Hey Mom! I love getting your emails! They make my days so much better! It also makes them easier because I feel like I'm not missing out as much and that way I kind of know what is going on. Congrats on losing 8 pounds in only two weeks!! That is awesome. How is dad doing in the challenge?
I like that you said working to bring others to come unto Christ will make us happy and bring us joy because I feel that every single day!! We have people that we teach here and every time Sister Greenall and I come out of a lesson we are basically jumping for joy and just so excited and can't stop talking about Christ and teaching and commitments and all of that good stuff. It's kind of crazy how my priorities have changed after just two weeks of being in the MTC. I know what really matters. I hope the rest of the girls go on missions because wow it is awesome and they should totally do it.
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I like that you guys are playing so many games! We aren't allowed to play games here so it can be kind of boring. I have found a few people that like to play Settlers and we've bonded over our love of nerdy German games.
So this week was a good one! Sister Greenall and I are still getting along and we're basically besties right now whoop whoop. We're teaching two new people this week and we're hoping to commit Rodrigo (a real person and not a table) to baptism during our lesson tomorrow!! He's right there. He has all the knowledge and he has faith and his feedback in the survey is super good and we're going to emphasize why our baptism is different (priesthood authority) and then how we don't need a perfect knowledge, we just need to take a leap of faith (thank you Alma 32). Pray for us that it'll go well!!!
Also, the sisters in our district played a prank on us this week. They put an alarm clock under our bed that went off at like 11 and I had no idea where the sound was coming from. It ended up being a blessing in disguise and an answer to prayer though so that's cool. So, my companion Sister Greenall is sick right now and because of that, she's been snoring up a storm. One night, I couldn't sleep because of the snoring and I was just praying for a miracle. I was like "Heavenly Father, I have enough faith and I KNOW that you can help me so please, please just make a miracle because at this point I don't know what else to do" and then all of the sudden this darn ALARM CLOCK goes off and I was like "What the heck? This is just even more noise!" and then Sister Greenall woke up because of the alarm clock and then after a minute the alarm turned off by itself and so then I was like "Wow, the Lord works in mysterious ways" and then I said a prayer of gratitude and went off to sleep. The next night when the alarm went off it was just plain annoying because we still didn't know where it was coming from and this time I didn't have a snoring companion keeping me awake. The sisters confessed that is was them and so for payback, we reset all of the alarms in their room to half an hour earlier than normal and we put two alarm clocks to go off at 12:34 pm. Moral of the story: don't mess with Sister Greenall and I because you will get burned.
Elder Rodrigues (the Elder that was mean to me) is nice to me now thank goodness because I didn't like having all of those negative feelings. The Elder's in our district are all leaving on Wednesday which is WILD. All of us sisters have an extra week after that because Visitors Center Missionaries have four weeks in the MTC to train specifically to be a missionary at a visitors center. We'll be in an all-girl district then which is kind of a bummer because the Elders are what make it fun.
I got a package yesterday!!! It isn't the package that you sent though, it was from John and Courtney and Thea. They sent me a bunch of snacks AND a journal Book of Mormon!!! We went to Deseret book right before the MTC and Courtney was looking at them and I mentioned that I had wanted one for Christmas but didn't get it and then she REMEMBERED and sent it in the package. It made my day! So I got the great news that Gram and Grandpa are paying for a month of the mission, they got me money for dress slacks, and to top it all off, John and Courtney sent me a cute package with the journal Book of Mormon, it's like Christmas up in here.
OH! Yesterday our district got to host the new missionaries!! I helped three sisters and one of them is going to the St. George Visitors Center and is speaking German which is cool but weird at the same time. Also, I realized that I am way to emotional to host because they're all saying goodbye to their families and crying and straight up I'm crying right along with them and wow it was awkward because you don't know where to look and then you're crying and everyone is like "what the heck why is this sister missionary staring at and crying" and I'm like ugh I feel your pain I really, really do. Oh well. I'll never see them again.
I received an email from Elder Brown and he said he would send a Sister some snacks and to just send him my address so you best believe he will be getting my mailing address. It sounds like he's having fun in Virginia! Elder Rowberry is done with the training part of the mission and is a full-fledged missionary now!!! His pictures are funny and he baptized TWO people this week. It's crazy. I want to get out in the field like majorly so I'm really just trying to hang in there for two more weeks.
I'm sure I have more to say but I honestly can't remember so I guess just email me soon!!! I love you and miss you!
Love,
Sister Moran
Hey everyone!!
I am now officially halfway done with the MTC! It has been an absolute crazy two weeks and I'm both the most exhausted and the happiest I have ever been.
This week, we "found" two new people to teach. Their names are Sariah and Rodrigo. Sariah is so nice and is willing to learn but she won't ask questions when she has them so she just ends up being confused. We even ask her if she has any questions and she says she doesn't even when she does which is frustrating. Rodrigo, on the other hand, is GOLDEN! He is so willing to learn and he keeps his commitments and last time we were talking about baptism and he seems open to the idea! We're going to try to commit him (a real person and not just a table) to be baptized tomorrow so wish us luck!
Sister Greenall and are somehow getting even closer which is weird because we were pretty open from the start. She is awesome and is such a good example to me of how to listen to the spirit and to be okay if everything hasn't gone the way I wanted it to. I love her a lot... especially because she supports my eating ice cream with a ridiculous amount of chocolate and sprinkles and whipped cream for lunch and nothing else. Best. Companion. Ever. Also, she is the cutest because she really hasn't seen much snow in her life being from California and there was a big snow storm here earlier in the week and she was so excited and jumping around. I wish I was that excited about snow, I just want it to be warm already.
This week, our district got to host the new missionaries coming into the MTC which was so fun! I got to help three new sisters drag their super heavy bags up multiple flights of stairs so basically, I'm super ripped now #gainz.
Here is where the crying comes in. So the host (aka me) gets assigned to a car and then they help with the bags and take pictures of the family if they want pictures and all that good stuff. Anyway, I was helping this one sister and her whole family came with her so while I was moving her bags off to the side, she was saying bye and her little sisters and brother were crying and her mom was crying and her dad was crying and then I started crying because I'm an emotional wreck and apparently can't keep it together. And then to make things WORSE the dad looks over at me and gives me a weird look and he's probably thinking "what the heck why is this weird sister missionary staring at us and crying" and I'm just staring right back with tears in my eyes. And then to make things EVEN WORSE, I was telling my district at dinner about my awkward crying moment from hosting and then I started to CRY AGAIN because I was just sad for the sister and then the Elders were looking at me in total bewilderment because of my out of control emotions. Anyway, I think I'm just too emotional and awkward to be a host but that's all good because it was still fun.
The MTC is the best place ever. I am learning so much and having so much fun at the same time. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to be here. With that being said, I am getting cabin fever because you can never leave campus (except to go to the temple on pday) so I really just want to get into the field on the real mission... which is only 35 acres large in my case so I'll probably get just as antsy there too haha. I love and miss you all and I'd love to hear from you! I can read emails all week and then respond on pday so just send an email my way.
Love,
Sister Moran
p.s. the food here is still less than ideal
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