Week 2

Here is the first Email.

This week has been good. Pretty busy like always. Sundays and Tuesdays are my favorite days. On Sunday we had mission conference and our mission presidency and their wives spoke. I really enjoyed their talks. My favorite talk was about using the talents that we have been given. They also said that we can never compare ourselves to other missionaries because we are all unique and have different talents. When we share our talents we serve others. I really liked that insight. In sacrament meeting I understood probably about 90% of the meeting. Amazing isn't it? I've only been here 2 weeks! I have a long ways to go but I am making good progress. I haven't had to speak in church yet, it makes me nervous. Maybe I'll never have to. Sunday night I sang in the choir. We sang Look at the World. It was beautiful! I think the MTC choir is my favorite choir. The spirit is so strong when you sing. I just love it! I also love it when we sing Called to Serve. There is such power when you have over 2000 missionaries singing that song. The feeling is incredible! Saturday night we taught our first lesson to investigators. It went pretty well. We struggled a little in keeping it simple. My companion likes to talk a lot and we have had to condense our lessons a lot. She will talk and talk and talk cause she is afraid of silence. I try to reassure her that we will take over. We are making progress. We taught another lesson to some elders in our zone on Monday night and we did even better. It just takes practice. These elders have been here since May 14th. They are on visa delay and were supposed to leave like 3 weeks ago I think. There are two elders that went to Madison High with Drake, Elders Willmore and Klinger. They are very nice and optimistic about this delay. I wasn't even supposed to meet them. My district was supposed to replace theirs so we were both district D but now they are district X. It's a big joke around here. My companion Hermana Naa is leaving on Monday for Guatemala to go to the MTC there. I am so sad! I just love her! She loves looking at pictures of Matthew. She just wants to take him with her. She is so funny. In our lesson the other night the investigator asked her a question and then she answered and then turned to our other companion Hermana Hatch and said"Hatch say something". It took a lot to not laugh until we were done with the lesson. She has to travel to san fransico tomorrow and then denver on friday so that she can pick up her visas for honduras and guatemala. She leaves the MTC all the time. I am glad that I am not an international. I hope that you have fun at the reunion this weekend. I really wish I could be there but I will go to Montana when I get home. I saw Brother Clark on Monday! It was so great to see him! I had been looking forward to Monday and then I completely spaced that he would be here. My companions and I had to go to the travel office and the front desk monday morning and on our way he was coming down the hall. I was so excited! I got to visit with him for about an hour at lunch. It was really great! It made my day. Well my time is up! I love you and I am excited to hear from you! Hope all is well! I know this church is true. I love this work and this gospel! I miss you! All my love!

*Drake is our counsin from Mom's side of the Family that is entering the MTC on August 13th. He is headed to Baton Rouge, Lousisana.


*Brother Clark was the Principal of the Seminary while we were in High School. Steph has kept in contact with him. He has infulenced all of our lives. He is a one of the most Christ like men I have ever meet, a great example of how Latter day Saints should be living there lives.