This is Lindsey, Kelsey's little sister. We got her first e-mail today, and since her p-days are mondays I'll most likely be updating this every monday night from now on. If you want to send her a letter her address is on the side, or you can go to dearelder.com and type one, then they'll print it out and give it to her. Here's her letter:
Hello all!
Well I have survived the first 6 days and have almost been here a week. I'm not going to lie, the first couple days were some of the hardest of my life- especially Thursday but after that the days have been okay. The days are long and I feel like I have been here forever already. It's been difficult to have the right attitude because being in the MTC and sitting in class all day is not the reason I chose to serve a mission but the language is coming along and I'm hoping that once we get into the same schedule and we get into a routine the days will go by faster.
My companion's name is Hermana (sister in spanish) Pack. She is from Provo and we have gotten along really well. She has a great desire to learn the language and that helps me when I get discouraged and get back into my old mindset of disliking spanish. She is going to Ft. Lauderdale, Flordia. Hermana Pack also arrived on Wednesday so we are a pair of greenies together. We have two other sisters in our room, Hermana Hunt (from South Jordan) and Hermana Gonzoles (from Jacksonville, Flordia). These sister are both going to Argentina. Our room takes me back to freshman year in the dorms- its not quite that bad because our room is bigger and everything isn't as packed in as my dorm room was. The beds are bunk beds and we have an empty set that we are hoping stay empty for our duration in the MTC. There are the 4 of us sisters and 5 elders in out district. I'm the only one going to Texas, but the district is pretty cool, we all get along really well.
Our day starts at 6:30, then we have personal study at 7:00 until breakfast at 8:15. Then we usually have class around 8:45. Classtime can either be filled with language learning, gospel priciples,companionship study, teaching, or MDT (missionary directive time) which is our time to study, run to the bookstore, practice teaching or what ever else we chose to spend it on. We usually have different variations of that until 1:00 when we have lunch. We then usually have gym for an hour after that, then back to class and dinner at 6:00 then class from 6:45 then class til 9:00. Then daily planning session til 9:30, personal time til 10:15 then quiet time til lights out at 10:30. So it makes for a really long day. Sundays are different with a lot of study time. All of the sisters have Relief Society together and yesterday we heard from Sister Christofferson. We get to listen to Music and the Spoken Word before Relief Society which was awesome. We then had sacrament meeting with our zone. We do get firesides on Sunday and Tuesday nights. Last night our fireside was the BYU Men's Chorus.
I'm starting to like learning the language, I am learning to be patient (something y'all know I am not) when it comes to spanish. I now know how to pray in spanish, and today I finished memorizing the first vision in spanish. I know that slowly but surely the language will start to click. Its been a long couple days but I know that the days will start going by faster!
I hope everything is going well with all of you! I love you all and thank you all so much for your love and support! If any of you want to send me a package you need to do it before December 22nd if you want it to get here by Christmas- hint hint ;)
Love,
Sister Kelsey Berg
P.S. Millett's!! Thank you so much for the cookies! They were fantastic and my roommates loved them as well!
