Family and Friends!!

Wow! I feel like it has been forever since I have got to email everyone! I don't even know where to start! I have been so crazy busy this week! Me and my Trainer Sister Horrocks were flushed into an area, which means she knows about as much about the area as I do... Better yet we have no GPS in our car so we have this big and really beat up map that we are using... Its been a learning experience to say the least. Wow! I guess before all that I will be serving in the Mount Herman YSA ward... crazy right? I never would have imagined my first area to be YSA. But it is good fun! We actually have a bunch of people from the United States Air force Academy that are in our ward and since we don't have enough miles to meet everyone at their houses we do most of our appointments at the church or over at the USAA. Not only that, since cadets can't get married while they are attending the academy we have lots of engaged couples that have been engaged for like 2 years and are waiting until one or the other graduates. It make for some interesting ward dynamics that is for sure! So we have been super busy! On Wednesday I got my companion and we went to assemble my bike which must have been very disconcerting for our elders because they ended up assembling it mostly... then we went to district lunch and home to drop off my luggage... and then I went to my first dinner and .... wait for it... my first Investigator lesson. The sisters that were here before us must not have wanted to let us be bored because we have been slammed with appointments with less actives and ATM's (Assisting the members). But it has been a blast! Sister Horrocks is so much fun!  We have a good time. Sometimes I think we must be in different lessons because she is always turning to me after a lesson and telling me how intense it was and I just didn't notice.

      I also had my first tracting experience, which Sister Horrocks was determined I should get. In YSA they strongly encourage us not to tract because it is so hard to find YSA eligible people that way, but we went for like 10 minutes. We talked to one lady and got another lady to open her door long enough to shut it once more, but such is life. We are staying in a member home and it has been fun. Friday the White's (the members we are staying with) had a Beetles and Broadway party, we did not get to join but we did hear the karaoke :) Wow! I don't even know what else to say besides I'm LOVING it here... Though it has been really cold and windy... Luckily we live in one of the more mountainous areas, but there are some places where it is flat as a pancake! Anyways, so the thought I would like to share with you all is in D&C 122: 7 "and if thou shoulds be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murdered, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good." Now don't get this wrong. The mission is great! But there were some things that I went through before coming out that were really hard... But every person I have taught here so far is going through, to some degree, what I went through. And it is because I went through them,  that I can help the people here in Mount Herman now:) Anyways! I'm running out of time! I love you all so much!

Love,

Sister Bice

My First Week!

Dear family and friends,

So this week has been crazy. For like the first week we had no idea what we were doing... literally they got our scheduled mixed up and we would show up to zone teaching only the teacher never would... It was crazy, in fact, I don't think that we got the correct scheduled until Saturday. But! We managed!!! ... So what to tell you, my companion Sister Steele is awesome! I accidentally got her sick though... I feel so bad about that but she is taking it all in stride. So funny story, we got here the first day and we're super busy with no time to unpack. Finally with like 10 minutes till lights out, we got the chance, so I quickly made my bed and wrote in my journal. Well much to my dismay I crawled into bed only to discover that my sheets were super loud. I think Sister Steele put it best when she said it was like I was sleeping in tinfoil. Every time I moved they made this really loud noise and I was trying hard not to move but to no avail... First thing the next morning I switched sheets, so it is all good now! What to say. . .  the MTC has been amazing! But super busy. I leave on Monday for Colorado and I have mixed feelings about it. But when we got here the MTC presidents wife said /the minutes are long but the hours short, the hours are long but the days short, the days are long but the months short and the months are long but the years short/ This definably applies ... I feel like I have been here forever but I still cant believe that it is already been a week! We taught our first TRC yesterday and it went kind of well ... She brought up polygamy, but wasn't really happy with either of our answers. But we got a follow up visit, so that good right? So its been fun. We have four sisters and the rest of our district is elders, but we are all going to Colorado Springs which everyone I meet tells me is lucky. They are all so great and we are having a good time getting to know each other. Ive enjoyed getting to know them.  Sister Steele and I both have no sense of direction, so we keep getting each other lost. So whenever possible, we follow our district places. But, the other sisters are so amazing, Sister Hutchings has to go home for a bit because she needs to get a small surgery, but she has taken it is stride. I am so inspired by these girls. They are so spiritual and nice to everyone. Oh! and my companion talks at Tasha speed. It was nice that I could understand her from the beginning, but I haven't been able to help her with her goal of slowing down because I'm so used to Tasha speaking so fast! So I'm almost out of time, so here is a quick thought! One of my teachers Brother Terry keeps telling us "the MTC is our opportunity to become Gods investigator." I love that! I definably feel that this whole week the lord has been teaching me. I have felt the Spirit so much and I feel like I have grown so much more than when I entered. Everything I do, I have to do relying on the Lord. Sorry this letter is so short Ill try to write more next time I have a Pday, but I don't know yet when that will be! Love you all so much!!

Love,

Sister Krista Bice