From Morgan's mom: Sister Keller hasn't been able to get all of her contacts moved to her mission email. So I'm just forwarding her letter to contacts from her gmail account. If you don't want to receive her mission letter just hit reply to this and let me know and I'll remove you, she won't even know. For those who already received this email, sorry for the duplicate. Hopefully she can get it all straightened out in the next couple weeks.
If you would like to write to her use this email: morgan.keller@myldsmission.net
Love y'all and thanks for loving and supporting Sister Keller as she serves the Lord for the next 18 months,
Carlin
Just for the record I LOVE sister Lee she isn't annoying at all she's just super sassy so I love to sass her back, haha. We've already decided on making a Brandon Sanderson Book club when we get back soooo we tight. lol
It's my last P day at the MTC!! How crazy is that? I made a list throughout the week of things I wanted to put in this email so sorry if it's scattered.
I LOVE MY DISTRICT
I don't think I emphasized this enough last week, haha. They are all so fantastic and spiritual! Also little boys when they feel like it so it's super funny to spend so much time with them, ha. There's Elder Fotu, who is from Tonga and still trying to learn English. He knows a lot but he also gets distracted very easily and is sometimes disruptive. Elder Allred (he's ginger) is super nerdy but also super good at art and always takes care of Elder Fotu, haha. Elder Bywater is our DL, and he is super nice! He is way into Marvel and brings it up at every spare chance, lolol. His comp, Elder Bradfield is hilarious. For example he was telling us that Elder Bywater had to bribe him to get out of bed with chocolate hahah they're such boys I love it. Elder Yardley is super spiritual but also very strict when it comes to rules. and I don't have favorites, but if I did it would be Elder Barnes hahaa. He loves musicals, Dr Who, and has the absolute best sense of humor. He's so goofy and I just love them all!!
Sister Lee is probably the best companion I've had so far. haha. She is sooo sassy so it's super fun to be sassy back to her cus she can take it. She's also been a great emotional support which I've really needed. I'm actaully pretty sad we won't get to ever be companions again because she's going to Wellington :( But we'll be at BYU at the same time so it's gucci!!
P days are awesome!! Pretty much we go to the mall and then have an hour to email. Sorry If you haven't gotten an email yet, There's been lots of complications. But apparently my mission president said we can email for about two hours in the field so that will be nice if needed. NZ MONEY IS SO WEIRD the coins are magnetic, hahaa. Also I'm like 90% sure Kiwis really like to Party because every single store we go to has tons and tons of party stuff haha!! I love it, it's super gorgeous here.
Sister Lee is probably the best companion I've had so far. haha. She is sooo sassy so it's super fun to be sassy back to her cus she can take it. She's also been a great emotional support which I've really needed. I'm actaully pretty sad we won't get to ever be companions again because she's going to Wellington :( But we'll be at BYU at the same time so it's gucci!!
P days are awesome!! Pretty much we go to the mall and then have an hour to email. Sorry If you haven't gotten an email yet, There's been lots of complications. But apparently my mission president said we can email for about two hours in the field so that will be nice if needed. NZ MONEY IS SO WEIRD the coins are magnetic, hahaa. Also I'm like 90% sure Kiwis really like to Party because every single store we go to has tons and tons of party stuff haha!! I love it, it's super gorgeous here.
On Wednesday, we went Proselyting with "real" Missionaries!! IT was super scary haha. My companion, sister Ufi, felt sick and was really unenthusiastic. We spent about 30 minutes calling members to come to an appointment with an investigator last minute, which took up a lot of time. I had to kind of prod her along to go door knocking even though I was super scared. But Kiwis are really nice and no one was mean to us! I have a lot more confidence for when I go into the field by myself. Sister Lee and I were singing "into the fire" from the Scarlet Pimpernel (thought you'd like that mom;)) when we walked out! So awesome.
Two fun facts! Churches in NZ don't have hymn books, you bring your own! So when yous come to visit me, yous should bring your own hymn books ;) JK don't visit me I don't want to get in trouble. But it's fun to say yous because that's a weird slang term here. Other fun fact, the skies here in NZ are suuuper blue!! when It's not cloudy that is... which is almost always haha. I love the rain though!!
Yesterday I had a super awesome spirtiual experience! We were working on discerning the spirit, so what happened was the investigator thought of a word in their head but weren't allowed to say anything. When the missionary got close to guessing what the word is, the investigator could nod their head but that was it. The first time as a missionary, I was going in the wrong direction and did pretty horribly. Then our teacher told us to pray and listen before saying anything. The next time as a missionary, I got the word within 20 seconds and the investigator got super excited. IT was such a neat experience and I know that as we listen to the spirit, we will always be guided.
Yesterday I had a super awesome spirtiual experience! We were working on discerning the spirit, so what happened was the investigator thought of a word in their head but weren't allowed to say anything. When the missionary got close to guessing what the word is, the investigator could nod their head but that was it. The first time as a missionary, I was going in the wrong direction and did pretty horribly. Then our teacher told us to pray and listen before saying anything. The next time as a missionary, I got the word within 20 seconds and the investigator got super excited. IT was such a neat experience and I know that as we listen to the spirit, we will always be guided.
It got a little irreverent at the end, because after discerning the spirit we taught the law of chastity to each other. Our teacher took half of us out into the hall to come up with a scenario, and the rest were missionaries. When I was the missionary, Elder Fotu came in and we started the lesson. I asked how he had been since our lesson on the law of chastity, and he told me he had something he had to tell me. He said "I'm pregnant" with a really straight face and it took everything in me to not laugh. Afterwards I learned that the Elders were supposed to say their girlfriends were pregnant, not them, and I laughed so hard I started crying, hahha.
Being an STL has been such an amazing experience!! I love waking the sisters up in the morning, and talking to them all about their days. Our mission presidents wife is awesome and I feel so blessed for the opportunity.
Overall I love love love the MTC!! I'm sad to be leaving my annoyingly awesome companion, my strange strange district, and the good food and ice cream. Well I'll talk to you all when I'm in Hamilton!!
much love!!
much love!!
Sister Keller
P.S hopefully next week there will be pictures ;)
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