Sydney's first letter

Howdy Howdy Everyone, I have been so excited to write this letter all week. I am absolutely positively loving being a missionary. The first day after you dropped me off until this very second I have not had one second of free time. But that has been awesome because I have not cried once. yep, you better believe it. Not even once!! I just love it so much. It is amazing how much the Lord has blessed me with peace. I have felt so calm and I know this is where I am supposed to be. My companion is Sister Olson she is amazing. We complete each other perfectly and I know that she was meant to be my companion. She sincerely loves everyone and is willing to do anything for anyone. My district consists of six sisters and six Elders. I have only been here for a week but I have grown to sincerely love them all. Elder Prince is from Canada so hence the Eh! haha that is our district thing. Everyone else is from Utah pretty much. One girl sister Conova is 19 like me and I feel like me and her are the strongest, everyone is strong but we have always had to help the sisters with there "Mental Breakdowns" yet some how as the youngest we are able to stay so strong and be an example. I have never felt so loved in my entire life. Every day all the Sisters and Elders tell me how much they love me. And the Sisters always ask me for hugs because they say mine are the best. I am so grateful for the life that I have. So many of the people I have gotten to know have had such hard trials in there life and I am just over here like, Hello why am I so lucky!? I seriously feel so blessed. Everyone in our district is sick except me and elder Hurt He is barely 18. I just thought that was cool. Anyways, I am the germ freak because I refuse to get sick. So every time we walk into class I also spray everybody's hands and if they cough, they get double sprayed. so far my method is working also maybe my positive attitude of not wanting to get sick. We have had a lot of good devotionals. On Sunday the general primary president came to talk to us in relief society, She said that elder missionaries are great but sisters are SHIZZAMM!! and also I know that I cannot fail. We have already began teaching. We taught a lady for the first time yesterday her name is Michelle. She said that we were probably wasting our time at the begining of the meeting and that she did not believe in Christ or the Bible or anything. We started with a prayer and I asked her to read Jonh 3:16 which was crazy because before we went into the lesson I said I need to have a scripture ready just in case. That is the one I felt impressed to pick and it turned out that was the one she needed to hear. By the end of the lesson she was just soaking up everything we had to say she told us she would read the Book of Mormon and pray to know if it is true. That was so cool. We felt the sprit so strongly in that lesson and I can't wait to teach her again tomorrow. It is experiences like this that make me so excited to go into the field, but I love the MTC I wouldn't mind staying here forever. Today we got to go to the temple as a district, it was so amazing. Some of the sisters have been having a really hard time, so the elders volunteered to give them a blessing. It was so amazing to see their testimonies and feel their spirit. I really love all of them. I will send you a picture next time I just forgot my camera. Last night we had a devotional by David F. Evans. He talked about faith and the angels all around us. I felt my grandma right there with her arms around me telling me how proud of me she was and what a good example I am setting. It was a really spiritual experince. I have taken this step off the cliff into the darkness and into the unknown because I know I ABSOLUTELY know that there will be light at the end of the tunnel. I can do hard things. I have gotten to know my Father in Heaven so much better. I have never prayed this much in my entire life. I pray at least 50 times a day. But I can always feel the spirit whispering to me. I want everyone to go on missions so they can know how amazing it is. There was no need to be scared. The Lord is helping me so much. The days seriously feel like weeks. It feels like I have been in the MTC for  three months. We just learn so much in one day that it doesn't seem like it has only been a day. I know that I have already made friendships that will last forever. A lot of these Elders and Sisters that I am with I feel like I have know them for a long time, like we have been best friends forever. It is so cool. I have been trying so hard to forget myself and to focus on serving others and that has really helped me not get homesick. I just want you to know that I am doing amazing. I am loving every minute of this experience. My advice that I have learned is it is not how much you read but how much you learn. If you read one verse of scripture but talk about it for ten minutes in means so much more than reading five chapters and getting nothing out of it. I love the scrpitures I love this Gospel so much and I love all of you and miss you I hope you have a great week.  Love you all, Sister Robinson