Rebekah's Companion, HermanaMorse
Hola mi familia y everyone!
Oh boy, where to start! I loooooooove the MTC!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH PACK & DAY FAMILY!! and it actually turns out I needed a bus to
West campus, and then I was actually late, so I just went straight to class,
but esta bien! I have 12 people in my district, a trio of hermanas going to
Tempe AZ, a companionship of elders going to Tempe, a trio of elders going to
San Ferndando, CA, and 4 of us hermanas going to San Ferndando also! All four
of us, Hermanas Morse, Legesee, and Woods live in an apartment together and
Hermana Morse is mi companera! She is super sweet and fun, along with all the
other hermanas in my district! The Elders are awesome too and we're a pretty great
district!! We are District A, so we call ourself "Distrito Amor"
because we all have fun and are super kind!
My teacher is Heramana Valdarez, who actually happens to be the same
tutor as the one I had on Elearn pre-MTC!! So that's super awesome!! Also,
we'll be getting iPads soon and we have an additional study time every day where
we can go online and use the Elearn and such, which is pretty cool! We also
take assessments every now and then and will continue to do so in the
field! Anyway, super fun!
West campus is great because everyone is soo nice to each other
and we all say "hola" and "como le va" and talk to each
other, so that's awesome! we also can go to Brigham's Landing to eat whenever
we want, and we also have these super cool place for gym time that look like
giant white domes that are full of experiments that are being conducted, but
turns out it's really just basketball courts, volleyball, and
ellipitcals/bikes/such. There's also a 4-square "battle room" but
that's currently closed down, however my district is so going to do it when its
open! I really like gym time because after sitting down pretty much every day,
getting to run is fun! Volleyball is very popular, so I've really just been
using the elliptical and playing some basketball!
West campus is super fun and really pretty, and we can keep
everything in our classrooms because that's pretty much where we always are! I
got about 10 pounds worth of books, but they are very useful! Also, the WYview
apartments we are in are really sweet! I have like a walk in closet, but i'm
also on the top bunk, so I guess I deserve the huge closet, jaja! There isn't
much time at the end of the day, but I looooove getting mail so thank you sooo
much everyone who's been sending me dealelders and thank you Aunt Sara for the
amazing packages of goodies! I and my district loooooved them!!<3
Speaking of which, we
finally got our district leader the other day, Elder Southwick, and only he can
check the mail so when we finally got our DL, the first thing I asked him to do
was get my mail, and he thought I was joking when I said I had a few I was
waiting to read already (it was only day 3!) But he brought us our mail and
handed me about 15 letters and 2 package slips and oh it was hilarious! He was
like "Oh Hermana Day, people sure do love you!" So thank you
everyone, I looove getting the letters and I can feel all your love and support
and it really motivates me! It puts a huge smile on my face just reading about
home, thanks family for sending some practically everyday!!<3 I can't always
respond to them right away, and I"ll probably write back because that's a
little easier! But you can also email me because I print those out on Pdays
after the temple and read them!! :) Also, our zone sister leaders in training
our my campanion hermana morse and hermana chirstensen! And in 4 weeks we are
being transferred to Main Campus because they are starting to move everyone off
of West Campus because they may not need it any more! what!!!?? anyway, that
will be interesting--going from a fun place and nice apartment to dorms and
lots of people! but it'll be like a real transfer too haha!
I feel the Spirit constantly and every time I start to feel
stressed or down, I am immediatley lifted up eiither by a testmiony, a letter,
a scripture, a prayer, and so many more ways! I looove it! Schedules are busy
but I love schedules and being busy, so, just like you said Dad and Mom, I am
practically meant for the MTC! There is so much love and kindness too and it
just makes me soo happy! I mentioned before that I really like gym time, but I
love being the classroom learning spanish even more! Yes, I'm probably crazy!
But let me tell you, the gift of tongues is REAL! My teacher speaks ONLY in
spanish when she is teaching us but from the moment I got here and prayed for
the gift of tongues and interpretations of tongues, I have understood about 98%
of what she is saying!!! The language has definitly become one of my strengths!
I already know how to pray, testify, and say most casual conversation things. I
can teach an investigator how to pray and I can read and understand a lot but
not all of el libro de mormon! I took an assessment yesterday and the counselor
said I was way ahead of my game and knew how to use and conjuagte verbs and he
liked how I could speak fast but still get the pronounciaction down (haha the
only time i've ever been complimented on my fast speaking!!) When my companion
took her assessment, she told me the counselor asked who her companion was and
when she said Hermana Day, he said "oh, she is just so nice and happy! I
wish I could be that nice" haha I
don't even know what I did but I'm glad I have that spirit of happiness and
kindness around me! it really touched my heart to hear that! Also, Hermana
BIshop in my district is super sweet and she loves complimenting people and she
always knows just when to compliment and what to say to me! It really lifts my
mood! Also, it's something I should probably start doing too because it's so
great!
Okay! Some funny stories now!
On Thursday, Hermana Morse and I were heading to class
"People & Your Purpose Part II" (the first one was great! so we
were super excited!) and so we followed the majority of our distrito on to the
Ryde (a bus that takes us to Main Campus) and then we got off and walked
towards main campus and I was like "oh, distrito, I am so excited for this
class, it was so great last night adn todays will probably be even better"
and they were like "wait, we're here for immunizations, class is back on
west campus!" And we all just started cracking up! Oops! But it doesnt end
there! They all went to finish their immunizations and Hermana Morse and I
really wanted to get back to class so we decided to wait for the bus where we
were dropped off (one comes on the 5 and the 30) and so we're waiting for about
40 minutes and then we see a bus come ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!!
And it drives right by us! jajaja! Go figure!! So we decide to go ask
information desk if there's any other bus but no we have to wait another 30
minutes for the next bus, so we head back and go to the right side of the road
where the bus stop really is and we see a bus DROP OFF A BUNCH OF MISSIONARIES!
Right where we were before! So we didn't miss just one bus, we missed 2!! jaja!
So we waited at the real bus stop and then everyone from immunization came back
and waiting with us, so we hoped we were right! Some hermanas were going
towards where we were dropped off because they didn't see us and the bus was
coming around the corner so they had to run! it was funny! and then we got on
the bus and the driver was sooo confused because we were missionaries, and it
was a BYU bus, but he was super nice and dropped us off at west campus anyway!!
jaja so funny!
And, that same day, after companion study (prepping for our
investigador lesson for friday) we had to run back to our apartment and
the other hermanas told us our branch meeting was in our class room. so we were
running a little late and starting "jogging" down to our class room
and a car pulls over to talk to us and it's our Branch Counselors, who went our
searching for us because we were mislead looking for the classroom and no one
knew where we were! Jaja, so we got a ride with our Branch Counselors and it
was funny how we got lost twice in one day! But we've definitley learned our
lessons to check our schedules and maps, and also to always double check where
something is held!
Also, and this is a common one, we started testifying yesterday
and to say sins the word is "pecado" but someimes we slip up and say
"pescado" which is actually fish. So we always laugh when that
happens because you're accidentally saying "I know that Jesus Christ
atoned for our fish" and oh it's just so silly! So we have to be careful!
Anyway, like i said, I love learning spanish, especially how to teach the
gospel in spanish, and it's like my favorite part of the day which is good
because it's most of the day! jaja!
Love and big hugs from,
Hermana Day
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