Saturday 26 October 2013
Fourth and Final Email from the MTC - 25-10-13.
Dearest Family,
This week has been the best of times and the worst of times! The people that have helped me have been so perfect and I know that they were placed there by Heavenly Father. I feel so much strength and peace when I pray, and somehow my feet keep walking. All week I just had President Holland's words in my mind of "Don't you give up. You keep walking. There is help and happiness ahead. Trust in the Lord and believe in good things to come.". Good things have already come.
Temple Square on Wednesday was AMAZING. I felt so close to the Lord and had it confirmed to me why I have been chosen for my specific mission. We went through the exhibition about God Has a Plan for Families, and it was SO TOUCHING. Most of us were in tears afterwards. I cannot wait to be the missionary guiding that tour TOMORROW!! I want people to hear that plan for families, to see that it's not the end when they lose a loved one. Mostly I just realized how much of a gift a family is. My family is perfect for me and I show my love for them by helpig other people to be with their families forever. We were looking at the Christus and I just thought about how we all defended the Saviour before we came here, and now is my chance to defend Him again, every day, every minute as I wear His name on my chest and learn through Him how to succor His children. As we were looking at the statue of the pioneers pulling their handcarts, I just had this thought in my head so clearly and directly that said "What are you doing to defend the faith?". Cos I could see that their testimony was burning so bright as to lead them across the country for religious freedom and I wondered what I could do to defend the faith as much as they did. My response to that question was that I'll spend every minute of every day defending the faith. Something that stuck out to me also with the pioneers was how when it got too much for them and life was too hard to bear, the handcart started pushing them. I feel like my handcart was pushing me this week. I honestly don't know how I've survived and am feeling so great, but my handcart was pushing me. Something keeps me walking and smiling.
So we had visitors' centre TRC which is different from what we've been doing before. Before we'd go to their homes and teach, but now we stand in a room and they come to us. We had 5 minutes to get to know them and then 10 minutes to teach according to their needs and offer an invitation and a referral card. It's tough but I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!! It just came so much easier to me and felt so natural. We had three people come in last night that we taught, and I honestly felt the spirit working through me for each of them. And the Lord had prepared me in what to say way before they walked through that door. Like all day Sister Pearson and I had been talking about some of the things that they had concerns with. That's how VC Sisters plan for their investigators - most missionaries can plan for their investigators normally by getting to know them and coming to teach them again. We have no idea who is going to walk through that door so we have to pray each time we plan to know what sort of person will be there tomorrow and what their needs will be and study accordingly. And that's what happened yesterday! It was so great. You can see something click in their eyes and you know that the spirit is working with them. I just love being used as an instrument in His hands. Knowing that today you've made a difference in three lives. Two of them said themselves that that was exactly what they needed to hear or that something we'd said struck a chord, and one of them didn't say much but talked with the teacher afterwards and the teacher later told us that she walked out a changed person. IT WAS CRAZY BUT I LOVE IT.
Also we've been doing online missionary work which means that when you go on mormon.org and click "chat with live missionaries" YOU'RE TALKING TO MEEEE. Or if you call in for a referral or any questions about doctrine or want a Book of Mormon you're talking to MEEEEE!! We get headsets and it feels like being in a telesales place! It says incoming call on the screen and then you click accept and a script pops up to start the conversation then it's UP TO YOU! It's so scary cos you can't see their eyes or how they react! But the online IM'ing chat is so great! Even though you can't see them and we do get some innapropriate ones and some trolls and some horrible people, the few that really mean it are so worth it. On the side fo the screen is a bar with a lot of quotes from GA's about sensitive subjects and lots of Mormon Messages etc so its easier than proselyting because everything is there for you to refer to. And you can talk to your companion about what to say which you cannot do when in a lseson haha! We had one really sincere man whose name will remain anonymous whose wife will hate the missionaries but he wants to get active again and didn't know if he needed to be rebaptized. We read some scriptures with him and committed him to read Alma chapter 36 and have a return chat appointment tomorrow before we go to Temple Square. I just was on such a high after doing real missionary work and not just role playing. I think I'm gonna like the next 18 months :)
So the Elders left on Monday morning at like 2am :((((( It was so sad! Elders are just more funny than Sisters haha. But we pray for them all the time. I got my flight info for my flight to St George on Wednesday. We have to be at the travel desk in the MTC at 3:30am. Yay. Haha!
Luke's pumpkin bread came in so handy because we eat dinner at 4:30pm and I'm starving by 10! Pumpkin bread really satisfies that need! Also just Sister Pearson and I are companions now as we do our visitors' centre training. Next time you hear from me I'll be a very tired Sister Missionary in St George doing the real work! I'm going to be so sad to leave the MTC because it honestly has been amazing. It's rough but so refining and so uplifting. I'll miss it here! For Devotional Sister Pearson and I sung in the choir and we sung Consider The Lilies. So beautiful! The words are so true. I've felt it this week. Do we have that song on any of the ones at home? The skin on my knees is getting tough and dry because we kneel down to pray about 47 times a day haha. It's the best. Oh Sister Pearson and I have a new slogan - If you're sweating or get a nose bleed, you know it was a good lesson! Haha every time we teach we sweat a ton haha. Will that ever stop?! Elder F was having a great lesson so got a nose bleed haha because he was feeling the spirit so much.
Lots of love
Sister Nicholls
Saturday 19 October 2013
Third Email from the MTC - 18th October 2013
Dear Family,
First off, starting with after we talked on Friday by email I was SO happy and on such a high! Then of course I went to class and was back in the real world of learning how to be a missionary and might've cried again haha. But the teacher Bro Kendall is sooooooooo kind and sweet and he took me outside and we talked and he just made me feel so much better about myself. So that was nice. Then the Elders in our district offered us all blessings and the Spirit was so sweet because of the companionship and love we all feel for one another. There were no adults there supervising and a group of 7 18/19 year olds get down on their knees and pray together and sing together and give blessings to one another. Where else would you find that? I love those Elders so much and they are like my brothers, I feel like I've known them forever. One in particular, Elder Forson, CRACKS ME UP LIKE NOTHING ELSE!! He is SO funny and the majority of our time together we just laugh and laugh. I can't wait till we're all off our missions and can hang out. Anyway then on Saturday we taught our first TRC investigator which is like an actor OR it could be a real non member and they are in an office here and they act like it's their home and you go in and there are cameras and microphones in the room so people are watching you. Anyway it was a rough lesson, the lesson itself was great but she is so forthright in what she believes and she let us know! I actually thought I might throw up at one point in the lesson hahhaha because she was like, wait you want to teach me?! Do you think you're better than me?! hahah thankfully my companions saved the situation and it all ended well.
Then Sunday was the best day! My companions and I were called as Sister Training Leaders and had a LOT of meetings to go to! A man said that the definition of a Mormon is a person who is either on his way home from a meeting or on his way to his meeting. So true! Then for RS we got to watch Music and the Spoken Word as the whole campus of Sisters in one big room, and then Sister Bonnie Oscarson of the Young Women General Presidency came and spoke to us and taught the lesson. It was so cool to be so close to her! She is sweet. Then we got to go to a Devotional in the afternoon from Brother Heaton from the MTC and then watched a David A. Bednar Devotional called the Character of Christ. It was life changing. Everyone tells us to watch it. Luke did you watch it? You can only ever see it in the MTC because it's only for missionaries so parents put in your mission papers just so you can see this Devotional! It was all about how Christ turned outward rather than inward at every moment of His life. There were so many points illustrating it. David A. Bednar is a lot like Elder Holland in all the Devotionals we've watched of him here. He is so forthright. There's this one where he's like talking about how to know if the Spirit is telling you something or if it's you and he simply says "Quit fussing, quit worrying, quit stewing about it. Just be a good girl or a good boy, keep your covenants and I promise you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that the Spirit will be telling you what to do. You got the answer?!'" haha. Seen that so many times. Anyway that Devotional was perfect for me because I was worrying a lot about some stuff. Anyway so the Character of Christ was perfect because Monday morning I was given a different companion just to love and nourish for a few days only. - She's struggling a LOT and really wants to go home. She has diabetes and it's all going wrong and Satan wont leave her alone. President Washburn said he wanted us two to be together and so she was given to me and I just want to say that I LOVE SISTER ------. She was an answer to so many prayers. We just fell in love with each other. We both had very similar experiences in life and she said that when she sees me her soul is just happy! I learned a lot about love with her too. I had a cool experience, so she actually was seeing a counsellor and got given a pass to call her Mum because they felt it was for the best. I had to accompany her to everything, and she has to go a lot of places because of her condition so I have to trail around behind her and have no free time at all to do anything I want to do. So I was really excited to see the new Elders from England who got here Tuesday and eat dinner with them on Tuesday night but my companion needed to leave so I didn't have time to eat much (happens EVERY MEAL! I'm actually losing weight I think!) and had to run with her so I could sit in a secretary room by myself with my scriptures for an hour while she talked on the phone. Also I heard that Elder Oaks was giving the Devotional that night and I wanted to be early to that to get a good seat but I couldn't cos I was waiting for rmy companion and I was just thinking thoughts like, why is it always me who has to do all the selfless stuff and why does my food never come out the vending machine haha those sort of thoughts and I knew that I was looking inward but needed to continue looking outward no matter the cost to myself. Then I just bowed my head and prayed and felt this voice in my mind say "you are about my work now, not your own work, and right now your work is to love Sister ------ and be there for her no matter what the cost". And it was really cool cos I felt like Heavenly Father appreciated all the sacrifices I was making and I felt validated in my work. I felt so happy that immediately my attitude and countenance changed and it was a pleasure to wait for her. I ended up SEEING ELDER OAKS because he came in the doors you dropped me off at and he made eye contact with me!!! He knows I exist!!!! haha . Then President and Sister Nally the MTC president and wife saw my name tag and said., are you the famous Sister Nicholls?!?! haha and I was like...errr maybe?! haha and they said that they wanted a picture with me because they'd been Skyping Belinda Henderson the night before because they used to live in Australia and she said about me and then they saw me! You should see if Belinda has the photo. It was so cool! It was so many blessings all just for being obedient and sacrificing what I wanted to do. As a Sister Training Leader it is my responsibility to love and lead all the girls towards their Saviour. After my companion came out she was SO grateful for me and we just had a heart to heart and talked about everything and we just love each other. I wish she was my real companion forever. So then Elder Oaks gave the Devotional and we got really good seats, another blessing for being obedient, and it was a great talk! My prayers for answers were answered in the first sentence that his wife spoke. She wasn't a natural speaker so I appreciated her effort to talk to us, she looked really scared. Then Elder Oaks talked about.......missionary work DUM DUM DUMMMMM! didn't see that one coming ;) haha it was good though! And we've had gym time each day too so it was great to actually not sit in a chair all day! In the gym there are big windows looking out onto the BYU campus and Y mountain, it made me a bit homesick :) Sister Pearson and I got up early Monday morning (5.45) and went to the Sisters only gym class. It was step aerobics and we thought we were going to be sick hahha! She worked us hard. I'm still a bit sore! Then we've worked out every day since. It feels good. I'm really bonding with Sister Pearson, we have a laugh together and are getting to know each other better. I like her a LOT.
ALSO on Sunday I went to a Sister Training Leader meeting by a man named President Lindahl - BECCA ANDERSON'S MISSION PRESIDENT! He was really interesting and talked about Mendoza a lot and said how as a Mission President you see the new missionaries at the airport on their first day and he just knew by looking into their eyes in the first second what sort of missionary each of them would be. He said he'd think in his head "That one will be my AP in a few months. That one will have a rough time. There's my next Sister Training Leader." etc etc. Then afterwards I went up to him to see if he knew Sister Becca Anderson and he said "Sister Anderson was the finest Sister Missionary in the Mendoza mission. There was nothing she couldn't do. Her living conditions were awful but she was amazing. And I can tell that you are a missionary just like Sister Anderson" I WAS SOOOOO TOUCHED BY THAT!!!! I seriously don't think I'm any different from anyone and all this reassurance just lifts me up again! Every time he sees me in the corridor now he shakes my hand and sees how I'm doing! Everyone here just loves us so much!!
I want to shout out to everyone who has written to me!!! It was so overwhelming! I got 12 letters in one day on Friday haha. I get about 3 a day and a package every other day. It seriously fills my heart with such love and peace, thank you for your support everyone. Thank you Sam, Sarah Headman, Kendra, Amrit, Debbie Simpson, Janis Bull, , Hughes family, all of my family, Spencer Ballard, Anthony Viglione, Kiley Cash, Wesley, and anyone who I've forgotten because I'm in a massive massive rush - thank you for everything! It makes my day! THANK YOU Sister Young for the package with the flip-flops and the treats! I love them and thank you! Every day the District Leader gets the mail and before he leaves he's like, Okay I'm off to get Sister Nicholls her letters haha. They're always like WHY DO YOU GET SO MUCH MAIL!!! And because there are so many BYU people here my companions are like HOW DO YOU KNOW EVERYONE!!! haha I love it. Okay so last week I said there's less flirting than EFY. Turns out I'm wrong! Yesterday this Elder and his companion were talking to us three sisters and we were walking back to our dorms and one Elder stopped at the stairs because that's the direction they were walking but his companion just followed me and was all "hey maybe I could get your contact details and we could stay in touch" and I felt super uncomfortable so just laughed. Then today he found me in the laundry room and they were all trying to get me to give my email address so I gave it to one of them but have no intention of writing to boys who don't keep the mission rules. I'm like are we in high school again or are we representatives of the Lord Jesus Christ?!
I'm learning a LOT being here and I just LOVE THE MTC. Yesterday when I had to give a talk to the new missionaries I talked about the things I learned in my first week, and the biggest thing is the strength through prayer. It's real! Everyday I am upheld by His righteous omnipotent hand! I FEEL the strength that comes from the Atonement holding me up every day and honestly I am a different person than I was a week ago. I wish everyone could have the MTC experience. I know a mission isn't for everyone and I fully support that but there is nothing like the MTC! It just pulls out all the bad things about you and refines you if you get on your knees and beg and plead with the Lord for strength. He loves us SO MUCH and every day I'm showered with blessings and love beyond my own deserving. I can't wait to teach real people. I'm terrified but so excited. I know I can do this. The Spirit here in the MTC makes it feel like home. Yesterday we had in field training and so there was this really funny cheesy play with one of the Elders from The District dvds who is home now. It was so cheesy but so funny! I love being a Missionary. I love being called Sister Nicholls. There is absolutely nothing else I'd rather be doing. Even when we come out of a lesson that's gone horribly I just love it still and going home has never crossed my mind. Oh I forgot to say, when Elder Oaks entered the room we all stood up and were singing Come Come Ye Saints and it was one of the most spiritual moments of my life being surrounded my 4000 Missionaries and an Apostle of the Lord while all singing "come come ye saints, no toil nor labour fear, but with joy wend your way! though hard to you this journey (MISSIONARY WORK!) may appear, grace shall be as your day!" and when we all sung all is well, all is well, all really was well! Life was perfect! Then we sung Praise To The Man and it was amazing to be sitting before a future Prophet of the Lord singing "millions shall know brother Joseph again!" knowing that that is my calling right now for 18 months to help a few of those millions of people to know brother Joseph again. He truly was a prophet. I've memorized The First Vision and every time I give it in a lesson it's just as powerful as the first time of hearing it. It never wears off.
OK I think I'm done for now!
I love you SO MUCH and miss you a lot and pray for you a lot! Please keep praying for me! As the Les Miserables lyrics say "Pray for your Marius, he prays for you!" but replace Marius with Sister Missionary and thats how I feel :)
ALL MY LOVE
SISTER NICHOLLS
ps HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO GRANDAD FOR LAST WEEK AND DAD FOR THIS WEEK! Love you both so so so so so so so so so so so so so much.
pps The gym has General Conference and Mormon Messages playing on big tvs and you plug headphones in and listen while you work out! Pretty awesome. What's more inspiring to work out to than Jeffrey R Holland saying NEVER EVER CHECK YOUR RELIGION AT THE DOOR!
Saturday 12 October 2013
Second Email from the MTC - 11th October 2013
Dearest family!
I want to start by saying I love you so much! It's so surreal that I'm here in the MTC. I've wondered what my first email will be like for so long and now it's finally here. I have so much to tell you that I just won't have time and I don’t remember everything I wanted to tell you! We just got back from the Temple and it was great! The session was so packed, a bit different from my 8 person sessions back at home! So Friday is my p-day for the next two weeks, make sure you remember me ;) I've gotten emails from lots of my missionary friends and the Hughes's and the Bull's! It's so nice to remember that there is a real world out there ;) Seeing people I know in the MTC is great too. I'll be walking and people are like...CHARLOTTE?!?! I mean...SIster Nicholls?!? Haha and they seem to know me from some party or other at BYU but I don’t know who they are! But its comforting nonetheless. Then there are lots of workers and other missionaries from my BYU ward!
It's been so up and down. I heard someone say that you have so many emotions every few hours and it's so true. I was fine the first day, and then on Wednesday morning I was fine but by the evening I just couldn’t stop crying. I felt so low and rubbish as a missionary. We went to this teaching experience where you just have to teach in a massive group this actor and everyone else was teaching but I was so nervous because there were so many people listening and critiquing that I ended up saying nothing at all and just felt rubbish. I prayed for strength that night and felt fine again in the morning. I think the Spirit comforted my dreams because I just remember thinking really spiritual things while I was asleep, I woke up fine on Thursday morning but then as the day progressed I got really sad again and couldn’t stop crying in the evening. I just find it so hard when people are listening to you JUST purely to tell you what you're doing wrong. But it's really good for me because I'm learning that the more people point out the things that aren't perfect, the more perfect a teacher you'll be. We'll never be a perfect teacher like Christ but we can follow the Spirit. I just couldn’t feel the Spirit the first few days because I was SO worked up but I'm starting to relax and do a bit better. I think it will just be different out in the field when I'm not being watched and critiqued and its a real investigator. I prayed so hard for strength on Thursday because no matter what I just couldn’t stop crying! I think the Elders in our districts felt awkward haha! But we met with the Branch Presidency that evening and it was such a spiritual feast and I felt like I was glowing afterwards. They just love us so much. And now I love them so much, it reminds me of that scripture how we love them because they first loved us. Dad, President Washburn reminds me of you so much. We were asked one by one to give a brief introduction of ourselves and bear our testimonies and of course I continued to cry through my testimony about how I know the Lord knows me and loves me so much and has had His arms around me, and how I know that Joseph Smith was also confused about what to do like so many of us here are but he knelt and prayed and received an answer that has changed millions of lives. I felt the Spirit really strong. Then one by one we went to be interviewed by President Washburn and he was so full of love for me. You'd like him a lot. He said how he and his wife want to be our parents away from home, not to replace our parents but to give us the love and support we need. He even reminded me of you when he said he just wishes he could hug me haha! It was just exactly what I needed. Then I went back to the main room and the next missionary went for their interview. Afterwards he called me and the other two sisters in (my companionship) and the Branch Presidency counsellors gave us each a blessing. It was so tender and I just felt like I was walking on cloud nine! I was so happy and glowing! Everything was perfect. He blessed me that I would have strength of heart and of mind, and would have the power in testimony to say that I KNOW Jesus is the Christ. He said that my parents love me too :) so thanks guys ;) I've learned from that experience with my Branch President how each Priesthood holder really does hold the authority from God to be our personal shepherd and receives such inspiration to help us. The blessing they gave me was wonderful and worked way better than rescue remedy pastilles! Also I haven't had trouble sleeping at all. Getting to sleep is hard because you're working from 7am-9.20pm with few breaks then BOOM you get into bed and you're buzzing but it's not major. It's not hard to get up in the morning. I love getting up early and being productive.
So my companions are Sister Pearson from Newcastle (she talks a lot like Cheryl Cole, haha when we're praying - so our eyes are shut - it could be Cheryl giving the prayer!) and Sister Miller from Minnesota. We are all really different, but they are sweet. I love them and am glad they're my companions because we're so different so I'm learning a lot. Sister Miller is really soft spoken and really really sweet when she does speak, like very knowledgable about the Gospel. And Sister Pearson is really down to earth and we can joke together with our British senses of humour.
Our district is great too. I love the Elders. As soon as we all met we all just hit it off. They are really funny and are just typical 18 year old boys. Its so funny how whenever we walk anywhere they hold the doors for us and we're like thank you Elders and they’re like you're welcome Sisters. Its just weird being a Sister! All over campus the Elders hold doors for us and it’s sweet. In the communal bathrooms the other Sisters just say "Good Evening Sister!" and its weird cos everyone's a Sister! We only have three Sisters and four Elders in our district so we're really small but I like it that way! We are getting to be like family. Our teachers are so good too. The biggest thing I feel is that everyone has so much love for the missionaries here in the MTC. They just want to help you and support you in any way possible and the teachers are constantly checking that we're okay and doing good. I do love being a missionary. I love putting my name tag on in the morning. I love wearing Sunday dress and learning about the Saviour all day. I love teaching when there isn't an audience listening haha. I love being called Sister Nicholls. I love never being on my own but having my two companions with me all the time. I even love having to wait outside the bathroom like 8 times a day because one of us always needs the toilet haha. I love the responsibility of my calling and that I get to dedicate myself to the One who loves me the most.
The food here is fine! I actually really like it. Everyone says how gross it is etc but I'm eating bananas and grapes and salads and a real meal in the evening and cereal in the morning. It's beginning to feel like home. The rumours were right, the pillows are horrific! Good job I brought my own! The bed is fine though. And it's so safe here, you need your card to enter ANY door. Even doors within doors within doors. No one can get in! Each brick on this campus is dedicated and each door has angels standing at them, not allowing any weapons or unclean thing to pass. (said in the dedicatory prayer of the MTC buildings). We are so blessed here! In my bedroom I just have my two companions so it's nice to have six beds for three of us. We share all our chocolate :)
I got my immunisations yesterday. I had hep A and B and flu. It hurt so much :(( I've never had a shot that hurt so much! It still hurts now. But I was brave haha. It cost $116!!! I'll pay for it with my Zions account okay? Wow I've only been here like two days since I last wrote to you and this is long! Imagine how much I'll have to tell you next week. In short, the MTC is like EFY just with more sleep and less flirting haha.
I'm starting to feel more comfortable here and am learning to just let go of my worries and know that I don't have to be perfect right away. I think it's going to be really good for me.
I love you and miss you so so so so so so so so much. You should move here and work in the MTC! Be a Branch President or a volunteer here. Everyone would love you! I have to go now! I love you so much! I'll speak to you soon. ALSO haven't checked any mail yet because only our district leader can do that and he only got called yesterday but promised to do it tonight. I'm hoping for a mass of post!
Love,
Sister Nicholls
First Email From The MTC - 9th October 2013
Dearest Family,
I don't even know where to begin with it all! I was fine after you dropped me off, everyone is so nice! I saw Kyle Ashcroft straight away, he walked past me and was like, SISTER NICHOLLS haha so I saw him today at breakfast too. The food is fine, I don't know what all the fuss is about. So after you dropped me off, Elder Duncanson from England and I went to take our cases up to our temporary rooms and then we went to our first class. We were there for like four minutes before it ended and then it was lunch time haha! So I ate a cookie and a banana, then went back to our room with Sister Aslett and Sister Dube (also both from England) and they slept off the jet lag while I read the scriptures. We had to be back in the room by 2pm. So we got back and had the best class ever about the Temple. It was so good. I wish I could just live here learning all this stuff. I love Sister Aslett a ton. She is 24 and from...Reading?! I think. We both said we feel like we should be companions. But she's going to Canada on her mission and we'll say goodbye to each other today as the American missionaries come in and I'm with other people. I slept fine last night. We had a devotional in the evening with Emeritus Elder Marsden, about...guess what...MISSIONARY WORK haha. It was really good though. He spoke about Moroni delivering the message to Joseph in the middle of the night and how Moroni was probably afraid to deliver such an important message to the future prophet of the restoration who would do more for mankind than anyone ever except Christ and likened that to us. It was good. I started to feel a bit homesick then though so I just prayed my way though it. I met my Branch President for a few minutes and will be interviewed by him tonight. They all seem so lovely and they love the missionaries so much. The missionaries all shout WELCOME TO THE MTC every time they see us with our name tags with dots on. I crawled into bed at 10:29 and laid there for a while singing hymns in my head. I was fine though! I woke up shaking like once but mostly because the thin blanket they give us isn’t enough to keep me warm, but the bed is really comfy and the pillow was lovely. Our shower doesn’t work so I sat in the bath and splashed myself with water coming from the bath taps haha. I've seen lots of people I know from BYU. Some boy was like, YOU'RE CHARLOTTE RIGHT? and I was like I HAVE NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE hahaha. LOTS of people I know here. One of the wives of the Bishopric in my Branch is from England and knows all of the Faggs. I had a cool experience reading the scriptures yesterday, I was reading in Luke 1 about how the angel told Mary that she could conceive through the spirit, and I thought about how that is the most impossible thing to have a baby as a virgin yet through the Spirit the impossible can be achieved, and how I,through the Spirit, can serve a good mission and get through all my fears. It was a sweet moment. We are just writing to our families now and then are going to the temple, I don’t know if we'll go in. I don’t think so, but we're walking there. Then we get ice cream!! I love it haha. There are lots of Sisters with me who are going to Temple Square from all over the world.
LOVE YOU SO MUCH!! ENJOY YOUR FLIGHT!! THANKS FOR THE CARD AND CHOCOLATE!!
LOVE YOU XX
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