Ok so um i freaking LOVE
IT HERE. seriously, i love it so much. like that was the very last thing
i ever expected to happen but it's so so so true! seriously, it was the
2nd night here and i was just laying in my bed crying (yes you read
that right, me crying. i do it all the time here apparently...
whatever.) cuz this is literally the best desicion i have every made in
my life. ever. I am so stinking happy here all the time and everything i
was worried would happen/wouldnt happen isn't even a problem at all in
any way and i have seriously never been happier. everybody should go on a
mission! seriously everybody do it. you would not regret a second of
it. and i mean everybody, if you aren't mormon, get mormon so you can go
on a mission. hahahah
Alright so what do my days
here at the mtc look like?? Basically sister ray and i get up at 615
every morning, shower, get ready, and then head down to breakfast.
after breakfast we have personal study time which we use to read the
BOM. Our branch president challenged us to read the whole thing in the 6
weeks that we are here which translates to roughly about 15 pages a
day, and it is awesome! and then we usually have a 3 hour block of class
time in which we are bombarded with portugues and then we have lunch
and then usually TALL, which is like online lang. study stuff ( it
always, always puts me to sleep. seriously it is so hard staying awake
when all you are doing is just staring at a screen of foreign words) and
then we usually have either gym time or another 3 hour block of class.
and then we have planning time at 9, getting ready for bed, writing in
journals, and then bedtime at 1030. rinse and repeat. that's my day
structure. and it's actually pretty awesome, even if the days always
seem like they are lasting for years. Sundays are a little different.
we dont have any classtime just church meetings and devotionals and
such. for relief society all the sisters go an hour early and get to
watch music and the spoken word (ehh... its ok). this past sunday they
had that one chick from youtube who plays the violin and jumps around
and stuff... lindsey sterling...i think... and um im not gonna lie, she
looked a little ridiculous. hahah i dont really get it... hahah yeah but
then after music and the spoken word we have actual relief society
which is actually just someone coming to speak to us ( i dont really
remember who is was this week... but im sure it was good. hahah) and
then after relief socitey this week we had a new sisters meeting where
basically they told us all the things we could and couldnt wear/can and
cant do. it was a little ridiculous. and by a little i mean a lot. they
taught us how to sit down. like sit. in a chair. they taught us that.
seriously. oh and also how to breathe (for stress... which was basically
just deep breaths... the secret is revealed!!) and how not to look like
lesbians (well not so much in those words but yes exactly that.
hahahah). oh and we dont have to wear makeup if we dont want to but we
should. hahah oh and we aren't supposed to move while we are sitting
since it is too distracting...
But yeah other than that
nonsense it has been wonderful here! I LOVE MY DISTRICT. they are kind
of the best people in the whole world (other than all of you guys of
course :] ) They are just so much fun and i just dont even have the
words fo it they are so wonderful! on our second day (last thursday) we
ended up all teaching ourselves how to pray in portugues and it was kind
of perfect! we felt so awesome! hahaha so there are 14 missionaries in
our district (usually there is only 12, but we are the bomb.com
so booyahh) 6 sisters, and 8 elders. Sister Ray and I are the only
sisters going to Sao Paulo Sul, the other 4, Sister Doman/Jackman (yes
like Hugh... I dont think they are related) and Sister
Hancock/Tucker, are going to Sao Paulo Interlagos. But they are our
roommates and they are so great. sister d/j are literally the sweetest
people i have ever met in my entire life. like just picture the kindest
sweetest most loving people you can imagine and that is them. Sister
Doman dreams about kittens for goodness sake! and sister h/t are awesome
as well. they are the tall beautiful ones who have boyfriends waiting
for them and i should hate them right? but they are so great and goofy.
And then there are the elders! they are just fantastic. Remember how i
told you there was an elder merkley in a meeting momma? well turns out
he is in my district. hahah i will find out if they are related, dont
worry. So it's elder merkley/bernard, and then elder oakes/larson (the
only elders not going to sao paulo sul), and then dew/starr, and
moralles/hoeft. elder starr reminds me of every guy friend i have ever
had in my life all rolled up into a ginger so yeah he's pretty fab. but
my fave (are we allowed faves?? whatever... haha) is elder hoeft. and
let me tell you why. on monday we all played volleyball together as a
district (yes i played volleyball and it was fun. shhhhush) and i wore
my 'it's a monday' shirt. and guess who knew exactly what it was from??
that's right. Elder Hoeft. he knows olan. HE KNOWS OLAN! BOOM BOOYAHH
YESSSSUUUSS. we may or may not quote every olan rogers video all the
time and it is perfect. (if you are reading this and dont know who olan
rogers is go, go now and look him up. youtube. now.) we also may or
maynot have danger legs-ed our way through volleyball yesturday and it
was fab. abby, show momma what danger legs is.
Oh goodness! I almost forgot about Arisvan! So friday, as in 2
days after we got here, we taught Arisvan... in portugues. AND IT WAS
AWESOME. well, that's prob a little bit of an exaggeration we basically
just read portugues off paper but we did it! i thought i was going to be
sick before but seriously we got in there and i was not nervous at all
and it was wonderful. we've taught 3 lessons since then and it happens
everytime. im a mess and then i completely forget about all of that as
soon as arisvan opens the door and its wonderful. oh and stephen, while
he was subbing out class, made us promise not to use notes for our 2nd
lesson and we totally didnt and it totally worked! we were able to
remember everything we wanted to say and even understand him a little
bit and it was just been wonderful.
Ok so i dont have much time left, the computers in this lab
keep freezing and everyone keeps freaking out each time and praying that
they start working again soon hahah but i do still have just a few more
things to say, um like... oh! DEAR ELDER! DEARELDERDEARELDERDEARELDER!
dear elder is kind of the most fanstatic creation in the history of
creation. everybody should use it! momma, make sure everybody knows
about it cuz it is fab. i didn't get it before. basically you type me up
a letter on dear elder and send it andi get it later that day. it is so
wonderful! cuz uh i've literally used up all my email time typing up
this one email and i feel horrible cuz i have so many other emails that i
dont have time to get to now, but if you use dear elder i can just hand
write you back! so if i dont respond to your emails this week hopefully
next week!
Ok uhhh other stories... um
someone explained to me what rice is like my 3rd day... like just this
random guy saw that my name was rice and was all like 'oh man! i love
rice! it's like those little grains that can be brown or white and taste
great with everything!'... it took me a second to realize what had just
happened... hahahah oh! and elder bullough's mom dear eldered me! it
was so sweet! ummm harrison, they have scooby doo fruit snacks in the
vending machines on my residence floor and i totally ate some in memory
of new years./you really really should write me boy boy. abby, that's a
supernatural quote, uh duh, i just cant remember when/who/where....
hahahah momma/dad/grammy, thank you for all the dear elders! i love them
and they make my day everyday! Rebekah thank you so much for the
packages! the greenie package was so awesome! i was totally gonna put up
a picture of it/just more pictures in general but i am out of time...
next week. for sure next week.
I love you all and miss you like crazy! can't wait to talk to you guys next week! =]
Love,
Sister Rice
p.s.- sorry if nothing in this letter made sense... i was just trying to get it all down... hahaha
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