MTC - Semana Dos, Dec. 1, 2009

Hola Familia!

Today has been crazy. I only have about ten minutes to send you an e-mail. I have spent hours and hours today helping Hermana Anderson finalize everything she needed to go home. She decided that this wasn't where she needed to be and she needed to go home and get married. We talked a lot about it and fasted together and prayed a ton, and she finally made the decision to go home and felt so relieved. She has felt sick the whole time here, not just physically but overwhelmingly sick to her soul because she felt like she shouldn't be here. I am really glad that she is so happy now. It was really interesting for me to be involved in it though. God really does work in mysterious ways. I think that maybe i needed to see what it would have looked like if me being here wasn't right to appreciate even more that this really is where I need to be. I have felt so much peace and comfort about being here. It is still really hard, and sometimes extremely overwhelming, but there is a reason I need to serve a mission, and there is some purpose the Lord wants me to fulfill, or some experience I won't be able to gain any other way.

The spirit is so incredibly strong here, and I think that is part of why Hermana Anderson felt so overwhelmingly what she needed to do but had just been too afraid to do. Its funny because the first time I met her I remember her being adament that she would not even think about marrying her boyfriend, even though he talked about it a lot with her. She wouldn't even allow room in her mind to consider the option.

I got the package today of my stuff, thanks so much for that! :D I sent you guys a letter on Friday, so you should get it soon. They let us write letters on Thanksgiving which was nice. I wrote a lot more stuff about what we did for Thanksgiving in there. I hope you had a really good Thanksgiving. I thought about you all a lot. :)

My new companion is going to be Hermana Stout (Crystal), but she is still in quarentine for the swine flu, which is so awful, I feel really bad for her. The minimum amount of time you spend in there is seven days, so she'll have to catch up a lot in class, because we learn so much every single day.

K, well, I'll write you more next Monday! And please write me and tell me how you are doing and what you are up to. :D I love you so much.

- Hermana Dansie