I’m having so much fun!

Hello!!

I’m having so much fun! Being a missionary is the best! It’s kinda

like FSY where you have all this spiritual stuff but then have so much

fun at the same time. My companion is Sister Cowley, she’s from

Riverton Utah and she'll be serving in the Seattle Washington mission.

She’s the best companion and we get along really well! There’s ten in

our district, four sister and six elders. I’m the only one not from

America haha. Everyone gets along really well and we have a lot of fun

together! We’re pretty much always together. The other two sisters

Sister Smith and Sister Baxter are also going to Seattle Washington.

Elder Engler, Elder Cowles and Elder Hawes are going to Rochester New

York and lucky me I’m not alone! Elder Robison, Elder Kneeland and

Elder Andrews are all going to my mission!! None of them have their

visas yet though so I really hope they get them in time coz I don’t

wanna travel by myself. Elder Kneeland and Elder Robison come from

towns with less than 300 people so India is going to be a big change

haha. Elder Kneeland is from Montana and he loves his cowboy boots and

wears them everywhere haha, it’s so cool.

Whenever I tell people where I’m from they’re like wow you’re from

Australia and then when I tell them I’m serving in India they’re like

double surprised!

Good motivation from the MTC president was that the more diligent

you’re on your mission, the more attractive your future companion will

be haha

Dinner here is so early!! It's at 5:30pm and by the time you go to bed

at 10:30pm you’re so hungry. The bread here is real gross too! I tried

an American drink here called cactus cool though and it kinda just

tastes like Fanta. The food as a whole isn’t that great and makes me

feel kinda sick so sometimes I don’t eat much. I had Chick-fil- a for

the first time and it was actually pretty good! Chick-fil-a, curly

fries and Hawaiian pizza are pretty much the only good meals I’ve had

here. Ooh and one time for breakfast they had hash Browns! I vomited

in my mouth one morning and I’m 100% sure it’s from the food. I would

love some food imported from Australia. A microwave meal sounds like

luxury right now.

My name tag is cool! It's a magnet so I don’t have to put holes in all

my clothes! When you’re new on the first day you get an orange sticker

on your name tag and everyone walks past you saying “welcome to the

MTC” in whatever language they’re learning too.

The temple is closed for the next three weeks so I’m pretty gutted

that I won’t be able to go to the temple while I’m here and then for

the next 18 months on my mission either.

I showed the sisters in my room vegemite and sang the vegemite song

and sister Baxter got her phone out to record me haha. The song is

catching on though! My companion even finds herself singing it too!

All the missionaries without devices get an IPad in the MTC so that's

cool but also a bit of a tease because I won’t have a device on my

mission. I'm able to read emails when you send them though, I just

can’t respond until P-day (Tuesday) I can email all day on P-day

though from 6:30am till 6:00pm.  I love getting emails throughout the

week. Our district leader checks for mail twice a day (when he

remembers) so send some letters my way!

We taught a lesson on our second day there, it was just a teacher but

still. We had our first district meeting this week and the branch

presidency love my accent and want me to stay longer so that they can

get my accent. Even my companion says she says things with an

Australian accent haha I thought I was the one meant to gain an

American accent. For a lot of the Americans I’m the first Australian

they’ve met which is pretty cool.

At our first branch meeting me and my companion were called as the

zone music organisers so we're in charge of choosing the hymns each

Sunday and choosing someone to chorister and play piano and we can

also organise musical items if we want.

Elder Robison (district leader) always says this when we come out of

class. Gospels true, book is blue, Moroni's always on the ball.

It was Elder Andrews's birthday this week and we were in class and my

companion sat down and i sat next to her so I was sitter in between

her and Elder Andrews and then Elder Cowles who's usually kinda quiet

was like when it’s my birthday do I get to sit next to a sister and we

were all silent for a minute and then we all burst out into laughter

and a teacher just gave him a look like that was inappropriate to say

but it was so funny!!

We had a competition with the Elders after lunch one time to see who

could get ready for sport the fastest and we were ready first and were

just waiting for them for ages! Elders take so long to get ready!

Well a mission is exactly what I expected! I'm tired and hungry all

the time! There was like one time I didn’t feel like falling asleep in

class and I was so proud of myself.

All these Americans were singing the American Anthem (literally

everyone in the MTC is American) and then when they ended it I was

like advance Australia fair. It was really funny.

It was fast Sunday on Sunday and so I was super hungry for dinner! I

even had room for ice cream but it wasn’t even that good which was a

let down. Funny story though! The icey poles are so frozen that when

Sister Cowley licked it her tongue got stuck to it! It was there for

ages and it was hilarious!

I tried to stay awake for the Sunday night devotional but I think I

fell asleep without realising and then after Elder Engler said that I

was asleep and that my head kept rocking back and forth and it was

apparently very funny!

Elder Robison taught me how to make an origami crane and it’s so cute!

Unfortunately we didn’t have any apostles speak to us because all

twelve of them were there last Sunday for the mission president

training and I’m so sad I just missed them! They were there Sunday,

Monday and Tuesday.

You can choose what movie you watch Sunday night and we watched

character of Christ by Elder Bednar and apparently it can only be

watched in the MTC which is a shame because you’ll never be able to

hear Elder Bednar's Cookie Monster impersonation.

I saw people putting away all the flags that are up everyday and I was

like put the Australian flag up and they actually did! It's been up

three times but every time it’s up there’s never any wind so you can

see the flag or we’re too busy to get a photo. I will get one before I

leave!

Joke time! Why are missionaries bladders so full? Because they only

get one P-day a week!

We taught our first investigator on Monday and for this one they don’t

tell you whether they’re a member, non-member or inactive. We have a

girl and she’s from Nigeria, we can’t say her name so we just call her

Id. We get along really well with her especially since she knows what

sausage rolls are! She also knows all the Cadbury chocolate!

There’s just some words I say sometimes and people are like what¿ like

we were playing volleyball and a sister was like I need a drink and I

was like there’s a bubbler just over there and she just looked at me

funny and was like a what? This has happened for maccas, cubby house,

chatter box and capsicum. I was getting a wrap from the wrap bar (bad

choice, just made me feel sick) and I said I wanted capsicum and the

guy was just like I have no idea what that is.  My district loves it

when I say crickey and they even go around saying it sometimes.

I had this sister guess where I was from the other day and she said

France. I’ve never heard that one before but I’ll take it.

The character of Christ is instead of turning inward like the natural

man he turns outward in love and compassion.

Love Sister Watts ❤️