First Week in the MTC!!!
Hello everyone!
I flew into Utah last Wednesday and have been at the MTC since then! It has been a blast (that's not sarcastic). The sisters in my district are so much fun, in just the few days we've known each other we've gotten so close and are already dreading when we will have to leave each other. My companion is also so much fun, I love her so much! My classes have been really good and I have been learning a lot!
I feel like there is so much I could talk about but I know when I see a long email I don't read it. So I will try to pack as much in in a short email as I can haha.
We've been to the temple twice since we got here and both times it was so fun and good. I LOVE THE TEMPLE, and the Mount Timpanogos Temple is so pretty. It was also HUUUGE haha. I swear I got lost just in the dressing rooms, it was a maze.
General Conference was so good! We were all sitting in this big room on these hard chairs (my rear is still recovering) but I think it was the first time I actually paid attention to the entire 8 hours woohoooo. I got such good notes and man there was so much good stuff! I hope most of you listened to it but I will highlight some of my favorite things:- SO MUCH talk about love and charity (unfortunately I probably needed to hear it all...)
- "Jesus is not the weight He is the relief" 
- Jesus is our guide!!!
- We are the Lord's treasure
- How can I despair when I know God is with me?! (Answer: I can't!)
- Clement Matswagothata's entire talk
- Emily Freeman's entire talk
And so so much more, but it was the coolest experience watching this as a missionary. I feel like I was able to relate EVERY talk back to mission work. It was also fun being in a room full of missionaries and to hear the apostles praise us
Easter night we had a music devotional and man it was so good. The first three people got up and I was thinking it was going to be another long hour in the hard chairs, but then this one man got on the piano and my jaw dropped. IT WAS INSANE! They got three random songs for him to play about Jesus - I will walk with Jesus (suuuuch a good song) Jesus Wants me for a sunbeam, and Amazing Grace - and this guy whipped out a beautiful medley of all three songs on the spot. I swear I could hear angels singing, I am not joking. It was the most beautiful thing ever, I was crying my eyes out. Then this one Elder got up and His voice was a m a z i n g. So so good.
Today I was put to work. We got a service assignment and I was like oh, maybe some gardening or helping with meals (IDK I'm used to young women activity service) and it turns out I would be elbow deep scrubbing toilets. I was like are you kidding me. It was only an hour and it went by fast due to the fun girls in my district but still. But then I was thinking about it and I was like if I owned a training center, yeah I would make the people attending clean for "service". It's actually pretty smart. I would also make it a lot harder than what we had to do... that's all I can say. So no hate to the MTC, I get it.
To end on a spiritual note, I want to say I know I am doing what Heavenly Father needs me to be doing right now. During the Easter Music Devotional I said a prayer saying "here am I. send me" (Susan Porter' talk ;)) and I felt confirmation that I am where He already sent me. He needs me here right now and that I am doing the right thing by serving a mission. I love my Heavenly Father and I love Jesus. I love that I get to spend the next year and a half teaching about Him and bringing others home. I love you all and hope you have a great week!Love, Sister Peterson
My district in front of the beautiful Mount Timpanogos Temple
Me and my GORGEOUS companion
Elder Peterson and Sister Petersen (look at the tags)
Random group of Elders that became our friends. They are all learning spanish and everytime we go outside we bump into them. We love to see them!
Me and the sisters in my district in our matching shirts. Yes, those are shirtless men. Yes, it was sold in the MTC store.