Letter 3/10/09

Here is a bit of Dana's most recent letter.
This week has been pretty dull, but really good. For service on Thursday my comp and I got to put up all the flags that the MTC has up every day. That was fun, but I hurt my hand haha. I am seriously accident prone. Ha ha.
Lets see my back is doing tons better I'm learning how to breathe and let the Lord help me with my stress. I am also getting a little more sleep though not tons cause two of my roommates snore... UGH oh well. I have a cold now... the "zone cold" everyone is getting sick. I didn't have a voice on Saturday as a result. It was interesting cause my comp and I had to teach about the apostasy and the restoration in Spanish to my district. I did a ton of writing on the board. haha It made for one entertaining lesson especially since my comp doesn't really like to speak Spanish so I had to help her the best I could with no voice.

Sunday was a great day long though, but that happens every spring when we have daylight savings. It was funny the two new sisters in the district forgot their talks that we all have to write, and sister Erbe (HERB) plays the piano so I ran with shoes in hand with sister Minnetto to the class which has 4 flights of stairs up and then 4 back down it was crazy, and we barely made it to sacrament before the meeting started. They didn't even end up speaking. haha.
Relief Society was cool. We got taught by Sister Elaine Dalton the YW General President. She spoke on the Sunday theme which was Virtue. It was a really cool lesson. After lunch a few of us from the zone when to the temple and took some cool pictures I hope to get them sent to you either this week or next. After that the night went on as normal. My comp and I did get to go on our Sunday Movie "Date" which is every Sunday after the Fireside. We say The Joseph Smith movie. I love that movie.
The best part of this last week was yesterday I got to pop one of the bubbles I live in.... that is right I got to leave the MTC! haha My comp broke her retainer and so we had to go to the orthodontist I'll send pics it was way cool I got to read an I Spy book. I love those books. They had a chair massager thing and a foot massager it was nice to get out of the MTC for a bit. I'm getting a little sick the gray walls around here haha.

Other than that life is pretty much same old same old. We have officially started our all Spanish portion of the MTC which is way hard for me the language still isn't coming, but I worked it out that I have a comp. exchange so I can work for 30+ min. with a sister who knows more Spanish and we can go over the things I just don't get. I'm hoping that will help.

I miss you all tons, but to tell you the truth I'm glad I'm where I am. Even if the walls are gray. I know God lives and Loves us. This is where He wants me to be and that my friends is a great honor. I'm grateful for all of you and the examples you are to me. Stay strong and when you are week kneel and pray and when you are strong again kneel once again and give a prayer of gratitude! I love you all

Love always
Hermana Dana Burnham!