First week

My family! Oh how i miss you guys so much. I´ve literally been counting down this day for the past week and a half. So just so you know my p day is on Thursday. On Thursday we go to the temple! I can´t begin to describe how beautiful that temple is. The celestial room was so beautiful the first time I saw it, I cried my eyes out. The mtc here is so small there is only about 25 of us total. 8 portugese students 2 russian, and the rest Spanish. My  companion is Hermana Shake she is an angel from Virginia, we get along sooo well which is a huge blessing. Im sorry this email is going to be way rapid because I only get thirty minutes in the mtc. Which is not nearly enough time for me to write down all the desires of my heart.

I miss you guys like crazy. However i´ve been blessed with feeling peace knowing i´m suppose to be here. The language is kicking my butt, it´s so hard. I´m in the advance class and everyone else already speaks beautifully and i´m in the corner having no clue what is being said, however it´s getting easier each day.

Cool thing here about the mtc is that on Saturdays we go to the park and prosylete. I was NOT excited about that at all, because my companion for the event was a portugese sister. Hermana da luz, she didn’t speak English or Spanish. So that made for one heck of a day. I ended up getting an atheist to take a book of Mormon and meet with the missionaries. It was the coolest feeling ever.

Today later we are going to the Prada museum and i´m so excited! Unfortunatly I can´t take pictures in the mtc, so i´ll have pics of my trip of today later for you next email. I´m sorry I can´t write more, i´ve gotten so many emails. The love and support means more to me then you´ll ever know.

I miss my puppies so much, I keep bragging about them whenever I get the chance.

I miss you all and pray for you each day. I´m sorry I can´t write more, i´ll talk to you next Thursday.

With all the love I possess,

Hermana shurtz.