Emma's Arkansas Blog: All Hail the Sistrict!

Hi family!

I emailed you a list of advice to give Jonah for his MTC adventure that I wrote in my journal. I have one more thing to add, he should bring enough laundry detergent to last his whole stay, otherwise you buy them at the bookstore.

I am actually in an all-sister district and we have 4 districts in our zone currently. One district left on Monday, but we get 2 new districts on Wednesday. All of us are English speaking and mostly headed to the US. No Elders are heading to Little Rock.

I can read emails on my tablet at any point, but I can only write letters of any kind on p-day.

Where I am at: I have two teachers that teach my district, Sister Esplin and Brother Ouzts and they deal with a lot of adventures regarding us. My companion, Sister Chapple, and I got our first progressing investigator last Friday and since then we have already taught 4 lessons. Lots of practice is good for me. Sister Chapple and I share a room with 2 other pairs of sisters in our district and we all like going to bed early or even on time. It is awesome. All of the sisters in my district are really healthy and happy so we have been eating/ exercising well.

Spiritual: When we learned how to teach the Restoration lesson in one minute, I was a little wordy. We were instructed that in that time constraint, you pretty much just bear your testimony and then when I tried it it went so much better! I was able to speak simply, but powerfully.

Funny: Two sisters in my district, Sister Haslam and Sister Wilcox, were teaching "Blake" our pretend investigator who was actually just played by our teacher Brother Ouzts and Sister Haslam decided to ask the first question of the lesson. Sister Wilcox just expected that she would ask how the invitations went, but instead Sister Haslam asked how "Blake" knew Brother Ouzts. And then she burst out laughing. Amazingly, "Blake" was able to stay in character, but he was floundering for a while. We thought it was so funny because Brother Ouzts kept answering questions that we had about Blake before we knew they were the same person. The wording he had used was that he knew Blake really well. We couldn't stop laughing after we heard that story. Brother Ouzts keeps telling us that we have been the first to ask a lot of questions.

I have come to the MTC at the best time ever. We got to have a class room in one of the old buildings, but on Monday we got to move to the new buildings and the artwork is so pretty. All of the murals are original and amazing. Also, the weather is nice enough that we can study outside without being burned. All of the people who arrived last Wednesday have gone to at least one year of college so everybody knows how to work hard and deal with stress.