Thanks for the update mom, that is so interesting about that doctor...Thanks for giving me an update! and I did pull out my patriarchal blessing the other day, I´ll have to read it again tonight. We focus all our time on our investigators here, so we don´t really take much time for ourselves. Not even to read our scriptures, we only have about 10 min a day for that. Because all of our study time is to study lessons and doctrine and language. It´s pretty intense. And I feel like I'm in the military here. :) It must be way different from Provo because everything is scheduled, even on P-day, we don´t have much time for anything. Only one hour to write. And I like to read everything too, not just write. Seriously our first p-day writing time was the fastest hour of my life. I see though that it has to be that way. We are on the Lord´s time here and we can´t be wasting any of it. It is pretty incredible though, there is no other place in the world that can do for the missionaries what they do in the MTC. We have brand new gringos come and after 6 short weeks they send them out ready to teach the people about Jesus Christ and gospel - clearly, simply and powerfully - in another language. It is incredible. You can feel the Spirit here. I´m so going to miss this place, but I´m also excited to get started. Less than two weeks. I´m more going to miss everyone here - I have some amazing new friends, like all of us hermanas are so close - because there´s only 9 of us here right now. We will be best friends for life. The MTC is really empty because we had the last group go out last week on Friday. There are only 40 missionaries here total. Most of us are all the ones that arrived together - my district -district Pablo- and district Santiago. There is one other Latino district and then the Q´eqtche district. We are all really close now but tomorrow we are getting 94 new Latinos! Is that crazy or what?! And then we are getting two new Norte Hermanas an 3 new Norte elders...I feel bad for them because their district will be small.
Anyway, I have to tell you about the Q´eqtche elders going to Coban, some of them are already fluent in both Spanish and English, and then they have to learn Q´eqtche too, which is a super hard language. They are here for 9 weeks and they are all really fun and upbeat, they´d have to be to endure the MTC for this long. They leave next week. Our zone leader (we only have one right now), is from their district and he´s actually from Canada - Elder Nelson. He´s already fluent in both English and Spanish. I was telling him we are part of the Winnipeg stake last night at Deportes. Anyway, ¨Mas al a chol¨ means how are you and ¨Sa¨means bien and ¨Ut la at?¨ means ¨what about you?¨ in Q´eqtche. Have you seen the new video ¨A Savior is Born¨ or something like that? It´s the videos about the Savior the church puts out every Christmas? It was so good, we got to watch it last Tuesday night. But it was in Spanish. I highly recommend watching it in English:) Elder Duncan, an area 70 (I think) came and talked to us that night. It was so good! We have so many spiritual experiences every week that when I actually sit down at this computer to write I can´t remember anything! Anyway...Hermana Colo is doing so great! She´s finally taken control of her emotions and it isn´t too hard anymore. Well, not really. We are doing so much better in our lessons cuz I don´t have to do it all anymore. We have a lot more unity, and we taught our investigator Gabriella the other day and it was an AMAZING lesson. The Spirit was so strong. President and Hermana Cox have been gone for the past 4 days. They are at a meeting with all the other mission presidents in central america. But it´s empty without them. Happy Anniversary by the way! I was thinking of you on the 20th. In the middle of class I looked up at the date and said out loud, it´s my parent´s anniversary! What did you guys do besides go to Walker?
Love you! They are kicking us off now!
Hermana Erickson
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