Hello my family!!!!!! First official letter of my mission!!!! I am so excited to finally get to tell you everything! It's been quite a week. Not bad, not at all. Just a lot at once! I hope this isn't too long...
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| Sister Sato and Sister Peck |
Ok ok so you dropped me off, I went and got my tag and stuff, then we dropped my bags off in my dorm, they checked my device, and I was sent to my classroom to meet my district. My companion was there and as I have said she was the one I had already been messaging on Instagram so that was way cool! But way cooler than that is the fact that she is the most amazing companion in the entire world. For reals. I cannot even express my gratitude fully for her. She is here for all the right reasons. We motivate each other to be better and support each other in the learning and teaching. We are just so complimentary. We have to find things that are different about us haha because we are just so similar it's crazy haha. I loooooove her!!!! So. Grateful. I also love our district. The other Sisters are way fun and sweet, and the Elders are the Elders. It's been cool to see us all slowly grow closer and more open. By this time we're all really comfortable with each other and that helps this whole MTC experience a ton.
We were called to be the Sister Training Leaders and that has been a neat learning and growing experience. We will be meeting two new districts that we are in charge of tomorrow. Please pray for them, the first day is hard. Our STLs just told us to hang on until Sunday and all would be well and it is true. The first couple days are an eternity. I am grateful I've had the experiences I've had with a stressful, completely scheduled week because for many it was a very new thing.
I don't know how I did it but along with winning the companion lottery I also won the amazing teachers lottery. Sister Schmitt and Brother Kim are the absolute best. I'm not even kidding. I am learning soooooo much and I love it. They know how to do it here. It is a lot but it hasn't been overwhelming because I am trying really hard! I am seeing why I was called to an English speaking mission. First because Heavenly Father probably knew I could not take more than three weeks in this lovely place and second because I looooove getting right into the doctrine and the teaching and the scriptures. 6 days here and I know so much more than I did. But at the same time it really comes down to simplicity, so maybe more than learning NEW things it's gaining clarity to what I already knew. Teaching is new though haha. We've planned and taught our first TCR!! (People who are usually fake investigators but once in a blue moon they are real and they don't tell you which is which). Sister Sato and I have been so lead by The Spirit in this teaching process that we don't even care if Kylie is already a member or not, this is real. We did really well for our first one but learned a lot to do better.
Sunday was great, we had our early morning Branch Council meeting then district council then Sacrament meeting. This was a great reminder to me why we need organized religion. Guys the priesthood authority is real and the Sacrament is so important. The gospel seems so complicated sometimes but it really is so simple.
There have been lots of little funny experiences this week but the best was really when Sister Nielson and Sister Claridge got stuck in the elevator for 50 minutes yesterday. Sister Nielson is scared of elevators haha. Also an ish funny story yesterday we were getting sack breakfast which we've done every single day so far and they had salads for the first time and I was so excited and I said "I can get a salad for breakfast??? That would be so lit for my body!!" (Mom just ask Maddy what lit means. I shouldn't say it because it's slang but oops I'm learning haha). And Sister Sato died laughing and now we say it all the time.
I love you all so much and I promise the Dear Elders are LIFESAVING. I love hearing all the day to day things! I think about you so often!
Love love love, Sister Peck
