Hi friends :)
This will be a short one to make sure everyone gets it, but this week went so fast! Who would’ve thought sitting on Zoom for 8 hours a day would go so fast?
Home MTC has honestly been so much better than I expected. Somehow, sitting on Zoom for 8 hours a day isn’t as terrible as it sounds when you’re role-playing for half of it 
I absolutely love my district already. It’s crazy how close we’ve gotten in such a short amount of time. We spend pretty much all day together, and they’ve made this whole experience so much more fun. Everyone is so different, but we all get along so well, and I’ve learned so much from each of them.
And my companion is literally me. She is literally a gift sent from God! We are basically the same person, and I don’t know how I got so lucky. We get off-topic so easily. It’s kind of funny, especially when we get sent into breakout rooms, and we’re supposed to be role-playing, but instead we’re dying laughing because I said my name was Bernardo and that I was a nun because that was the first thing that popped in my head. We were dying laughing, and she said. Can we even teach nuns? So we could not stop laughing. Our teachers would pop into our breakout rooms, and they definitely probably thought that we didn’t get anything done because we were just dying laughing every time they came in. I already love her so much, and I can’t wait to finally meet her tomorrow!
Now, on a more spiritual note, one of my favorite experiences from this week happened on the very first day. At the beginning of the day, we have time to sit and write down goals for the day, and one of the goals I wrote down was to “find a reason to keep going.” It sounds dramatic considering it was literally day one, but for some reason, that’s what came to my mind.
Later during our first Zoom call, I was flipping through my scriptures and opened to a page where my mom had left a sticky note. (Which, if you know my mom, I’ll probably be finding hidden sticky notes on my whole mission) On it, she had written that she found this scripture in the MTC on a day she felt like giving up, and it was Alma 26:27,
“Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us…”
The second I read it, I just started bawling. Out of all the pages I could have opened to, I found that note right after writing down that goal. It felt like Heavenly Father was reminding me that even when things get hard, He already knows what I need and He will always provide a reason to keep going. That moment meant so much to me, and it’s something I’ll probably carry with me throughout my whole mission.
I’m so excited but so scared to go to the Provo MTC! Also, I'm so excited because Sister Pidcock is there, so I’ll see you tomorrow :) I love and appreciate all of you!
Love,
Sister Tycksen
