Week 3

Dear family,

I'm sad to hear dad and erik are sick. that is no fun. I was sick too this past week. it was just a cold, but kind of a nasty one. I think i said something about it in my last email, but basically i didn't get better. i thought i did, but i really got a little worse, before i got better. that's ok though, because i'm all better now.

ok, sad story. elder holland came and spoke at the MTC last tuesday. it was an incredible talk, and I wish the members world wide could hear it, because it is awesome. you know him. always very passionate and stirs you to change. anyway, h. springer and i were fortunate to get some pretty good seats. well, right before it began i thought, "i need to blow my nose" it is going to be terrible if I am disrupting people with my sniffling and I can't wait and hour. so i said, "hermana, I need to blow my nose" she said, "right now is kind of a bad time." i said, "i know, but i dont' know what else to do. now is better than later" so we got up to leave. we had barely stepped off of the top step of the bleachers when an usher said, "sisters, i can't let you go back down." we were all so confused? what? are you kidding? we hadn't even left the room yet... anyway, long story short, we had to leave our coats and notebooks and scriptures on our empty seats and go watch it broadcasted to another room. crazy huh? the usher felt bad, but I told him he was doing a great job at doing what he was told. it was sad none the less.

his talk inspired me. i realized how little i really know. about anything, but especially the gospel. how can i teach if I know nothing? obviously the spirit will inspire, but i won't be able to recall things and have them come to my rememberance if i never studied it. so i realized i could do a lot better on my studying. and i also realized i could spend a whole life time studying the gospel and still not understand everything in the scriptures. still not remember all the scriptures and where to find little details. crazy! so don't even ever be lazy about your studying. there si so much to know...and it is all so awesome.

ok, so hermana brown and gomez have both left. hermana brown was re-assigned temporarily to slc until she get's her visa for argentina. for some reason i think i already told you that. either way...hermana gomez left to her mission in new mexico on monday. it was sad, because she was so sweet, but it is all good. i hope i get to see her after our missions. she's fun!

so, my spanish is improving, i still feel like i can't speak more, but it is becoming more easy to think of things to speak in spanish. now i hope i can just remember those things.

I wish i could just send my companion emails to you instead, because she writes litterally pages....because she writes it all out before and then just has to read it. i'm sorry you don't get all the details. but hopefully i can get her blog address and i will be able to read it when i come home. it is crazy how much she writes.



ok, love you!
sarah