Alo!

 

Today is a beatiful rainy (freezing cold) day here at the MTC (Missionary Training Center). But it is absolutely gorgeous. We are surrounded by mountains in the Provo Valley and this morning the fog had concealed them completely. Also, with this weather has come another round of illness. : ) But everything is okay. It's just not fun when you are in a room with 4 sisters and you each keep rotating which sickness you get....But I loaded up on drugas (drugs) at the store yesterday, so we will prevail!! haha.

 

How goes life back in Arizona? Thank you for your letters and packages! I really appreciate them and I love being able to share with the other sisters in my District.

 

So my companion and I have been able to leave the MTC to go on field-trips to the doctors. ha. Very fun. Nothing serious, but we were playing volleyball and both successfully hurt ourselves. I jammed my finger and she strained her wrist. So we walk around all bandaged up and people ask, "what happened?" we say in unison, "volleyball". So now we are banned from the sport...but I've convinced her to try soccer. So i'm excited for that. Well, on our doctor visits, we had really neat experiences. Don't get my wrong I really love being in the MTC with so many awesome people, but I cannot describe the excitement I had to talk to other people. It was kind of ridiculous. I was talking to everyone that I could! And I even talked to two ladies from Chile and Argetina IN SPANISH. I felt so much love and apprecitaion to be able to ask about their lives and encourage them with their situation, as it was a doctor's office and they were all hurting in some way. One lady I especially felt for who was older and in a wheelchair. She arrived the same time we did and she was smiling so much as we opened the door for her, but I saw her later as she came out, knowing that she would now have to get surgery her face had changed to saddness. Seeing her demeanour at the first, I would have never have guessed that inside she was hurting and needed comfort. But I feel that everyone, no matter how happy they appear needs to feel loved and be uplifted. I hope that we can all rtake time to reach out to those around us. The more we care about others, the more we will be cared for as well. It's a chain effect.

 

I love you all!

Love,

Hermana Clement

 

P.S. So I heard the news about the numbers increase in the amount of missionaries that coming to serve for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints... It jumped from 700 a week beginning their papers to 4,000 a week. When I went to the doctor, he showed me the article and I was amazed. Over half of the missioaries that are in those numbers are sisters. I'm just wondering where they are going to put everyone. I also am hoping that these young missionaries come out because they feel that they have a testimony and want to serve others, and not because they feel pressured. Because many get here and then realize that it is harder than they thought (with so much to do and so much to learn) and I can honestly say that I would not still be here if I did not believe this restored gospel to be true. I have a strong hope that everything will work out. And I am excited to see the good that these missionaries will do.