First week in the MTC

Hello!! pday is wednesday, so now you know!I've seen good ol' lance a bunch, gotta love him it's so fun. Always gets me excited i scream everytime I see him for some reason. Always such a surprise. I've also saw nahee and kezia my first day!! so nice!! Umm idrk what to say but it's been awesome!! Seriously all we do is laugh everyday. the chorotachi are great too but they all have taken like 4 years of Japanese so we're working on catching up! We've taught 3 lessons in japanese already to Edanisan. He's the best! Way too nice. We're trying to focus on teaching by the Spirit more now cause we hyper focus wayy too much on the language, but that's not what matters most! What matters most is the Spirit. So that's the goal. Our 4th lesson w Edanisan is today so hopefully it goes better, i'll have to let you know next week. I don't know what else to say but I'm loving it here and definitley am aware of what I need to improve on, now I just need to have faith and rely on the Lord so that i can actually make improvements.

That's kinda sweet though mom! What a dream to be home alone! Just such a strange concept hahah. You'll kill it. ALSO I think patience is key to resilience, but faith is also key to patience. faith is key to everything really. With more faith comes more of a desire to turn outwards. That's what i've learned this week. The Saviour always turned out ward when the natural man would have us turn inward (aka be selfish). He never chose pride, He always chose to help other. Also I've been learning about strengthening faith / how to do it. Moses chapter 1 is a great example of ether 12 "... you receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." God shows Moses some of His plan, but not all. Then when the vision ends Satan comes to tempt Moses, which I think would rid me of all the wonderful feelings I had had before. Moses has to act in faith and tell Satan to leave 4 TIMES before he finally leaves. that would be so awful. I think after each failed attempt i would feel less and less hopeful, and more more despairing. It would be a true trial. But finally, after Moses shows resilience and continues to show faith Satan leaves and it says that the Holy Ghost then came upon him. The Holy Ghost is our witness of God. What a great relief that would be, to feel the Spirit. Not to mention Moses has another great vision after that. Know your divine nature, then work for it. Choose it. Man resilience would be so much harder without faith I think. Very random and off topic but there you go. ya read Moses 1. I love it

But ya, the first week has definitley not been as difficult as i thought it would be. I may have a lot to improve on but that doesn't need to be ridiculously overwhelming when you're striving to grow in an environment where you feel loved... Whether that's love from God, family, or anyone I think that applies.

FUNNY STORY I accidentally introduced myself as Amy on monday :/ hahahha I couldn't figure out why it felt so weird coming out of my mouth and then when I realized I immediately covered my mouth with my hands hahahah so funny everyone had a good laugh so that's good. One of my sensei is President Eyring's granddaughter! craziness. She's so nice. Both the senseitachi are so nice I love them so much. the immersion thing is actually amazing and hilarious. The chorotachi understand pretty much everything and us shimaitachi are just trying to pick out the pieces hahah. Everyone's so helpful. Class is the best cause you get enriched spiritually, and your Nihongo gets enriched too. The other sisters are so kind. Emma gave a package to Grover Shimai (Who is one of my dai sen pai (She's been here 6/7 weeks) and then grover shimai gave it to me back on day one which was such a nice surprise. It was filled w candy. Both of my Doryotachi (companions) also got packages filled with candy so we have A LOT OF CANDY. so so so much candy.