The MTC is absolutely insane and they don't give you any time to unpack - so it's been weird trying to find time to unpack and we're not really allowed to just hang out in our rooms, which makes it difficult for when we have free time - which we do and me and my companion are like, what in the world are we supposed to do with free time when it's not P-day!? In the mission field it'll be different, but until then its just weird.
This morning we went to the temple just me and my companion Soeur Thompson, and it was beautiful. We did Intiatories because it's been closed for the past three weeks so they had SO MANY names that needed to be done. Then went into the celestial room. I love her so much it's great! She's very low key and laid back. We think the same when it comes to planning for lessons and just our day to day activities and she lets me go practice the piano too while she studies.
Right now were learning to pray and sing en francais so that has us stressing a little bit but it will take a while and we'll get it eventually. All our church services are in our French branch here so it'll be a few weeks until we can understand unless of course we're teaching. and that could very well happen because every missionary is suppose to have a talk ready on Sunday in the best French they have and then like five minutes before they call on the missionaries they want to speak. Some missionaries in our branch have done it twice and others haven't at all so it is a little stressful to think about.
My branch president is President Dowling and he is a very sweet man. I met him yesterday when I had my first interview with him and then right before I left he asked me to play piano for our branch meeting in like an hour later -- and then when that meeting ended he gave me an assignment to accompany two violinists in my branch going to Lyon as well who both are apparently amazing! I haven't heard either of them yet but I will later today because we're going to start practicing because President Dowling didn't give us a when or where -- just that it needed to get done and I'm really hoping its not on Sunday and that we'll be told right before the meeting -- but we really have no idea!
In my class that I will be with for the next six weeks is one set of elders and two other sets of sisters. We have all taken French before but they've only taken two or three years. Our teacher's name is Frere Kellett and he's a wonderful person -- super sweet and has a beautiful testimony. He's very loving and supportive when we fumble with our franglais (francais/French and Anglais/English). Tonight he's going to teach us to sing and pray in French which is daunting but it has to happen sooner or later. haha:)
This is a really long letter but hopefully I covered everything. It's very surreal here but it's great. I know the Lord is proud of me for being here and doing all I can and trying my best.
I'll write next Friday and let you know how things go :) There's no email time limit anymore so I might check again later in the afternoon but I might not, we'll see.
Love you all and I will for sure write next week:)
Love,
Soeur Beatty:)
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| Soeur Beatty and Soeur Thompson at the Provo Temple |
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| Classroom Time at the MTC |
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| Soeur Thompson |
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| Soeur Beatty during a district meeting |
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| Souer Beatty's Bed - She's the Bottom Bunk |
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| Soeur Beatty's Closet |
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