One P-Day Down...A Whole Bunch More To Go

Today was Sister Aaron's first P-Day, so she emailed this morning and then again when we could message back and forth a bit this afternoon.  She plans to write absolutely scintilating blog posts, so she decided not to try to fit that into her email time today.  Instead, she'll send me an old-timey letter in the actual mail and make me type it up for this blog.

However, I thought I'd share some of what she had to say.

I'm in the MTC for 4 weeks, that's correct! I guess they moved English speaking missions back to 3 weeks, and then because I'm a  visitor's center missionary, there's an extra week just for that. We'll get to go to SLC visitor's center for a couple of days and do training there as well. Also! We all got this little card that's like a certificate of missionary-hood, and it says my release date is December 18th, 2017. So I can be back for Christmas! :D

It's going pretty well. My companion is Sister Thomas, and she's going to the San Antonio mission, which is awesome! She's great at trying to keep us on schedule and focusing on 100% obedience. So far we've taught one mock investigator together, and got a little too aggressive. We've enjoyed the subpar MTC food, and frozen in all the classrooms together. I'm shivering as I type.

And so it begins...

Yesterday we dropped Sister Aaron off at the MTC.  It was an emotional time for all of us, but most especially for her.  Who knew she loved her family so much?  Thankfully, there were lots of welcoming missionaries there to greet the new arrivals, and each missionary was taken under the wing of one more experienced.  I could see that the sister who took our daughter into the MTC was a kind and caring person.  I'd include her name here except that her tag was in one of those crazy Eastern European languages with way too many consonants and no vowels, so I couldn't even read it.

Sister Aaron was able to send a quick email once she got inside to let us know that she was doing fine.  Here's what she had to say:

Hey family! So we get to do computer stuff first and I get to email you, so yeah. I love you all, I miss you. I haven't cried yet, which I'm impressed by. I'm having a good time so far.

Love you!

Sister Aaron