I only have like half an hour so I
have to type fast. I miss you all heaps! But it's way fun here. Learning SO
much. I've adjusted very quickly to the early mornings which is a surprise. The schedule for
the MTC is pretty crazy but keeping busy keeps me from thinking about home. The
flight was ok over here, Elder Hynds and I kind of stuck together the whole
time, and then when we were driving from the airport to the MTC the driver (MTC
staff) were saying how their was a huge bunch of Tongan sisters that arrived
today too. I was hoping I'd have one as my companion. I got to the MTC about
6pm-ish and went straight into a meeting with everyone where I met my district
and my companion (who is, infact, TONGAN - Sister Niutupuivaha) she's awesome!
We get along so well. We're about the same size too! We laugh a lot and I'm
always reading her Tongan Bible. I'm preeeetty good at Tongan! Even though I
don't know what it means LOL we have 2 other sisters in our room - Sister Manua
and Sister Housman. Both of them are awesome! Sister Housman is Hawaiin but
she's white, and Sister Manua is from Melbourne but she's a light skinned
Samoan. We're all like besties already. Everyone here is awesome. The
food...not the best thing in the world (although everyone said it would be).
But it's not bad. We do A LOT of practicing with "investigators". I
don't have a long time to write but I'm learning so much. It's mostly out of
Preach My Gospepl but we're learning a lot about the fundamentals for teaching
which are really helping. There's a group of Tongan sisters here learning
English who've been here for 5 weeks. They're so welcoming and friendly and
HILARIOUS. I'm the only palangi (white) girl here! Apart from Sister Housman
but she's from Hawaii so she's hardly palangi. The 2 sets of Elders in my
district are the bomb! I love them so much. They're like my brothers. It feels
like I've been here for weeks but it's only been a few days. There's Elder
Harrington and Elder Savage (both are hilarious - from Utah). And Elder
Bearnson (Utah) and Elder Balenavekau (Fiji). The Fiji Elder's English is
improving SO much since being here. He was way quiet at the start but now he's
being more open and opinionated and he's the man now too. Love my district!! We
have the Zone Leaders in our district too. None of us really want to leave here
because we love being with each other so much..but then we're also so keen to
go out and start the work! I also am the conductor for most of the opening
exercises we have in our district and I was for sacrament meeting on Sunday and
a few other meetings we've had already lol seems like my calling is following
me everywhere! I also lead some of the girls in exercise every day. They asked
me to haha we do circuits of sit ups and push ups and lunges and planks and then
we do a good stretching session at the end. It's good :)
I haven't had ANY time to do ANYTHING other than quickly
write in my journal and talk with the other sisters in our room after we have
our planning session at 9:30pm. We're always busy!
Ok I have to go. I have like 5 minutes
to write back to 374032 people!! SO busy! Just let everyone know I only have
30min to email and it goes REALLY quick. There's so much more I want to type
but I have no time. I get another time to email next Tuesday. We go to the
temple on Wednesday. The whole day is temple day. Can't wait! All the people in
the MTC here are awesome. A lot of Tongans!
OK, got to go! The Church is true!
Love you LOADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sister Kuhn xxxxxxx
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