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