19 November 2014- Last Blog Post from the MTC!

Ioaranna!

So I am writing a quick last email from the MTC, because next Tuesday I will be arriving in Tahiti at 5 am and the preparation day will change for me. I will not get to email until that next Monday which is December 8 or something. 

  Elder Oaks came and spoke to us Tuesday for the devotional. It was so cool to be able to hear an apostle speak for our last Tuesday night devotional. Just like every other Tuesday night devo. we sang "Called to Serve." Tuahine Arbuckle and I have joked about how old that song has gotten old singing it so many times, but my heart broke a little knowing it would be the last time I would sing it as a missionary with 100s of other missionaries. We sat like 3 rows back from the podium. It was an amazing experience to be that close to an apostle. We also got to hear his wife speak, which was an awesome experience. We had our last lesson with Alan this week. It was kind of sad. We sure enjoyed teaching him. We all shared our favorite scriptures. I shared Helaman 5:12, which is one of mine. I love it because it pretty much is a guide to life. We are going to have opposition and hard times, but if we build a foundation on Jesus Christ and be converted to him and through him, we don't need to have any fear. 

  The weirdest and best thing ever was Thanksgiving here at the MTC. It was great because the whole day was planned out differently than it had ever been before, but so weird because every missionary in the MTC was like going kind of crazy because we weren't on a schedule. What made it even better was that the MTC presidency was so chill about it. We got to watch Meet the Mormons and they handed out bags of popcorn to like every one of us. It was so not MTC-like. Also, Elder Bednar (another apostle) came and spoke to us in the morning. Again we had really good seats, thanks to Tuahine Arbuckle. He was like super duper cool and brought his family with him and his wife pretty much said, "we are so happy to be your family today." I was like, "well thank you so much Elder and Sister Bednar, I am so glad you said that." Any-who, he handed out like several hundred cell phones and made his "talk" a Q and A session for all the MTCs throughout the world. Wow. My hand was trying to write so fast. One of my favorite things he said was about faith. The question was, "how do we not lose faith when we are going through a challenge or trial?" He explained that through trials you gain faith, so if you want faith, you are going to have trials. The rest of Thanksgiving was filled with lots of singing and service. After the movie, we got the best thing of all. They finally lit up all the Christmas lights that have been up since before Halloween. All of us Tahitians were waiting for that day and it finally came. We had a Thanksgiving lunch and I sat next to some Japanese sisters going to Nagoya, Japan (they will be serving with my sister, Erin) and I explained to them why we celebrate Thanksgiving. We had a sack dinner in our classroom with the other Americans going to Tahiti. It was an awesome experience. We all went around and said a family tradition and something we were grateful for. I was actually surprised how sincere everyone was. It was so nice to have Thanksgiving Day at the end of our stay, because it was such a pleasant surprise, almost like a vacation, in a missionary way. 

  Along with the last week, we had In Field Orientation on Friday, which was another day that we were in class. We spent all day doing role plays and what not. I loved it because that day had finally came for us 11 weekers. We had seen that go on for the past 10 weeks and now it was finally us.

  This week I finished a journal I started while in the MTC. That goes to show how long we have been here. Also if you think about it I have been here longer then a summer term at BYU. I have really enjoyed it, but lets be honest. I am counting down the meals I have left in the cafeteria.  

  Also, I talked to Soeur Stevens yesterday and I ask her if she was still having the pain she was having a couple of weeks ago and she said no. This was a miracle because she had had this ache in her back and by her ribs for like the last 7 weeks. I was happy to hear this. I asked when it stopped hurting. She said after the zone fasted for me. Wow. That was a testimony builder for me. We all had fasted for her and it worked. Surely that is a miracle. 

 On a less serious note, I was joking around with her if she could carry water on her head like you see in documentaries because we were bringing our like 40 lbs off books back to the residence. Sure enough, she could. She put the bag of books on her head and didn't even have to use her hands to balance. She walked up the flight of stairs too without even hesitating once. It was sooooo cool. I took a picture.  

  Today was the last day of classes. It was sad, but not at all. We are all so excited to go to Tahiti. I am sure I will miss the MTC when I am in Tahiti, but right now I am just happy that come Monday I will get to make a phone call home and eat at Cafe Rio in the SLC airport. 

 So yeah you will probs hear from me in like a week and a half. Love life. Remember who you are! 

-Tuahine Campbell

                                                  Us and Alan the gold tag we taught

                                    My companion, Sœur Arbuckle, and I at the Temple

                                                       Sœur Stevens and I at the temple.

 

                                                This is us at the temple on thanksgiving day

           This is our little thanksgiving dinner we had in the other American's classroom

                                                    Doing service. those are the little meals.

                                             All the meals we made are in those boxes

 This is us and sister Hacking. She and her husband are in the MTC presidency. We are wearing our little service caps. We made over 350000 meals for kids to take home after school

 Here is that popcorn for our movie on thanksgiving. too much fun, we couldn't believe that we were in the MTC!

                                    Christmas lights on Thanksgiving night. It is about time!!

 This is us and president and sister Nalley of the MTC on thanksgiving day. we really like them

                               This is us by ben e rich, our first building we were taught in.

 Us in front of the only Christmas tree I have seen in the MTC. We took a field trip to go take a picture by it!

                                                                 District Map Picture

 Our district with brother haparii, our first teacher. He taught us for our last class time today.

                                           Packing up the classroom with all our books!

                                           Sœur Stevens doing the balancing stuff on head thing. 

Thanksgiving at the MTC!

Hello, Everyone! 

So for thanksgiving at the MTC we will get a thanksgiving lunch, a devotional, and watch a movie (think it is Meet The Mormons). We also will put together like 3000 hygiene kits. I think that will be in the news, or so I have heard. After we do all of that, we get to go to our residence, and I think it pretty much means we get to go take a nap. That never happens at the MTC. Also, I kind of counted eating at the temple cafeteria today (Tuesday) as my thanksgiving because they have way better-mashed potatoes and rolls than the MTC. Who knows, I may just PB&J it up for that thanksgiving meal. 

This was probably like the busiest week I had here at the MTC. The week started with some uncertainty. Soeur Stevens and I made a couple of trips to the clinic. We were particularly worried because she was spitting up blood and in a ton of pain. Thankfully, though, the doctor assured us that is was just because of the dryness in the air. That all pretty much happened on Wednesday. That day we also came to the conclusion, that we had done everything we could possibly do medically for Soeur Stevens and beyond it, and there was a possibility she might not be able to make it to Tahiti. I don't think she really understood the seriousness of the situation, but Tuahine Arbuckle and I felt the responsibility of that this whole week because we were the people on the front lines handling the situation. Right now, she is doing pretty well so I was optimistic that she is coming with us, but earlier this week it was stressful. 

 I ended up at TRC twice this week. TRC is when you teach a lesson and practice French with a member of the church. I went once with Soeur Stevens and we  had nothing prepared because we went on splits after lunch and it stayed like that for a while. The lesson ended up going alright. We talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ. I think Soeur Stevens liked teaching with a sister because she is a solo missionary and doesn't get that too often. The other TRC was with Tuahine Arbuckle. We taught a man over skype who was in Bora Bora. That was super fun. It got us both super excited for Tahiti. 

 After waiting ten and a half weeks We got our travel plans on Friday. Oh boy, was the whole district excited!!! I woke up thinking about them. We all went down to the mail room together before lunch. Tuahine Arbuckle is our travel leader. We are leaving the MTC on Dec 01. We are flying American Airlines to LAX and then from LAX to Tahiti on Ait Tahiti Nui. It is so crazy!! It will be my first flight on an American Airlines operated plane in the US. My heart died a little when it wasn't Delta. Another piece of good news is we have less than 30 meals in the cafeteria here!!! YAYA. No more scavenging!!

 Class time has been more filled with Tahiti stories. Apparently, there are poisonous centipedes and you go to church and bize (the two cheek thing) with like every lady in the congregation before sacrament meeting starts. 

 Sunday I gave a "talk" in French. Talks here at the MTC are different. Everyone prepares a talk and then you find out who is speaking in the meeting. It was a struggle finding time on Saturday to write a talk because Saturday is the last day of the week and that means it is the last study time I have to make the weekly goals I set. We spent a lot of our study time at medical appointments and meet with the Branch President previously during the week, but I quickly came up with something on the Holy Ghost. Sunday, we were in meetings and Brother Markham gave me a real good heads-up that it was going to be me. Boy was I grateful I made that talk! I had it proofread by one of the elders from France in our zone and even practiced it with him. That was above and beyond what I normally prepare for the talk. After all of that President Barker pulled me aside and gave me an out to the talk because he knows it had been a long a busy week. That never ever happens. It was super kind of him. I decided just to get it done with, and I wasn't too worried because I prepared. Moral of the story is- Be prepared. It pays off. 

 By Saturday, Tuahine Arbuckle and I were super stretched. What I mean by that is this week was a growing week, with much we had to get done and take care of. Of course, that was the night we started back teaching lessons in Tahitian when we haven't done that for 6 weeks. We went into that lesson and just going into a lesson at this point was pushing me. I literally went blank. I couldn't think of Tahitian words. I didn't understand what was being said and pretty much was in shock. Yeah, I was offering up some silent prayers. It was the worst thing in the world and didn't help my head was spinning all day. I couldn't think of the words for I don't know, I don't understand, and repeat. Thankfully I did something to help. Half way through the lesson I realized we didn't say a prayer and said "pure tatou" or pray for us. Tuahine Arbuckle did a great job of carrying on the lesson. Good thing she remembered things. 

  Overall, I learned a bunch this week. Mostly that when things get challenging it is an opportunity to grow, so just take it a go with it and rely on God to help you. I have been working on memorizing this scripture for the week. "Confie-toi en l'Elternal dans tout ton coeur, t'appuie pas sur ton sagesse. Reconais-lui en tout tes voies, et il planifa tes sentiers" or "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not to thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and he shall direct thy paths" (Proverbs 3:5-6).  

Happy Thanksgiving! ~Sœur Campbell

 We kind of coordinated. I am wearing my companion's dress and she is wearing mine. And Soeur Johnson matched too!!

 Tuahine Arbuckle and I waiting for our District leader, Elder Stafford to come and open the mailbox to get flight plans!

                                            Finally, the moment we have been waiting for!!

                                                          Flight plans Friday!! YAY!

                          This is us and the Burnahs. They are in our MTC branch presidency

                                                           Temple Picture this week!

Two months down, two more weeks to go!!

This week has been revolutionary. One reason is because Saturday, the sisters in our district finally did something different for the gym. We went to the 2M gym. OH BOY! was it an upgrade. I can't even to begin. It was actually like taken care of and a gym with real machines and weights and everything. They played church movies so you can plug in and watch them. I have no idea why we waited this long to be adventurous. It was like my favorite thing ever when the Mormon message, "The Will of God" came on. I have watched that so many times, I am starting to memorize it. Donc (so) thanks to they new 2m gym, Tuahine Arbuckle's and my workouts got like 200 times more effective and efficient. I am like actually sore (it doesn't take much these days to do that).

 Last week we were assigned as Sister Training Leaders. Sister Training Leaders help the new sisters coming in to the zone in the MTC and are supposed to set the example. Honestly I didn't write about it, because we don't have any new sisters coming in. Tuahine Arbuckle and I have the privilege of helping the 3 other girls in our zone, which are the other sisters going to Tahiti with us. At first I thought all we were going to do was have meetings, because we already room with the other three sisters and it is great. Well I learned that was not the case. Tuahine Arbuckle and I have taken multiple trips to the hospital this week to get tests done with Soeur Stevens to make sure everything is right before we leave the states. I guess previously no body had really asked, so we just barely found out. We don't really know exactly was is up, but have had a CTA scan on Saturday and an echocardiogram on Monday, and today we are going to see a lung specialist. It is nothing urgent, because they would have alerted us. I just want to make sure if there is anything up we know before we leave this awesome country of America, because I am betting Tahiti will not have all the medical thoroughness we do. Soeur Stevens is from Vanuatu (a small island)  and has never seen medical care as we do it here. Honestly, I am kind of amazed by it. She has been so brave going into all these things like you would think she would get scared by the machines or them taking her blood. We were in the CTA scan with her and she went in laughing. Seriously this whole medical mystery thing was exactly what I needed. It has helped me a lot to not focus on me me me and how I am here an I need, and I want. By serving it has helped this week go by so fast. 

 Monday, November 17, we hit our two-month mark!!!! YAYAY. EVEN BETTER, there are only two weeks left exactly! We are just about going crazy. Saturday we have service each week and set up the chairs for Sunday's devotional. It is literally like 1000 chairs, the stadium bleachers, and the stage that we set up. They always have a ton of missionaries there to help and not enough things to do. The fab five (us sisters going to Tahiti) got stuck in that, "we are here but like everything is being  taken care of." We literally were just laughing and joking around and one of the lady's in charge was  like, "if you have nothing to do you can go" to us. WE  GOT KICKED OUT OF SERVICE!! It was pretty bad and so funny at the same time. After that we went outside in the freezing weather and were trying to give Sister Stevens a group hug, well it ended up that us 4 white girls were trying to catch her and she out ran all of us. It was pretty sad, but she is super strong. Like in Venautu she would use a machete to cut grass in the fields, and I am not making that up. 

 Along with the whole, we have gone crazy thing, yesterday's lesson was une lutte (a struggle). Tuahine Arbuckle and I could NOT stop laughing. Two of our teachers were in their role playing as a "concubine" (yeah that is what they call each other in Tahiti when they are not married) with issues. Good grief. I am pretty sure they play it up just to make us laugh. They were accusing one another of smoking and drinking and we were teaching the Word of Wisdom (Parole de Sagesse) and it was like all the sudden we were marriage counselors, or in this case concubine counselors. I was trying to explain to them they could help one another with this a I couldn't think of the word for girlfriend in French and I turn to Sister Arbuckle and she wanted me to say concubine. I just couldn't, so I had to work around that. Anyways, we ended up just like laughing through the lesson so bad and saying two opening prayers. I am sure our teachers are like, "What is up with them two?" Well after that lesson I feel like we are just more friends then companions at this point. It is super fun like everything we do. At one point during this week we ended up on splits, because we were helping Sister Stevens and we both agreed that we went through withdrawals.

 Erin Solomon got us Chick-fil-a on Friday. That was like the miracle of my life! Not really. haha. It was though sooo good. We stinking loved it and were super grateful for it. Each meal the food gets more and more hard to find. I find myself eating cold food like PBandJs, fruits, and veggies more than the entrees. This week I have been on a little soup spree.  

  Now time for the language update. French is coming along. This week I have made major improvements. In lessons, I would usually let my companion do all the talking because I didn't understand everything that was going on, but now things are shifting. I am able to participate more. Thanks for all the prayers for language help. A grace Dieu (thanks to God), this language is coming. As for Tahitian, I try to keep it up by reading in Te Buka A Mormona. 

  Sunday I played piano in church. I played Come Thou Fount. It was une petite lutte, parceque (a little struggle because) I haven't played piano in a long time.

  Today was a miracle and a half.   At breakfast, my old boss at MTC West Cafeteria, Chris Justice, who is now here at main MTC, introduced me to an elder room Tahiti. I started to talk English to him. That did not wok at all. He only spoke French, so I defaulted to using that language I have been learning for the las our weeks. It was a growing experience. I guess he understood somewhat of what I said. Soeur Stevens (who literally speaks baslama, french, English, and two other dialects from her island) was standing close and told me I did well afterward. Tuahine Arbuckle wasn't there because we have been on splits all day, but I missed relying on her to have french conversations with people. I defiantly was left to fend for myself.

 Sister Stevens and I went to the pulmonary specialist. It was located like right where my ward at BYU always would play football, frisbee, and kickball. Yeah, it was weird being back there. They did some breathing tests on her and they think there is something in her throat. Later this week we are getting a broncosopy (they are putting a camera down her throat) to see what is up. It was good to know the CT scan and the echocardiogram were all normal. It is just hard to know if we are over playing or down playing the situation. I am grateful though it is nothing too urgent, but that we were cautious and there was something. It was way weird being there so close to University Villas. I could literally see the building where I used to live in. 

  While we were sitting at the doctor's office I go Sister Stevens talking about Vanuatu. Come to find our she would catch chickens with her bare hands to eat for dinner. She kept telling me, "you don't believe me sista, but I don't lie, you come to Vanuatu and see." Yeah, she is pretty boss. She told me she would always climb trees in Vanuatu to get the fruit. I believed her. She showed me how here in the MTC. We totally broke our quiet dignity. I don't know how I feel about that, though because it is soo normal to do that for her in her culture, but in America, we like to frown upon it. Also in the hospital today I found signs of Christmas. I  LOVE IT!! We took a picture today by our first Christmas tree sighting this year. 

  After that, we went to the temple and were in the cafeteria and I had only brought ten dollars for both Sister Stevens and I assuming we would spend about 5 dollars a piece. Well, I totally forgot that  dollars in like an average for breakfast, not lunch. I was like hopefully we have enough money and was digging around in my purse for extra. I let Sister Stevens go first so I would make sure I had enough for her meal. Then we were up at the cash register and this super kind old man told the cashier to put ten dollars he gave her to our meal. I worried for nothing. God always provides. It was just a little thing, but evidence that He has our backs. 

Love Sœur Campbell

                                                                     Snow in MTC

 

                                                    

 Super good homemade banana bread from sister giles this week. HUGE THANKS, AND SHOUT OUT

 First time out of the MTC Friday night to get a ct scan for sister stevens. It was some super cool technology

 This is us doing TALL this week. We make a goal to do it every day. It is not our favorite at all, but we push through and do it.

                                       She jumped over all those chairs, yeah no fear at all.

                                                   Yoga pic. Erin wanted me to take this

                                          sister ereckson is an artist. That what i call talent

                     Me and sister stevens with the skirt sister giles sent. She was rocking it

 Me and my companion. we had matching outfits.. kind of with our coats matching and our dresses. love her

 This is the fab five with the Markhams. They are the ones who make homemade grape juice and are super sweet. They are in our branch presidency.

 This was us Monday going to the echocardiogram. We listened to music (aka motab) in the shuttle. It was like heaven for us.

                                           That is the field my ward would play in. Loved it.

 We found Christmas, sadly it wasn't first at the MTC. Well the MTC has the spirit of Christ and that is pretty important.

 It took Sister Stevens 2 seconds to climb this tree! Yeah I was kind of iffy about it, but like that is her culture

                                              This is us in a nutshell. oh boy,  so fun

Three More!!!

We are down to just three more MTC emails! It is pretty crazy to think I have almost been out two months! This week it will be two months. My district and the other American elder district going to Tahiti are now the oldest people at the MTC. It feels great. Being here so long - many people write and ask about how is the food. Well, it is better than nothing! haha. No, we joke around that the main dishes are for the missionaries here 2 weeks, the wrap bar is for the missionaries here 6 weeks, the PBJ counter is for when all the 9 weekers get sick of the main dishes and entrees and the 11 weekers (which is just us) are stuck to scavenge the share boxes to survive. That is just about what we do!

 My district has expanded. We have another elder! Elder Barben joined us, he is from Utah and waiting to go to Leon, France. All the other Frenchies in our zone left Monday, so all that is left and will be left is us going to Tahiti. It is kind of funny because they came in 3 weeks after we had been here and left three weeks before we are leaving. Just like that, they were all grown up. When they were leaving they told us, "three weeks,, go by fast!" We were just like, "yeah, haha, we have watched you come and go!" 

This week has been filled with Book of Mormon reading. Tuahine Arbuckle and I read Le Livre de Mormon together each day and it is powerful. It has been so uplifting and helped me learn French better, I decided to read Te Buka A Mormona this week by myself. I am almost to page 50, and even though I don't understand a ton of it, I try. Just like with reading it in French, it was an act of faith and the first week was rough, but now we just blaze through that book like none other. It has helped my French in miraculous ways. I hope taking this leap of faith will also help me with Tahitian. Oh, and this week we will hit our 100-page mark in Le Livre De Mormon!! It is super cool to think we have read all of that out loud.

Lessons this week continue to be in French. On Saturday we had a sub. teacher, so our normal "investigator" wasn't there. We taught an inactive member (really the sub teacher) and we didn't really know what we were going to teach so I just opened up the Book of Mormon and there highlighted was the verse, when Jesus Christ is teaching the people in America, "blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost" (3 Nephi 12:6). So that was our game plan. Sure enough, we get in there and "John-Noel" went to church on Sunday, but was super bored during it. Well, that scripture worked perfectly, because everyone walks into church holding a cup. It is the person holding the cup's choice to either turn the cup upside down or keep it right side up so the cup can be filled with all the spiritual goodness of the preparation. I would have loved to say that in French, but I am just not there yet, so the scripture made up for that. I think Christ's words were definitely more powerful, then my feeble attempt to explain that. The Spirit was so strong. Tuahine Arbuckle bore a great testimony and we had Soeur Stevens there acting as a member present. Soeur Stevens also bore testimony about gong to church. Then Soeur Arbuckle explained how Soeur Stevens would walk 3 hours one way to go to church in Vanuatu (that part is true). It was powerful.   

This week we were challenged to memorize a scripture a day. I have been working hard to do this and it is another act of faith because it is not my strength to do that at all, but I try.

 We are making an effort to use the Book of Mormon in lessons. Wednesday we had a lesson with "John" (really brother Honey) and we used 2 Nephi 2 to teach about the Plan of Happiness. It is amazing how much we can learn. 

I found out after that lesson that I STILL continue to drop Tahitian and English words in the lesson. It is a huge struggle, but hilarious how I don't notice until after when Tuahine Arbuckle explains to me why the "investigator" was cracking a smile. We laugh way too much during our lessons.  

I ran into Elder Weisler at a devotional on Sunday. It was so good to see him. He seems happy and healthy.

With being here for three weeks, nothing is really new anymore. We have started to memorize things that are super routine. For example, before Relief Society each Sunday they make announcements. Every Sunday it is the exact same things and it takes quite a while to go through them all. This Sunday I turned to Tuahine Arbuckle and was like, "now they are going to ask all the sisters who just got here to stand, then all the sisters who are leaving to stand, ask us to not wear spandex to gym, announce the morning gym classes, announce when departing sisters are supposed to pack (which is during their last gym time), check lds.org for sister apparel guidelines (and do that during our free time), and announce the new Sister Training leader meeting  that happens every Sunday at 4:30. They also have a new sister meeting about dress and grooming every Sunday after Relief Society. While I am on the topic, they always have a speaker come for RS and this week it was the YW General President. We also watch Music and the Spoken Word before RS. This Sunday's was the best yet, because the Mormon Tab. sang "Down to the River to Pray" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic." I haven't been able to hear those songs in 8 weeks. I was super excited when that happened. 

Yesterday was hilarious. Tuahine Arbuckle and I skipped gym because I had my first entree here, the spaghetti and meatballs, (yeah I was desperate) and then I didn't feel very well. We stayed in the residence and Sister Stevens joined us. We got her talking about Vanuatu which is super fun. We always have a blast around Sister Stevens, but then she was telling us she "killed" someone after she was baptized in 2007, and the way she was saying it was like in a joking tone and she kept on saying it like that. I was thinking, "like are our cultures really that different where that is acceptable?" We asked her if the boy was ok and if she repented. She said she did and that after she "killed him" she would tell the boy every day apologies. Then I was like, "I don't think she knows what she is saying." I asked her what "kill" meant and she motioned that is was punching or hitting, and I just started cracking up. Apparently, the word "kill" in Baslama (she language she speaks), means to hit. Tuahine Arbuckle and I were wondering because she would always joke with us saying she would "kill" us. I would be like, "I don't think that is mission appropriate." Now we know she wasn't making death threats, but that we have a culture difference.  

Monday was long to be really honest. I was really praying I could just make it through because three weeks is so close, but yet so far. My day was made by one of the Chefs I used to work with (Chef Brian) sharing some fresh apples from his farm. I shared with the girls in my district and we were so thankful for the "real fruit." Also, I came back after dinner to SEVEN dearelders. Thanks for those. They are much much much appreciated. 

I am continually thankful for all the prayers and letters. I hope you are all loving life especially as we are heading right into the holidays. 

Love,

Tuahine Campbell

                                 This was the sky one night. we treasure the good sunset days.

 Wednesday clothes swap. We totes switched clothes from last Tuesday and then the next day Wednesday. It is so fun to do that!! My companion is the best

 We did another outfit switch this week. I love those. Here is me studying trying to make our 20 new words a day goal. This is our new classroom.

                          My district at the classic world map. Can't miss that pic at the MTC

                                             Temple this week. It was a beautiful Sunday!

 More grape juice. this is how we faire une fete (make a party) at the MTC. This is my companion and some sisters I am going to Tahiti with some and the sisters that left for France

 This is me and Sister North, my friend going to France on her mission. The night before they left we had fresh grape juice. It was really good.

Sister Arbuckle's mom sent us Listerine spray because we can chew gum and we love it!! haha. We started to coordinate spraying it during class and just started cracking up. No one had any idea. Now we freshen up before each lesson and one of our teachers caught us doing it and was like, "that is an interesting ritual." Yeah, it is pretty great!!

Skirt swap this week and trying to keep up the momentum. I feel like I have really tried my hardest this week, and don't want to waste time, but at the same time am just ready for Tahiti.