May 25th Letter 19

Hello! Wow we've been meeting a lot of interesting people lately. It's been a great opportunity to really focus on what I believe and testify and feel the peace. That's how I know the gospel is true because peace is hard to come by and the peace it brings is such a wonderful witness of it. I've been thinking a lot about how we progress. The answer is prayer and work. Lots of effort. Elder Bednar said, "AS disciples of the Savior, we are not merely striving to know more, rather, we need to CONSITENTLY DO MORE of what we know is right and become better." I love that. Another quote I love says, "if we don't try we don't do, if we don't do then why are we here?" That applies so much to missionary work and so much to life. If we aren't accomplishing things that bring us closer to God then why are we here? We don't have to everything we just have to always be doing something to be a little better. I'm so grateful to know what I know and I just hope and pray that if there are things you don't know for sure you put forth the effort to know.. "And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 There is nothing more liberating than a personal testimony. It's sometimes easy to rely on others but real freedom comes from knowing for yourself. It is such my desire to help people to feel the freedom the gospel brings. I love you all. I am thankful for your prayers I feel them and I need them. I feel like thins is kinda a heavy email. I'm trying to think of something funny that happened this week.... Well we were all playing frisbee the other morning and there was about four of us going for it and all of us fell... i caught it and ended up sitting on top of the other elders that had fallen.. whoops! I sure stood up quick and I was as red as a beet. Dad it reminded me of my first soccer game when I fell and sat right on the ball and there was like seven little girls surrounding me and kicking at the ball and I could hear you yelling "that's right just take a rest monica!" haha. I've also tried getting into the wrong car a few times.. my companion never tries to stop me because she thinks it's funny. We have a great time together. She goes home next transfer. Weird! Transfers are this sunday so i'm anxious to see what's going to happen! Take care and be happy!
Sister Savage

April.. let me refer to my planner.. 12 (Letter 13)

Hello! Well this has been a very very great week! I loved General conference and then we went to the temple on Thursday. The peace there is so amazing. As a missionary you don't really sit for that long ever and it was so wonderful to be in the Temple and feel so calm. I love the temple. I read a scripture while i was there and I can't remember where but it said not to be afraid for i am in your midst, You truly can feel the Savior in your midst at the temple. Sunday we met with the indian family we've been teaching and watched finding faith in Christ and after I asked how they felt and Srini and Sarah immediately said it's true. We are working for them to be baptized may 2! That will be such an amazing day cause thats your birthday barb and i'm soo glad you were born plus it will be an amazing blessing for a really amazing family to be baptized. Keep them in your prayers! I can't tell you how happy they make me! They came to cake auction activity sat night and loved it! It is wonderful to see them fit in so well and enjoy church so much. I asked pavan the 16 boy what he had done that day and he said I've prayed twice and i'm going to again before I go to bed :) At first i thought he said played and but when i said played what he said no I prayed and it made my day! Then another huge miracle. We had a missionary musical fireside last night and it was amazing. There are so many talented missionaries. Marysusan who we've been trying to get to stuff for weeks but she always cancels right before came and she loved it. We've been truly blessed. This is the most humbling and rewarding work ever. I've never felt so much responsibilty but so much assistance at the same time. I was talking to the mission president about how sometimes i feel like i'm not enough.. and he told me flat out that really that attitude is the same and thinking that the Savior isn't enough.. and he is and therefore I am. So it was great to be reminded that I do know that with the Savior's help i'm enough.. we're all enough. Focus on him and how with him all things are possible and there is no way we can fail. I'm so grateful to know the truthfulness of gospel and I know that I have so much to change and learn but i'm excited! Thank you for your prayers on my behalf, I KNOW they are making a huge difference. I'm so thankful for your support and love and I love you more and more each day i'm gone. I'm excited for eternity with all of you! I hope you can understand this.. when i type fast everything just runs together!
Love Sister Savage

Letter 12

So I only have six minutes and then it's going to kick me off! I love you all! funny story is that I was tracting the other day and this sweet old lady came out with a shoe and was talking about my shoes in whatever language she was speaking but we couldn't understand her and before I knew it she was trying on my shoes... she was a sweetheart. All is well. I LOVED CONFERENCE. We are so blessed to be led by a prophet and apostles. I Know they are called of God and I know that the Church of Jesus Christ has been restored! What a blessing! be happy and I hope that all is well.. I'll try and write more if I get another booking on a different computer!Laurie if you could just collaborate these messages that would be great. So we went to a members house for dinner and they had this massage bed thing that was amazing and a foot massager.. it was lovely. Then we noticed a huge bear head in the driveway coming out of a garbage bag. We asked if they were getting rid of it and they said yes and it was a whole bear skin. So we used it on april fools day but it moreso just confused the elders than scared them. We get to go to the temple on thursday and I am way excited. I love the temple and how peaceful it is there. We are so blessed to have temples all over the world. Wow. There really aren't words to describe how amazing and miraculous the growth of God's kingdom on earth is. I am so thankful to be a part of it. Thanks for all of your great examples I love you!
Love SIster Savage

Letter 11

Salam, Hoobie? That means Hello how are are you? I'm doing great it has been a good week. Always lots to do and even more that can be done. I love this experience so much. Darlene was baptized yesterday and she asked sis simons and I to help her and she kinda sucked up a lot of water but she recovered and when she came out of the dressing room she said "I feel like a million bucks" And then she kept saying how grateful she was to have made it here, she has been searching for the truth for 17 years and she recognized it right away. So amazing. Our investigators are doing better, Srini and his family were super stressed out last week but they came to church this week and were back to there smiling selfs which was such a relief. They are an amazing family. The Persian New year was this past week and so on sat the Persian members did a party and it was a lot of fun. The persians are so funny and the food is yummy. Well my time is short today because we are going to the science center... I hear it's pretty cool. I love you all and thank you for all you do for me. Khoda ha fez! bye bye!

Ok there is a pic of Sister Bradshaw and I.. its not the cutest though so maybe don't show the whole world. And there is one of Amir and Sis Simons and I at the persian party. And then one of darlene and me. and one of me holding the moldy cookies holly and rach sent me :) My face is supposed to look sickened. Oh ya my april fools joke is that she really didnt cut my hair that short.. it's shorter but not drastic! Thats all folks!

From Sister Savage

From Sister Savage

From Sister Savage

From Sister Savage

Letter 10

I always want to start by saying I can't believe how fast the week has gone but the truth is I do believe it because every week goes by quick... so I can believe another week has flown by! I hope all is well. This week I have heard more sad stories than I ever have. We talk about trials and difficulties being part of life and that they help us grow and then people say but sisters is there any happiness. Then we get to share how because of Jesus Christ we can find happiness. We may not be free from our trials but we can be free from despair. I'm grateful to my family and friends for the great examples in finding happiness in what will last forever instead of being sad about not having all the worldly stuff that won't last. Find reasons to be happy ever day and you will be. We have had a really great week! We had an experience the other day while tracting that was pretty intense.. We knocked on a door and the man opened it up and he was an extremely tall and built african american man and he stepped out let the door close behind him and folded his arms and said as he towered over us you picked the wrong guy. I felt like I did when I was a little girl and we went to Las Vegas and there was that huge man with a snake wrapped around his neck and I dropped my ice cream on dad's head. I was trying really hard not to look completely terrified. He told us he was a hebrew/ greek bible scholar. He asked to see my bible and he was surprised he said we have a good copy. He drilled us for probably half an hour and we were able to keep it pretty calm and in the end he was way more flustered than us and said well i wish i could show you all my hebrew and greek stuff, and he's right he definently would have confused us then! I was grateful to feel the spirit comfort me. So interesting things I've eaten today was something called a double which is like a scone thing stuffed with curry chickpeas or something like that.. it was super yummy! The other night I got up to have a snack (I definently blame you dad for my eating in the middle of the night :) and I had a slice of banana bread a member gave us and then the next morning I looked at it and the bottom had tons of mold on it.. so foul. hmm what else. Oh my favorite thing that happened this week was at zone conference. We were having lunch and these three ladies from the weston ward made it for us and then we sang called to serve to them after to say thanks and I noticed one sweet lady crying and I thought oh she is so tender. We went up to give them hugs and we I approached this lady she got WAY excited and was like it's you it's you and before i knew it she was giving me the best hug i've had since I left and we hugged tight for a long time. And guess who it was Jen :) Sister Bradshaw! I can't tell you how wonderful is was to hug someone who knows and loves someone I love so much. By the way Sister Bradshaw is a sister my sister Jen lived with while she was serving her mission. Such a tender mercy.. I loved it so much. This Recent convert came and shared his story with us and it was crazy. He was on the bus on his way to the subway station where he had decided to go and throw himself in front of a train because he was so miserable when he saw two missionaries get on the bus. One of them pushed through all the people and sat down by him. He didn't give up on talking to this man and finally he gave him his number cause he thought it doesn't really matter anyway because i'll be dead. As soon as he got off the bus the elders called him and set up a time to see him and he said that he can't remember the rest of that day at all and that he had forgotten his plan. He did meet with the missionaries and now does have happiness.. it gives me hope to tell people they can be happy because this guy was at the lowest of low and he did it. We were able to meet with a family on friday and the lesson went amazing. The husband is from St. Lucia and the wife from Nigeria and they have a two year old little girl and a five month old baby that i had a hard time not staring at the whole time. So cute. They were so receptive and eager to have us come again and we told them about general conference and he was like I definently feel like i have something to learn from these men. He always was like I know what your saying is true I have the goosebumps. SOOO cool. I love this work. I love my Savior. I love all of you! Thanks for all you do for me. Oh ya I had to rush last week cause I went to get my hair cut by a really sweet persian lady and her english is very limited and my farsi is VERY limited and somehow she ended up cutting off more than she kept. Oh well though.. my mission has been quite a big adventure for my hair! This is a long one! I love ya and hope to hear from you all soon!

Letter 8

So we had to switch our email addresses this morning.. what a joke.. after 30 minutes we finally got elder phillips to help us out. It has been a great week. my first transfer is over and I just can't believe it! I'm so glad to be staying here in Don Valley.. it's been wonderful here! I had a funny slash scary experience the other night cause we were walking up to an apartment building and my companion was having some anxiety because transfer time stresses her out and she was like i feel like something bad is going to happen and I was like... right now? And right when i said that this man ran up behind us.. you should have seen me scamper off.. he felt really bad and said i'm sorry i didn't mean to scare you.. it was pretty funny. I'm sure jumpy! The other day we were playing sports and one of the elders got nailed in the face with a soccer ball and then we accidently ran over his foot in our car... he's ok though. I've eaten some fun stuff this week. Sister Simpson from Scotland fed us meat pie and haggas.. which isn't as bad as i've heard. Sister Shah fed us rice, corned beef and cabbage, split pea sauce, hot sauce and yogurt all mixed together. I bet you feel bad for me but don't it was delicious! She is from Trinidad and is awesome.. we helped her clean and she kept on saying it was a miracle and she almost cried.. such a sweet lady. Srini and his family are praying about being baptized! They are such an amazing family. Yesterday Pavani the 10 year old girl said the prayer and it was the sweetest thing. She is usually so soft spoken but when she started praying she spoke right up and said how grateful she was for us coming over and teaching about the steps we need to take and for the Book of Mormon. They are an amazing family. Keep them in your prayers. We saw Marysusan and she was shaking really bad because she is trying to quit drinking. She said she didn't drink at all when she read the Book of Mormon and she didn't drink the whole hour we were there so that is awesome! I have to go but I love you all so much. Writing is hard to do but i'm doing my best! thanks for your love and support it means so much! The gospel is true. I believe in Christ! Love Sister Savage :)

Letter 7

What a week! i'll start with tracting news.. tracting is such an adventure. We tracted into a lady and she was the most animated person ever. People like telling there life stories but she acted hers out as well. She broke her leg really bad last year and she was telling us all about it and then before I knew it she had me turned around and was demonstrating how this lady picked her up and rubbed her down to keep her from going into shock.. my companion was trying really hard not to laugh and luckily I wasn't facing her cause i looked pretty confused/uncomfortable but that's what makes missionary work fun. A lot of people don't speak english and instead of saying "i'm not interested" they say "i'm not interesting." The other day someone said that and closed the door and my companion continued on to say to the closed door, well we think you're interesting you shouldn't be so hard on yourself.. we laughed pretty hard. We found a really cool carribean lady named Ingrid and we talked to her for awhile. She told us her heart was warmed.. ya for the spirit.. we're going back this wednesday. She told me there are sooo many Savages where she is from... maybe i'm meant to live in the Carribean! It snowed a ton this past week. My companion hates boots though so she refuses to wear them. The parking lot to the church was all snow and slush so I offered to give her a piggy back ride so she didn't get snow in her shoes.. it's a lot harder in dresses.. she jumped on and then just kinda slid of my back onto the ground.. good thing she has a good sense of humor.. we laughed for a long time. She's got a big bruise! Did you know that most of the squirrels here in canada are black.. and big.. and all over the place! They are like little ninja's running all over. They scare me sometimes.So Srini and his family are soo amazing! We decorated their apartment door because it was Pavan's (the sixteen year old boy) Birthday and they called us that night and you would have thought we gave them a million dollars. They are so grateful and humble. They came to church again and I'm so excited to keep teaching them. Do you remember me telling you about MArySusan? She is a lady i met my first week in Canada and we taught her twice and the spirit was really strong but then she called and told us she wasn't ready for anything new.. broke my heart. Well we haven't heard from her in three weeks and last night we had just turned off the lights to go to bed and she called us! Wow! We talked to her for an hour and she is so scared because she feels like she needs to turn to something and she thinks it's us but she is a devote Catholic and so it is very frightening for her. She has a lot of questions and we are going to start teaching her again. Super exciting. I thought she had written us off and here she has still been thinking about it these past three weeks. So many blessings. We had a meeting this week called skills and interviews and one of my Zone leaders shared a cool scripture. 1 Corinthians 9: 24 " Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receivieth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain." He had us change the word prize to gift. There are many gifts we want but there is no way we can get them unless we run! We each can obtain if we keep running. Run so that you find answers to your prayers. Run so that scripture study can bring you closer to Christ. Run so that you can be forgiven of your sins. SO RUN, THAT YE MAY OBTAIN! I know when we do our part the best we can we can obtain . Man all this running talk is making me tired. It's hard. I read a scripture in 2 Nephi 24: 3 that says. "And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall give thee rest, from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve." We are made to serve in hard bondage sometimes, financially, emotionally, physically, spiritually. The Lord will give us rest. He is the only one who can liberate us. I love and pray for you all. Thank you so much for your prayers. wow this is a long one.
Love Sister SAvage
PS if you have written and i've not written back yet be patient with me i'm trying :) And if you haven't written me.. i could point out a few of you but I won't single you out like that.. i want to know what's happening in your life!

Letter 6

Hello! So I'm hoping my message is more clear this week. my emails tend to be full of mistakes and run on thoughts and such but there's just not much time. This week has been great. I scared Sister Simons silly the other night cause I woke up and for some reason i was draped over the end of her bed and i was trying to move quietly back to my bed but she woke up and I really scared her... whoops!
I've been thinking a lot about the words encouraged and discouraged.. life is full of of these feelings and it feels like a rollercoaster. So instead of trying to figure out which way i'm feeling all the time i've decided to just be couraged! No matter what we can keep going on. My mission president wrote us today and said he heard a talk that said a day with out a problem is a wasted one. We are meant to struggle but we don't have to lose our courage to believe.. to have faith.. to endure. We have the gospel.. so we have everything. I read a scripture this week in D&C 6: 33-36 "Fear not to do good, my sons, for whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap; therefore, if ye sow good ye shall also reap good for your reward. Therefore, fear not, little flock; do good; LET EARTH AND HELL COMBINE AGAINST YOU, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. Behold I do not condemn you; go your ways and sin no more;perform with soberness the work which I have commanded you. Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." I found it so interesting because usually when someone is trying to comfort you they say it's ok everything will be fine, it won't be as bad as you think... but not here, he says let earth and hell combine against you. I know if your trying to to good they will combine against you but I also know that like it says if we are built upon the rock of our Redeemer they won't prevail. We sure learn a lot from our struggles if we let ourselves. So yesterday was probably my favorite day so far on the mission.. it was actually kind of warm but better than that we had a family come to church that we've been teaching and they really liked it and It was the most stressful and wonderful church i've ever sat through! We are going to keep teaching and they want to keep coming and i'm super excited and overwhelmed. We've beem so blessed. Charles another man we taught this past week came to church too.. we haven't had any invesigators actually come and yesterday we had 5! And you know what i appreciated the most.. how welcoming the members were. wow.
I hope all is well! Thanks for all the support. I LOVE hearing from you!
All my love, Sister Savage

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From Sister Savage

Week 4 letter

Hello hello hello.. or Salom.. I'm learning a little farsi while i'm here.. it's fun:) It's amazing that people from Iran and afghanistan are being baptized here.. it's so cool. They are wonderful people. One of the new sister's name is Eli and she is FUNNy.. I don't even know what she is saying but we laugh a lot. It was an amazing testimony meeting yesterday..It is neat to here converts from all of the world bear testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. It's so true. That's what makes it hard when people don't accept it. I was reading today about Christ and it said that he went forth ministering with great authority and glory.. and they cast him out. So everytime someone shuts the door I just need to remember the message is true and people rejected if from the greatest missionary ever. It is amazing to know that my SAvior knows exactly what I am feeling and what I need. Marysusan the lady I wrote about last week dropped us :( It's just so sad to me cause i know it's what she needs. We met a really cool guy from Egypt named George. Wow is he looking for truth. The spirit was really strong as we taught him and after he told us that he had had the worst day ever in his whole life until we came and he didn't want us to leave. We are going back on wednesday and he seems really excited. This message is amazing. Wow. So My first week here I seriously was struggling staying awake during study time.. I was feeling pretty down on my self. I've really been praying and I know Heavenly Father knows are desires and he wants to bless us. These past few days i've felt more awake in the morning than I have in years! such a blessing. OUr mission president told us quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson " When you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. I know that God wants to help us become everything we want to become. I'm so grateful.
It was -17 degrees when I got here and then it got really warm.. all the way to 0 degrees:) and now it's back to -7... I think i'm getting used to it. I'm so confused though so anyone who knows the answer please let me know.. why is there no frost or ice on the windows of cars here in the morning.. it's so cold and we never have to defrost.. why? So heres something embarrassing i've been struggling with.. we always talk on speaker phone and it doesn't hang up when you close it.. so i would make a call... close the phone and be like oh no i forgot to leave are number or I sounded so dumb.. and then I realize that it's still going.. so people have been left some pretty funny messages by me. Well I love you all and I really really need to see some pics soon.. I miss all the little ones so much.. it kills me that I can't hold babies! I know the gospel is true. Make a decision about something you want to change and the universe will conspire to make it happen. Lots of Love. Hoda ha fez! that means bye bye
Sister Savage:D

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From Sister Savage

Week 3

Well I have so much to write! My last few days at the MTC were great and full of anticipation. Let me tell you some miracles. I was curling hair and getting ready time at the MTC is almost nonexistant so I was going fast and somehow I picked you my curling iron by the barrel instead of the handle. I really grabbed on and then dropped it of course but I felt the burn and I was not looking forward to keeping ice on it all day. So i ran to the bathroom and ran it under cold water and it was the crazeist thing my fingers looked shiney like they were burned and my hand felt funny but it didn't burn... it didn't bug me at all. Isn't that great! wow! Then I lost my book of Mormon.. after looking everywhere I sat down on the ground and when i looked up I could see it in a crack at the top of my bed.. phew! So Getting to the travel office at 4:00 in the morning was a joke! I had three bags plus a box full of candy (thanks barb:) and I dropped it four times so I left a candy trail through the MTC but i'm sure the missionaries took care of it.. plus I broke my handle off... we laughed but really it was quite stressful. Ok laurie i'm going to have to send you another email finishing this. I love you so much!
I thought My session was going to close.. Ok lets see. The flights were good. I got to talk to Dad and then the time ran out so I didn't say I love you... so I love you dad.. and I only had enough change for one more call so I called mom and right when she answered and Elder came up and told me we needed to go so sorry it was so short mom! On the flight from Ohio to Toronto There was an Indian man sitting in front of me and he turned around and asked me who I was with! my first contact and he contacted me! He asked alot of questions and really liked what I was saying and he wanted a book of mormon and it was awesome! There really are those who are prepared. Then when we got to the airport we met our mission president and wife who are amazing and very tall! We had dinner and a new missionary meeting and my goodness did I feel the spirit. I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest. Our mission theme is that Toronto is the best mission in the World because we are the world. I've already talked to people from twenty one different countries! Wow! I know i'm supposed to be here.. I can already tell it's going to be hard to always be my best but that if i'm trying it's enough. My trainer is Sister Simons from taylorsville Ut and she is really cool. We are whitewashing an area which means there hasn't been sisters for awhile and so neither of us know are way around or any of the members so it's been an adventure. We get pretty lost sometimes. I should of practiced my navigating skills before I came... I must say I love maps though I love seeing where I am and where we need to go and figuring out how to get there. Just like life, and as a member of the church i've got a really reliable map! The elders play something called killball in the morning.. i'm terrible at it and I make an easy target. My goodness it's cold here... i mean it is freezing! Tracting is like seeing how long you can stand to be in a freezer. My coat and hat I love and they are really warm but what about my face? I can't wear a ski mask... i guess a frozen face is just one of the sacrifices :) We were out visiting the memebers and Sister Peard fed us and then we were getting in the car and I realized I left my bag so I had to go back in and grab it. Then we went to the carters who live in an apartment on the 8 floor and the we were getting into the car and guess what I left my bag there too! So i was feeling pretty dumb and sister Simons was on the phone and we were waiting for the elevator and this lady walked up so i was talking to her and she was really interested.. I asked when we could see her and she said right now would be great! She then proceeded to say things like "I just feel like there something i'm missing" and " I feel really excited" and " I think I was meant to meet you" how golden is that! we went back and taught her the next day and showedher the restoration dvd and she loved it so we'll be going back again. Her name is Marysusan and she has had a lot of problems so pray for her!I know God is a God of miracles and I love being a missionary! I hope all is well! I don't think I gave anyone my address here in Canada.. whoops.. I forgot to do a lot of things! The mission office address is
24 Ferrand Drive Suite 300
Don Mills ON M3C 3V4
and my apartment one is
130 George Henry, #307
Toronto ON M2J IG3
send packages to the office.. it's the safest choice i think. The mission president said not to go through ups cause someone had to pay 92 dollars to pick up a package once and that you don't have to write out every thing in it you canjust put gifts and not to do over 20 dollars on the ticket think... i'm not sure why it's just what they said :) I love you all so much and miss you! It's been hard to go from getting mail twice a day at the MTC to here where I don't know when i'll get it. I hear mail can be pretty slow! Pray for me that I don't freeze!
Love SIster SAvage

Week 2

Week two flew by! I can't believe it.. this time next week i'll be in Toronto. The MTC really is a great place but i'm excited to be leaving soon! The second week is harder cause you have to pray for and really strive for the fire of those first couple days when you feel like you can do anything. I love Ether 12:27 where is says I show unto men their weaknesses and then it also says that through Christ our weak things can be made strong. I have definantly felt that here. I am aware of so many weaknesses but i'm being helped. My fears are stilled. I went to the Refferal center yesterday and I talked to a man named Ronald for 25 minutes. It was pretty intense. He's been meeting with the missionaries and reading the book of mormon and went to church twice but he's also been reading some anti-mormon literature and so we talked about that a lot. I am not a confrontational person but it was amazing to feel the spirit work with me.. I was able to be bold which scares me.. I shared scriptures and bore my testimony. He said that he read the Joseph Smith had tried to have people killed and that he was really just trying to get money by copyrighting the book of mormon. It was neat to be able to discuss with him and keep the spirit there. I showed him the scripture in Matthew 7 about by there fruits you shall know if they are good or evil. I promised him that if he continued to read the book of mormon and go to church he would continue to enjoy the fruits of what Joseph Smith restored and come to know he was a prophet of God.He said he would keep reading and meeting with the missionaries! I'm really excited to share this message and promise blessings. I am trying to think of everything i want to write but it's hard to remember.. So im leaving the 26th and we have to be to the travel office at 4 in the morning so i have a feeling it's going to be a long day. we'll stop in Cincinnati and arrive in Toronto at 3:53. Wow. This is so real and I love it. A big thing that is taught here in the MTC is obedience... It is so important. Striving to be obedient brings strenth and blessings. I am so glad waking up hasn't been to difficult. Kickboxing this morning to pumped up church music was fun although I was still practically asleep the whole time:) I woke up this morning and my companion said hey I think you taught the first three lessons last night... my poor roomies.. the second night here I had a dream I couldn't find my companion and they said I was sitting up in my bed saying "sister, siissster, ssssiiisster".... I guess i was pretty distraught. I've also asked them to look up scriptures in my sleep. I bet they'll miss me when we leave the MTC. It is different to be with someone 24/7 but I'm blessed to have someone who is really great, we very rarely get perturbed... is that a word? One problem we've been having is that one of the sisters in our room has extremely smelly feet... I felt so bad the other day cause i went to clip my toenails and I got down on the floor but I sat by her shoes and i was like woah my feet really stink and she was like... oh I think that's my shoes.. whoops... she is a really great girl and we all laugh about it.. it reminds my of that childrens book I love you stinky feet. Anyway all's well.. I'm trying my best to stay focused. Thank you for all the support and love! If you're reading this I want to hear from you. I didn't have time to write down any addresses before I left so I can't write you till you write me! Sure love you. I challenge everyone to pick an area of your life that you want to do better in and set a goal. Let Heavenly Father know about it and he'll help you out. In preach my gospel it says making goals in an act of faith. if you're looking for a way to exercise you're faith than this is a way you can. Bingo! I love the gospel. I'm so grateful for this opportunity to be learning and testifying about what I believe. I'm super grateful for all of you. TIme is running out. I need grandma and grandpa's address.. Oh i went to the makeup class here at the MTC that Grandma's friends teach and it was so fun to meet them and here them talk so highly of my grandparent's that i think so highly of! Ok well until next week be happy and grateful and positive and obedient.. you'll feel the spirit more and thus be even happier!I miss you.
Love Sister SAvage

From Sister Savage

From Sister Savage