HI Hi hi!!
Okay so it's my first P-day and i'm trying to effectively plan everything in! Life here in the MTC is so crazy and so busy and mostly SO incredibely AMAZING! This place truly is the Lords temple of learning. I have really been blessed to have a companion that is very good at planning and watching the clock. We are always early and ahead of schedule. She is teaching me alot about organization and time management- which is awesome because I really need to learn those things! except.. I lost my watch so that doesn't help with keeping track of time.. haha. I hope I find it. Otherwise I'll just have to get another one when I get to mesa. Well.. to be honest I can't believe that I've only been here a week! It feels like it's been a month! - not in a bad way, It's just that there is so much packed in every day, that I am accomplishing what I would normally accomplish in a months time, in a week! It's awesome! Okay so mom, just so you and dad know, I am sooooooooo! grateful that we got me that black trenchcoat before I left! I use it everyday, and I'm wearing it right now even! It's pretty chilly- ha I didn't even think about the MTC and needing stuff here. I also LOVE my shoes, thanks for taking the time to let me get good ones. I have seen many that don't have comfortable shoes for them, even though they bought expensive ones. I am sleeping warm. Just thought i'd let you know! :) The sleeping schedule is not even being hard for me. Today I even woke up before the alarm! I am SOOOO excited to go to the temple today!! Sister Julie B Beck came and talked in our Devotional yesterday and it was amazing!! Make sure you send this to LIsa for me, because I know she'll appreciate the fact that I got to hear from Sister Beck! :-) She talked about temples and all about how temple affect us as missionaries and teaching the gospel, it's all intertwined- I am learning so much!
love being here it's still hard, and i'm am being humbled constantly. I feel as though I am being put through the refiners fire. I feel so extremely inadequate as a servant of the Lord and want so badly to be better. I know that the Lord knows this and he is helping me to become that, through learning and experience. I have learned that just having a testimony of the gospel isn't enough, I need to dig deeper, love deeper, and teach people, not lessons. My dear campanion sister Kranendonk is probably one of the most Christ like people I know. She is so patient with me. Ha.. I discovered that I get so into teaching the investigators and testifying and all that, that I talk to much and don't allow her to express her thoughts and feelings that she desires to express enough. I feel terrible every time because I don't even know i'm doing it while I do it. Ha i'm really working on it though. We have talked about ways to be more unified in teaching and i'm really trying to apply those things. I feel like our last lesson went much better!! I tell you all this not to complain or have you worry, but just to let you know I need your prayers and advice! I LOVE you ALL so so much! please send this to all the family, and please send me their emails. also if anyone wants to write me but doesn't know the info, they can look me up on dear elder! sorry i can't write more, my time is up and I just got started! Loves! MWAH :)
~ Sister Shurtz
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