In the MTC 6.23.2016

Dear Friends and family,

I can't believe I am actually here! There is so little time and so much to tell you that I am just going to throw things at you as I remember them, and hopefully I have time to type it all.

Here in the MTC we are constantly moving from 6:30 ( or 6 if you want to miss the rush hour shower time ) until 9:25pm. It's crazy! My companion  sister Crane even though I love her, is weird! So are the other two sisters we room with. So those three get along great! They are also really messy! And we have room checks. My corner is the only one ever clean.

We also are taught how to teach by teaching. We do a million role plays a day with our companion, and the other people in our district. We teach our teacher the lessons while they ask super hard questions. We also do something called TRC 4 times a week, which is when they put us (my companion and I ) in a room with a nonmember or a member pretending to be a nonmember, and we teach them not knowing if they are really investigating or not. And if that is not scary enough, they video us the whole time! It really hasn't been that hard for me since I have had 2 1/2 years of practice. Oh yeah!!! That reminded me! Tuesday night we had a devotional here and all the mission presidents came, along with all the branch presidents of the MTC. And guess who was here!?!?!? The Shumways! For those of you who don't know who that is...I have gone to almost every missionary zone conference since my 16th birthday, and they were the Mission Presidents in MO! They where a huge part of why I was as prepared as I am for a mission. I love them so much! And it was a little I love you sign from Heavenly Father that they were here.

I have 5 teachers here. And all of them are fantastic! Ben will be glad to here that one of my teachers ( Brother Farrales ) is from the Philippines. Along with us 3 sisters who are all going to the same place, we also have 6 Elders in our district who are all going to Cananda. They are all super cool and funny, and make the days not seem as long.

Cool story: Our second day here sister Crane and I had really bad headaches, so we decided to pray as a companionship. We did and sister Crane said "please help our headaches to go away" As soon as she said that, mine was gone! After the we opened our eyes I asked her how her head was. She looked at me with a weird face and said "it's gone."

To my teenage siblings I just want to say study and know your Preach my Gospel! Gordon B. Hinckley said that it was written in heaven and printed on earth!

I am out of time!!! Aaaaahhhh!  Oh mom and dad, funny fact. I have had 2 random elders hand me a piece of paper while they pass me walking. Can you guess what it was dad? Their emails! Lol! Don't freak out dad. You know you have my heart to keep locked away till i get back 

I love you all so much! Love sister Rebekah Richardson