The first 3 days!

Hello everyone! It's kind of crazy that now I am the one sending out a group email every week! On Wednesday I participated in my first online MTC classes! Going into it I was super skeptical about it and honestly kind of had a bad feeling about it, but after my first morning devotional my whole perspective changed. I was given a kind reminder from the spirit and the speaker that God knows what he is doing. If he didn't trust that we could do this online, then we wouldn't be! Now I am finding myself really enjoying my classes! 

 My district 21-E, really makes the time go by fast! They are some of the best people! There are 12 of us total, and 8/12 of us live in Utah. We are all going to a Chile mission, but I am the only one going to the Santiago North mission. My companion is Hermana Jones and she is currently in Arizona! She is so sweet! Our first companion study was kind of a mess and we just ended up getting to know each other the whole time, because neither of us knew what we were supposed to be doing! But you live and learn! I love talking with her and everyone else because we are all so new to this, and most of the time they are all feeling the same things I am! Yesterday I was in online Zoom classes for 9.5 hours! That is a lot of time for someone who has always said that she never wants a desk job! The time actually goes by pretty fast, because the teachers are so prepared and have so many new insights to offer! However, I have only received 1 hour of  Spanish instruction! Apparently they are trying something new starting this year, and I won't be fully immersed until week 3 of my MTC! So I am just trying to memorize as many words as I can before then, so that I won't be completely lost in class!!

 The overarching lesson that I have learned this week is that I will find true happiness by forgetting myself and putting everything I have into God's work. I know that it might still be a while until I get to serve the Chilean people, but my heart is already so overwhelmed with love for them! I have a testimony that the gospel is what brings real happiness in this life, and I can't wait to continue to learn how to teach our Heavenly Fathers plan of happiness everyone!!