Thanks for all the letters! I'm going to try my best to remember all your questions, so... here it goes! Yes, Teresa is welcome to use my laptop. I actually thought Chynna was going to use it anyway. Tell her she's welcome to change or delete anything she wants on it except my music. I'm going to want that when I get back.
As for the overdraft protection of my credit card, I didn't even know it was on there. Maybe it just came as a default setting? I really don't know. On that note, I don't have access to the internet here, just the email website. Could you keep me posted on my checking account balance, please? I'd really appreciate knowing how much is in there.
Jeremiah's email address is the same as mine. Just change Hillary to Jeremiah and Kiser to Propst. Since he leaves the MTC one week from today, you'll just have to wait and get his mailing address once he reaches his area down in St. George.
Yes, I have seen Nick Vela a few times. He didn't recognize me, so I introduced myself. He seemed excited to be here.
Yes, I did get your package, and I was so happy about it! Being a missionary really just magnifies all the excitement it's possible to feel about receiving something in the mail. I honestly don't know what kind of treats I'd like to have. Just send whatever you'd like. I'm not picky. The only thing I can think of that I really want is a CD I left in the Kia. There should be a CD in there with piano music. (I think the artist's last name is Thomas.) I do want that CD.
As for the food, they have really good meals. Food's been kind of a tricky thing for me, though. I've been sick. I started having digestive problems almost as soon as I got here. For the first week, I just thought I was having a hard time adjusting, but last week, it kept getting worse. So I went to the doctor, and it turns out I picked up a bacterial infection in my digestive tract somehow. The doctor put me on an all-liquid diet for a few days and gave me an antibiotic and something for nausea (this was Friday). Since then, I've gotten a lot better. My symptoms are completely gone now (but I have to keep taking the meds until they run out anyway), and I've been working back up to real food for the last two days, so I'm back to real meals today. Real food tastes so amazing after 3 1/2 days of broth, water, and jello! And I really am feeling back to normal, so the medicine's done it's job. No worries.
There's a lot more I want to write about and respond to from your letters, but my half hour's running out, so I'll finish this in a written letter.
I love you so much!
~Sister Hillary Kiser
Sunday, September 5, 2010
2nd E-mail
Dear family,
Thanks for sending me your little updates! It's exciting to open my mailbox and see lots of emails. Did you get the letter I sent on Friday?
How did Dad-Dad hurt his hip? Tell him I love him and that I'll remember him in my prayers.
Poor Keira too. I didn't actually feel giddy or anything when I was on the laughing gas. It just made me want to cry after I woke up.
I'd love to have that pair of bottoms and some stamps sent. And, yes, I do need that journal. (I knew I'd forget something.) Thanks. It'll probably be simplest to have you deposit the checks for me. They keep us crazy-busy here, and it's kind of hard to find time to run even simple errands.
On that note, it'll probably be easiest for me if you send me your messages through www.dearelder.com. We have exactly 1/2 an hour to check and respond to our emails on P-day, so if you send your messages through DearElder, they'll be printed off for me, and I can read them before I start using up my 1/2 hour, and that'll give me more time to write back.
I'm really loving everything about the MTC. I can really tell that this work's important because the Spirit's kind of helping us double-time our way through everything we need to learn. I could bear my testimony in Swedish after one day, and could pray in Swedish the next. Can you imagine how amazing that is?! I saw my friend Carin on Friday; she's been learning Swedish for two years, and after one day, I was able to teach her a little Swedish she hasn't learned yet.
This really is the hardest work I've ever done, but it isn't exhausting as you'd think it should be. I spend all day learning the language, how to teach the missionary discussions, and going to devotionals with my companion and the 11 Elders who are also going to Sweden. I really love my district. These Elders are amazing, humble, and hilarious, and I'm learning so much more from them than I thought I would. I didn't expect to be impressed with the teenaged boys I would meet here, but they've disproved all my preconceptions. My companion's amazing too. Her name's Sister Dabb, and we've bonded like old friends. We work really well together, and we're good at motivating each other in the different areas we struggle with individually.
I've only seen Elder Propst a few times in passing because we're kept so busy. Hopefully I'll have time to really catch up with him some time soon.
I'm so excited about what I'm doing, and I can't believe how fast I'm learning.
I love you so much, and I can't wait to hear from you again. (Really - getting a letter's pretty much the highlight of any day here.)
Take care of each other. Pray. Be happy.
Love,
Sister Hillary Kiser
Thanks for sending me your little updates! It's exciting to open my mailbox and see lots of emails. Did you get the letter I sent on Friday?
How did Dad-Dad hurt his hip? Tell him I love him and that I'll remember him in my prayers.
Poor Keira too. I didn't actually feel giddy or anything when I was on the laughing gas. It just made me want to cry after I woke up.
I'd love to have that pair of bottoms and some stamps sent. And, yes, I do need that journal. (I knew I'd forget something.) Thanks. It'll probably be simplest to have you deposit the checks for me. They keep us crazy-busy here, and it's kind of hard to find time to run even simple errands.
On that note, it'll probably be easiest for me if you send me your messages through www.dearelder.com. We have exactly 1/2 an hour to check and respond to our emails on P-day, so if you send your messages through DearElder, they'll be printed off for me, and I can read them before I start using up my 1/2 hour, and that'll give me more time to write back.
I'm really loving everything about the MTC. I can really tell that this work's important because the Spirit's kind of helping us double-time our way through everything we need to learn. I could bear my testimony in Swedish after one day, and could pray in Swedish the next. Can you imagine how amazing that is?! I saw my friend Carin on Friday; she's been learning Swedish for two years, and after one day, I was able to teach her a little Swedish she hasn't learned yet.
This really is the hardest work I've ever done, but it isn't exhausting as you'd think it should be. I spend all day learning the language, how to teach the missionary discussions, and going to devotionals with my companion and the 11 Elders who are also going to Sweden. I really love my district. These Elders are amazing, humble, and hilarious, and I'm learning so much more from them than I thought I would. I didn't expect to be impressed with the teenaged boys I would meet here, but they've disproved all my preconceptions. My companion's amazing too. Her name's Sister Dabb, and we've bonded like old friends. We work really well together, and we're good at motivating each other in the different areas we struggle with individually.
I've only seen Elder Propst a few times in passing because we're kept so busy. Hopefully I'll have time to really catch up with him some time soon.
I'm so excited about what I'm doing, and I can't believe how fast I'm learning.
I love you so much, and I can't wait to hear from you again. (Really - getting a letter's pretty much the highlight of any day here.)
Take care of each other. Pray. Be happy.
Love,
Sister Hillary Kiser
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