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October 15, 2007

> Dear Family and All Others Who Have the Incredible Honor of Receiving Emails From Me,

> Well let’s fly through this week, shall we…

> So nothing to report on Monday except that we spent most of our preparation day running around doing errands. Not to fun, but we only go to the grocery store and do laundry every other week, so that way we’ll have fun preparation days with only a few errands to run. Next week our district is going to Salem! I’m so excited!!!

> Elder Roberts is our district leader, he looks like Robert Inman. IT was a little unnerving at first, but Elder Roberts is his own man and he’s way sweet. Pretty much, we work with a great group of elders. It’s an honor to be a missionary working with other missionaries.

> Tuesday was service at the library and tons of appointments all day. They were back-to-back-to-back. Amazingly, all were at home except for one! We were pretty impressed.

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> Wednesday, I liked Wednesday; we served a handicapped lady named Cindy. She is AMAZING!!! She is very involved in the community and she knows our church because she was involved in installing a wheelchair lift (to get up on the stand) in our chapel! Way neat!!!

> We’ve been weeding her garden. Her garden is her front lawn, but no grass, all garden. It’s really interesting because it’s raised up so you really have to step up to get into it (no, I haven’t fallen or tripped, yet). She can’t climb up into it and her children can’t help (two are disabled and I don’t know about the other two). She feels obligated to give us stuff or donate money to the church, but I’ve just told her that she’s doing more for us.

> Cindy is setting up a program that will allow all 8 of us missionaries in Revere (2 Portuguese elders, 2 Spanish sisters, 2 English elders, and 2 English Sisters) to shovel side walks in the winter for other disabled people who have no one else to do it! It’s great, because we are always in need of service (it’s mandatory for us to have at least 4 hours a week) and we’ll get to talk and meet tons of different people. Now, not a big of shoveling, but it will really help us help the community, individuals, and the salvation of many!!!

> Thursday was planning for the week. That takes 3 -4 hours. Not too terribly fun, but super important. It was a good finding day, seeing as how we only had one scheduled appointment, so we got to walk around a lot. Sister Richey likes it when we’re out of the car talking to people. It’s security for her, which makes sense. If we’re not talking to people, we’re not serving our purpose here! I enjoy talking to people, most of the time…

> Friday was district meeting and it also happened to be interviews with the president. He gave me a blessing because I was way super sick. We had a lot of appointments, but stayed inside because I was sick…

> And then stayed inside for Saturday…

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> And then Friday was district meeting and it also happened to be interviews with the president. He gave me a blessing because I was way super sick. We had a lot of appointments, but stayed inside because I was sick…

> And then stayed inside for Saturday…

> And then worked like crazy on Sunday with no meal breaks until my body gave out at 7pm (no worries, the Portuguese elders gave me another blessing today and I’m doing better. IT was just a cold. Apparently I wanted to fit in with the Potter home, which was also infected! That darn Cody!!! LOL).

> Sunday was my favorite day of the week, but because of time I’ll just tell you about our singing class. So Sister Richey and I were 20 minutes late. We teach a singing class for the Relief Society women every Sunday. Most of the women are unfamiliar with the tunes of the hymns and are not use to singing so we’re teaching them how to sing and harmonize (at first the class was a little rough, but it’s really grown now). Well, last week the members decided our class was a choir and on Sunday I discovered that we were preparing to sing in stake conference. The best part, we won’t know the music until an hour before conference and only have that hour to prepare!

> I was weak and sick, and after that news on the verge of a complete emotional breakdown. 10 women and 10 men waiting for me to teach them (sister Riche plays the piano)!!!! Opinions were flying left and right and as our small little group began to become involved in a heated debate. Midst all of this Sister Richey and the Relief Society President are trying to piece me together. My hands covering my face, I went into shocked mode, but as the people began to fight, I found myself pleading with God for strength. I went right in the middle of it all, through up my hand, sang this note and then shouted (while in the chapel),”NO MAS! NO MAS!” until peace resided. I’m not sure why but the Spanish people think it’s funny when I get feisty so they all became quiet and listened!

> I love our Heavenly Father; our little group will be ready to sing in Stake conference (held every 6 months. A ward is one church, and several churches in an area make up a stake) two weeks from now! Whew! Thank goodness we’re not in this work alone!!!

> Love Always,
> Sister Potter

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September 4, 2007

Hello One and All,

How is everything going? It sounds like each day is it’s own adventure! That’s what I’m learning out here, each day, no matter who you are, where you are, or what you are doing, is an adventure! Siempre!

Ok, so President England, my mission president, says that we should only email each other positive things, so to me, that means you can still hear about all the wander and excitement, I just shouldn’t be gossipy or mean, so hear goes.

Ok well, so we went and ate at our investigators house, Norma, for dinner. Wow! She cooked great food (better than Texan food! MWA HA HA HA HA!!! I love teasing you Memaw) but she was insistent on feed us until we almost exploded. Ok, so she fed us homemade enchiladas (she’s from Mexico) and she gave us three each.

Well, she asked me 5 times if I wanted more, and I told her no! I couldn’t possibly eat more, but I soon realized that I didn’t stand a chance; she was going to feed me more. SO I ate another, and then she wanted to give me another, but I was REALLY insistent this time. Then she gave us dessert, and I ate it because I love her so much and she was so considerate and used Spelnda instead of sugar just for me and my health.

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She gave me a huge piece and gave my companinion a small slice. Then I only ate half, and I told her (in Spanish of course) that if I ate any more I would explode. She thought it was funny (they always think it’s funny, it’s my tactic to stop eating, and it always works) and then she gave me cookies!!!!! AAAHHHH!!!! At least, it was all super yummy, yup, I love Hispanic dishes.

Ok, Sister Richey and I wrote a song today while we were doing service at the library (we always do service and it’s always artsy crafty stuff). Ok, the song goes to the tune, Book of Mormon stories:

Sister Potter really enjoys being a greeny;
Sister Richey is her trainer and she is so mean.
They spend all their time finding, tracting and preaching,
They will find Souls to save Everyday!

Sister Potter spends most of her time in confusion
Sister Richey wanders why they can’t teach in union,
At the end of every lesson their investigator
Can still feel The Spirit Goooo figure!

Sister Richey and Potter keep every single rule,
The elders pretend their righteous but they can’t be fooled.
To be twinkled they have to be very obedient. So they don’t Answer the phone After 10 p.m.

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Ok, we thought it was so hilarious, but y’all probably think we’ re crazy. Ok, I like this, because it gives you a clue as to who we are, kind of. So in the first verse, we said Sister Richey is mean because she always says she is. It’s funny, because she’s not. Sometimes she apologizes for being mean, and I just look at her as if she’s crazy! Sometimes I just say that I forgive her to make her feel better. She’s so nice, she gives me cavities!!!

Ok, the second verse is our real life teaching situation. I understand what we’re teaching, and then I’m lost. Sister Richey wants us to teach in unity, but you can’t teach together if you’re lost. Yeah, its funny actually. My Spanish is really improving, but some people are just hard to understand. But, despite it all, the Spirit always testifies of truths. What a blessing!

The last verse is to tease the elders. They are always teasing us when we slip up and break a rule, though we try really hard!!! It doesn’t bother us, in fact, it just makes this verse all the more enjoyable. Obviously we want to be twinkled, and the last part about the phone.

Ok, so it’s rule to not answer the phone after 10pm and the elders always try to call us to give us referrals and what not, but we won’t answer after 10, so they leave super long messages, trying to convince us to answer, but to no avail!!! MWA HA HA!

Well, I rambled, but know that all is well and that I’m out of time! Love ya tons,

Sister Briana Potter

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August 16, 2007

Hello Everyone!
Well, now that I'm in the field, I can only email my family so you'll have to forward these emails for me! I can receive emails and letters from anyone, but I can't email anyone outside of the family back.

Ok, I'm sure you have tons of questions so I will try to answer them all, but first, my address here is:

91 Beach St.
Revere, MA 02151

You can send stuff to the mission office address because they'll definitely forward it to wherever I am.

Ok, there are not many Sisters here (about 12, I think) so we all stay in the Boston area, so I won't be visiting the surrounding states, and the Spanish sisters definitely stay in the Boston area because that's where all the Hispanics are. Here in Revere and the other cities, you don't ask people what state they have lived in, you ask them what country they're from.

We've met all kinds of people, Egyptians, Haitians, Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorians, Mexicans, etc. It's pretty exciting. Our mission has five languages (Creole, Cambodian, Spanish, Portuguese and English). English being the most predominant followed very closely by Spanish. Though we only cover five languages, we give out copies of the Book of Mormon in over 50 languages! Now, I don't carry 50 copies of the Book of Mormon around, we just carry Spanish. We use the others when we receive "Headquarter referrals" which is people who call them from the pass-along cards and the commercials.

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So, I arrived here on Wednesday (there really wasn't time to call anyone, so don't get offended. We barely had time to grab food and get on the planes!) and we stayed the night with our mission president and his wife in the mission home. The next day we went to transfer meeting and met our trainers. The Mission president told the trainers to be nice to us, so mine took me home, we ate, and did planning for the week. Planning for the week is sssooooo long, especially when you're new and having to learn tons.

There's been some disorder in the area, but my companion has had a plan of action and we're really working it all out. We have three progressing investigators, one of whom I especially love. Her name is Norma and she is so ready for the gospel! It's amazing. We visited with her my second day here and left her with a pamphlet to read about the restoration. Of course we committed her to read it, but when we came back the next day, she was so amazed about Joseph Smith's experience and she wanted to know how she could know which church was true. Wow! She is so amazing! I just lover her and she has the cutest kids!

We work only with the Spanish people, so if we meet people who are interested in our message and they speak English, we pass them off to the English elders. I'm in a Spanish ward serving with two other elders. The English ward meets right after us. Three are Cambodian speaking (though one is working in the English area right now; he's our zone leader) and the other one is English. It's pretty nifty.

The Spanish people are so nice, way nicer than the English people, and I just love them. They all love me because I'm new and can't speak Spanish but I try. They love my last name and everyone made jokes about it yesterday. My companion and I were going CrAzY! It amazes me how people think it's just SO funny. Oh well, at least they'll remember my name.

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One of the less active families that we're working with wants to adopt me while I'm here, which is pretty cool. Of course, they told this to me after they said I was too serious. They were all talking in Spanish, and all I knew is that they were talking about Germany, the people there being serious but nice. The next thing I do, they turn to my companion and say something and they say it to me. I just looked at them ... than they said (because they're bilingual) that I was too serious. Well, I couldn't believe that they said that to me and I said, "I'm not serious, I just don't know what you are saying!"

Well, after that experience, I've been talking tons and slaughtering the language in the process, but I'm determined to be myself. I don't want to be told I'm serious just because I'm lost! If I'm going to be told I'm serious, it's going to be because I really am!

We're really blessed here; we don't have to go door contacting. We just do street contacts and bus contacts on our way to appointments because that really covers it for us. We get lots of referrals from other missionaries, headquarters, and members. The only time we have to do door contactin is when we deliver a product to someone from headquarters. It's a rule that when you deliver something from headquarters you have to tract (door contact) the whole street, because someone there may be prepared to hear the gospel. It's pretty neat. Of course, contacting make me way nervous and on top of it all, you need to always ask the people you talk to if they know anyone else who would be interested in hearing our message. Yeah, it's scary, but it's only way to go, so I just try to do it.

My trainer and companion is Hermana Ann Richey from Pleasantview, Utah. She is way nice and so funny and I just love her so much. With her, a good companionshipjust comes naturally; with Hermana Lamberti it took tons of work on both of our parts. Hermana Richey has been out in the field for 4 months but she's been out on a mission for 6. I love her!!! She's really diligent and tries super hard to be exactly obedient (there is always tons of emphasis on this when you're out on mission) but she's not rude or pushy about it. In fact, she's not dominating at all. We take turns being "the guide for the day".

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The guide gets to decide what bus we're taking to get to our various locations and they are the final decision maker (which the senior / trainer companion normally does). She doesn't want me to be hopelessly lost. So I'm actually starting to get it, slowly, but it's still coming. We're also going to take turns playing the piano in Sacrament. I'm so excited! My turn is next week!!!! It's really kind of amazing that out of the whole ward, no one can play the piano ... someone must be hiding their talent!

Hermana Lamberti is working in the actual Boston area. Her ward is part Spanish and part English and her trainer is a native of Brazil but has been called here English speaking. I won't see Hermana Lamberti very often any more but I will see her next week because all of us new people have a meeting with the Mission President to see how we're doing and to see if we have any questions to ask.

I am often amazed that I didn't want to go out on a mission a year ago because I just love it here. I mean, yeah, it's hard to be a missionary because you have to be bold and courageous to strangers, but it's way important and it's worth doing. I don't have to love those whom I don't even know.

Well, I've gone on forever, but I just wanted to let y'all know what's going on. My health is adjusting to the new environment and work schedule, but I'm still able to go and do so it's all fine. I'll send letters out today, but they'll probably be short and boring. I just don't know what EXCITING things that I can share.

Well, I love you all tons and I hope to hear from you soon.

Love Always,
Hermana Potter
p.s. yes, I take the bus and yes, I do LOTS of walking!

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August 13, 2007

Hello Everyone!
So, I know that you haven’t heard from me in FOREVER!!! That’s because the email system wasn’t working last week and I kept forgetting to mail the letter that I wrote. I was hoping that there would be more time to mail y’all while in the field, but it turns out that there is less, so you can’t get offended if you don’t get many personal letters from me. I really am going to try though!!!

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I love, love, LOVE being a missionary. It turns out that it’s not as hard as I thought it would be, though it is a ton of work. Actually, what’s really hard is working with members! Who’d thought? Well, here in Boston we have high expectations and live a higher law in the mission. As missionaries we normally have all of these we focus on and set goals for and try to achieve, but our mission president only wants us focusing on four things: How many new investigators we have, how many member present lessons we have, how many investigators have a baptism date and how many investigators went to church on Sunday. This week we’re hoping to have at least 17 member present lessons (Because that’s how many appointments we have). It’s hard to get member present lesson but our ward is a great ward and they love fellowshipping and helping out in the work.

We had a baptism yesterday; it was nice but way stressful. As missionaries we do EVERYTHING to get the baptism ready, but I told my companion that that was not happening any more and that we were going to pull in the ward missionaries and have them help out. The girl who was baptized is from a less active family who the past sister missionaries reactivated. She is a lot like Victoria, except without that aggressive, I’m-gonna-kill-you streak! She really loves my companion but that’s ok because her father just adores me (it’s because I struggle to speak Spanish and apparently that’s endearing in this culture!).

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There was lots of drama with the baptism, but the worse was that the father didn’t have the priesthood to do the baptism. Of course, he received so he could baptize her but in the past he had already baptized his wife and two other daughters!!! Yeah, they have to get rebaptized AND they don’t even know it! We’re going to tell them after we get all the details and know exactly what needs to happen, that way it’s less stress on them.

Believe it or not, we have a great functioning ward. We are so blessed to have realized this now and be able to fix it. I can’t even think about how this would effect their salvation if it hadn’t been fixed! Can you imagine believing you were baptized by the correct authority and finding out you have to be baptized again into the same church!!! Creepy!

I’m so glad we know about this now Our next baptism is September 2. She is such a great person and we just love her! She is so ready for the gospel and she accepts what we teach. Our next goal for her is to get her to pray about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, it’s important for others to gain their own testimony! She fainted in our last lesson! It was crazy!!! She wasn’t feeling good, but she didn’t tell us until we had already started. She sat back, apologized and was OUT!!! Fortunately we had a member present and the member went and got the elders to give her a blessing.

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She’s way better and she came to church yesterday and she stayed for the baptism! She is so incredible. When we were teaching her the plan of salvation she started telling us how she had a baby who died after three days. She wanted to know where her child would be and, oh, I wish I could share with you the love I have for this incredible woman. Truly the Lord has been preparing her for to be taught the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

My companion and I focus a lot on finding those people whom the Lord has prepared for us to teach. We pray tons, and do our best to talk to as many people as possible. I find that I’m not afraid to talk, it just seems awkward, but Hermana Richey is helping me to work through this!!! She is so awesome! We laugh tons, focus and work super hard! I didn’t know missions could be fun too, I always thought it was tons of work, but we have fun while we work.

Our goal is “to be twinkled” like the city of Enoch, preferably before this transfer is up J. My health is good and the doctor has me running every morning, doing relaxing breathing and writing three positive things that happened during the day. He says this will help me to deal with the rejection and stress that missionary’s experience.

Well, all is well here!!! I love you all and I’ll write more next week.

Love Always,
Hermana Briana Potter

p.s. unless your sending me a letter you’ve written me, please don’t send me anything else. The computers are way slow and I don’t have the time to look at it all (so now forwards, or click on this website stuff, please.)

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21 July 2007

Hello everyone!!!
So the big news for the week is that... I GOT MY TRAVEL PLANS!!!! YAY!!! Hermana Lamberti and I are going to be the last to leave in our district. We leave at 4am August the first. Everyone else is leaving the 30 and 31st at early hours at well. I've only been told about my travel plans, so I don't know about layovers or anything like that, but hopefully my district leader will REMEMBER to bring them to laundry!!!

So, this week has been really rough, but I'm surviving. The Lord has put certain people in my path to help me along, so I'm doing much better know. My whole MTC stay has been really rough, but I've been told that everyone has a liberty jail moment, where there being refined and they wander where the Lord is, so to speak. I think that my toughest moments was that week when I went to the emergency room and they were considering sending me home until I get better. I have been doing so much better now. Counseling was the key and I have been freed, or at least reaching that point.

Spanish is coming but I have been very lazy at Speaking My Language. I should strive to be better... Hermana Lamberti and I really starting to become close and we're really starting to teach with power and conviction in SPANISH!!! Crazy, I know! It's hard work, but it is so worth. Of course, we don't teach real investigators hear, but it is still way awesome!

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We also don't speak great Spanish but we can communicate basic principles and we're learning to teach together as one voice and with the Spirit. I truly do thank God for the MTC! I can't imagine going straight into the mission field and just winging and learning it I go! I love how the Lord's church is a place of order! Simply amazing! Simply amazing!!!!

This weeks devotional was taught by an emeritus qourum of the 70, Elder J. Richard Clarke and his wife. I finally found out what emeritus meant. It means being retired from a position but still being able to carry the title. So an emeritus quorum of the 70 used to be apart of the quorum of the 70, but has since been released from his duties. Right now I can't remember what he talked about, but I remember what his wife talked about.

She told us about how monkeys are stupid (yeah, she so said taht word!!!) and they'll stick their hand in a jar and hold onto some peanuts and sometimes they'll die there because they won't let the peanuts go! She told us to let go of our peanuts and dedicate all of our time, talents and efforts into the missionary work (just like our mission call states). I think that this can be applied into real life.

We should always fully apply ourselves to the Lord's work and not hold ourselves back. Her words have sort of haunted me the past few days, and I have been striving to "let go of my peanuts"!

I ordered the pictures today so all will recieve them. I love you all and I write more next week!

Hma Potter

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23 June 2007

Hello everyone!
It's nice to know that I got some of your address right and it's even better knowing that y'all forwarded to everyone else in the family. I would like this to go to Greg as well, but I reall can't remember the right way to spell his email address.

So, things here have been going GREAT!!! Which makes me SUPER excited. I feel like Spanish is really starting to make sense and I can now teach the first lesson (that missionaries teach) in Spanish, and I can have small talk with people wherever I meet them and I can share scriptures and ask simple questions. It's coming. I know it'll come better if I start Speak Your Language. It's hard to do it because communicating in English is easier for me, but I know as I do it that it will all come together and the Lord will help me.

Well, I have been receiving all the DearElder letters, except for Dad's. I'm going to recheck and make sure that I just looked over it (I don't know how, but I could've assumed it came from memaw! :? ) Anywho, I really appreciate Memaw and Jacinda writing Elder Garcia and Hermana Lamberti. Memaw, there is now glitter all over her bed and all over our floor. Luckily I gave her the disclaimer that I could not be held responsible for what you say before she opened. It was funny and we really enjoyed it!

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I also got the package from mom; you couldn't have better timing. That day the two hermana's that we roomed with were moving to the Spain MTC and so while they packed we ate the chips and dip. Surprisingly there is still some left. I also recieved Mama's letter and the pin and card she sent in it; thanks so much! It meant a lot to me, I have it hanging up in my room. And I got my contacts, px's, letter from Shan, etc. Send me letters however you want, but remember that I don't have a lot of time to write. The timer starts as SOON as you sign in!!!! I have 11 minutes left, but we have to leave sooner than that because my companion is getting a hair cut.

So, real quick, my health has been better the past couple of days. I went to the doctor before that and he did some blood tests; no problems. He wanted to see me today, but I didn't get a chance to schedule an appointment so I'll have to go on Monday, I think it's just a check-up. My branch president is still out of town, so I don't know if he's talked to any of his colleages about seeing me (He teaches Biology and Book of Mormon in BYU, but I guess he knows people. He truly is a brilliant man and I am so glad that I know him).

Mama, I'd like to think that Elder Uchtdorf was an angel sent here to take care of me. I've learned from he taught us that day and I have applied in my own life and been happy. The only thing is, he can't really be an angel because he is a man, so I'll just think of it as God sending him here to me and all the others who needed him (which I'm sure were many).

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Today is a beautiful day and the days are warming up. Hermana Lamberti and I just got back to the temple, and this is where I will close with today. I want all of you to know that going to the temple is truly a most sacred and humbling experience. I want you all to know that families can be together forever. God has had prophets on the earth before, but they were taken away because people chose to reject them, just as the people rejected our Savior, Jesus Christ. I want you to know that our Heavenly Father loves us and that He has sent another prophet here to lead us and to guide us and to help us return back to Him, our Father.

The only thing that is weird about this is that it hasn't been taught in hundreds of years because the people were not yet ready. I testify to all of you that Joseph Smith, jr. was called to be a prophet and that Gordon B. Hinckley is a living prophet today and if you doubt this you need to go pray with an OPEN AND SINCERE heart. God does answer our prayers and He does love us and truly, if we choose to follow Him, we can be together for all eternity when we go to the temple together. That is why I will marry in that sacred place. I desire greatly for my posterity and my husband and I to be together forever.

I love you all and write back when you can, remember I only have 30 minutes.

Your Daugter, Friend, Sister, and Granddaoughter, and Niece, and cousin,

Hermana Potter

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18 June 2007

Hello everyone,
Ok, please forward this to all the family because I tried to put everyone's email addresses in by memory, and I may not have gotten it right. So, apparently they allow email here at the MTC (missionary training center).

I get to check it once a week for half an hour. This was my first real day to check. So today it my preparation day. That means I get to go the temple, write letters, do laundry and anything else that I haven't had time to do during the week.

I absolutely love it here!!! YAY! and all who come after me will enjoy it thoroughly too! Now, some of you may have been wandering about my health, so (after much debate with myself) I have decided to tell you all, or at least all I have time to. My hypoglycemia has been ALL over the place, but the people here are super nice and caring. I've been doing all I know to take care of myself, but apparently it's not enough.

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Since being here I have discovered that even if I had not ever eaten sweets, I still would not have been taking care of myself properly. The doctor in Idaho misinformed me on many things and I've been having to relearn everything. There is a dietician here and she takes the best care of me ever. I now have a fridge in my room so that I can eat in earlier in the mornings without getting up earlier. I carry nuts around all day. I can order special foods to eat. Yeah, it's an experience. I'd tell you the new rules, but why waste the time.

The elders also have been taking good care of me, and I love them for it. One day, I was really weak and my district leader (Missions have district and zone leaders. One large area is a zone, and then the zone is divided into districts. My mission would have multiple zones and even more districts),

Elder Harvey, carried me to my residence, and then he and his companion, Elder Garcia, assisted me up the stairs. They gave me a blessing when we arrived at my room. I have a special request that, if it's possible and if you want to, I'd like you to write Elder Garcia. He's only gotten one letter since he's been here, our branch president requested that we do this for him. Also, my companion, Hermana Lamberti, has only received a few letters, none of which were from her family, but you don't have to

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Hermana Katherine Anne Lamberti will have the same address as I do, but with her name instead of mine, and Elder Garcia's is different.
Let's see.... It would be Elder Daniel Garcia
> MTC mailbox #206
> 1200 N 900 E (or however that part is)
> Provo, ut (and whatever the zipcode is)
If you want my address you have to ask somebody else, I really don't remember anymore than I just wrote.

I am learning Spanish rather quickly. Things are fast pace here. One of the rules is SYL (Speak Your Language) or in Spanish, HSI(habla su idioma, I think). I'm not very good at this but I'm continually striving to be better.

We've had two apostles speak while I was here, Elder Henry B. Eyring and Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf. Elder Uchtdorf is from.... some country in Europe and he kind of reminds me of Papa. He's funny, has an accent similar to Papa's, smiles a lot and has white hair. I loved listening to him speak, I could really feel the Holy Spirit and it was good being able to remember Papa.

Mom, I got the package! Thanks so much, it was a lifesaver, my arches have been DYING! and they don't sell anti-frizzy stuff here. Thanks so much.

Well, my health is slowly improving and I'm growing stronger everyday. The elders here are super nice, they're like brothers, in a sense. I wish you could all be here and feel of the Spirit.

As for needs, I always needs, I could always use letters and stamps!!! I love you and I miss you all and I'll be sending letters soon. I hope you can feel the the Spirit through my email.
With All of My Love,
Hermana Potter

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