Kami's first week in the MTC. She is absolutely loving it. Here our some pictures and an email.

 my host and I!!!!

 we fell asleep during personal study once on accident so now we are just living up to our name. Sister vele didn't get the memo. and we are acting out the pic behind us but you can't see it because the flash

hermana vele, hermana jeppson, me, hermana huffman, hermana call

IM IN LOVE IM IN LOVE AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT!!!!!!!!!

I am in love with my mission already!! It is crazy how happy I feel.

Okay lets start from the beginning....

Wednesday

BIGGEST BLESSING EVER!!!! Hermana Garry (Melissa) was my host on the way in. From the start it just put me at peace and made me excited. She was full of advice and positivity for me and it made me giddy inside. I felt so much joy from the second I stepped out of the car because of her. 

EVERY human here is the nicest human you have ever met (also I just hit a key on my computer and now all the letters are slanting, don't know how that happened and I don't have time to figure out how to change it oops) also i have no time for spell/grammar check and I am learning Spanish so my English grammar is going out the window (sorry dem deal with it) #missionprobs hehe ;)

anyway the missionaries ROCK.

So I have a triple companionship....dun dun duuuuuun. yeah its about as complicated as it sounds. Me and hermana Huffman (my comp) are in the beginner Spanish class and then we have a third companion who is in the advanced Spanish class and she is called a "solo" missionary. which means in the advanced class she is the only girl with six boys so she has to be with a elder companionship during class time and then she is suppose to come with us the rest of the time. But getting a sister to join you during non class time when she gets to spend all of her class time with dem boyz is pretty darn hard (also a kid just sat next to me to write a letter home and said "crap, I don't even know how to spell the country I am going to"lawls lawls lawls) 

So back to my companions. let me just give you a little low down. the first thing that hermanaHuffman said to me when she met me was this

"HI!!! want to know my favorite words in Spanish?!!"

me "ya for sure! what?"

Huffman says something in Spanish

me "coool what did you just say?"

huffman " body oder!!! its my favorite word"

me ??????????? mmmmmmmm......tiiiiiiight. (secretly thinking oh boy its gonna be a great six weeks.)

SO hermana Huffman is from lehi and she went to one semester of college before coming on her mission

Two import things to know before i continue

1. I am a grandma here. everyone and their dog is 19 or 18 elders and sisters

2. I am the only one in my entire district with less then three years of Spanish class under her belt.

K so hermana Huffman is English major (keep in mind she has only done one semesters worth sooo....)And she knows spanish sort of. So in other words she is constantly being so generous and correcting me in English ans Spanish. it is just the best ;). My favorite thing. On a real note though I am grateful for it because it has taught me so much patients and I really need to work on that. I know she is just trying to help me.

she is also very into show tunes and theatre. Yay another thing we have in common. hehehesorry I should probably work on my sarcasm.  Basically we are very different people but she is loving and happy and so we get along just fine.  

Hermana Call comes from a family of debaters and loves nothing more than to be in high tension debates and I am not sure I have seen her smile since we have been here. HermanaHuffman is very into following the rules and is always stressing about Hermana call being with us and not the boys when she is outside of her class. I on the other hand am pretty bad at caring these days. One of the hugest blessing I think I was given since I came here was no stressing. WE ALL KNOW I am the biggest stress case that ever graced this planet. but since I have been in the MTC stress in no longer a part of me. There is just no time for it. The most important thing for my future investigators is for me to have the spirit with me 100 percent of the time while I am in the mtc so I can learn what I need to learn while I am here.
I have also come to loooove a good challenge. and I am bound and determined to get sister call to smile and love me more and I am bound and determined to never ever let sisterhuffman's constant corrections ever get to me or ever let her see them frustrate me. The first day one of the wives in the MTC presidency spoke to us and told us the importance of always smiling. Since the first day first hour that has been my goal. ALWAYS. SMILE! it can get hard but it helps so much. 

there are two other girls in our beginner district of Spanish they are hermana jeppson andhermana vele (sounds like way-lay) Vele is my saving grace. she is from Tonga and the biggest blessing in my life. She is so chill and mellow and humbles me so much. She comes from very humble conditions and is so didcated to her work. OH i just love her!

K so there are 4 girls in my district and then 4 boys and guess who one of the boys is!!!!!!! none other than ELDER BIG!!!!!!! WOOOOOOO (he is a friend of alicia's back home and went to timpview but graduated two years after me. I didn't really know him pre mission but I had heard about his call and had hoped he would be in my ditrict but heard it was not likely.) We became instant best friends. I love him and most of the time he is what keeps me sane. It is funny he is already like a sibling to be. Its kind of how I am with Andrea. Andrea and I could be in a huge room and no matter what anyone says depending on how we look at each other we would know exactly what each others opinion was on what was just said by the way we look at each other. Elder Big and I are like this. We will just constantly be making eye contact about things and I know he just gets me. That has been nice because all of the sisters in my district are so different then me. especially our humor. I think they all think I am crazy but I just can't stop making the jokes. Having fun is o important here so you don't get down.

My branch president is AMAZING!!!!! is has held every calling in the churhc you can imagine and then some. His name is president Tyler. we had one on one interviews with him our second night here and it was the best. We connected from the beginning. he sat me down and asked "sister how old are you?" I told him and he said "okay I was going to say you have maturity well beyond your years and so I was kind of assuming you would tell me 21." that really meant a lot to me. Because am silly but I do try really hard here to be responsible and mature and I knew from that moment we just got each other. He went on and as he talked to be it was like talking to an old pal. He gave me such incredible advice that I am sure will be with me during my entire mission. HE is the best!

MY Spanish teach is also incredible! like I said, I am the only one with no Spanish experience so I am the worst in my class by far and he is so patient with me and always makes me feel so comfortable. He is also so funny which really livens up the class. Learning a language along with the gospel and how to teach it all at the same time is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. Literally my Spanish is the biggest joke you have ever heard. but thanks to some advice from Scott Henderson (never be afraid to ask questions) I feel like I have gone into learning it with the right attitude. I just tell myself everyday to focus, pray for the spirit, work as hard as I can for as long as I can. This means not being shy about talking to the whole class in Spanish. and Not being afraid to mess up all the time. It has actually been kind of nice being the worst here because I feel know pressure. When I make mistakes I just simply keep going and try harder. GOD WILL DO THE REST!!!!

Wow there is just so many feelings and thoughts to tell you and no time. 

Okay everyone who told me you have no time on a mission was right. I just have no time to think about anything back home because you are non stop thinking about what you can me learning for the sake of your future investors and how you can keep the spirit. I use to get really side tracked back home and day dream a lot. so since I have been in the mtc it is too much for me to let myself think about things back home while I am trying to learn my the spirit so I have been a goal for myself. I get to think about anything I want after I say my nightly prayer until I fall asleep and then when I roll out of bed for my morning prayer it is go time again and I need to focus on what I can learn for my investigators.  I mean I am not a freak I still enjoy things but it is just for me so I don't get too carried away. AHHH!!! almost out of time.

okay going to bluet points to finish up

-singing we are NOW armies of helamn instead of we will be was one of the most uplifting moments of my life. sang that song first day with all the new peeps it was great

-morning prayer is my favorite. the alarms go off and 10 seconds later you look out at your dark room and see four other girls down on their knees and it just gives me the chills every morning.

-branch prez said that satin will make I statements in your head instead of you statements so you think it is yourself talking. This is the most helpful advice I have gotten since I have been here. Satin is constantly at work with you when you are in the mtc trying to distract you and pull you away form the spirit by making you think that you are not good enough. but he tricks you. Into thinking it is you telling yourself that you are not good enough. You can't let those thoughts get you. for any future missionaries reading this YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH!!!! YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH!!!! GOD TRUSTS YOU! HE BELIEVES IN YOU AND HE WILL HELP YOU!!! most important thing to remember.

my four main goals in the MTC so far are

-learn for my investigators. it is a mission SERVICE it is not about me. it is about the Lord and those I will teach. learn.for.them.

-sincerity of heart will win over fluency of a language 

-have fun

-when discouraged or down find someone else struggling and put all my energy into helping them up.

I am doing great here better than I ever could have hoped or imagined! I love you all so so so so so much!!! I would not be who I am without you!!!!! MISSIONS ARE THE BEST

 love,

hermana Rosen

p.s. even though I am worse than my comps in the language I got to kick their trash at gym time hehehe! THANK YOU VINCE. so they were all going off about how fit they all are with their dance and what not and so I asked if they wanted to do this work out with me that Madsbrother Vince wrote out for me. it kicked their trash hahahaha! it kicked mine too but I was able to power through! all the girls doing it with me were just flat on the ground not moving half way though it. THANK YOU VINCE!!! getting tan gettin fit hittin it hard october 2014 ;)

ALSO WRITE ME DEAR ELDER OR LETTERS EMAILS TAKE TO LONG!!! 

THANK YOU ALEXA PULLEY FOR BEING THE FIRST TO WRITE ME. I haven't cried since i have been in the mtc but I think I would have if I had not gotten letters from people on the first day we were given them

LETTERS MAKE A MISSIONARIES WORLD GO ROUND!!!

i know I have forgotten so much but have not time.

LOVE YOU MAMA! and pops and Aims! miss you all!

OH HAPPY BIRTHDAY INGUNN!!! 4 20!!!!! what up! I eat lunch at 11:45  everyday cough couch

also thanks for the letter aimee!

oh the stuff for my card should be in the lap top case that was on my bed and same with my immunization records