Dear Family December
24-25, 2012
Now is the time that I document my whole MTC Christmas
experience. Today has been awesome
thusfar. This morning we (my roomates,
companion and I) got a scak breakfast and ate it in our room. I had two donuts, an egg, and milk. MmmmmJ Then we (the same four plus some new people)
went to our weekly service project. I
leaned sinks! And I sang Christmas songs
the entire time! Then we had gym
time. The gym was closed so I went to the fitness
center. I taught 3 elders how to row
properly. After gym time, I had personal
study time for an hour. Then lunch. MmmmJ During the hour of language study I did quite a few things. My favorite part was learning Helaman 5:30 in
Chinese. Then we had class for three
hours. We taught an investigator at
2:30. It was AWESOME! Sister L. and I were so in tune with each
other and it really went well. I love
speaking Chinese SO MUCH J I had an awesome spiritual experience the
last hour of class. BUT ONCE CLASS GOT
OUT I WAS THRILLED! Literally bouncing
off the walls J I love Christmas. I miss you all, but I’m also so happy to be
here J. We headed to dinner. Now I’m at our Christmas Eve fireside. J
I love you all so so so much!
Okay, This couldn’t wait for our Christmas program. A bunch of missionaries were asked to be part
of a nativity. They were using a real
baby until now. Baby started crying, but
the mom took him away and they pulled a doll out from under the manger
LOL! Knod of hilarious. Maybe you had to be there…but I was dying of
laughter along with the other 2000 missionaries here. LOL!
Oh and the narrators are speaking so slowly. I think they are trying to be dramatic, but
it RIDIC HOW SLOW THEY ARE SPEAKING!
Okay, it’s Christmas now.
Yesterday after the nativity, we watched “A Christmas Carol”
and ate popcorn. MmmmJ It was kind of a scary version of the movie
and I spooked SisterL. When I grabbed her shoulder and yelled “boo”. Shans, I though of you JLOL! After the film, there was a mad rush to be
the classroom buildings to get our stuff and head back to the residence houseJ. My roomates and I (since P-day and Christmas
is the same) prepared ourselves to wake up early for laundry. We got to bed exactly at 10:25 after saying
family prayer and opening one gift (thank you for the Christmas socks) Our alarm was set for 5:30. And we settled in to sleep.
Then something STRANGE happened J I rolled over and woke up to see that we had
slept in! It was 20 til! We were suppose to wake up at 5:30. I jumped out of bed calling to my roommates
that we were late! I yelled, “ShengDan
jie Kuaile”, I’m turning on the light!
Then flicked it on. Sister L.
rolled over to say her morning prayers.
Sister B. asked the time while Sister G. just groaned, not ready to get
up. I said that it’s “shier” and started
to say the time but I couldn’t think how to say it in Chinese, so I just quite
and said “twenty til”. Then I looked
again at my clock and saw that it was 12:40!
Ahhh! So embarrassing. I apologized for my mistake and turned off
the light. Needless to say, we had a
good laugh. I’m still laughing about
it. The crazy part is that when I said
the time in Chinese, I said 12. So
somewhere it must have clicked.
Whoopsies!
AnywayJ
I woke up a lot during the night worried about getting up in time for laundry.
We got up at 5;30, and got our laundry in a little before
6. We spent the rest of the morning
getting ready while our clothes washed, then going back to switch it over then
getting ready while they dried, then picking them up, folding, opening
gifts. Breakfast was good. Not quite mom’s breakfast casserole, but
it’ll do in a pinch J Breakfast
led right into choir practice.
Now I’m just sitting here waiting for our guest speaker to arrive in 10
minutes. I love you all so so much J
It’s Elder Nelson!
And I lost my pen. Sad day!
And now I found it.
I’m in my classroom now writing more letters I’ll write more about the
remarks in my email…which you’ll get before you get this letter.
Okay, it’s now 9:30pm and I feel like I have so much writing
left to do. Today after I wrote this
(above), I emailed home, then we had a great lunch: turkey, stuffing, potatoes,
the works! They take care of us. Then we had a district meeting where we
discussed the meeting we had with Elder Nelson.
It was a nice discussion, but it was obvious that everyone was tired. After the meeting the Elders walked ot the
temple. Sister L and I came back to the
residency where I took a twenty minute nap.
It was much needed. When I
woke up we got ready real quick and went to stand in line for seats at the
talent show. While we were in line,
Elder V. and his companion Elder J asked us to save them seats (they are our
friends from the classrooms across the hall going to Korea) The talent show was awesome. Sister B. ROCKED it on the piano. After the show, we had 5 minutes to run to
the bathroom and head back to our seats.
We got to hear Greg Olsen speak.
He’s an artist. His fireside was
stellar. The things he said really
brought me closer to Christ because he talked about what Christ may have been
like as a baby/child. It was
interesting.
After the fireside we headed home for a sack dinner in our
rooms. It was delicious. Okay, just a ham sandwich, chips, and
sprite. LOL J
At seven, we (well, really 6:45) went back to the big
building to watch “It’s A Wonderful Life”
I had never seen it before. I
loved it so much! I’m a little surprised
that they let us watch it at the MTC though/on a mission. It’s such a feel good movie. I will admit though, after watching it, all I
could think was “I LOVE LOVE!” Which I
say all the time. Elder J heard me yell
that in my classroom building and told me to lock my heart LOL! Consider it locked!! Double locked. Anyway, now I’m on my bed and I still have a
lot to do before bed. But I’ll leave you
with this. I thought about you guys all
day.
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