Letter 11-25-16

Sunday was pretty awesome. It was nice and relaxing.  It was a bit weird, not taking the sacrament till like 3 or 4 in the afternoon and having church spread out all day long but it was nice.  Very peaceful here.  I've learned A LOT! :P I know that the spirit here is very strong and is with me almost the whole day! :) It is such an awesome experience.  Some missionaries say it’s like a spiritual prison, but my companion and I, with another set of sister missionaries love it and everything that we learn from the MTC and how to love and teach our investigators.

:) Oh, guess what?!?!?! I got to hear, see and shake hands with Neil L. Anderson!!!! It was so awesome! I was afraid that we were not going to be able to because of the seats we were in, but he came all the way around and shook hands with my whole district. :) Such and awesome experience! We did a service project as well on Thanksgiving where we packed bags of food to give to the hungry, watched Ephraim’s Rescue. Then at the end of the night we got to see all the different cultures that are here in the MTC perform different musical numbers and dances! So beautiful! Then we got to walk around and take pictures near the Christmas lights and I will send pictures as soon as my companion and other district leaders send me them.

I will forward you one of the pictures in another email from a temple walk we did as a district! My district is amazing!  We have an Elder in my district whose name is Elder Worthen, and he is an amazing piano player! He writes his own music to hymns and just other music in general, he can also play many different types of instruments too but his piano skills are amazing! I almost cry every time.  He also started to play the John Schmitt song where he uses his elbow to play, just from his memory, but any, yeah, he's pretty cool and talented!

My companion is SOOO beautiful and her name is Sister. Wright, (we rhyme!) :P But she's so nice and helped me once when I had a breakdown of me not being good enough, and she loves chocolate, and ice cream, and yeah! We work perfectly together and l love when we teach a lesson to investigators who may or may not be pretending but the spirit is so strong, and I'm so glad that I have her as my companion!

We were supposed to go to the temple today but we were told that we have to wait to next Thursday, because everything is all messed up because of Thanksgiving. :/

:P The MTC is a great experience and I wouldn't trade it for anything! Even when I get feeling down I always get picked back up because the spirit it so strong here and what we learn is true and everyone’s testimonies are so strong in my district that when we all share what we know, it’s another boost and I stand tall, knowing that I'm a representative of Jesus Christ.  I love you all and can't wait to hear back from you soon!

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~Sister McKnight
Washington, Kennewick Mission

P.S. Also it snowed!!! I got to play in the snow!! As it was falling!!! So beautiful!!! I loved it so much!!! I got to make snowballs and look up in the sky as it was falling. I got to eat some of it, haha, it tasted pretty good and yeah!