- Monday night the fire alarm went off in the sister's building late at night and literally all the sisters had to stand around in their pajamas. Hermana Hindmarsh and Hermana Smith were both in the shower when the alarm went off and were both contemplating just walking out with no clothes on lol. All the sisters were singing hymns while we had to stand around and wait to go back inside; it was very angelic
- Elder Cook came on Tuesday and spoke to us for our devotional! He talked to us about the 4 types of love we should develop on our missions: love for your companion, love for your mission president, love for the people, and most importantly, love for the Savior. He said that the greatest way we show the Savior we love Him is by being missionaries and going throughout the entire world and sharing His gospel; "if ye love me, feed my sheep". Since I was in choir we got the good seats so I was only about 100 feet away from a literal apostle of God. Woah.
- Sisters and Elders are only allowed to shake hands, not even high five, so there have been many times this week where 1. our district was playing spikeball during exercise time, 2. someone made a good shot, 3. a high five had to turn into an awkward handshake last second
Literally the greatest district you will ever meet
- My Spanish has been going pretty well. While teaching our brand new "investigator" (at the MTC we call them TRC's) , we gave her a Book of Mormon, and when she opened it she opened it to a picture of Jesus and I just immediately pointed and said "Jesucristo!" and it made her laugh SO HARD, she spent the rest of the lesson talking about how cute I was, it was both flattering and embarrassing. She did say that if she found out that the church was true she would get baptized, so that's pretty neat.
- I got to host the new missionaries this week! Unlike literally everyone else who comes to the MTC, I had no desire to host the new missionaries, but it was actually a lot of fun! I just felt so much love for all these new missionaries and the work they are going to be doing
- Our old teacher Hermano Nash came back to visit us! It was so exciting to walk out of my TRC and just see him standing there in the hall. He explained his internship to us (we didn't embarrass him about not having a girlfriend after all) and how even though it will be really exciting and important to his career, he said he missed all of us a lot and knew that we were all going to be good missionaries in the 2 weeks he knew us. our whole district has agreed that here at the MTC he pretty much is like our dad lol
- It has gotten very chilly here in Provo these last couple days; I've had to break out some of the more wintry stuff I was saving for Idaho. They have also started putting up all the Christmas lights here which is so exciting! Last night an elder in our branch ran by our classroom and was like "guys watch this" and ran outside to turn on the lights on one of the trees; it was very magical to come out in the dark and just see this tree all lit up.
The tree in all its glory
- During class last night one of the lightbulbs in our room exploded?
- Everyone in our branch calls our district "the party district" because we are always loud and jokey, and we all just get along really well. Some of the other sisters in our branch said their elders don't even hang out with them after class?
- Since Hermana Perez is from Chile she will need help with her English occasionally, and there will be this cool symbiotic relationship flowing throughout our classroom. Also her American accent is the FUNNIEST thing I have ever heard
-Hermana Peterson
Me and the amazing Soeur Battezzato
Hermana Davis's selfie game is so on point
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