Mom,
So today was my 1st day in the MTC. I'm writing you because we got special permission! We just found out that our P-days are on Wednesdays not Mondays so I won't get to email you until then. So please let everyone know (my dads side of the family) so they don't freak out! Let's see, today has been a whirlwind. I met my companion and her name is Sister Cook. She is from Alberta, Canada! We are so much alike because we are dorky and I love it! We are roomed with Sister Stucki (who I was facebook friends with) and also Sister Blackham (who is a cousin of a girl I graduated with). it was super cool. Everyone in my class is going to Eugene, Oregon but my companion is not she is going to Wisconsin. I'm so sad about that but its all good.
Let's see, today was a roller coaster but I loved every minute of it! We had a lesson then a meeting to go over stuff that we would be doing here. Afterward we had lunch and it was okay, I wasn't very hungry but it tasted decent. I saw KELSEY AKITA today! We saw each other in the lunch room and we hugged! I missed her so much while she was at the MTC for the last month. We are meeting Garrett Abernathy on Tuesday for lunch because he is on a different campus.
Anywho we unpacked and went immediately to a training. There were about 40 of us in a room and we had to have a discussion with an investigator. This lady really needed love as she didn't get much of it from her home life. I could see that everyone was just trying to convert her while the spirit was telling me to just love her. No one was trying to get to know her just convert her. She made me emotional and I was heart broken about how we had left her, possibly feeling unloved. She actually made a girl cry because she said something that offended this investigator and so the new missionary felt sad about that and cried.
We went on to the next investigator who we only got to know but didn't teach or preach to him. He was really sweet and a cute little Asian man. The last lady who was an investigator was a cancer patient and she was so sweet. We all took a moment together and prayed by ourselves to be able to reach this investigator. IT WORKED!! We ended up inviting her to pray, saying things and bouncing off ideas to one another and we all knelt down and prayed with her. The spirit was so strong!! Then we said companion prayers and studied and then we got to write these letters to our parents.
You are still in Utah so I hope you get this before Monday (so you don't think I'm ignoring you). But today (Thursday) we got up and ate which I had an omelet and we went to another class, then now I'm with my district. We had a computer program to go through and mapped out our first discussion! Sister Cook is awesome and we have been on the same page so far. I got chosen for a special class that teaches and shows you how to interpret the scriptures in a different way and I am excited to start that. Well I love you and I'll write and send you pics next Wednesday.
Love,
Sister Slade XOXOXO
P.S. Canadians (Sister Cook), they really do say AYE a lot! It's not a myth!!
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