June 17, 2013 [still at MTC]

Grandma & Grandpa,

Thank you so much for the package!  Everyone loved all the cookies and treats.  We have so much candy and sweets and everything!  We have to give a box of it to our teachers so we don't take it on the plane.  By the time you get this I will already be in California!  We have to leave the MTC Tuesday morning at 4:30 in the morning so that will be fun . . . NOT.  Anyway today (Monday) we get to pack and clean basically all day long!  Yah!

Yesterday we were able to sing in our sacrament meeting which is just our branch, but all the sisters in our district sang "Abide With Me" and it was really pretty!  We also got to watch an MTC Christmas devotional by Elder Bednar called The Character of Christ.  I HIGHLY recommend you look it up and watch/read it.  It will change your life. 

I am so excited to leave and get to California!  I have learned so much here and I feel so much more prepared now that I have learned more about myself, my Savior, and how to better focus on my investigators' needs and to teach people, not lessons.  I am super nervous, but it's an excited nervous.  I know that this is where I am supposed to be going and that there are people there waiting specifically for me to get there!  I love you and Grandpa so much and pray for you every night.  I miss you and I love you!

Sister McCall Anderson

PS:  Grandpa, I hope you had a happy Father's Day!  I love you!