The MTC (Missionary Training Center) is awesome! Jet lag hasn't been too bad. The first day was intense because none of us slept on the flight over to England (the long 8 hour one). It was really cramped and hard to get comfortable. Once we got to the MTC we spent the rest of the day doing stuff, so that night everyone was falling asleep during our meeting. We all slept great! There are 50 missionaries, 6 Districts of English speakers and 1 district of non-English speakers learning English. they've already been here 5 weeks and will be leaving when we do. About half of the missionaries here are going to Birmingham and the rest are going to Scotland/Ireland. Our days mostly consist of studying, eating and teaching investigators (our teachers). The food here has been good, nothing too weird. They do eat raw salmon a lot and they have some really cool soda. The cooks must know we're pretty much all Americans!
My district is great! There are ten of us. Only 3 of us are going to Birmingham though; the rest are going to Scotland. the districts here usually have 4 Sisters and 6 Elders. 2 of us are from Idaho, one from Denmark, one from England, one from Arizona and the rest are from Utah! My companion, Sister Gilbert, is great! She's from Alta, Utah and she's 21 too. The other girls we room with are both from Utah and they're SO nice!
I LOVE the accent and all the English people I've met have been so friendly! The Scottish accent is a lot harder to understand, but I'm not going to Scotland, so it's all good! It is so green and gorgeous and the MTC sits by a beautiful pond! Geese and ducks float on it and we can see them from our window. So far we've had 3 sunnier days and the weather been really nice. Today has been really rainy though. I've been told those 3 days are going to be the extent of our summer, but we'll see. The natives might just be joking with us.
Some of the words that are diifferent here are, Rubbish=Garbage, Jumper=sweatshirt, Pants=Underwear. I can't think of anymore right now, but there are tons.
This morning we got to go to the temple as a Zone and it was amazing! The spirit is so strong there. Its gorgeous too, and its just a short walk from the MTC! Today we get to go to Azda, which is like the English version of Walmart so that'll be exciting! I guess everything is expensive though, and the exchange rate between pounds and dollars isn't very good either.
I've already learned SO much just in the past week. I'm learning how to teach and to really study and ponder the scriptures. Praying before and after you study the scriptures makes a big difference. Tonight we have devotional with the Europe Area seventy, Steven E Snow, and the man who wrote the Joseph Smith papers. the more I study and learn, the more I realize how much there is to learn and how incredible the gospel is! We watched an MTC devotional Sunday and David A. Bednar gave some really good advice on the telling whether a though is the spirit or just me. The gist of what he said is quit worrying about it!! Press forward with Faith in Christ, be a good girl, keep your covenants and be obedient and the Lord will make you his instrument.
Love you all! thanks for your love an support and prayers. I pray for all of you. My half hour on the computers is up, so sorry I didn't respond to any of the individual ones. Everyone is anxious to email and hear from their families and there are limited computers. 'Til next time.
Sister Roscher
I'll update again when I hear more :)
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