Hey Everyone! This is my first Group Email!! Just wanted to let everyone know I am doing really well at the MTC. Learning and growing so much! my teachers are soo good! I gave away my first Book of Mormon this week! I flew to Vegas on monday to get my Visa and prayed to have a missionary experience. on the way there i sat by a bishop and a return missionary so wasn't too successful...But on the plane ride home I sat by a Jehovah Witness and an inactive member!! The Jehovah Witness' name was Kiona and she was a college aged girl who was way sweet, she studies large equipment operation or something like that in montana. We talked about religion the whole time (i think she thougt she was teaching me) and we ended up sharing our favorite stories of Christ. Of course I shared one from the Book of Mormon! I shared in 3 Nephi when Christ blessed all the children and cried because he was so pleased that the ancient people in the americas were so faithful! She seemed pretty touched! So then I gave her a copy of the book of mormon and a pamphlet on the restauration or Christ's church. I showed her the other pamphlets I had and was like "hey i have a bunch if you want any.." and told her what each of them where about and she grabbed the one about the plan of salvation! I was so happy! Funny thing was that her mom had flown to vegas a couple weeks ago and sat by a young sister missionary who talked about Christ with her too! The Gospel is amazing, and the plan of salvation is amazing! It is such a blessing to know who we are, we are children of a loving Heavenly Father who wants us to experience life to its fullest and grow as much as we can!! I am so glad he has given us a latter day prophet to help lead us to real lasting happiness, and a gospel that can empower us and help us become Christlike and loving in all we do and say!! Everything I learn in classes is so uplifting and I can't wait to go find the people God has prepared and help them remember the truth about life! Christ's church is on the earth today and he is the head of it still! I feel so grateful for the Holy Ghost and prayer! Without prayer I wouldn't have made it this far! Everytime I kneel down i feel Heavenly Father strengthen me!  I know with all my heart that the Savior lives and wants us all to be happy!  He has lovingly set the example for us and wants us to return to our Father's presence!! If any of you feel alone just pray, it works! My district here in the MTC is made up of 6 sister missionaries! Our teacher told us we are the first all sister district in the history of the spanish department of the MTC! We are all going to different missions in Mexico! Our teachers pretend to be people they taught and then we teach them to practice and so far they said that we are doing really well! We teach and speak in all spanish it is crazy how fast we have been learning the language!! One of the companionships on Monday got our teacher to cry because he was touched by how hard we have been working and how prepared we are and how strongly we know that our Savior lives and loves us! I can't wait to go to the temple tonight!! Well I am about out of time but i miss you all and love you! Send me letters!!

Hermana Anderson