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MTC Week 1

This week has been a blur.  We've been busy busy busy here at the MTC!  Nonstop gospel and language study really fries the brain.  But it's been so much fun and I've loved every minute, transitioning to missionary life hasn't been hard at all for me!  My companera, Hermana Oswald, is the best and I'm glad I have a comp I get along with really well! 

The spanish is already coming along really well and I'm excited to learn more.  I have the most spanish experience out of anyone in mi distrito so I help everyone with their pronunciations and when they don't know what random words are in spanish.

Highlights:
- Hna Oswald & I are the only hermanas in our district so the first couple days were interesting - the elderes didn't talk to us AT ALL!  So we kinda just did our own thing the first couple days.  It's ok though, now our district is super tight so it's chill. The elders are hilarious and we love them.
- I already got my first mission nickname. My district calls me "Hermana Off-Brand" because I'm super picky with my food. At dinner one night I got a dessert with great value brand oreos on it and the elderes noticed I scraped them off because I didn't like them - so now any time they see off-brand food they say "Hna off-brand wouldn't eat that!" and all start laughing, it's pretty funny!
- One of the elderes in mi distrito has the FUNNIEST laugh.  He has a suuuuuper low voice (think Morgan Freeman) and when he laughs he sounds like Bowser from mariokart.  He laughed one day at dinner and the entire section of the cafeteria was DYING laughing at his laugh!

Being a missionary is the absolute BEST and I love being able to have the privilege of wearing Christ's name on my chest every day! The Book of Mormon is so true and I can't wait to learn more spanish so I can be able to effectively teach the people of Ecuador and share the restored gospel with them. 

Pics:
- First night in the MTC!
- Mandatory mirror selfie with my roomies
- SNACKS! The only thing that gets us through 3+ hour clases & workshops
- Had to document the first time wearing sweats and not a dress
- The sisters in our zone came to help fix my broken top bunk bed lol
- My district!

First night in the MTC!
 SNACKS! The only thing that gets us through 3+ hour clases & workshops
Had to document the first time wearing sweats and not a dress
Mandatory mirror selfie with my roomies

 The sisters in our zone came to help fix my broken top bunk bed lol
- My district!

Location: Provo, UT, USA

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