MTC week 1

Dear mom,
England is crazy! The MTC is amazing. and I'm terrible at football (soccer). Its so weird to think that I've only been here a week, since everyday feels like a lifetime. There's so many things to get used to. Even the toilets are different. they hide the back part in the wall. its so weird. :) My companion is Sister Larsen and its been awesome getting to know her and to learn how to teach people with her. She's amazing. Anyways, you just learn so much everyday, and all of it is useful. Usually we slap our foreheads and ask ourselves why didn't we know this before?! THis would have been so useful for our investigators! haha. (even if it is just the teachers pretending). The teachers are so awesome too! And my district. There are seven of us. Sister Larsen and I, sister Pike and Sister Vousden, and then there's Elder Ebisch (say it Abish), Elder Davis, and Elder Udy in a companionship together. Sometimes its a wonder how we ever focus and get anything done. because we're all such really good friends already and we feel like we've all known each other forever. (And Elder Ebisch is really, really easily distracted. He reminds me of Brandon Jackson so much, but German.)
The mtc is really small and PResident Preston is really amazing. the first day here he told all of us americans to try and stop using slang words like cool, awesome, guys, and dude because it ruins the English language. IT's hard to stop that habit, though. and trying to learn all of the English ways from Sister Vousden since she's from England already. SHe probably get a million questions everyday from our district on just how to eat the right way. :)
Ummm, anyways, the mtc is incredible, if you want to know the church is true, go on a mission because you recieve that confirmation every second of every day. Its the best thing ever. Its really amazing to see God's miracles, because there's an Elder here who when he got here, he didn;t speak any English at all, but he can carry a conversation to you know and you would never know that. It's just amazing. there's so many different things like that everyday that are just little miracles.
Oh, and I left my pictures of you guys! I think they were in that note book that I took out, or one of them. Could you mail them to me? THose are important things to have. If there's anything else that you think I might need, but those are the most pressing.
I'm really sad that I missed the primary program. I'll bet is was amazing, and I wake up every morning at 2 or something because I'm still getting used to the time difference. And everyone crashed sometime in the afternoon and it's a struggle to stay awake for a couple of hours. I can't get you any pictures because I don't have a camera, and the laptops here don't allow you to attach or upload pictures, so in two weeks. And Ally's date sounds like it was fun. I haven't got an english accent yet, it depends on what I'm doing and how long I've been around the people who talk cool. (But my journal has one) but sometimes the accent just slips out or you find yourself using the phrases like "pop to the Loo" or something like that.
Oh, and there are so many sisters going to my mission. THere's eight, and only one elder, Elder Celestini. haha. I felt so bad when we play football and I'm really bad because I've never played but he's really good at it. BUt I'm getting better! My football skills will be great by the time I leave the mtc.
I think that's everything. THe food is great so far, I still pick out the steak parts though. Elder Ebisch is hilarious, I miss you guys, and the Gospel is true! There's nothing more important that understanding that! Also that I'm definitely here for a reason, I just don't know what it is yet. Being a missionary is so hard but fun and worth every second at the same time.
I love you guys and I miss you!
Love,
Sister Wadsworth :)

▶ Show quoted text