The MTC and ME

11/07/13 - LETTER FROM BECCA HELLO FAMILY!!!! Ah I miss you all so much! really! MTC life is the best life to live! I love my mission! I love my companion! I love my district! I love my zone! I love my teachers! I love my life!!! :D Seriously. I LOVE EVERYTHING! :) So I loved getting your letters! Please send more! Even if it's just a short hello, I love just getting letters! At the end of everyday when we check the mail the district leader hands out everyone's letters, and packages and there's one Elder who seriously gets four letters a night and a package every other day. So write me! :D haha! I can get letters everyday but I can only rely on P-days. This is my only P-day while in the MTC so I don't know when exactly I'll get to email you again. I leave for Kansas Tuesday morning at 3:30 AM and we have a lay over in Denver. So parents I will be calling you sometime then :) in the middle of the night or early in the morning! WOOO! I bought a phone card. It was five dollars. I don't want to have it wasted. But I should be fine about making my plane mom, we have like 14 missionaries traveling with us, so I think I'll be just fine :) Well let me tell you about my week! because it's officially been a week since I entered MTC and I leave in four and a half days! :( I don't want to go yet. My time had been too short! But I'm trying to live it up and get as much out of it as I can :) So my first few days were a little rough. My beautiful wonderful and hot companion Sister Barlocker is not the most enthusiastic sister in the world :) When I first walked into my classroom and they told me she was my companion I flipped out and cried a little :) I was just so excited to finally meet her!!! She just looked at me like I was insane and didn't stand up to hug me. hahah! She doesn't like hugs, but I'm slowly winning her over ;) She just told me how glad she was that I wasn't a quiet upiddy tight wad. Which I'm taking as a complement ;) She's so funny! and we're always doing goofy things! She complements me in a lot of ways, and at the same time, we are sooo similar! it's also given me a chance to kind of step up and be more responsible. She sleeps in and we've been late for personal study everyday, but I always try to make sure that I'm ready by 7:00 so that if she needs help I can be there for her. The beginning of this week we had the HARDEST time focusing. We just had the giggles all day and were really distracting. I felt so bad because I love my teachers and my district and don't want to disappoint them. I felt like I was going back to how I was in high school and it was really discouraging. But Sister Barlocker loves me and noticed how it was affecting us and the work. So she tried harder, and even asked for a blessing to help her focus! It was so spiritual! Also on a side note, I'm not crying as much as I did back home :) I still am the biggest baby in our district, but I'm not as bad as I was ;) So the past few days have been AWESOME an d Sister Barlocker and I are doing fantastic! She still has a really hard time with all the rules, and I'm still trying to stand my ground but it's hard because I want to pick my battles. Our lessons have been so awesome! the things I'm learning are seriously life changing! Our teachers have investigators that they role play as, and right now my favorite is Andy. He is so prepared. In our last lesson we introduced the Book of Mormon, and read the intro. I could feel the spirit so strongly! and I was like, "don't you feel that?" We followed up with a scripture about the Holy Ghost, and I know he was feeling it, and that he had a stirring in his heart that would change his life! wooo!!! We want to committ him to baptism next lesson :) Our district is so funny and awesome and great and wonderful and spiritual, and I love them :) The elders remind me of my brothers so much and I sure wish my Joseph were here. I keep thinking about him and how great of a missionary he'll be :) But we have so much fun together. Our favorite things include: Tic Tacs, Talking in Canadian accents, Playing four square in the gym, and laughing :) I'm going to be so sad to leave them. I don't ever want to leave them :( But I'm so glad that we are all brothers and sisters in the gospel. so maybe we'll have time in heaven ;) I love you so much and hope your week is as great as mine!!! I love the Gospel! I love the Church! I love being a missionary and I can't wait to be in Kansas! I love my savior, and am so grateful for what he's done for me, and helping me to become the best missionary I can be!!! I LOVE YOU!!!! Love forever and always, Sister Herrin