Week 7

Another good week at the MTC!! It is finally winding down though! In one month from yesterday I will be off to Thailand!!! CRAZY!! But as for things this week, nothing too exciting... We did meet our new mission president, even though we weren't suppose to apparently! We saw a couple in the cafeteria and one of the elders was like, "i wonder if that's our mission president" just jokin of course, but then we made him get up and check and it turns out it was! except when he was talking the elder asked so what are you doing here and the mission president was like, "im not at liberty to say, (sawatdii khrap which is hello in thai)" so that's how we found out he was our mission president! He seems way nice and his wife as well, they are both very young so it should be pretty awesome! On sunday i had the opportunity to say the closing prayer in devotional so that was kind of cool, i've never said a prayer in front of 2000 people before! haha but the devotional was really good, The speaker was brother allen and he's like the coordinating missionary person or something like that. But he just talked about how satan will try and tear us down, especially in the MTC by the little things like discouragment and doubt and such, it was really good! We got our nong thais this week which has been fun! i think i already mentioned i knew one of them already, sister Carter and apparently she knows Elise Babbel, she is in her home ward, so that is kind of cool! Small world! haha and the other sister is sister Hassan, she's from Fruit Heights and she graduated with Julia I guess, so that's pretty awesome, and i graduated with her sister. So it's been lots of fun getting to know them! This week in Relief Society, Ann Dibb spoke to us so that was pretty cool, she just told a bunch of stories about President Monson and stuff but it was fun to hear from her. My teacher was saying that she was the closest thing to a general authority that came while he was in the MTC, so i thought that was pretty funny, b/c now i'm at 3 apostles and now her. haha Yesterday I got kind of a cool opportunity to help out an international sister. It was a sister who had just gotten here from Cambodia and didn't have a coordinating sister in her zone so they asked me to help her out yesterday and get her settled in! She was super nice, her name is Sister Set and she will be serving in the LA visitors center, she speaks a little bit of English already so that was helpful, but apparently she comes from a mixed religion family. Her mom is LDS and her dad is Muslim so her and one of her sisters is LDS and both served missions and then her younger sister is Muslim. I can't imagine how hard that situation would be, but how awesome is it that she is serving a mission! But ya, that was a fun experience to help her out a bit, she got to go through the temple for the first time today and take out her endowments, it was soo amazing to see how excited she was, the temple really is soo amazing!! Other than that it was a pretty basic week! How's everyone at home doing? How was graduation and everything for Jason and Dan?? I'm gonna assume that is why i haven't recieved any letters from anyone this week?? hahaha Speaking of, Jon, Dani and James you are all slacking!!!! I see jason and julia so they have an excuse and j.dee has emailed me, but NOTHING from you 3!! So I expect to hear something soon! Shoot I even got a letter from Lisa (Itri) before my own siblings! hahaha But I hope that everything is going well, especially with little Linkin and baby Topanga :) Love you all! Love, Sister Itri