Hiiiiii Family!!!
First off, I wanted to
thank you guys for the package! I felt so loved, and I really enjoyed
reading your letters. I just picked it up a few minutes ago actually. :)
That's
awesome that you got to talk to Sister Walpole, Dixon, and Ashby
already! :) It was really great and comforting to see all of them.
Well, I am doing good! I actually wrote a letter to you
all my first night at the MTC, but I was only able to send it today.
Busy, Busy, Busy. That is the motto of the MTC. It's a good
motto. :) So yes, I won't tell you much about the first day, because I
wrote all about it in my letter and I actually don't have a lot of time
to write. Twenty-four minutes and counting...:)
So
the MTC is great! I really like it! My companion's name is Sister
Woodward. We are very similar and we get a long very well. She comes
from a large family of... fourteen kids? I think it was fourteen. They adopted a lot of
children from all over the world! She is from Northern Utah, Loganish
area. A town call Smithfield. The rest of my district is
awesome too! We are all going to California, San Bernardino so it's been
good to get to know one another and bond in that way. There are four
Elders (Elder Huntsman, Seright( prounouced "See-Right" haha) Beuss, and
Shappcott) and then six sisters including me (Sister Woodward, Havens,
Brown, Mchood, and Coleman) We all get along very well. We found out
that we have the same travel plans too, so we'll all ship out into the
field together.
Yesterday was my first full day as a missionary. HOLY
COW. :) It was really good. We had classes, a workshop, study time,
classes, classes and classes. :) They are very good! My teachers are the
best! They are kind, and you can tell that they are very passionate
about missionary work. Sister Woodward and I will be teaching our first
"investigator" (AKA one of our teachers tomorrow) Her name is Marie. She
is a nanny that lives in England for a Mormon family. She came with the
family on vacation to Utah, and Christine (The mother of the Mormon
Family) asked her if she would want to meet with the missionaries. She
said that she would, but we're not sure how interested she is. Our goal
is to have her feel how much Heavenly Father loves her, and our
commitment that we want to extend is for her to pray to feel God's love
for her. Hopefully this is what she needs. It is what we are planning
for, but if it's wrong then we'll just have to wing it with the spirit!
:) We were also able to meet part of our branch presidency yesterday.
They are awesome! I really feel support from them. So that's great.
Today has been our first P-day. It's been very good! We
got to get up, go to the temple, have study time eat lunch, and now
here I am! :) It's been really chill, which is pretty different from
yesterday. Ha!
The Spirit here is so strong. It is so wonderful. You
can feel it all of the time. When things get a little hard, you pray to
have the spirit and it is so comforting. I really love the feel of the
MTC. It has gotten me excited to go out and teach, and I feel like I'm
learning how to be a good teacher! Wednesday seems an age ago. It really
feels like I've been here forever, in a way. I'm excited to keep
learning and growing. I'm especially excited to have our first lesson
tomorrow, so that I can learn how to grow and improve.
Thanks for your letters!
The MTC is a wonderful
place! I've seen so many people that I know, and really everyone here is
so friendly and supportive of one another. I can feel that Heavenly
Father takes care of us. Have a fantastic week!!! I love you! I want to
hear what you all are up to! :)
Thank Katherine for her cute, cute note on the
outside of the package! And I don't have her home address so I couldn't
write back to her. So if she see's this, I'm sorry, and maybe send me
the address? :)
My first P-day has been pretty good. We had a lot of
free time actually because they give us a few hours to wash our clothes
and we didn't have a lot of clothes to wash. So I'm anxious to get back
on schedule. I felt like a little bit of a slacker. This will probably
be the only P-Day like that though! Haha! For the rest of the night we
are studying and planning for tomorrow.
Also, I think luggage-wise I'll be just fine. They
don't give you too many books when you are speaking English:) So that's
good!
We also got our travel plans for May 14th!
We leave the MTC at 5:00 am, and catch the plane at 8:45 am. We'll be in
Ontario by 9:47am! (including time change, I'm assuming.) I'm glad that
we're leaving in the morning!. We'll still have the whole day in
California. It seems like it's going to come pretty quickly. There is so
much to learn!
I love you! Have an awesome week! Read
scriptures!!! :)
Love,
Sister Cook 
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