Kaylie, Mom, and Dad before she entered the MTC!
Kaylie and Sister Porter
So excited to be going to Costa Rica!!!
Kaylie and Sister Redden
Kaylie and her first two companions
More pictures to come very soon!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Some Pictures
Here are some pictures that Kaylie sent to us from the MTC!
June 22, 2010 Provo MTC
Hi MY Familia!!!
How is everyone doing!?! Thanks for All your letters and emails! They make me so happy to hear from all of you!! Mom and Dad is everything ok this week!? I didn’t get an email from you and I am a little worried!!!! Are you ok!?! Let me know if you are ok and you are safe!!!!!! I hope all is well!!
This week was a pretty good week, kind of hard, but that is how life goes! I just think that I am getting anxious about leaving in 2 weeks and just wishing I knew more! But I know that I am not suppose to know everything right away but still it does get me down. But I am trying to stay positive and stay diligent in all aspects. So please pray for me this week and next week that I wont be so hard on myself and I will work hard and endure to the end!!!
So 4 new sisters moved into our zone and they are so cute! 1 of them will be serving in Chile and the 4th girl is going to Chicago Spanish speaking. It is good not to be completely alone. And they are so positive and that is so great!! They truly are so glad to be here!
We have been teaching a lot in spanish and last week on Saturday we taught the first lesson again in spanish and it went great!! My teacher Hermana Mella watches us as we teach and she write notes for us so that we can improve! And this week for all the companionships, she said she wanted to talk to each one of us individually as a companionship. So she took me and my elders and talked to us about our performance.. She said that she had none that she had to write down, that we are great teachers! She said that “how you taught and applied it to the needs of the investigator was incredible!”. It was so awesome!!!! It made me feel so good that we are teaching the way the Lord wants us to teach.. I know that he helps me so much while I am teaching because sometimes I can’t even believe some of the words that come into my head, it is awesome! Even though I get down and some days are hard, I do know God is with me and He loves me and most importantly I am his daughter and He wants me to succeed! And I find great comfort and courage knowing that he wont let me fail if I put complete faith in him!!
So this week all the new mission presidents are here. They actually come tomorrow for a week which is awesome and which mean the 1st Presidency will be here as well. Whoop! Whoop!! Hopefully I will get to see them.. On Friday we have a huge fireside and they say that usually the First Presidency speaks that night!.. And guess what? My Elders were asked to pass the sacrament to the First Presidency this Sunday! isn’t that awesome!! I feel like their mom! I am so proud of my Elders!! We are like powerhouses and we wont be stopped!!!! LOL!
I am loving the MTC and it makes me sad that I will leave just because I have learned so much here!! It is a bitter sweet feeling for sure leaving but I can’t even wait to meet the people of Costa Rica!!!! I look at my mission presidents picture in the hall way and I just love him already and his cute little wife!!.. I thank Heavenly Father that I have this opportunity with him to bring all his children back to him again!!
I know that this work and this gospel is true! I love it more than I can possibly say!! THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!!!!! The church that Christ established is here on the earth once again!! I love this gospel and I love Joseph Smith, I have grew to come and love this man! I know he did see God the Father and Jesus Christ in the grove.. That by a simple act of just praying he changed the world forever.. I love him for his faith and courage!!
I love my family!! Thank you for all your love and support!! Thanks Mom for sending me those pictures it kind of made me cry because I love my family so much and I have such a cute eternal family!! Never forget that we are all in this together! That we are an eternal family and we are here to see each other through!!
I love you!!!!! Las Familias son Eternal!!!
Love always and forever Hermana Turnbaugh!!
How is everyone doing!?! Thanks for All your letters and emails! They make me so happy to hear from all of you!! Mom and Dad is everything ok this week!? I didn’t get an email from you and I am a little worried!!!! Are you ok!?! Let me know if you are ok and you are safe!!!!!! I hope all is well!!
This week was a pretty good week, kind of hard, but that is how life goes! I just think that I am getting anxious about leaving in 2 weeks and just wishing I knew more! But I know that I am not suppose to know everything right away but still it does get me down. But I am trying to stay positive and stay diligent in all aspects. So please pray for me this week and next week that I wont be so hard on myself and I will work hard and endure to the end!!!
So 4 new sisters moved into our zone and they are so cute! 1 of them will be serving in Chile and the 4th girl is going to Chicago Spanish speaking. It is good not to be completely alone. And they are so positive and that is so great!! They truly are so glad to be here!
We have been teaching a lot in spanish and last week on Saturday we taught the first lesson again in spanish and it went great!! My teacher Hermana Mella watches us as we teach and she write notes for us so that we can improve! And this week for all the companionships, she said she wanted to talk to each one of us individually as a companionship. So she took me and my elders and talked to us about our performance.. She said that she had none that she had to write down, that we are great teachers! She said that “how you taught and applied it to the needs of the investigator was incredible!”. It was so awesome!!!! It made me feel so good that we are teaching the way the Lord wants us to teach.. I know that he helps me so much while I am teaching because sometimes I can’t even believe some of the words that come into my head, it is awesome! Even though I get down and some days are hard, I do know God is with me and He loves me and most importantly I am his daughter and He wants me to succeed! And I find great comfort and courage knowing that he wont let me fail if I put complete faith in him!!
So this week all the new mission presidents are here. They actually come tomorrow for a week which is awesome and which mean the 1st Presidency will be here as well. Whoop! Whoop!! Hopefully I will get to see them.. On Friday we have a huge fireside and they say that usually the First Presidency speaks that night!.. And guess what? My Elders were asked to pass the sacrament to the First Presidency this Sunday! isn’t that awesome!! I feel like their mom! I am so proud of my Elders!! We are like powerhouses and we wont be stopped!!!! LOL!
I am loving the MTC and it makes me sad that I will leave just because I have learned so much here!! It is a bitter sweet feeling for sure leaving but I can’t even wait to meet the people of Costa Rica!!!! I look at my mission presidents picture in the hall way and I just love him already and his cute little wife!!.. I thank Heavenly Father that I have this opportunity with him to bring all his children back to him again!!
I know that this work and this gospel is true! I love it more than I can possibly say!! THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!!!!! The church that Christ established is here on the earth once again!! I love this gospel and I love Joseph Smith, I have grew to come and love this man! I know he did see God the Father and Jesus Christ in the grove.. That by a simple act of just praying he changed the world forever.. I love him for his faith and courage!!
I love my family!! Thank you for all your love and support!! Thanks Mom for sending me those pictures it kind of made me cry because I love my family so much and I have such a cute eternal family!! Never forget that we are all in this together! That we are an eternal family and we are here to see each other through!!
I love you!!!!! Las Familias son Eternal!!!
Love always and forever Hermana Turnbaugh!!
Monday, June 21, 2010
June 15, 2010
Dear Familia!!!
Hola mi Familia!!!!! Como Esta!?! Sorry I am late, usually I write you my email in the morning but the server was down until now!! But I am so so great!!!!
I am just loving life!! I am just so happy all over and I love it!!
I just got back from the Temple! I cant tell you how wonderful it is to go to the Temple every week. It has been such a great blessing in my life!!!! I love it and every time I go I learn something new. I love sitting in the celestial room and feeling my Saviors love for me! It is such a neat experience!!! I am uplifted and edified when I go and when I come out my day is ten times brighter!!!
But how is everyone!?! How is Laren and Lindsey? I haven’t heard from them at all and how is Everyone else?
I miss you all more than I can possibly say!! I know that we are an eternal family!!!!
My week was great! So last Tuesday for our devotional speaker Robert D. Hales came and spoke, it was amazing he spoke about the light of Christ! It was so powerful then I was thinking after the devotional as I was in my room the world was in a time during the apostasy where everyone was in a spiritual darkness. And if Christ is Light and the world was in darkness then that means that Christ was not on the Earth, nor his gospel or His power was not on the earth because the earth was in darkness!! It was so cool to realize that the world lit up when Joseph Smith Prayed. That Christ’s power lit up the world again. We have Christ on the Earth today and we will never be in darkness again bc we know of Christ!!! I Love this gospel!! The Gospel is truth and nothing else matters!!! I love it!! I can't express how happy I am Familia!! This gospel lights up my soul where I am happy all the time. Yes I get down but when I have the spirit those days don't seem bad because I know God is with me always and forever.
Yes! I taught my first lesson in all Spanish and yes it was scary!!!!! But my Elders and I did great!! We could have done better but it was nerves so hopefully this Saturday when we teach again we wont be as nervous. But I understood and I taught in Spanish which is cool!! I cant believe that I only have 3 more weeks here! It was 3 weeks exactly on Monday. Crazy time is flying!! I get scared though that I don't know enough and I will fly down to Costa Rica and I will feel like Laren did and say " What? Are you sure they taught me Spanish bc I am pretty sure they taught me German!!" Lol No it will be great! Yes it will be a shock for the first couple of months but I am so so so excited to meet the people!! I know that I am just going to fall in love with them. I met an Elder whose mom is Costa Rican and so he was telling me all about it. He said it is Paradise and the people are amazing!!!! Like Saints even! LOL so that make me not so nervous! I cant wait to meet my president I know that I will just fall in love with him too!!! Pray for him and pray for me!! This next week all the new mission presidents come in so you know what that means all the apostles and the first presidency will be here!! so cool huh maybe I will meet all 12 before I leave!!
That is so nice Sarah Hermann invited you to her sealing!! Tell her I love her and good Luck tell her that if she always puts God first and loves Nathan as God loves him, they will be blessed and have a happy life together!!! And also on that day is MY BIG DADDY O"S Birthday!!!! Whoop whoop!!! so happy birthday Daddy!!! I love you so much!!!!!! have the best day ever!!!!
I know my camera stinks big time!! it makes me sad too!!! I wonder what I should do? Oh well we have some time to figure that out right!!!
MAAAAAAAAM!!!!!! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!!!! The package of shirts are perfect!! I love them all they are modest and exactly what I was picturing so thank you and I love reading all your notes, they make my day! And I love the bracelet that said HERMANA T so cute I am wearing it now!!! And thanks for the popcorn!! I love eating it at night I have probably lost about 10 pounds. Oh yeah I know I have because I was so so so sick this Thursday Friday Saturday! I got the worst cold ever!! So I had to go to the doctor bc the are strict now with colds and sickness but I am feeling so much better. I had to miss all day on Friday of classes to sleep I slept all day long. I tried to go to my classes and my teachers said you pretty much look like death go to bed and come back when you get better!!! LOL!! so I did and I slept all day long it was good for me though bc now I am feeling great!!! But I went to the doctor and I was ? with my jeans and shoes on so whoop whoop!! I am proud of myself for watching it!!
Oh so guess what the Young Women sent me letters and they were so cute! totally made my week!! It was fun to hear from the girls Sister Lyons asked if I could write my testimony of the Book of Mormon so I sent that today!! But if you see he tell her thanks that the girls sent me those notes I really appreciate it!!
Well I better run but thanks again for all your love and support I will send a letter with more things about my week!! But know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is restored it is True and nothing else matter!!! I love you and have the best week ever!!
Mom can you send me pictures of the family!?!!
I love you ALL! Love Hermana Turnbaugh
Hola mi Familia!!!!! Como Esta!?! Sorry I am late, usually I write you my email in the morning but the server was down until now!! But I am so so great!!!!
I am just loving life!! I am just so happy all over and I love it!!
I just got back from the Temple! I cant tell you how wonderful it is to go to the Temple every week. It has been such a great blessing in my life!!!! I love it and every time I go I learn something new. I love sitting in the celestial room and feeling my Saviors love for me! It is such a neat experience!!! I am uplifted and edified when I go and when I come out my day is ten times brighter!!!
But how is everyone!?! How is Laren and Lindsey? I haven’t heard from them at all and how is Everyone else?
I miss you all more than I can possibly say!! I know that we are an eternal family!!!!
My week was great! So last Tuesday for our devotional speaker Robert D. Hales came and spoke, it was amazing he spoke about the light of Christ! It was so powerful then I was thinking after the devotional as I was in my room the world was in a time during the apostasy where everyone was in a spiritual darkness. And if Christ is Light and the world was in darkness then that means that Christ was not on the Earth, nor his gospel or His power was not on the earth because the earth was in darkness!! It was so cool to realize that the world lit up when Joseph Smith Prayed. That Christ’s power lit up the world again. We have Christ on the Earth today and we will never be in darkness again bc we know of Christ!!! I Love this gospel!! The Gospel is truth and nothing else matters!!! I love it!! I can't express how happy I am Familia!! This gospel lights up my soul where I am happy all the time. Yes I get down but when I have the spirit those days don't seem bad because I know God is with me always and forever.
Yes! I taught my first lesson in all Spanish and yes it was scary!!!!! But my Elders and I did great!! We could have done better but it was nerves so hopefully this Saturday when we teach again we wont be as nervous. But I understood and I taught in Spanish which is cool!! I cant believe that I only have 3 more weeks here! It was 3 weeks exactly on Monday. Crazy time is flying!! I get scared though that I don't know enough and I will fly down to Costa Rica and I will feel like Laren did and say " What? Are you sure they taught me Spanish bc I am pretty sure they taught me German!!" Lol No it will be great! Yes it will be a shock for the first couple of months but I am so so so excited to meet the people!! I know that I am just going to fall in love with them. I met an Elder whose mom is Costa Rican and so he was telling me all about it. He said it is Paradise and the people are amazing!!!! Like Saints even! LOL so that make me not so nervous! I cant wait to meet my president I know that I will just fall in love with him too!!! Pray for him and pray for me!! This next week all the new mission presidents come in so you know what that means all the apostles and the first presidency will be here!! so cool huh maybe I will meet all 12 before I leave!!
That is so nice Sarah Hermann invited you to her sealing!! Tell her I love her and good Luck tell her that if she always puts God first and loves Nathan as God loves him, they will be blessed and have a happy life together!!! And also on that day is MY BIG DADDY O"S Birthday!!!! Whoop whoop!!! so happy birthday Daddy!!! I love you so much!!!!!! have the best day ever!!!!
I know my camera stinks big time!! it makes me sad too!!! I wonder what I should do? Oh well we have some time to figure that out right!!!
MAAAAAAAAM!!!!!! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!!!! The package of shirts are perfect!! I love them all they are modest and exactly what I was picturing so thank you and I love reading all your notes, they make my day! And I love the bracelet that said HERMANA T so cute I am wearing it now!!! And thanks for the popcorn!! I love eating it at night I have probably lost about 10 pounds. Oh yeah I know I have because I was so so so sick this Thursday Friday Saturday! I got the worst cold ever!! So I had to go to the doctor bc the are strict now with colds and sickness but I am feeling so much better. I had to miss all day on Friday of classes to sleep I slept all day long. I tried to go to my classes and my teachers said you pretty much look like death go to bed and come back when you get better!!! LOL!! so I did and I slept all day long it was good for me though bc now I am feeling great!!! But I went to the doctor and I was ? with my jeans and shoes on so whoop whoop!! I am proud of myself for watching it!!
Oh so guess what the Young Women sent me letters and they were so cute! totally made my week!! It was fun to hear from the girls Sister Lyons asked if I could write my testimony of the Book of Mormon so I sent that today!! But if you see he tell her thanks that the girls sent me those notes I really appreciate it!!
Well I better run but thanks again for all your love and support I will send a letter with more things about my week!! But know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is restored it is True and nothing else matter!!! I love you and have the best week ever!!
Mom can you send me pictures of the family!?!!
I love you ALL! Love Hermana Turnbaugh
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Kaylie's Letter- June 8th
FAMILIA!!!
Mom and Dad I am so glad you are home!!!!! And you are safe and sound!!! Thank you for writing me that Dear Elder letter yesterday it totally made my Day mom!!! I was getting a little nervous because I didn’t hear anything from you guys but I am so so so glad you had fun and loved it!! Your pictures were so cute I love my Parents!!! You are so so so cute!!!!! I had to show everyone my beautiful parents! It sounded like an eye opener for you guys to see how most of the world lives. I know even in Jerusalem and also Mazatlan was so dirty. I could not believe that people could live that way it made me sad.
I know that Costa Rica will probably be the same in some areas. One of the Hermana’s that I am living with went to Costa Rica for 2 weeks and she has been telling me all about it. She is so jealous bc she says it is literally paradise! I am so excited.
Can you believe I am going on my 6th week here!!! It has gone by so so so fast! I cant hardly believe it. I feel so new still and I don’t feel I know the language as well as I should but I do or will hopefully! lol
After tomorrow I only have 3 more Wednesday’s then I fly out on the 5 of July! Crazy huh before I know it I will be able to call you from the airport before I fly to COSTA RICA!!!! I am so excited to be down there and feel of the love that Heavenly Father has for his Children. When I think about those people I want to cry. I haven’t even meet them yet but it is so crazy, I have this love for them, that I feel as if I am going home to them! crazy huh!?! I know with out a shadow of a doubt that I was meant to serve there and that gives me strength and hope! It gives me strength to know that Heavenly Father has enough trust in me to learn their language and to teach his children. It is a great privilege to do so!
As for spanish it is coming along and I am learning so much but at times I feel so great about it and at other times not so much but I know that I just need more practice and I need HSI or I need to speak my language more. But Guess what I am a brave little TICA because I bore my testimony in Espanol on Sunday!!! Holy Cow!!!! And I did it and hopefully people understood and it made sense! I just had a strong impression I needed to bear it and I did and it felt so great!!! I know that it can learn this language it will just come through time. But bearing my testimony in spanish was powerful and I am so glad that I followed those promptings and I did! It was so great!!!
Next Wednesday, so a week from tomorrow, my other sisters that I live with will be living for their missions and then I will be alone again so hopefully tomorrow we will get other sisters in our zone bc if not it will be me and 25 Elders!!!! AHHHH!!! Lol! No it will be great if that does happen. I am just learning to make the most of it!. But yes the situation as a solos sister has turned out to be great. My Elders are great and they are so respectful and always includes me in everything plus they never seem like it is a burden to have me follow them. So truly I know that God works in mysterious ways! and everything is a blessing in disguise. I am learning so much from my Elders and I hope they are learning a lot from me too!!
This week has been a good week. I have been busy studying and learning spanish bc guess what this Saturday we have to teach lesson one all in spanish!!!! And I am not going to lie I am so so so so nervous!! I just want to testify in the power I can in English but I know that one day I will be able to! So my Elders and I have been working hard and we are going to work so hard this week to learn as much as we can so that our lesson runs smoothly. I can understand spanish so well but speaking is another matter lol!! So as a family will you just keep me in you prayers and pray that I will be able to learn and speak spanish that Heavenly Father will help me. I need him and I need you because I can’t do this alone. I have learned that I am nothing without God! And that through him I can do all things!
I love you all!!! You are the most amazing familia. And thank you All for all your love and support. Please write me you dont know what a strength you are all to me! It helps my days go better when I read your words!!! I love you Las Familias Son Eternas!!!!!
Oh yes mom about those shirts Maybe if you can find like stretchy kind of shirts and not too short sleeves but modest. In black white dark blue I would say one that the sleeves come closer to the elbow than the shoulder. But yes I did by two skirts so sorry I have spent so much money but they are so cute one is red and the other is a khaki and it goes with a lot of my shirts that I brought!! And also maybe some more popcorn. I have been eating so well and I probably lost 5-10 pounds whoop whoop!! So they have helped.
But I love you all and I will write more in a letter!!! I love you!
Love always and Forever Tookie!!
Mom and Dad I am so glad you are home!!!!! And you are safe and sound!!! Thank you for writing me that Dear Elder letter yesterday it totally made my Day mom!!! I was getting a little nervous because I didn’t hear anything from you guys but I am so so so glad you had fun and loved it!! Your pictures were so cute I love my Parents!!! You are so so so cute!!!!! I had to show everyone my beautiful parents! It sounded like an eye opener for you guys to see how most of the world lives. I know even in Jerusalem and also Mazatlan was so dirty. I could not believe that people could live that way it made me sad.
I know that Costa Rica will probably be the same in some areas. One of the Hermana’s that I am living with went to Costa Rica for 2 weeks and she has been telling me all about it. She is so jealous bc she says it is literally paradise! I am so excited.
Can you believe I am going on my 6th week here!!! It has gone by so so so fast! I cant hardly believe it. I feel so new still and I don’t feel I know the language as well as I should but I do or will hopefully! lol
After tomorrow I only have 3 more Wednesday’s then I fly out on the 5 of July! Crazy huh before I know it I will be able to call you from the airport before I fly to COSTA RICA!!!! I am so excited to be down there and feel of the love that Heavenly Father has for his Children. When I think about those people I want to cry. I haven’t even meet them yet but it is so crazy, I have this love for them, that I feel as if I am going home to them! crazy huh!?! I know with out a shadow of a doubt that I was meant to serve there and that gives me strength and hope! It gives me strength to know that Heavenly Father has enough trust in me to learn their language and to teach his children. It is a great privilege to do so!
As for spanish it is coming along and I am learning so much but at times I feel so great about it and at other times not so much but I know that I just need more practice and I need HSI or I need to speak my language more. But Guess what I am a brave little TICA because I bore my testimony in Espanol on Sunday!!! Holy Cow!!!! And I did it and hopefully people understood and it made sense! I just had a strong impression I needed to bear it and I did and it felt so great!!! I know that it can learn this language it will just come through time. But bearing my testimony in spanish was powerful and I am so glad that I followed those promptings and I did! It was so great!!!
Next Wednesday, so a week from tomorrow, my other sisters that I live with will be living for their missions and then I will be alone again so hopefully tomorrow we will get other sisters in our zone bc if not it will be me and 25 Elders!!!! AHHHH!!! Lol! No it will be great if that does happen. I am just learning to make the most of it!. But yes the situation as a solos sister has turned out to be great. My Elders are great and they are so respectful and always includes me in everything plus they never seem like it is a burden to have me follow them. So truly I know that God works in mysterious ways! and everything is a blessing in disguise. I am learning so much from my Elders and I hope they are learning a lot from me too!!
This week has been a good week. I have been busy studying and learning spanish bc guess what this Saturday we have to teach lesson one all in spanish!!!! And I am not going to lie I am so so so so nervous!! I just want to testify in the power I can in English but I know that one day I will be able to! So my Elders and I have been working hard and we are going to work so hard this week to learn as much as we can so that our lesson runs smoothly. I can understand spanish so well but speaking is another matter lol!! So as a family will you just keep me in you prayers and pray that I will be able to learn and speak spanish that Heavenly Father will help me. I need him and I need you because I can’t do this alone. I have learned that I am nothing without God! And that through him I can do all things!
I love you all!!! You are the most amazing familia. And thank you All for all your love and support. Please write me you dont know what a strength you are all to me! It helps my days go better when I read your words!!! I love you Las Familias Son Eternas!!!!!
Oh yes mom about those shirts Maybe if you can find like stretchy kind of shirts and not too short sleeves but modest. In black white dark blue I would say one that the sleeves come closer to the elbow than the shoulder. But yes I did by two skirts so sorry I have spent so much money but they are so cute one is red and the other is a khaki and it goes with a lot of my shirts that I brought!! And also maybe some more popcorn. I have been eating so well and I probably lost 5-10 pounds whoop whoop!! So they have helped.
But I love you all and I will write more in a letter!!! I love you!
Love always and Forever Tookie!!
Kaylie's Latest E-mail
Mi Familia!!!!
Yo amo mi familia mucho!! How is everyone doing!?! I miss you all so much thanks everyone for your dear Elders and all your letters they help me out so much you don't even understand how much your words are strengths to me!! I love you so thank you for always thinking about me! Oh Mom and dad you little cruisers that is awesome you are off and on your way! Please be safe and know how much I love you! You two Deserve this little vacation. I hope you have the best time enjoy yourselves!!! Mom and Dad try to pick up as much Spanish as possible k? lol!!
This week has been pretty good! Some up and some downs but mostly ups!!! Yes it is hard being a solo especially being in class for about 8 hours a day with 10 elders that is hard it does get lonely at times. But all is good and I am learning so much about myself. The Elders I am with though are awesome! My district Pres was about to make me rotate between all the different companionships but I told him that with the Elders I am with I am learning how to be a good companion and so he said that he can’t assign me to them but he himself thinks that those elders are the best for me! So that’s good and yes we are working with each other so well!
So this week in my classes is all Spanish no English anymore! Can you believe that I am on my 5th week here in the MTC I can’t believe it, it has gone by so fast!!!! My companion sisters who I follow around so I am never alone leave the 15th of June and that is like in 2 weeks then after that I only have three weeks left here in Provo. That is such an awesome but so so so scary thought that I will be going to go down to Costa Rica and speak spanish. I feel like I am so new and dont know anything! but I do! I just need to have more faith in my self and in the Lord!! Through him I can learn this language which I love! It is seriously so beautiful! But at the end of the day I am so tired and my head hurts from trying to listen so hard and then trying to respond. LOL!! But it will come in time and I am so excited! One of the teachers on our floor served in Costa Rica and I talk to him a lot about it and he tells me some things that they say down there like Puda Vida I am not sure if I spelt that right but it mean the pure life. You say that for hello how are you and then your response so it is great talking to him.
Oh so I wanted to tell you something. So we are now on lesson two learning and studying the Plan of Salvation. And with my Elders we were having companion study and we were studying the fall of Adam and Eve and do you remember mom how I had questions about that and I was rude about it, well I had an epiphany(?) Ok so we read a scripture I believe it was in Moses were it said that Eve rejoiced and praised God after she partook of the fruit bc she could have children. Well that got me thinking and I read a another scripture how we have always be intelligences. We have always been either male or female and we have always had those traits of both either male or female. Even though Eve was innocent she was still a women and she had those traits of a women to love and to nurture and to be a Mother. And even like Fayth and Ciara who are innocent, they still play with dolls and act like little mothers. Why do you think that is? It is because they have been women since the beginning of time. They have those traits just like Eve had. So Eve maybe not knowing really why? She knew, I believe, that her great purpose and divine mission was to be a mother and that is why she partook of the fruit bc she knew she needed to be a mother to fulfill her divine nature, it was innate. She might not of known why but those traits came out of her when Satan beguiled her. I think that is so cool that we as women and men have been that since the beginning of time and we both have great purposes here on this earth. We can’t have one sex without the other. We work hand in hand. I love that!!! I love this gospel!!!
I am doing great and I am loving my time in the MTC I am learning how to be a great missionary and it is through obedience with exactness. Without that we are nothing and without the spirit we are nothing. I will write in my letter about an experience with the spirit and how it is so vital to missionary work. It is a hard thing to maintain you need to always be living in a way that you can always have it. And I love that! that we need to work for it. It just doesn’t come naturally we have to always pray on your knees to our loving Heavenly Father and ask for that spirit!!!
Mom and Dad here in the MTC we have to extend commitments then promise blessings so I am going to extend a commitment to you both need to talk to someone on your cruise ship about the gospel. You need to bear testimony of it! I know that if you do Heavenly Father will bless you that you will have a stronger testimony yourself in the Gospel as you testify. This gospel is perfect bc God is leading and guiding it and people need to know that his church is here ion the earth today the fullness is here on the earth so will you mom and dad please testify to someone on your ship about the Gospel of Jesus Christ!!
I love you all so much continue to pray for me I need it !
Love always and forever Tookie
Yo amo mi familia mucho!! How is everyone doing!?! I miss you all so much thanks everyone for your dear Elders and all your letters they help me out so much you don't even understand how much your words are strengths to me!! I love you so thank you for always thinking about me! Oh Mom and dad you little cruisers that is awesome you are off and on your way! Please be safe and know how much I love you! You two Deserve this little vacation. I hope you have the best time enjoy yourselves!!! Mom and Dad try to pick up as much Spanish as possible k? lol!!
This week has been pretty good! Some up and some downs but mostly ups!!! Yes it is hard being a solo especially being in class for about 8 hours a day with 10 elders that is hard it does get lonely at times. But all is good and I am learning so much about myself. The Elders I am with though are awesome! My district Pres was about to make me rotate between all the different companionships but I told him that with the Elders I am with I am learning how to be a good companion and so he said that he can’t assign me to them but he himself thinks that those elders are the best for me! So that’s good and yes we are working with each other so well!
So this week in my classes is all Spanish no English anymore! Can you believe that I am on my 5th week here in the MTC I can’t believe it, it has gone by so fast!!!! My companion sisters who I follow around so I am never alone leave the 15th of June and that is like in 2 weeks then after that I only have three weeks left here in Provo. That is such an awesome but so so so scary thought that I will be going to go down to Costa Rica and speak spanish. I feel like I am so new and dont know anything! but I do! I just need to have more faith in my self and in the Lord!! Through him I can learn this language which I love! It is seriously so beautiful! But at the end of the day I am so tired and my head hurts from trying to listen so hard and then trying to respond. LOL!! But it will come in time and I am so excited! One of the teachers on our floor served in Costa Rica and I talk to him a lot about it and he tells me some things that they say down there like Puda Vida I am not sure if I spelt that right but it mean the pure life. You say that for hello how are you and then your response so it is great talking to him.
Oh so I wanted to tell you something. So we are now on lesson two learning and studying the Plan of Salvation. And with my Elders we were having companion study and we were studying the fall of Adam and Eve and do you remember mom how I had questions about that and I was rude about it, well I had an epiphany(?) Ok so we read a scripture I believe it was in Moses were it said that Eve rejoiced and praised God after she partook of the fruit bc she could have children. Well that got me thinking and I read a another scripture how we have always be intelligences. We have always been either male or female and we have always had those traits of both either male or female. Even though Eve was innocent she was still a women and she had those traits of a women to love and to nurture and to be a Mother. And even like Fayth and Ciara who are innocent, they still play with dolls and act like little mothers. Why do you think that is? It is because they have been women since the beginning of time. They have those traits just like Eve had. So Eve maybe not knowing really why? She knew, I believe, that her great purpose and divine mission was to be a mother and that is why she partook of the fruit bc she knew she needed to be a mother to fulfill her divine nature, it was innate. She might not of known why but those traits came out of her when Satan beguiled her. I think that is so cool that we as women and men have been that since the beginning of time and we both have great purposes here on this earth. We can’t have one sex without the other. We work hand in hand. I love that!!! I love this gospel!!!
I am doing great and I am loving my time in the MTC I am learning how to be a great missionary and it is through obedience with exactness. Without that we are nothing and without the spirit we are nothing. I will write in my letter about an experience with the spirit and how it is so vital to missionary work. It is a hard thing to maintain you need to always be living in a way that you can always have it. And I love that! that we need to work for it. It just doesn’t come naturally we have to always pray on your knees to our loving Heavenly Father and ask for that spirit!!!
Mom and Dad here in the MTC we have to extend commitments then promise blessings so I am going to extend a commitment to you both need to talk to someone on your cruise ship about the gospel. You need to bear testimony of it! I know that if you do Heavenly Father will bless you that you will have a stronger testimony yourself in the Gospel as you testify. This gospel is perfect bc God is leading and guiding it and people need to know that his church is here ion the earth today the fullness is here on the earth so will you mom and dad please testify to someone on your ship about the Gospel of Jesus Christ!!
I love you all so much continue to pray for me I need it !
Love always and forever Tookie
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