Pictures from the MTC

The first day we got letters and I had 7 from all you doll faces!!

My first companion Hermana Judd

Me and my district.

My new companion Hermana Eye. I am so excited to have her as my Companion!

I was so excited to see Lauryn. 

Me and my companion at the temple

Week 2

Hola!!!!!!

This week has been SO much better than last week and people are right, time really does go by faster the longer that you're here! Mom you would be so proud of me, one of my skirts ripped a little bit and I totally sewed it together! Check me out I'm learning so much haha!

 Last week when it was snowing we went outside for gym time and played volleyball in the snow! I froze my little tushie (spell check) off! Now we have these little domes that are indoor gyms that we can go into if it's freezing so that's nice! But guess what I'm so buff that I've started running for the whole gym time and doing abs and stuff! Watch out Madilyn, I'm coming for you with my six pack! But really though my legs burn from running so much haha! My companion is super buff so I have to be tough and keep up with her!

Guess what I got my new companion on Tuesday when Hermana Judd left for the Colombia MTC and so my new companion is Hermana Eye! She lives in my apartment and she was the girl that I had said was so funny from my apartment! I love my companion! She is so stinkin funny we have so much fun together!! I kid you not we sing "Encarnacion" from Nacho Libre together at least twice a day so you know it's a party!!!!! I moved into a new district which is a little weird not seeing the elders from my old district but it's nice getting to know so many different people here. 

Guess what mom I've only been drinking the water at the cafeteria, I haven't gotten soda one time!! Aaah yeah I'm so awesome! psych haha I'm totally going to get fat here! Ok I got your package on Monday and I cried I was so happy!!!!! Seriously thank you so much Jessica that was the best thing I have ever seen!! I was supposed to get it on Saturday but the post office was already closed by the time I got the notice so I had to wait all the way until Monday night to get it so that was painful but totally worth the wait!! I love that thing more than I can tell you! You're so clever Jessica I just love you so much!! I'm still eating all of the treats you gave me in the package and still the cookies you gave me right before I left so I've got to get working!!

On Sunday Mary Ellen Edmunds spoke at our devotional and I don't even know how to explain it but it was pretty much the best talk I've ever heard!! I loved it! I didn't get to go to main campus and look for Carly and Lauryn which made me really sad but guess what I got to go on Tuesday up there for the devotional and I saw Lauryn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best thing ever I don't even know how to say how happy I was!! It was like a movie scene, we just ran to each other and hugged and started crying! Yeah I'm sure we looked classy haha! But honestly it was the happiest thing ever I miss the poop out of that girl and nothing could have made me happier than to see her!! She's already a sister training leader! What up!!!! That's my roommate ah yeah!! so hopefully I get to see her again on Sunday before she leaves next Tuesday! 

We were teaching one of our "investigators" yesterday and we were set up the next time to meet him and he agreed and then I guess he was trying to tell us that he was out of time and had to go to work. And literally for probably about 3 minutes we sat there trying to figure out what he was saying but we didn't know spanish haha so we were just saying "no comprendo" repeat what you said we don't know what you're trying to tell us! so yeah haha random. Ummm mis padres I don't know if they've said anything about my mission plaque but I think I want my scripture to be D&C 31:3 if anybody ever asks. I think that's pretty much it I've got to go so I can try and send pictures! Love you all so much and miss you!!!!

Leaving for the MTC!

Hola mi familia y mis amigos!!!!! 
How is everyone doing? I want to know everything that´s going on! Thank you everybody for all the letters it is really what´s gotten me through the first week! Man, not going to lie the first four days were rough and I kept asking myself how I was going to do this for a year and a half but it has gotten SO MUCH BETTER!! I´m on the west campus so we´re outside all of the time and everything is super nice over here so I definitely scored! The food has kind of already gotten old. It´s hard to eat cafeteria food every meal.
 I LOVE my district they´re the best part of the mission! My district is just me and mi compañera, Hermana Judd (funny story they printed her tags wrong so for the first day she was Herman Judd). She´s going to Bolivia and she´s actually leaving for the Colombia MTC on Tuesday so I don´t know who my new companion will be next week. There are six other elders in my district. Four of them are going to Argentina and two of them are going to Colombia but their visas just came in yesterday so they´re actually going to be leaving for the Colombia MTC too on Monday so we don´t really know what´s going to happen with our district and with my new companion but oh well, we will see! 
There´s one Elder in my district who is a potato farmer from Idaho! Just with a description like that you know it´s going to be delightful having a kid like that in your class for 10 hours a day! He is so funny I can´t even tell you! He´s just the most random kid but hopefully my pictures work and he´s going to be the one making the weird muscle poses in every picture! He told me a story about how when he was sitting on his tractor one day while farming he got so mad that he chucked a wrench at the tractor and it shot back at him and hit him in the face and he had to get stitches!! As you can imagine I couldn´t stop laughing forever! I don´t know my whole district just tells funny stories like that all day so that´s why I¨m always entertained in class with my district! 
Let´s see we have a bunk bed and pretty much every day when we wake up my companion hits her head on the ceiling from the top bunk and it kills me every time! There´s 3 other Hermanas (Sisters) in my apartment that are all going to Tijuana! I´ll proably end up getting one of them as my new companion. But they are so funny! One of them loves fart and poop jokes so I kid you not the other day she was telling funny stories like that and I was uncontrollable and I crying I was laughing so hard I don´t know she just kills me! And they also love Nacho Libre and Hot Rod so I´m always able to whip out some good quotes! So many people have quoted Nacho Libre and it makes me beyond happy! 
Guess what on Saturday I got to go to the mall and escape to the real world!! My companion had to get glasses so we got to take an official MTC shuttle and go to the mall for a couple of hours it was awesome! We had only been in the MTC for four days and it was already weird to see normal people out in the real world haha! So we didn´t get any mail until Saturday and when we finally got them I got 8 letters and a package!!! You guys are just the best I love yall so much!!! All the Elders were like holy cow Hermana Rockwood how many boyfriends do you have writing you haha! So yep keep em coming I LOVE GETTING LETTERS!!!! 
 Guess who I saw! Carly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was the best part of the MTC so far!!!!! We got to go up to the main campus for the big MTC devotionals on Sunday and Tuesday and it was the best thing ever!! I literally almost peed when I saw her and I just got to give her a big hug and it was awesome! Things started getting better from there! 
 Oh there´s an elder here who had David Rockwood as his young men´s leader. HIs name is Elder Brush. L. Tom Perry came to speak on Tuesday and it was sooooooo awesome! He talked about the typhoon in the Phillipines and talked about some of the missionary stories and the miracle of how not one single missionary died!!! The Lord really does protect his missionaries! There was some really cool stuff he said about it! Dad we don´t have any culture classes. It makes me sad. I´ve met about 7 or so other sisters going to Tijuana and we´re all just these innocent little white girls! Oh I did meet that girl that Evan coached I saw her after a devotional and the crazy thing is that she is best friend´s with Carly´s companion. She seems really nice but she´s not in my zone or anything.
 I´m still a bobbing narcoleptic. I do my best but sometimes I drift off a little bit in class and stuff no matter how hard I try haha! Today we got to go do an endowment session in the Provo temple so that was cool! The other day after gym some of the Elders in our district were trying to do a district and there was leaves all over the ground and these kids just turfed it and rolled and I was laughing so hard!! There´s probably stuff I´m missing but I´m almost out of time and I have to figure out how get the keyboard off of Spanish! So goodbye I love you all so much and I miss you more than I ever thought I could but it´s all good the time will go by fast!!!! Mwah!