Probably the last letter from the MTC before she heads out.

Dear Family,

so my time on the computer here is very limited (30 mins) so this letter is going to go to everyone instead of me trying to write separate emails, so if there are a few things you don't understand don't worry its probably because they weren't directed to you :)

This week has been crazy, in a good way. I feel like I have learned so much in so little time. It's incredible the things you can do with the Lord's help. Almost everyday here we have 6 hours of classroom time with our teachers where we learn about the fundamentals of missionary work as well as teach lessons to our teacher pretending to be an investigator. My teachers role has been a man named Joe. Holy Cow is he hard to teach!! Sister Wood and I have really been struggling to figure out what we should be teaching him. He is so hard to get to know. But on the other hand our TRC appointments have been amazing! we got to teach Gabby again and by the end of the lesson she had committed to baptism, prayed out loud with us, and committed to read the Book of Mormon. What a powerful feeling to see someone feel the spirit in their lives. (even if she was just acting you could definitely feel the spirit) The day after we taught Gabby we got to teach a less-active couple to try and get them active in the church again. THis couple was from Midway so it was fun to talk to them about swiss days and all of that fun stuff. But it was so great as we taught them about prayer and why it's so important to see the light of Christ come back into thier eyes. You could tell the sincerity they had when they said they would start praying again and strive to live the commandments. Rachelle, we were teaching them about the importance of going to church to partake of the sacrament and we told them it was to renew our covenants with Heavenly Father that we made at Baptism. They immediatley asked "What covenants?" It reminded me of our conversation about how we don't talk to much about what coveneants we made except for in the sacrament pray. So naturally we showed them D&C 20:76 and 78 :)

Last weeks temple experiance for me was really interesting. It was really neat to be there with so many other missionaries, but at the same time it was my first time going through without someone i really cared about. As I got to the celestial room i just wept at the thought that my feeling alone was the same feelings that many will have because their family's aren't memebers. It really help solidify my purpose.

Sunday meetings here are the best! For relief society Sister Cook from the YW general Presidency came and spoke to us, She is such a great women you can really see the light of Christ radiating from her! SUnday night we had choir practice and i got to see Ryan and Jodi (the children's choir piano player) we were preparing to sing "consider the lillies" for Tuesday's devotional. SUnday night Stephan Allen spoke to us. He is an amazing speaker he really knows how to use humor well but still keep the spirit.

Dad you should be jealous, i get to eat craked wheat for breakfast every morning here! Breakfast is probably the only meal i enjoy at the MTC.  It's so hard not to here you get 30 min of exercise in the morning and then all we do is eat and study or eat and learn so it's really hard to stay slim here!

For our tuesday night devotionaly Elder M. Russel Ballard spoke to us. It was so cool to hear from an apostle and to be in the same room as he spoke. It was interesting to hear and apostle speak without a teleprompter. I felt like it was much more heartflet and by the spirit.

It was really weird here on wednesday as the new missionaries came in. When we met with the people that had been here a week when i got here i didn't think i would ever be where they were and now i feel like i'm there. Like i said before it is amazing what you can accomplish with the Lords blessing.

Well my time is pretty much up. I'm working really hard here and loving it i love the people i've worked with so far and can't wait to get to missouri on Wednesday.  I love you all so very much and am so grateful for the support i get from all of you back home. Keep writting i love it! (except start sending things to the mission home so i get them for sure) I'm writting letters to you all today so look for them in the mail.

With lots of love,

-Sister Randall