One Week Down!

Sister Leavitt sent her first letter today.  She sure would love to hear from all of you.  Here is her MTC address:

Sister Courtney Leavitt
RUSS ROS
Box 340 0103
Provo MTC
2005 N. 900 E.
Provo, UT 84604

 

Hi Everyone!

Well one week done and only 11 more to go until I leave the mtc. Sometimes that time seems like soooo long, but then I realized that it's a good thing because I will need that long to learn the Russian Language. I have been working my butt of here. Literally :) Sister Ward, my campanion, and I go to this excersise class for sisters every morning. We do pilates and step and kick boxing and yoga... It's so fun, but I'm not used to it so i've been a little sore. We have also been working really hard to learn the language. She's amazing and when she hears a word she can automatically say it! I'm not quite like that yet. I have to sound things out and take my time, but she is pushing me and I'm working hard to understand the language. We have been working on memorizing the first vision. It's amazing the power that I feel saying it in my attempt at Russian. The spirit is always there, I may not even know the words that I am saying at the time, but I can feel the power in them. I know that Joseph Smith was sent to to an amazing work and that through him Heavenly Father was able to restore the gospel to the earth. There is no way I could have gotten through the past week without his help. I was thinking about learning Russian the other day and I was kind of frustrated because I couldn't learn as fast as I wanted to. It was then that I realized that in 3 days I had learned more Russian than Spanish, wich I took for an entire year. That made me feel a lot better about myself. I'm really Happy here. I like working hard and serving the Lord. There is truly nothing better than being in the service of the Lord and feeling constantly uplifted by his spirit. Alright, so just some small things that have happened... I told everyone my joke, joke, joke, Joke and they laughed really hard. Sister Ward said she was just laughing so hard because I was laughing so hard. I played four square. I think I have lost a little of my talent since I last played in elementary school, but luckily everyone is so nice and they didn't really mind. Going to the cafeteria for meals reminds me so much of oakcrest and cooking... It's basically the same set up just bigger. Props to Mama Lu and her idea to change the set up. Well I love You all so much and I hope that you will send me letters! I love letters! Thanks Life Size Bridget and Mama K! Have a great week!

Love,

Sister leavitt

For mom... I forgot my stretchy black skirt and I need some footsy socks and some more gym clothes, like shorts and a few shirts, also and air freshener for our room would be nice. None of this is a big worry to me it would just be nice to have. I love you mom. Thanks for the letter. And give everyone a hug for me! Talk to you next week. I'll mail you some pictures.