May 22, 2015

Sister Rollins and Sister Branch

Everything is going so well! I leave here on Monday, early in the

morning, and so I'll be in Anchorage in three days! Crazy crazy.

I actually met someone here who's from Alaska, and she told me lots of

great things! Like that Fairbanks, since it's away from the ocean,

gets actually hot in the summers (like 80 or 90 I think she said?) and

is really buggy, and then in the winter gets to like 50 below!!! But

then places like Juneau, where she's from, are much more temperate and

range from like 70s in the summer to like 0 in the winter (which

doesn't sound too bad!)

Also, sorry for any mistakes/weird things in my writing, typing on an

iPad is hard! And for some reason the computer won't log me in to my

email.

I'm seriously learning SO MUCH here. And not only just intellectually

understanding knowledge, but really internalizing it--that's hard! For

instance, I've learned really well that baptism is super important

because it's essentially what people need in order to really covenant

with God and come closer to Him, but actually asking people to be

baptized is super hard! I want to do it my way, which is not the way

God wants it to be done. So I'm working on that.

My district (basically our class of 9 people) has become so close,

it's crazy! Since we're not all going to the same place, I'm really

sad not to see most of them... Probably like ever again! And it's hard

to believe I met Sister Branch eight days ago... And since we met I

haven't been more than 50 feet away from her! Sooooo crazy. Ima send a

selfie of us, because I can't connect my camera to this iPad... But

really all I have is pictures of my district, so you're not missing a

ton.

Anyway, love you all lots! Life is the hizzle.

Love,

Sister Rollins