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"He's a good dad"

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 forget and say "guys" instead. Also, I've introduced myself as Karlee SOOOOO many times ugh. So much to learn. 

Fun fact, our district is one of the first districts in a really long time where everyone is going to the same mission. Usually there's like 3 or 4 missions in one district but all nine of us are going to Yakima. Whoo friends! 

This may seem kinda sporadic. Throughout the week I've made notes to myself n Post-its to remember things to share about and I'm tryna look through my journal to remember anything else, but like I said, short on time. 

Cool thing, I've seen Ali Barnett, Lauren Crowley, Elise Cobb, Hannah Peterson, and probably other people. our Sister Training leaders were amazing (they left this week) and I bonded with their entire room of girls. One of them was actually a girl who lived below me in  Helaman Halls at BYU and we met that semester and her name is KARLEE too!! 

I do wanna say that the MTC isn't super easy. I want to make sure that I say that cause it always used to bother me that the emails were so cheerful but then everyone talks about how missions are hard.. ok. It's hard, I've cried everyday. I know you know that I do that alot, but it's not all rainbows and unicorns. But it's worth it. Everything is inspired and this place is absolutely sacred. We started teaching our investigators this week and it's amazing how much you can love someone the second you walk in the door. The Spirit was so strong and guiding everything  we did and it's crazy the difference of talking about it verses feeling it. After the first lesson, I couldn't even describe how I felt. It was like a combo of a bunch of feelings and a brand new feeling all at once. 

I totally haven't shared everything that I wanted to, but I gotta go soon. So i'll leave you with this.

An explanation of the subject. We were having a really awesome discussion with our district, which we do like three times a day, about Heavenly Father and why he does some of the things he does, specifically about how part of the reason the apostasies all happened were because he loves us so much. And some one said "he's a good dad" and he really is. He's made such a difference in my time here and I'm s pumped to be a tool to help him make a difference in other people lives cause it's incredible. Also, I'll work on adding pictures, but they will be on the blog cause Mama is more capable than I am.

Love you all!

Sister Shuldberg

p.s. if you want to write me, I'd prefer a letter cause it's easier to read those throughout the week than it is an email since we don't have constant access to computers. 

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