Dear family,
This will be my last email to
you from the MTC. I leave at 3:35 this Tuesday morning to go to the SLC
airport. I'm flying Delta from SLC to Phoenix at 8:37. Good news: I get to call
you at the airport for however long I want. Bad news: you're going to receive
the call really early in the morning. We only get to talk as long as there is
an available pay phone. (I'm buying a calling card today) The later it gets,
the more missionaries will be at the airport using pay phones, so I am going to
call you as soon as I get through security if I can. Since you're an hour
behind Utah, it will be about 4:00. Make sure you have your phone ringer on. I
will call dad's phone. It might be after 4:00, so dont set your alarm or
anything, just wake up to a ringing phone. I probably won't get to email again
until Monday the 31st (probably 1st Pday in Tempe). I've met 3 sisters going to
Tempe English speaking. They all seem really nice. My travel group has 19
missionaries. I dont know if they're all going to my mission or to other
missions that also fly into Phoenix.
I had a great week. It went by super fast. On Sunday,
instead of a regular devotional, the Nashville Tribute Band gave us an hour
long concert. It was awesome! The choir got to sing 2 songs with them and I've
had those songs stuck in my head all week.
Also on Sunday, I spoke in Sacrament meeting. They have
everyone in the zone prepare a talk (in Spanish), then after the Sacrament and
30 seconds before you are going to speak, they announce your name from the
audience. They call one Elder and one Sister. This week, I was that one sister.
The topic was how to recognize and understand the spirit. I thought my talk
went pretty well. My Spanish is progressing. Because of speaking and listening
to it most of the day, now I think in Spanish sometimes and also can talk
really fast if I need to. Also, to practice my Spanish, I've been signing up
for ZRT, which is where you can work one on one with a teacher. That has been
really helpful because I can learn the things that I need to work on.
We have 3 investigators that we teach each week. Two of them
are just our teachers acting like investigators, but one of them is an actual
investigator. We teach about 2 lessons a week to each of them. I'm getting
pretty good at giving lessons in Spanish.
I'm in Helaman chapter 7 in the Book of Mormon. We get a lot
of study time here and I've used it to read the Book of Mormon. Our branch
president wants us to read to the end of Alma by the time we leave the MTC, so
I'm done with that. I won't have time to finish the Book of Mormon before I go,
but I'll probably get through 3 Nephi or something.
Last night at the devotional, I sang "Where Can I turn
for Peace" with the choir (about 1000 people in the choir each week).
Elder Echo Hawk of the Seventy spoke. It was really good. He talked about
putting our all into our mission.
I'm really good at getting free stuff here. Everyone has
bought a $15 bottle of laundry detergent (they only sell really big
containers), but then don't even come close to using all of it. Trickily, I
went around my residence hall and made friends with all the sisters that are
leaving that week (by offering them various snacks), and then when its time for
them to leave, I ask them if they have any leftover detergent, dryer sheets, food
(to offer to the next set of missionaries leaving), lotion, etc. I've gotten a
lot of free stuff and have saved a lot of money. I guess you could say I'm my
father's daughter.
My clothes are all working out great. I see a lot of sisters
with really nice, expensive clothes, but they don't look comfortable at all and
they will probably wear out pretty fast.
I'm jealous that you get to see the llama farm in Santa
Barbara. Unfortunately, there are no llamas at the MTC.
I cant wait to talk to you on Tuesday! Don't forget to have
your phone on.
Love,
Lora
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