I can't believe I am actually typing an email from the MTC
right now. I cant BELIEVE I'M DOING THIS!!! I've only been here 2 days and I am
so happy. I really am, I absolutely love it here. Being a missionary es sooo
much fun. I can't believe how much I've learned the last 48 hours.
It was SUCH a fast goodbye leaving mi familia, but so
bitter-sweet. I was walking into the MTC like.. SO BLIND. I had no idea what
was happening, it was crazy. The Hermana and Hermano that helped me out were
THE BEST. I love them. The Hermana sent me into a building to get my GIANT BAG
OF ESPANOL LIBROS and I'm walking down the hall and LO AND BEHOLD one of my
bestest friend in the WHOLE world Hermana Ashlee Hatch yells my name from
behind me. With my emotions right on the surface after leaving mi familia, I
teared up soo hard. Best hug I got that day. It was so nice to know she was
there with me!
Along with knowing she was there with me... I came to the
quick realization that there were A LOT of missionarios in the same boat as me.
601 missionaries showed up on the 9th, the same day as me, from AROUND THE
WORLD. From everywhere! It was crazy! People from China, from Tonga, from Australia, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, California, East Coast, Texas, Canada,
Figi, Hawaii, EVERYWHERE. Accents I've never heard before, they talk to me and
I'm like.. "...come again?". I LOVE IT.
We rushed into everything. It was straight to class after
arriving. I met my District, and though I didn't know them my first day, we
reaaally clicked yesterday. I have loved getting to know them, and I love that
I get to spend SO much time with them. You learn to love your District super
fast. Last night we had a testimony meeting, and if that doesn't make everyone
in the room BFFs... I dunno what does. The Gospel fixes everything.
After the Testimony meeting last night, I was made
"senior companion".. which doesn't really mean anything, it's just
practice with responsibilities we will have while being the Senior companera in
the mission field. Honestly, I'm the one always losing things, forgetting
things, asking the time, "when is lunch?" "when is dinner?"
"where's the vending machine?"
Me and mi companera, Hermana Davenport, are SO different! We
say things different, we talk different, we think different things are funny
and different things aren't. But she has SUCH a strong testimony of the Gospel,
and that is something we definitely have in common :)
Not a long email.. not a short one either. But I've only
been here for a bit. I love it. I. Am. Happy. I can FEEL that this is where I
am supposed to be. I can't wait to serve. I still can't believe I'm doing this,
but I can't believe I ever thought I wouldn't.
Yo se que la iglesia es verdadero y que el Libro de Mormon
es verdadero. Yo se que Jesucristo es el Redentor y Dios es nuestro Padre
Celestial. Este conocimiento ayuda me vivir feliz y superar desafios.
Hasta Luego!
Hermana Cedeno
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