All your guys letters were so nice to hear! Thank you so much for all that you guys said! I have looked forward writing this email and hearing from you guys since I got here!
I know I have only been here for a week but I have already learned so much, it is crazy how much they load lessons on you. I did the math, the 15 hours we are awake about 12 of those are spent in classrooms or meetings or devotionals or teaching people, bathroom breaks and meals have become my life. So much happened so forgive me if it makes no sense, I will do my best to answer all your questions.
My companion is Sister Kirkham and she is completely normal! So nice and easy to get along with, it has been an awesome companionship. My district is really awesome. I was really surprised, most of the guys here, have stories of falling away from the church and then coming back because they knew they needed to serve a mission, but from they way they talk you would have never known. It is cool to see how strong and spiritual they are now and how much they have grown closer to Christ.
People in the MTC keep telling me I am supposed to be crying and super sad and feeling overwhelmed the first week but I don't feel like that at all, the transition for me to become a missionary wasn't too hard. But I do see how mission life can be hard for some. It is a lot. It is change but a good change.
The second night here someone burnt their popcorn and the entire building had to exit and fire alarm was blaring and cops showed up and there were about 300 girls outside at night (blessed that I was not in the shower when that happened) and it was intense all for some girls popcorn. I was just laughing like of course that happens to me.
If I knew what I would be doing here in the MTC in the first couple of days, I might have been a little more nervous going in. They kinda just throw you in a room with an investigator (justifying it by telling us that experience is the real teacher) but anyways I handled it like a champ and surprisingly I am pretty good at lessons and answering questions. IT is really hard though for me to try to listen to the Spirit, to teach by the Spirit is everything and for me it was not natural. I want to answer questions right then and there but I need to learn how to let the Spirit guide me. My companion and I have taught P.I's (progressing investigators- which are our teachers acting as someone from their missions) and then "real" investigators which are people that we dont know that say they are not mormon but there are rumors floating around who's mormon and who's actually an investigator. We have two of these Ny and Reed, Ny is really quiet and super Catholic and Reed who just loads on the questions like nobodies business. Good thing I read Infinite Atonement because it is like a firing squad in there, but it is all good.
Thanks Cass for the letters for days of the week, those were really awesome and uplifting to read.
Oh and we are the first district getting I-pads in the MTC, it is this pilot thing they are trying out on us. And my companion and I are Sister Zone Leaders so that was pretty awesome, we get to help the newbies coming in next week.
My purpose as a missionary is awesome, forget yourself and go to work is a real thing in here. They keep you pretty busy so there is not too much to worry about. But that lesson has been pretty reinforced that this mission is not at all about me. It is about coming to Christ and helping others do the same. The scripture that says obtaining the word before declaring it, you could put in the MTC before your mission because that is what it feels like.
I am loving it here and doing well. I miss you guys and hope dad doesn't kill you guys working and that the wedding is great!
LOVE
Sister Baker
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