The District 
sis mathias, brandt, mitchel, me
one week down probably the longest week ever but apparently its the longest week out in the mission or at least that is what my teachers say (if that not true then just get it to your self because i dont think i could do another week as long as the last). everyday or at least at the begginning was just a roller coaster there would be some highs and then lows. but now it is slowly evening out which is good. Also, it feels like i havent talked to you guys in forever which kind of scares me because it has only been a week. but i will try to include as much as i can remember.
so wednesday the dreaded day...finally learned how to roll my suitcases haha that was embarrassing but what did i expect if i wasnt going to trip it would be somethings stupid like that. and then i put my stuff away and then went to my classroom and i was the last one and was super out of breath because my classroom is on the 5th floor of 18m. my district is good. the first couple days were rough because all the guys are 18 years boys but now we are all good. all of them are so different but it works we all get along. they are mostly all from utah. one of them looks like scott bush and honestly does not stop talking haha his companion was talking to me and was like good thing my mom is a talker because he truly never stops talking but he remembers everything so well and is really good at teaching people. then his companion is super nice and from las vegas plays volleyball and is really sweet. those two are our zone leaders then we have another elder from delta utah and he is our district leader. he is a farm boy/butcher and really funny. then another elder is really into musical theater and his companion is this short white 1/4 mexican who loves anthing mexican and american yet he is going to ghana on his mission. and then the three other sisters are all going to spokane washington. sister mitchell is my comp and she is super nice and funny like dry sacrastic but def knows when to be serious which is good. we are a good team and we get along really well. we dont over power each other and are really good in our lessons well not good but not terrible haha. its weird having someone with you all the time. you cant even my selfish about going to the bathroom. and then sister mathias is excellent at keeping us in line and making sure we are doing what we are suppose to be doing and following the rules which is really nice because at promptly 630 she turns on the lights to make sure everyone is getting up so thats helpful. then sister brandt is from sparks nv and is nice. she also is gf so its been nice to have another person to get food with. but that is enough about my district that probably was super boring to read and pointless but whatever...
my teachers are brother bryan and sister greenall. they are both super nice and good teachers. sister greenall is just really nice and loving. she served in texas and got home almost a year ago. brother bryan just got back from his mission in july and is a really good teacher. he pushes us more and makes us do more role plays and makes us more accountable. we are teaching him now as a fake investigator named carlos, someone from his mission so we will see how that goes. i honestly dont know what else to write about but there has been so much that has gone down.
on saturday i was getting ready for bed and i was like i dont feel joy and then all of a sudden it struck me...I have the joy and I am sharing the joy of the gospel. That doesn't mean that we will feel happy everyday or everyday we will feel like singing but we are so lucky to have the eternal joy and I know I might sound like a cliche missionary but it really struck me in the mtc bathroom. Sunday was by far the best day of the week. It started out really early for me and my companion. We got called as the sister missionary training leaders so we had branch council at 7am and then sacrament and then another meeting training us and then we had sunday school with our district then relief society. then im not really sure what happen next honestly my memory is fading it so scary haha. then our district did choir but my comp and i sat in the soprano section and we learned real quick we are not sopranos so we just mouthed the high parts. then we had devo and it was about repentance. at first i was like oh bummer not that good of topic but i was wrong of course it was really good. He really just focussed his thoughts on how lucky we are that we can repent and repenting is nothing more than turning away from worldly things and turning toward gods will. it was good. then we watch character of christ by elder bednar and it was amazing like life changing it was about conversion. It was like mic drop and a boom kind of talk. He said that about 1/4 of you probably will not be active in 6 years because 1/4 of you only have testimonies and that is not enough we have to have real conversion in order to stand against the world. but it was elder bednar so it was said much better. and it was all about becoming like christ and how that is what the gospel truly is, it is becoming closer to our savior. i hate to think that people stop believing in christ just because of some things but if we truly knew what the gospel was we would all want to stay and try our hardest to stay and become converted. and what really stuck out to my was when he said if you are trying to for the end result it wont happen but you just have to lose yourself. i was super stressed thinking about coming home and not being different and regretting not being the best missionary ever and then after that talk i was like what am i doing. this is pointless. one i am not out here to change myself i am here to help others come unto christ and i am being completely selfish so in that instance i just stopped thinking about the end result and trying to live in the present as much as possible and trying my hardest to see everyone as children of god, another cliche but really if you think about what that really intails its is amazing. we are all children of god and if we truly believe that we would all treat others a lot differently. we would see there talents and possible things and we would not see there weaknesses but we would see there potential. so i am really trying to act the way i believe. on monday we had our first trc and thats just say its was really rough and that is an understatement. her name is emi and she is a legit investigator which completely freaked me out. she is from japanesse and she came here to learn english. she wouldnt let us teach her our lesson because she was like oh the missionaries before gave us that and then she kept bringing out other missionaries lessons which is like a no no in trc rules. book then i asked her if she had a bom and she was like yah in japan but not here. so i was like okay here is one and i gave her a trc book of mormon that had big writing on it that said trc RETURN but then i was like no no totally take it haha whoops. but all the other missionaries told here that they would find one but i thought that was pretty pointless becasuse everyone gives her reading assignments. but one teacher here, brother neilson, like he is going to be an apostle one day talked to us and gave us really good advice about emi bc he was like yah she is really hard so we will see how that goes tonight. we arent going to get slapped around like we did last time haha. also, guess what. ELDER BEDNAR came to devotional last night. CRAZY!!!! his talk was about general conference it was really good and how we can dig deeper into the talks. i really wanted to see chris and mary but i didn't. also, i have seen so many hawaii people here and it is honestly the best part of my day. its so nice to see fimialr faces. i love it. today we got to go to the temple which was amazing. brought back so many good memories. i really hope we can all go when i get back. Also, while we were sitting in the chapel i was praying about how amazing it would be to see someone i knew in the temple just to know that i was loved and then i walked out and saw mary stevenson. it was the best thing ever, i almost cried. I def know that was a tender mercy and i saw god's hand in my life. i love mary stevenson and it meant so much to see here.
thanks for all the dear elders!!! makes me so happy when i get them best part of the day. it is the best so thank you so much
okay sorry this probably didnt make sense and really pointless but love to all
next week i will have my thoughts collected
love love
sistercobb
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