Five Days Down

Hello To My Beautiful Family,

I just have so many things I want to tell you about our week here at the MTC, I don’t know where to start.  Marc you were right…I love it!   We had some incredible experiences, some that I was not expecting.    We have made so many wonderful new friends.   We have loved the classes…even though they were very hard.

  

It has been a blessing for us to be here with 3 other couples that will be going to Asia Humanitarian also.  One is going to open up Shanghai China, another one is going to Laos, and the other will be our first line contacts in Hong Kong.  Even though we will never see them it just feels so nice to know they will be out there also.   Sometimes we feel like we are the only ones hurting and sacrificing but we did a count of the 4 couple’s children and grandchildren.  There is a total of 25 children and 84 grandchildren that we are all leaving.  So I guess we are not the only ones with hurting hearts.  

We were taken to eat at a Lao/Thai restaurant the other night so ‘we’ could get a taste of the food.  I have heard that Myanmar is not like Lao/Thai at all…we will soon see.

We do not have our visas yet.  We heard today that we may get them when we get to Myanmar, but the church legal department is waiting for some documents from Myanmar before they get our tickets.  

Next week we will do our humanitarian training.  We saw the schedule it looks like a full week.  One day we will come up to the church office building for some specialized training and have lunch at the Joseph Smith Memorial.  

I am grateful that I get the privilege of serving this mission.  It is not at all about me, but about me doing my best to help others in ways I do not yet know or understand.  We were told today what it means to be a ‘successful missionary’.  It is just about doing our very best!  We were challenged again to learn the language, we will try really hard to learn a few phrases.  I wish they taught it here, that would make it a little easier.  The couple going to Russia already know a ton, they honestly sound really good.  (I think)

We have seen young Elders and Sisters literally from all over the world, going all over the world.  It is breathtaking to see what goes on here.  They have a light that is bright.  

I LOVE you all so much it hurts!  

Mom