August 17, 2009

Hello family,

Today is my P-day and I am able to set up my e-mail account. The past five days have been quite the experience for me. The first day was the toughest and but things have been going well since then. My companion never showed up on the first day and Thursday morning I found out she wasn't coming so I am now in a triple companionship with two of my roommates. One of them is from Roy and she is going to NY the other is from England and she is goingn to Oakland, CA. It's been great getting to know them, and I'm sure they've loved getting to know me just as much. They really patient with my learning and even more patient with my terrible snoring habits. We have five girls in our room and I've been keeping them all up at night. Last night I slept on my stomach to find a new way to breathe and it worked, they were able to sleep a little better last night. They've all been really nice about it though. The other two sisters in our room are going to Russia and it's cool to listen to them speak and say their prayers at night.

I've learned a lot in the past few days. We wake up at 6:30 and have to be in class by 7:00. We have personal study time for and hour and companion study for an hour also. We usually have on average 6-7 hours of calss time, whicah can include learning lessons, preparing lesson, teaching, lessons etc. Here at the MTC they have a really cool building called the Referral Center (RC) where there are comouters and phones and we get to call investigators who have received mail from us before and talk to them obut the gospel and try to place book of mormons. I was really nervous at first but the teaching here is great and they've really instilled that it's important for us to make investigators feel loved and like we care about them so that's something I've really been working on lately. The lessons in Preach my Gospel are great and we're focussing on lesson one right now. The spirit here is amazing and there is such a high level of respect for gospel ordinaces and inviduals here. The elders are very respectful. The elders in our district always open doors for us and stand for us when we come to the table with our food, and they also take our trays away when we finish. I really hope my husband is a return missionary because I'm relly liking this kind of treatment.

There is so much I wish I could right to you. SO much has happened but we only have thirty minutes of e-mails. I'll try to get it all in a letter though. Thank you Mom, Dad, Diana, everyone for the love and support. Thank you for the Dear Elder letters too that was awesome to get a letter my second day here. I'm so grateful for this opportunity. When I first got here it was a HUGE adjustment and I wished I could just skip the MTC and go straight to the field but haveing been here longer I couldn't imagine not coming here first, It's great. I love you all and will write letters soon.

Mom please tell Trey I said Happy Birthday and I love him. Tell everyone I said hello please from all sides of the family.

Love you all,

Sister Green