on
TV. I think it will be on Saturday, but that's just a guess. You might
see me on TV though!
We do a service project once a week and I felt right at home
at the Marriott center cleaning the showers with foamy Q&A haha. I
also saw a T5 on the track in the gym. It made me miss BYU a little
bit. From our classroom window we can see the football stadium, so that
also makes me miss it.
I've seen a lot of people I know here! I saw Sister Ensign,
Elder Beyer, Sister Finneran, the Randall twins, a girl I knew from
Liberty Square named Robin, and the little brother of one of my FHE
brothers is in my zone. He's the little brother of Tony Gervais! That
was cool when we made that connection. I also thought I saw Danny Allen
here. I'm not sure if it was really him.
I have so much more to write but we only get half an hour
on email here. We got exciting news that you can email me here, but I
still have only half an hour, so please keep sending me dear elders
please. I love you all!! Hope things are going well. I love hearing
about things going on at home. I'm excited for Courthey to get here next
week!
Love, Hma. Anderson
P.S. Sorry I only had time to send one picture!
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