Re: Week 3: Hello Florida!

I'm so proud of you! 

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:12 AM Sydney Gibbons <sydney.gibbons@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Wow this week has just been the craziest thing! I've loved every second of it, even the 6 hours of classes every day. 

I honestly love my district and I'm so sad to say goodbye to most of them, but I'm excited that new things await in Florida! It's slowly getting colder here, so I'm more than grateful that I'm going somewhere warm! I'm leaving the MTC tomorrow at 3:45 a.m., flying from Salt Lake to Atlanta, then Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale! 

I'm just going to list a few highlights of the week:

They put up lights on most of the trees here and it makes it feel like Christmastime at temple square. It's just beautiful! 

One of the days that we were here, a microwave exploded in one of the new MTC buildings (T3) so we had the whole firefighting armada here to put it out. 

I hosted two new missionaries on Wednesday! I got to go down into the parking garage and walk awkwardly beside some cars to steal away the missionaries inside. I definitely cried when they said goodbye to their families, but it was really eye-opening for me to figure out that time flies. These past three weeks have flown by in the blink of an eye. And then I started thinking that my 18 month endeavor is already almost to 17 months. How crazy is that!? It's almost not enough time!

I went to conference and saw the prophet up close and wow. That was so wonderful. We had the granddaughter of Jeffrey R. Holland in our choir, so he came up to the loft to say hi to us. I couldn't even believe that he was real. I know that they really didn't zoom in any on the sister missionaries, but I was in the green shirt at the top left of the middle section. But the messages this conference were absolutely amazing. I hope that we can all look for opportunities to be instrumental in furthering the Lord's work on both sides of the veil. What a cool concept!

Elder Broadhead: Guys, it's the weekend!!
Sister Prows: That doesn't mean anything here!

I love this mission already. I love the mindset it puts me in. I love my Savior. He is why I'm here. I do belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. And I'm so grateful for that.

I hope you all have just the best week wherever you may be. I love you!

Love,
Sister Sydney Gibbons

Philippians 4:13
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."