So Blessed

Saturday, May 25, 2013

(First letter home from the MTC)

So Blessed

Thank you so much for the letters!!! I appreciate them so much!!!!! It makes everyday a little better! It's something to look forward to reading when we get home from a long day!

I've been doing really good about getting up on time. As soon as the alarm clock goes off, I'm out of bed and on my knees. Something I totally didn't see coming though was only having 15 minutes to get ready.

FIFTEEN MINUTES. That's it. So I even got up at 6:15 once. I know. Who would have thought? But a friend told me something that has really helped me with getting up. He said that you're a missionary and your supposed to get up at 6:30, if you get up at 6:31 you are being disobedient. And they stress obedience soooo much here. They always say, "Obedience brings blessings, EXACT obedience brings miracles." Anyway. I met this girl in the line for the shower, and she was telling me that she goes 10 days without washing her hair. Don't worry- I washed my hair last night... but it's way tempting to just go straight to bed. So ya. We wake up at 6:30 and then have breakfast at 6:45 and then something else always starts at 7:15. So the days feel sooooo long but we still don't have time for everything! We are supposed to memorize all this stuff and then read from our spanish and english Book of Mormon side by side and write down vocab words and then we have to prepare lessons for M, our investigator. That's the most stressful scary part. We had to teach our first lesson in Spanish yesterday. I DON'T SPEAK SPANISH. Tonight we are giving our second lesson. I didn't think the first one went very well at all. But that's alright, now we know and we are working harder on our next lesson.

My compainion is Hermana Howard. I can't even tell you how much I miss just having people call me Megan. But that's alright. Only 18 months, right?

So the first day when I got here I felt way bad for the missionaries that were the greeter/host people. Mainly because all the new missionaries are all crying and the greeters are trying so hard to be positive and happy. I was a mess until I saw one of my good friends from school. Courtney Davis. She's going to Russia! Anyway, I saw her and we got all excited and everything was good. SUCH A BLESSING.

I've also seen some of my other friends here! Like my FHE brother Mason Hammer! I see him a lot so that's really fun. Only hand shakes which is WAY WEIRD. It's even weirder taking pictures because you just stand there next to people awkardly because you can't put your arms around them. And I saw my friends Kristina Nye and Ballie Sigman.

There are 4 girls and 4 boys in my district. We are all going to Resistencia are here for the same amount of time. They say that it's not very common for us to get our Visas so we will all most likely be assigned somewhere else until they come.

Spanish is coming alright. It's hard, but especially today I can tell that I at least know a little bit more. We are supposed to speak whatever spanish we know. And same with other languages, we are all supposed to speak the language that we are learning, so everywhere you go you hear people speaking different languages. I'm just so glad that I'm not learning Japanese!! Seriously. They are here for 9 weeks! I would die. But I do realize that time here is so important and to make sure that every second is used wisely. That's another thing Greg told me. He said the MTC stands for Make Time Count. I've noticed I'm the most homesick when I have a little bit of time or when we aren't being super productive so after I figured that out, I don't give myself anytime to be worried or homesick or stressed. I always make sure I'm memorizing or reading or doing something productive. EVERYONE always says, just make it to Sunday. Not really sure what that means, but I guess if we make it to Sunday, it gets better.

We get to go to the temple today! At 12:15ish or something like that. That will be a nice change from sitting in the classroom, but I get sad when we go over to the temple grounds because I get super homesick. Like when we went to play volleyball the other day. Rough. I'm doing really good though! I can really feel the spirit here! Yesterday after our super rough lesson, when we came back to go to bed, us and the other two girls that live with us, Sister Pipe and Sister Skirvan, all said prayers together and the spirit was sooo strong. We all kind of have our own little struggles but we are getting through them!!!  

I love you guys so much and miss you soooo much!!! I can't tell you how loved I feel getting your letters and DearElders. That's seriously the best. I feel so blessed to have such great family. If you haven't already picked out a scripture for me to put on my plaque I totally have one. Well, two. Are we allowed to do two? I'll find them when I have time cuz I don't have time to look them up!!!

I only took like one picture. And it's not a super good one so I'll try to be better about that. I just didn't want to take the time to figure out how to connect it to the computer and stuff, but I would love if you guys sent me a picture too!!

I will try to write everyone back and email everyone! I obviously don't type fast enough so I'll work on that. haha 

Love you guys soooo much!!!!!!!

Miss you like crazy!!!!!!!

Love,

Megan