Elizabeth
hey everyone,
thanks for all the emails and letters. i love hearing from you. you don't realize how important letters are for missionaries until you are one. disclaimer: the exclamation point doesn't work, and neither does the shift button... so that is why i seem poorly educated and unexcited. haha. well, the mtc has it's ups and downs. mostly ups. some days i get really discouraged, but by the end of the day i am always reminded of why i am here. it's amazing how it works out. i love everyone here. i have amazing teachers who all have a way of teaching me important things about myself. the other day i got really frustrated because i was having trouble teaching. i felt like i knew the lessons and everything made perfect sense in my head, but when it came to explaining it, i always froze up and it was frustrating. i realized that part of the problem was that we were teaching people who were already members, who knew what i was talking about, so i just felt like i was being phony. one of my teachers, brother robinson, had an interview with me and told me about situations in his life where he felt the same, and he made me feel like it's possible to be yourself, you don't even really have to think of them as people who are pretending to be non-members, just teach. i tried that yesterday, and it went really well. i prayed that i would be able to just teach it, because i know it, and i have a testimony of it. i felt really good, and i know that heavenly father is helping me improve every day.
i do have a problem though. these mormons have no sense of how much time is required for me to get ready in the morning. ugh. i have managed to get ready in 35 minutes every morning since i have been here. it's miraculous, but totally unnessecary. haha.
oh. last night we had a devotional with the one and only.......... quentin l. cook. yep, that's right. it was amazing, and i am so happy we got to hear from him.
in sacrament meeting on sunday, i got to sing "this is the christ." it was fun, and tomorrow i am going to audition to sing at a devotional before i leave. pray for me =)... since i would be singing for about 2100 people. alone.
i have hardly cried at all since i have been here. totally unlike me. i didn't even cry when i reported. and i haven't had any doubts at all. i miss home, but i haven't had any homesickness that has made me want to leave. i guess i'm in the right place =)
my last week here will be spent in some random building for visitors center sisters, and i guess we only get one day on temple square. i'm still not sure how it works yet. sister larsen and i met a girl in the t.r.c. who served on winter quarters. she gave us some fun info. it sounds like i will love it.
well, i'm having a blast and i can't wait til i get to omaha. i love you all, and i hope to hear from you soon. we only get 30 minutes to email here, so sorry this isn't super detailed, and sorry i couldn't write everyone individually. but i have laundry time to write letters out =)
okay, gotta go. love you all. muahhhh.
sister lianna bonelli
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