Week Two

From: Elise LaPorte
Date: Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:16 AM
Subject: HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!!

O hey there family!!!!

 

HAPPY 4th of July!!! I had trouble login on haha still computer challenged so I will try to use the time I have left to write you all that I can!!! Well, I love the MTC haha...and yes, Dad, just like you thought I would!!! My feelings on it are honestly everything is a blurr everyday! Half the time I forget what meal I am about to eat everyday. Haha, my stomach usually start to have its "lions den" growl an hour before a meal and then I have to look to my planner on what meal I am on during the day!!! I love the work...and it is work, haha! It's funny, because I feel like what Elder Keller once wrote me when he said that he thought he always knew the gospel, but he just knew the the surface and that is how I feel sometimes. I am learning more then I ever thought. I LOVE IT!! Haha, I love teaching and I LOVE "Preach My Gospel"!!! Haha, kind of a neat moment was...last Thursday when I was going to bed...I didn't want to sleep.  I just wanted to skip it and start the next day working....the next morning, though, my eyes didn't feel the same way...but I got up anyways!! Haha...ahhh...I just love it!! I love that I can not think of myself.  One of the neatest things...which gets me choked up just writing it...is the fact that I don't feel afraid to read. I read with confidence now.  Haha...I realized it a few days in that when I read, I don't even have fear anymore. I know that I don't have problems anymore with reading, but I have always kept that fear when I reading which has always held me back and made me nervous reading out loud.  I realized that since I am not thinking of myself and just trying to read for more than just myself that I don't have fear. It has made it so that I have gotten over that something that I never thought that I would get over after all these years of fear built up!! O how I love grace!!! Okay, so I LOVE my companions...haha Sister George and Sister Creal are opposites. Haha...Sister George is from Lincoln, NC and she is straight up Mallory mixed with a little Katie...haha obviously no one can match Mallory but Sister George is A LOT like her. She is very sweet and a tendered-hearted person.  Sister Creal is from Indianapolis, Indiana.  It's funny because since she is black everyone thinks she is from Africa since she is going to Temple Square...even the the MTC President came up to her and asked her in the "o where are you from voice?" It gets us every time...haha! She is not like anyone I can compare too but she has a very good heart and great desires!!! I don't know why my original MTC comp didn't come, but I love being in this trio...I have grow so much from it!!! The blessing Wes gave me before I entered the MTC made SO much sense...haha!!! I love this work!! I love that I get to teach of testify of Christ every single day and think about him every hour!!! I LOVE my name tag...haha! I squealed the first few days every time I put it on or saw it!!! When I put it on and look in the mirror..I feel beautiful!!! It just makes me so happy with a joy I can't describe!!!! Haha...I love you guys!!! Have a happy fourth!!! Trent have fun with out me on the river in IF, Mom and Dad have fun at the duck pond tonight and Wes have fun with all those crazy EFY kids...haha...I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!

 

Love, Sister LaPorte

 

ps. Trent I play four square...legacy live on!!! :)