I am miserable. HA! Now that mom
has an ulcer. Let's be serious. I'm pretty sure MTC is short for
Hogwarts. Lots of learning and lots of magic. REALLY! This place is
magical! I even got to lead a song with a wand once! If I'm comparing
this place to Hogwarts, you got to know how much I love it. I just want
to sing and dance and laugh because I am just HAPPY ALL THE TIME! I just
want to smile and smile until my mouth falls out of my face. Maybe not
to that extreme, but pretty close.
My companion's name is Sister Long from Rigby Idaho. She is
nineteen as well. I love her! We have a good time and are good friends.
She is very outgoing and I actually think she's kind of weird...just
because HOW open she is. Sometimes I'm like...Uhhh...Why would you say
that? But it's fine because I love her!
Okay so just explain a little about the MTC and all the changes.
Over 800 missionaries entered the MTC on the same day I did. That is
record for the MTC, but it won't be for long. They are at MAXIMUM
capacity right now with 3000 missionaries. This spring there will be
8000 missionaries. You can tell how stressed everyone is. They have no
idea how they are going to house, teach, and feed almost three times the
amount they have already. But we all know the Lord will provide a way!
:) I am also the very first week to get cut. So instead of being here
for three weeks, I am here for about twelve days. I can also tell
everyone is stressed about that. My teachers don't know how they are
going to teach everything to us in almost half the time, but I'm just
glad I'm not learning a language! But they have told us that they have
widened the fire hose and they have turned up the heat in the frying
pan. PFFF! Ha ha agreed...but it's so good for me. I have learned and
grown so much just in these three days!!! But I love in ten!!! AHHHH! I
am so grateful for my study of preach my gospel. All my teachers asked
if I have taken mission prep. Nope. Just studied PMG and BOM! But wow. I
have a lot of work to do, but I love being on the Lord's errand. There
is no place I'd rather be! But sad, they basically have cut our gym time
out and filled it with teaching. I only get to go a few more time. I
got my flight plans already! I leave on Tuesday the 19th early in the
morning.
Hermana Porter just happens to live three doors down. What are the
odds? She comes into my room every night and we get to talk. It's so
nice being here with my best friend! I missed Sister Farr by a day. But
there's a grouchy girl in my room that glares at Hermana Porter and me
when we talk.
But it's okay because she's a red head, so she has no soul.
Hermana Porter has been here eight weeks and leaves a week after I do.
She definitely brings happiness to my heart.
So along to go
with the Harry Potter theme. I'm pretty sure we're all "chosen ones."
Chosen to teach this gospel!!! I'm in love I'm in love and I don't care
who knows it! In love with the GOSPEL! Harry Potter is a pretty close
runner up i guess... and then zombies...and then football...And maybe my
family.... BUT MY FATHER AND SAVIOR ARE NUMBER UNO!!!!
I'm almost out of time. My P Days are Saturdays here (so one more
ha.) and then Mondays in the field. I'll be there in TEN DAYS! AHHHH!
Let's hope I can get better by then! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU
FOR TEACHING ME THIS GOSPEL THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY AND MAKES ME SING
WITH JOY! I really do have the best family ever. Peace and blessings.
Peace and blessings.
Love,
SISTER BARNES JR.
REAL FAST!
I forgot to tell you the highlight so far! So
morning after I arrive, I'm in one of the workshop classes right? So he
comes up to the four sisters in my district (My whole district is going
to Fort Worth...plus another one...all who got here on the same day and
leaving the same day...) and he asks me and the other three sisters in
my district a little about ourselves. Then he asked if we want to be
filmed in this workshop? Umm...What? Well we of course said yes. What
else are you supposed to say? So this guy ends up being in charge of all
the hiring and all the teachers. He picked us sisters from my district
(he thought the boys from my district were too cocky...ha ha...they are
kind of young and immature. Oh elders...) and then eight elders from
another district. Took us to this room with all these cameras and filmed
us in the workshop. It's a training video for teachers.There are 950
teachers right now...Who knows how many are going to be hired with all
the new missionaries! Don't worry...They film a new one only every ten
years. NBD. So remember that huge zit I got the day I was arriving at
the MTC? Yep...so about thousands and thousands of new teachers will be
watching me and my giant zit for the next ten years. But it was honestly
such a cool experience! But if I made a stupid comment or
something...don't judge me. I was nervous okay?!?!
Oh...and the air conditioning is broken. It's been like 100 degrees
in my room so I haven't slept much. Don't worry, the red head wrote a
"nice" letter to "ask" them to come and fix it. HA! Oh I love her...AND
her moodiness. Keeps my life exciting.
LOVE YOU!
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