Week #2  April 5, 2013

I Love It Here!!

Hola familia, 

Gracias mi madre por the packages and la cartas. Yo was agracidos them and the kind words that were in them. I recieved a General Conference package from Aunt Jan this semana, entonces I will have to tell her gracias from mi. 

Just to clarify things out P-day is Friday. When you arrive at the MTC for the primero semana you have your P-day on Sabado pero for the rest of the tiempo that i am at the MTC it is Friday. As for the preguntas you asked, I have had no headaches y I love mis zapotoes porque they are muy comfortable y have had no blisters so far. Knock on wood :) 

As for Christine's package, Will you por favor hold it until I get to California before sending it?  Just a little worried that i won't be able to fit it or my bags will be overweight when I have to go to the airport. 

My companion is from American Fork, UT. She is 1/4 samoan but is a gringo from what nuestro maestro calls us. There are nine personas en nuestro districo. As for what I do every day, we get up at 6:30 in the morning by 7:00 we have to be at breakfast. We usually do sack breakfast so we can go back and eat in our room so we don't have to get dressed until we are ready to leave for the day. We then go to our clase and have personal study which you are studying what you need to teach your investigator for the day. Then we maybe have TALL which is like inspired Rosetta stone for missionaries. When we are done we have about a couple minutes before lunch. After lunch we have language study and then we have class room instructing for three hours then we have addition study time then it is time for dinner and then we have more classroom instruction after dinner then after our classroom instruction we return to our room and had quiet time by 10:15 and buy 10:30 it is lights out. 

Fun days it's just sitting and eating. As for the Food in the MTC none of it is really healthy. My companero y yo have decieded that will will have wraps and salads for lunch and dinner. 

For visiting people that we have had so far we have had the Bishop, the Prophet, President Monson and Sheri Dew. She was excellent. We did sing in the choir for Tuesday devotional but not General Conference chior for the MTC :( 

I got a couple of letters from grandma this week so i will write her even if I don't get an answer after her trip. Oh I do have a request if that is ok, could you send me some Breakfast Essentials because the breakfast around here is not as healthy as I would like but it would help :)

Our investigator, Benjamin, that we have been teaching for a week ended this week.  It turns out that the investigator is really our teacher that will help us learn to teach and use the tools that we have been given to be effective teachers and missionaries. 

One of the interesting things that I have learned is that we shouldn't be afraid to extend the invitation to be baptized on the first visit or lesson. One of the scriptures that really stood out to me this week is in 2 Nephi 31: 14, I think. It talks about coming unto Christ but if we fall away like some new converts do after they are baptized it is better that they had not know Christ. Which I thought was very interesting. 

So far I am enjoying the MTC, I have just been a little frustrated because I can translate spanish better than i can speak it, but it will be ok. I just have to realize that i won't speak the whole spanish language in the six weeks that I am here pero It will come for most people it takes them about 6 months till I actually can speak it fluently without help. 

 
Well I better get going. My Texas accent has been coming out alot here. IDK why.

Love y'all so much

your Hermana Fitzpatrick!