line upon line precept upon precept

 Things here are still
super busy. Every minute of every day is scheduled for me. The only
thing they forgot to give me when I got here was the headphones that
tell me, "breathe in, breathe out..." Personal time is non-existent,
which makes sense because I am not here for me I am here for the Lord
so I am on his time. On Sunday the BYU men's choir was our devotional.
They are really good! I kept waiting for them to serenade me with
"Hallelujah" but since we are in the MTC they only sang
hymns...bummer. After the devotional I was able to watch the movie
"The Testaments." With all of the kissing and flirting it was a bit
racy for the MTC but the message was SUPER BUENO so I guess that's why
they let that slide. Anything that has to do with the Savior always
makes me cry now so I was really working hard to hold back all of
those tears. The Spirit tends to do that to you...
  I've gotten so many
e-mails, letters, etc. telling me how cool it was to see you put in. I
ran into one Sister Kami Call last week and that was way cool to see
her. I asked her about dad getting put in and she said it was awesome.
It was also nice for me to see another familiar face. So, talking
about familiar faces, you'll never guess who I ran into this week?!
Larry and Vickie Smith (for any not acquainted with my extremely large
family tree, Larry is my mom's uncle). But yeah, I was so shocked to
see them because everyone and their dog failed to mention that they
were serving a mission. I guess that they just got their call a couple
of weeks ago and they are serving in the new Salt Lake mission working
on computers and stuff. They left on Thursday, but it was nice to see
some family again. They were super excited to serve and it got me
wondering when my grandparents were going to do that *cough cough*
*wink wink* *nod nod* you know who you are...
     We are starting to learn things about Spanish that I haven't
learned before so it's really starting to get difficult. We are
learning how to conjugate verbs in past tense, which wouldn't be so
hard if there weren't two past tense conjugations. It's just crazy
trying to learn when to use each conjugation because they have a
preterit tense and an  imperfect tense-which doesn't exist in English.
We use one past tense. Our teacher said that it is really hard for
native English speakers to grasp the concept because we don't use two
tenses...so that's how things are going here. I just pray SUPER hard
every day and really try to study hard. There's not much else I can do
except just have faith in the Lord that He will help me with it! Just
remember, "Line upon line; precept upon precept; here a little, there
a little." I found some scriptures this week that are really helpful
for that: Doctrine & Covenants 30:11  "And your whole labor shall be
in Zion, with all your soul, from henceforth; yea, you shall ever open
your mouth in my cause, not fearing what man can do, for I am with
you. Amen." And Doctrine & Covenants 31:3 "Lift up your heart and
rejoice, for the hour of your mission is come; and your tongue shall
be loosed, and you shall declare glad tidings of great joy unto this
generation." These really helped me this week!
     My comp and I are getting along pretty great. We have our moments
but it's pretty much me just being impatient or selfish. Shocker,
right? No. I can definitely say that I am learning to become more
humble because of this. She helps me to be a better missionary so I
know that we were put together for a reason :) It's her birthday on
Wednesday so our district is going to really try to make it special.
We are even going to have Hermana Boothe's dad try to smuggle in some
cake for her. I'm excited!

     Well, I love you all and  enjoy hearing things from home! I know
that I am where I am supposed to be no matter how hard it gets. Until
next week.
Love, Hermana Freestone