September 7

(sorry for the delay. Another Excerpt from her letters to home)

Hey!!!!

I am leaving the 15th at about 6:00 a.m. for Omaha there won't be a connecting flight thank goodness! I am Travel leader which means I am in charge of making sure we contact people if we are missing a flight or need anything for the missionaries to do before we leave Wednesday! I think it's cause I am coordinating sister which is technically like being relief society pres( there are only two other sisters besides me and sis brown in our zone and we all get a long great so it's pretty easy) I had a big eye opener yesterday we taught this investigator and I was the one leading the discussion and it was going well and then I went off topic with the investigator and didn't bring it back to the Discussion in lesson 1 of preach my gospel. I was so upset with myself and realized that I had to rely on the lords words and guidance in PMG to teach. That you have to "feed them milk before meat" and my biggest test here on my mission will be to not over do it with all the stuff I know and really help them the lessons and word it as simply as it teaches in preach my gospel. I was really humbled and I HAVE to learn that the lessons are the way they are for a reason and the spirit not my knowledge will be what helps them know the gospel is true. I am so cold!! It got chilly so fast! I am really excited for Omaha I saw some pictures from one of the teachers who went there on her mission. It is really green and farmland and trees and awesome buildings. Sister brown and I are really trying to buckle down when it comes to learning the lessons. It's been hard I have had times when I just cry cause I realize how much I need to humble down. But crying here at the MTC is pretty common and no one thinks your weak or anything because of it! The Christ like love felt and shared here is amazing! I really underestimated the Edlers before I came to the MTC. They all have a purpose and they all have amazing testimonies( especially in my district). The district leader left me a note after this one really hard teaching thing we did with all the class and I felt so lost and all I could do was bear my testimony. It was an awesome note gift from him and he told me how much he appreciated me and my testimony how all the elders did and how My Heavenly father loves me. I am telling you a lot of these elders are immature and it's kinda weird to be in guyland but the spirit is always here and you can see the love in all the teachers and the Elders in my district have so so much respect and love for sister brown and I. It's more than siblings and not awkward like crushes but an honest respectful love. I am So grateful I get to be here and I am grateful we come here to humble down and get some basics before we go into the field. WE learn to listen to the investigators and others and really learn to love and serve each other. I KNOW the mission field will be difficult especially since I've been here you really see how hard it will be. BUT it will be worth it and It's taught my to have happiness in enduring. I'll be the only sister in my discrict after Monday and when we travel I'll be a solo sister which means that I am going to be with two elders, but the elders are awesome and President Smith of the MTC said in a relief society meeting with the sisters here that we can reprimand them lovingly because they can get more in those two minutes then in two years.( HE is soooo straight forward and awsome!) Literally every hour of the day is scheduled so don't worry I am busy. Getting up at 6:00 isn't as tough as I thought it would be but it isn't always sun shine and rainbows.. I miss your food like crazy the food here is just okay but honestly you can't always trust it nor does it have real flavor

I am still gunna write but I only have two min left on here so I am just gunna go and write what I wanted to say.

Love,

Becky