E-Mails Week 2

EMAIL TO MOM
I am learning so much. It has felt like i have learned a lifetime amount of information in just 5 short days. I had a rough day the other day, I kind of broke down yesterday but luckily my companion is so sweet. I was a little embarrassed but she helped me a lot and going to the temple today was exactly what i needed. I had just been learning so much and it was getting overwhelming. And I felt a little inadequate to teach and what not but really i shouldn't because it takes time to learn how to be good at teaching and that is why we have 3 weeks in the mtc. I am really grateful for that. By the time i leave here i will be ready to hit the streets and start teaching. We actually get 2 times while being here in the mtc where they will take us to Manchester, cuz we are in Preston right now, and they will let us loose and we will approach people and talk to them. I am so excited. This is the perfect environment. I am glad i got to come to this mtc because we really get more one on one time with the teachers and they can give us so much help. I really have learned to lean on the Lord. I need him in everything i do. This little thing called a mission is going to help me so much in the little thing called life. I think the mtc experience is one everyone should experience. It has been great. I am loving it here and i hope you guys are doing well. it looks like you are having fun on Halloween. Today is going to be exciting because it is the first day we can actually see what England is really like. We get to go to town and go shopping. You cant really tell what it is like from inside the walls of the mtc so I cant wait to get out and see the actual town. i had a few things blow up trying to use the adapter. for one my cd player alarm clock started smoking and i had to set it outside our window so the fire alarm wouldn't go off. My flat iron is now broken as well because of the dang outlets. Cant they just be the same all over the world. So i will try to send that home to you so hopefully we can get a new one since it hasn't been a year since buying. actually i might be able to get it exchanged even over here. hmmm we will see. my blow dryer as well is struggling:( but they have some extras that girls have left that work here so i can probably have one of those.
I love you all so much. I will try to get a camera usb thing so i can send some pictures. Have a fantastic day. adios
-sister alyssa longmore

EMAIL TO DAD
I have had a lot of classes about how to teach by the spirit, and on planning and also on the Book of Mormon. It seems like i am constantly in classes so they all kind of mesh together for me. I haven't had any culture classes so far but we will be celebrating some English holidays. Sister Chambers and I are the only 2 sisters at the mtc and there are only 2 districts, one consists of the 5 German speaking missionaries and the other is mine, the Moroni district, we have 9 people. This has been a really humbling experience. I am realizing how much I need the Lord in all that I do. I have somewhat struggled with things here that I have never struggled with before. For instance, when giving lessons for an investigator I forget everything i planned and just ramble... I really have had to turn to the Lord. Luckily we got to go to the temple which was amazing. I am learning so much more than I ever expected, and I am learning a lot about myself. There is one other missionary that is going to my mission in Manchester. I've heard so many good things about it. I will send you some pictures soon to show you what is like. It is so green and it really looks like fall time here. There is a gym at the mtc and we can go out and run or play soccer. Being dressed up all the time is a little strange and I will have to get used to it. They have recordings of general authorities that spoke in Provo at the mtc there and that is what we watch instead of them coming. It is nice that there are so few of us because we get a lot of one on one time and attention. I love you. Thank you for sharing about your mission, I never knew that about you.