The Epistle of Karlee

Hi Friends! Wowee, is there a lot to say. Please excuse the spelling errors. We have an hour to do all letter and email writing and we have to email the Branch President too, so yikes. Too much to say and I'm wasting time explaining.  I dunno where to even start. Announcements:  I will be leaving the MTC on October 10. Please feel free to mail me things at the following address: Sister Karlee Hansen Shuldberg OCT10 WA-YAK 2005 N 900 E Unit 163 Provo, UT 84602 Also, theres these websites called dearelder.com and mtcmissionary.com through which you can send me things too. If its getting closer to my departure date, send it to the mission home in Yakima..I'll add that address next week.  So my district here is super awesome. My companion is Sister Cannell. Shes so understanding, and an amazing listener and I'm learning alot from her. there's us, and Sisters Hatch and Richmond. At first, it was weird to call people Elder and Sister and I often for...

Hi Friends! So I gave my farewell talk today in sacrament meeting...yikes. Pretty sure I felt like every emotion known to man, briefly. It was weird and felt very jumbled. I had a bunch of things that I wanted to say, but I didn't have a comprehensive order for them, so I just said all of the things almost like a list, at least that's what it felt like. I have never been so glad to have a box of tissues on stand with me, I got up there and my mom just looked at me and there I went, dam broken. Whatever. I said what I needed to say, I made people chuckle, and I lasted my allotted amount of time. Whoop! Lot's of people said it was great and, to quote my visiting teacher who revealed herself today, "inspiring". Pretty cool, huh? Today wasn't as emotionally draining as I predicted, at least not as teary-eyed but that may be because I lost all of my water during approximately 17 minutes in the chapel. I only have 2ish days left here, but it's not quite as s...