Ashley Ltr: 2012-06-28

June 28, 2012

Helloooooo Family!!

Yes I've received all your e-mails and dear elders and they have made my whole week!! My p-day is on Thursday so that is the only time I can check e-mail and respond but I can get letters whenever so keep 'em coming! I don't have a lot of time but to answer a few of your questions yes I'm finally better!! But I feel bad cuz it's spread to a couple of the elders in my district... But on the upside I can breathe and have been sleeping much better! A typical day at the MTC... We wake up usually around 6:00, sometimes we go to the gym and other times we just lay there until 6:30 haha. Then we get ready for the day and eat breakfast. Then depending on the day we either head to class, teach investigators, or have personal study time, on almost any given day we have those things happen just in different orders. After that is lunch, and more  class, more teaching, and more personal study time. Then dinner and the same thing, sounds pretty monotonous (spelling??) but really it feels like there is never enough time in the day to finish preparing lessons or study! Preparing lessons and trying to receive revelation for investigators is HARD! Man... I under estimated the kind of work I would have to put in while being here. But it's good hard work, the kind that I know is making me a much stronger and better person. Yes I've run into several people I know! Elder Cragun Liston from Pleasant View, Brielle's husband Matt's brother, and a few friends from school. My dorm is a lot like Amber's except there are four of us in a room and yes the shower's and bathroom are just down the hall. The food here is actually pretty good, I can't even imagine how much food they go through here, the other day we had pizza and we were thinking that they would have had to order over 2000 pizza's to feed us all! My district is awesome!! Seriously you couldn't meet a better bunch of people, we have a lot of fun but we also have great discussions about the gospel. We got to go to the temple today, it was a really cool experience and the spirit was so strong. Sister Holsclaw and I joined the prayer circle and it hit me hard that literally people all over the world are praying for us missionaries! That is so cool you got to meet Elder and Sister Nelson! We had a devotional this Tuesday by Elder Perry and 10 of the 15 apostles were there! All of them except the first presidency and the Elders Hales and Packer were there! Well I'm running out of time but I had a quick question... where are all the fires?? There is a lot of smoke and ash here, but we haven't really heard anything. Thanks again for all the letters and to the Dames for the money! I love and miss you all!!! xoxoxoxo

Love,

Sister Bedke