The MTC...

Hola, mi familia!!

 They told us not to write anything negative, so I guess I'll have to just end my letter here... Haha just kidding :)  I actually really like it here! Ash is crazy, it's not near as bad as she says it is!!

 I have met the BFG!! Well, I've only seen him actually, not met him. But from what I can tell he's more like just a BG, not a BFG... hahaha he's a huge scary looking man. And his last name is Angus, which is also kind of ominous sounding.... haha. Yesterday when we went to devotional one of the sisters that I was talking to was like, "He looks like a bouncer. When I come in here I feel like he's going to check my temple recommend!" He's kinda intimidating...

 Ashley LOVED her fortune cookies! :)

 They keep us super, super busy here! Even the first day we didn't have time to unpack until like 9 pm. But it's probably good that they keep us so busy, that way we don't have time to moan and groan and miss everyone. Yesterday we were doing cleaning service in they gym and they have these vacuums that you wear on your back and then you have the hose part to suck stuff up and they totally reminded me of Ghoshbusters! As I was cleaning this Elder walked by and was like "Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!!" Haha it made me laugh :) I've been very blessed to not feel too homesick! I didn't even silently cry the first night :)

 I love after 9:30 pm because then we're allowed to go up to our rooms and do whatever (well, technically we're supposed to prepare for the next day...) and just relax! I love it because 1. I get to change into PJ's and I feel like I'm normal again :) 2. I know I don't have anything to do for the rest of the night so I can finally just relax! 3. SLEEP! :) That is the only thing here that I don't like -- I don't get to sleep in! It's killing me, hopefully I'll get used to it soon...

 I see Ash almost every day! We actually live two rooms down from each other and we usually are getting ready for bed in the bathroom at the same time so we get to talk to each other forever, it's super fun to see her! And she gives me all these good tips and advice about the MTC :) I've seen Annie Love also, but I haven't had time to really talk to her!

 I found out something very sad the first day I got here - there's no music allowed in the MTC! How horrible is that? Why didn't anyone warn me of this before I came? The BYU bell tower plays a hymn when it rings and I love it because I get to hear music :) We also sing like three songs before we even get to the openening song for devotionals and stuff and I LOVE it! We went to choir practice and that was super fun too!

 So the other day at lunch they have these cubby hole things to put your backpacks in and me and my companion were leaving and we went to the computer labs after and I sat down and opened my backpack up and someone had stuck this white journal in there! And I was like, "oh, that's funny! Someone must have accidentally thought my backpack was theirs!" Well, then I realized that nothing in there was mine and I had totally stolen someone's backpack!!! I laughed about it for like 10 minutes while we were going back to the cafeteria and the girl was like, "oh, there's my backpack!!" Haha it was way funny :)

 Thanks everyone for the letters, they made my day. Daniel is right, anything and everything sounds interesting to missionaries :) Make sure to send this to Linda because she's sent me three letters and they all made me smile! She always puts a funny story/joke in there and they always make me laugh! Thanks, Linda!

 I can't wait to get the pictures that the kids drew for me! I'm glad everything went well there. Was Isabel excited about it? Once you guys get the new family pictures will you send me one??

 About my compenero: She grew up in Japan and she lived there for a huge portion of her life, but she's been living in Midway for a while now. We were getting along great at the beginning but not I'm realizing how controlling she is and she thinks all my ideas are stupid (I think I have some good ones :)... haha). She also gets super overwhelmed and frustrated and then she won't even talk to me, so I talked to her about it but I don't really know how to help her with that and she said she doesn't know how I could help either, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it works out :)

 Just to warn you for the future, the computer shuts off after thirty minutes so if I ever send you a partially finished email that's why, I had to just hurry and send it!

 Spanish is going really well, I really, really like my teachers! They are funny and they are really good teachers. I hate the grammatical parts of learning Spanish, but I love being able to speak it so I'll just have to suck it up and deal with it. I can actually understand a huge portion of what people are saying to me in spanish so I'm super happy about that, it's just the speaking part that is so dang hard! We've learned how to pray and say our testimonies in Spanish already and it's pretty easy so far! I just need to study the language more.

 Well, I only have like one minute left so I have to go, but write me letters! Use DearElder, it's way awesome!

I love you guys!! :)

P.S. Sorry for all the spelling errors, it makes me so anxious that I have this huge timer counting down the whole time I'm on here!!!! :)