Week 3: Goodbye MTC... Hello Canada!

So final week in the MTC! 

Tuesday: last temple trip with my district, then dinner and devotional and that’s it !

Wednesday: oh man..Wednesday was pretty rough hahah. Honestly not gonna try to explain everything, but it just started off bad. We woke up and sister reed was just pure tears because some elders in our district were being disobedient. They bought our teachers sister Bingham and brother gee some gifts off of amazon but we’re not supposed to be on amazon so they said no. (Also me and sister summers were on splits together so we didn’t even know this was going on cuz we were some where else) anywho..the elders got the gifts anyways and long story short it made sister reed have a panic attack. She has really bad anxiety..and our “white bible” aka missionary handbook is sister reeds bestie. Haha she loves the rules and she loves to let us know she loves them even more. Which is awesome because obedience brings lots of blessings but she’s very intense about it. And so when she saw the elders on amazon it made her so upset and was crying throughout the whole day and it was just out of hand and me and sister Palmer didn’t really know what to do. So after dealing with this all day, we had comp-i  and we we sat down and just tried to understand why this was such a big deal because we had nothing to do with it. And sister reed just opened up to us and told her about her anxiety and I still don’t know why it set her off the way it did but me and sister Palmer just hugged her and tried to understand where she was coming from and we’re trying to get her to see that this wasn’t effecting her, so she had her crying sesh and got over it the next day but anyways all day it was just putting all of us in a weird mood and me and sis Palmer were getting annoyed but we were just waiting for the day to be over haha.

Thursday: better day/ normal day! Yeah just good classes, studies, and that’s about it  

Friday: another good day, just finished up our TRC with Margaret. I wish we were able to still work with her but our time has come to an end! I learned a lot from her and she’s so interesting but honestly she just needs time. She keeps the commitments we give her and absolutely loved meeting with us too but there’s things that make her doubt because of some situations in her life. And I think she knows that the things we taught her are true and we asked her if she would pray about it to know and she said “ I want to...but I’m scared of the answer I’ll get. I feel peace when we meet and that this is good but before meeting with the missionaries I was content in knowing that I was just another person in the world. But now that I’m learning about god I’m scared I won’t measure up to things he asks of us. “

So yeah she’s scared of commitment not measuring up and she was going on about how she’s 40 years older than us but how she felt we were so much wiser than her and it made me sad when she said that! Cuz she beats herself up and so we just explained that the truths have been restored upon the earth and we want to share that message with her. So she’s amazing and I wish I could keep teaching her but We can’t so a  new set of missionaries that came in this week and took over. But yeah Friday was good just finished off the day with classes!

I also met sister Wilson !! Haha funny story...at the end of the day when we were all showering and getting ready for bed I was washing my face and sister Wilson comes up to me and just asks how my day was so I said good and asked about hers and she honestly looked like she was gonna cry ! She just looked overwhelmed and she just spilled all her emotions to me and Shared a funny story but very unfortunate. So she got here last week and her mission is the Portland Oregon visitor center mission and some how they got her mixed up with another Sarah Wilson and so they threw her out to the field in temple square visitor center for training cuz I guess that’s what they do if u are going to a visitor center mish, anyways, her FIRST day here at the MTC she gets thrown into the field at temple square...gets her companion and her companions like okay sister Wilson...were going trackting!!! So they hop on a bus and sister Wilson is trying to tell them this is her first day and she can’t do this and they think she means first day out of the MTC and she’s just scared but they don’t know it’s actually her first day ever haha so her trainer is just like follow my lead it’s fine it’s fine, so they get to this lads house and teach her a lesson and I guess it went good but sister Wilson was just pure tears and had to follow all these rules she hadn’t even been taught and finally they figure out that she wasn’t supposed to be there...so they send her back to the MTC and she wanted to go home so bad..so it was only like her 2nd or 3d day out and mind u the first 2 days at the MTC is hands down the hardest...so she got a double whammy and had to deal with the hardest days here right after that experience 😂    

But she’s ok now !! We just laughed about it together and bonded over the fact that we are both sister Wilson (; so yeah funny story there I felt so bad though haha! 

Saturday: BROTHER GEES SPOTLIGHT NIGHT: Saturday was the last day of classes we all had together and we were all looking forward to this day for a long time because our teacher brother gee is the funniest thing ever and he was getting us all so excited because he had this great class prepared for us..and he’s so passionate about literally everything so we were pretty much just expecting him to make us all cry cause we love him so much and knew he was gonna be super extra one last time. Haha so anyways yeah Saturday night class comes around and as expected he gives us all a wonderful last lesson. Three and a half hours straight of just how to be a good missionary, letting the mission change you, and just how there’s gonna be some really tough times but just reminded us that Jesus Christ has our backs 110%. So yeah it was awesome and we were all so sad because our time together has come to an end. 10/10 day 

Sunday was great !!! (Official last day together as a district😢) if u can’t tell by now I’ve come to love my district so much. Coming in I was scared I wasn’t gonna bond with anyone, but now as I am leaving this sounds dumb but it’s felt like saying goodbye to those I love all over again. We have all gotten so close, come to know each others backgrounds and it’s been really interesting to see the different parts of the world we have come from but have all come here together for one purpose. 

So we started out the morning with church from 8am until about 430. Then dinner and then a departure devotional and then a regular Sunday devotional. It was long but really fun. And at the devotional the Utah valley institute choir came and sang to us Songs about Christmas and Christ and we were all TEARSSSS it was sooooo good ! Seriously the best thing I’ve ever heard. After they were finished I looked around and there wasn’t a dry eye in the room. And after that we had our final testimony meeting as a district and sat in a circle and prayed together to finish off our goodbyes. So sad, But they will be great and we’ve already planned our reunion after the mission! We all brought something different to the table and learned something from each person and I know I was sent here at this time with these people for a reason. Elder Taunnu’u from Samoa, his dad got diagnosed with bad liver cancer a couple weeks before he left and doesn’t know if he will come home to his dad in 2 years. But his testimony has been so awesome to hear and he’s just such a cool guy. It really makes you stop and think...what would I give up for Jesus Christ? I don’t know if I could do that..but it’s just been way cool to hear about that and just some other background stories from the rest of my district has been inspiring. 

Monday: said goodbye to the sisters in our room at 4 am, got up and had our last day of class with the last couple people here still, and then just packed a little and that’s about it!

Today (Tuesday):  I’m just doing all my laundry, packing everything, cleaning the place up and getting ready to leave bright and early tomorrow .We have to be at the travel office at 6 am, and from there we will ride down to the airport and then my flight leaves at 11:15 am. Get to Canada around 230, meet my mission president and he will assign me my new companion and my area and all that good stuff. I’m so nervous, scared, pretty much anything u can think of I’m feeling hahah. This week has been a very anxious one. I’ve enjoyed my time at the MTC overall and I have to go out and apply everything I’ve learned into the field now ! I know it’ll be fine, but it feels like going into a new country blindfolded by yourself with your luggage in one hand and ur scriptures in the other hahah. Scary stuff! Just nerves though. 

Yesterday we were doing a Book of Mormon read in class and was reading in Alma chapter 17 about when the sons of mosiah went out on their missions for 14 years I think it was. Anyways, in verses 10, 11, and 31 are great. It really gave me comfort ! Here it is;

10 And it came to pass that the Lord did visit them with his Spirit, and said unto them: Be comforted. And they were comforted.

11 And the Lord said unto them also: Go forth among the Lamanites, thy brethren, and establish my word; yet ye shall be patient in long-suffering and afflictions, that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls.

31 And it came to pass that he flattered them by his words, saying: My brethren, be of good cheer and let us go in search of the flocks, and we will gather them together and bring them back unto the place of water;

I’m in search of the flocks who need to be led back home to our savior Jesus Christ.

I’m happy that he has trusted me to do this work, and excited to get to Canada tomorrow and to start !  

I love you guys and I hope everyone is enjoying this Christmas season ! I heard Christmas in Canada is pretty awesome. I’m excited to tell u all about it !

Sorry about the long email I like to let all of you know what I’m up to, so if u read all of this congrats.

Love, 
Sister Wilson

Last week temple trip on P-Day

Sister Wilson and Sister Wilson!

My District

My District (Canada, Baltimore and Alaska)

Our MTC Teachers Brother Gee and Sister Bingham

My MTC teachers Brother Gee and Sister Bingham

Last class 

So Sunday was our last night all together, and our first week here there was a group of sisters leaving that weekend and so they gave us a glass of sparkling cider because they couldn’t take it with them. So we saved it for our last night here and popped it open to celebrate our survival of the MTC!

Sister Summers and I enjoying our last “sleepover” together