Week 2!

Hello all!

Ok So I promise not to make this email as long:) My days are starting to run together and we do the same thing pretty much everyday so the newness has worn off.  So lucky for you I don't have AS much to say:) haha but here we go!

Thank you to everyone who has sent me letters and dear elders! Mail is the best thing every and I have a few darling Elders that get 50 perfumed saturated letters from their girlfriends and I am like really? haha but I am happy for them! They might as well enjoy it while it lasts:) haha just kidding that was mean. 

Claire bear I am giving you a huge hug in my head right now:) so as you read this think about it too! I love you loads and you are the most darling 15 year old I know! Make sure to pull something together for Mom's birthday coming up! Remember family that is coming up in like 10 days and I am not there to sort it out.... so sort it out! I will send a letter with ideas:) Mom your packages are the best! The trailmix idea was genius! Dad your letters are always inspiring

So this week has been amazing! The timing in the MTC is sooo warped! It feels like the days are long but the weeks fly by and I can't believe I have been in here 2 weeks already.  I don't know how I will ever be ready for the field in a month! There is so much to learn! The French is really coming along though so that is good! My goal this week is to not come off as a know it all and try not to correct the teacher.... I have caught him a few times teaching french balsphemy:) haha

So we had to teach an investigator from the second day into the MTC until this last Friday and it turns out the person we were teaching becomes your night time teacher!  He served in Paris and our morning teacher (the one with the blog) served in Lyon and the Elders in my district are going to Paris and the sisters to Lyon so its fun to have teachers from both.  They are both super awesome and have totally different teaching styles so it works for everyone. 

We also created a twitter feed on the back of our door and gave everyone usernames... I don't know if I said that last time but it is getting really full! We will have to add on.  Our teacher is like you guys are nuts leave social media at home! I am like neverrrrr! haha my companion and I joke all the time about him showing us his instagram feed! Feel free to send me throwback Thursdays guys I would love them! but the quotes are really funny I have a picture on my camera I will send it home soon!  But during class one night our teacher, told us this about the mission, "It's like your running and you don't know where the finish line is."  It’s a perfect analogy for mission life.  I wake up everyday at 6:30 get ready by 7 read scriptures in French with my district until 7:30 eat, class at 8 for 3 hours and then personal study time and then lunch.  Then we have gym and this rosetta stone thing online to work on our French and then additional study time then dinner.  Then we have another teacher from 6-9 and then plan until 9:30 and then go to bed.  Everyday we have that and by my night time class I am like I have been on high speed all day how will I make it through class.... but alas all of the sudden its over and I am rushing to bed and I am alseep before my head hits the pillow! The days are long but then its night time and your like where did the day go!

I have been working on making my personal studied more effective so I try to write a question down about how I can be better in a certain area and then try to find it as I search my scriptures.  I have like 3 pages of notes by the time I am done reading and I only get like 2 or 3 chapters in! Its been crazy effective and I have tried to do that with preach my gospel as well so I am very familiar with the content in the lessons. 

Sunday was the highlight of my week! We have sacrament meeting at 7:30 am.... yes I want no complaining for 9 am church ever again! haha and we all have to prepare a talk in French about a certain topic and then at the beginning of sacrament bishop asks 2 people to give theirs.  So you don't know if It’s you until he announces it! Yeah its nerve racking! Sister Edmunds came and spoke to us! She was incredible!!!!!!! She was so funny and sooo spiritual at the same time! I was crying and laughing like the whole time because I felt the spirit and then she cracked a funny joke! She just pumped us up to serve as sisters because her and her companion were the first sister missionaries in the Phillipines way back when and she was said, "you think your missing your loved ones now.... wait until you leave your loved ones there. That will nearly kill you!"  It got me so pumped to get out there! She called us the "Sister Tsnumai" and how we are taking control of the work and demanding for an exponential growth in the church! It was great! Then we came back to study and our bishop pulled my companion and I out and asked us to be the new "Sister Training Leaders" which is like the zone leaders but for sister missionaries.... ya we have no idea what we are doing as far as day to day still and now we are supposed to interview the girls and be to the meetings and give reports and reprimand people for wearing to tight of clothes and we are like whatttttt???? We haven't even been here 10 days! But we are excited for the challenge and my companion as I have said is actually perfect so she will be great and I will rise to her level:) Then we have a fireside every Sunday night, the director of media in the missionary department spoke to us. He was AMAZING!!!  He talked about hastening the work and the efforts the church is making electronically to do this.  You guys have to go look this up! During Christmas the church bought a bunch of billboards IN TIMESQUARE and in the subway stops and buses and pasted "Chirstmas is... (fill in the blank)" signs all over the city.  They were promoting mormon.org.  They said the views to the site sky rocketed and he said they had a twitter feed that people could come comment and fill in the blank! Its hard to explain how cool it was that's why you guys should you tube it or something.  They are doing the same thing in London because the Book of Mormon play that just opened up in March they are attacking London with mormon.org signs.  They bought double decker buses, tube ads everyone in the train stations, billboards you name it! They have gotten TONS of referrals for the missionaries! Its crazy how "socially connected" the church is becoming and I think this is only going to speed up the work! The missionaries in London are TWEETING and following the feed to meet with people and stuff!!!! its crazy! PLEASE GO LOOK IT UP! for my sake! We were all like cheering and pumped! It was awesome! Then we watched the Joseph Smith movie! That is such a good movie! It makes my small 18 month sacrifice seem like nothing compared to what Joseph Smith and the saints endured!

Anyway I am getting chatty and this will eventually turn into the longest email ever again so I just want you all to know how much I love you and that I am trying to responds to your individual letters because they really mean a lot to me! This experience is honestly indescribable and I wish I could express how amazing it is but it’s a "you had to be there" kind of thing! So thanks for the prayers and support I hope all of you are doing well and life is treating you well! Love you guys!

Sister Modersitzki