Heads Carolina...Tails California: Ohhhh we're half-way there, oOoOhhhh livin' on a prayer....April 12, 2013

Hi Family,

I'm gonna try to send pictures, so this email might be short, BUT I will write a letter letting you all know how the MTC is and stuff. I can only send three at a time! but I figured it out so I should be able to write a short email and a letter! Oh and tell dad thanks for all the pics! Looks like fun! And i'm glad the dogs are clean! I could smell them all the way over here haha

Okay so I've taken a lot more pics, but those are the ones worth sending. Plus I now have 10 minutes to write an email. Oh and guess what!? The hermanas in my district think my clothes are cute! We're already planning a goodwill shopping trip for when we get back! haha.

So I think my favorite talk from General Conference was the one about Strong Foundations. I think it was Saturday morning. It really stood out to me when he talked about how temples have strong foundations, and I'm kind of obsessed with temples.

(mom note: Here's the link to that talk.)

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/a-sure-foundation?lang=eng

Spiritual moments since I've been in the MTC.....

-surprisingly the MTC choir. haha. i really love the songs we sing.

-reading my patriarchal blessing (if you and dad ever want to read it while i'm gone that's fine! :) ) i never realized that 90% of it was about being a missionary! it's awesome!

-so before one of the sessions started for General Conference, a picture of the Salt Lake Temple showed up on the screen and I saw it right as it did. (I was putting stuff down before so I wasn't really looking at the screen). I remember thinking "I love that I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I love that I have this opportunity right NOW to be a missionary and a representative of Jesus Christ." I also have random spiritual moments like that quite often. It's pretty cool.

-So this week was kind of hard. We met with our 2nd investigator and I swear I forgot everything I knew in Spanish. As soon as I sat down I just wanted to leave and crawl under a rock. (I couldn't even understand what they were saying!!!) So the next day, I asked for a blessing from our district leader and his companion and it was EXACTLY what I needed to hear! (It was a little weird because it was my first blessing not from dad too)

Oh and I saw Elder Heil, and I'm looking forward to seeing all the other people coming this month!!!!!!

I'm out of time, but i'll write more in a letter!!!! (but hey, i sent pictures!)

Love y'all!

Love,

hermana rubow!!

Pictures!