1st Week at the MTC

Hi Everyone!! 

     What a wild and crazy week its been here at the MTC (Missionary Training Center). I can't believe that it has already been the first 6 days!! Here are the basics of what has been going on.

     Everyone in my District is either coming with me to Utica, New York or going to San Diego, California.  I love all of them already. I really love the 3 Sisters that I am serving with and who are also going to Utica, New York with Me.  Sister A, Sister C, and Sister H... are "the Bomb". We have learned to get along and serve each other over the last 6 days. We are one big happy family. We occasionally get really sidetracked and distracted, but we have great gospel discussions.

      I am the Scriptorian of my District.  I often hear:  "Sister Williams, where is this verse? ...etc" because I am the only one that memorized the Seminary Scripture Mastery and other verses.  And, I have learned that I best teach with them. 

     We all have been struggling with the transition from regular life to missionary life. Occasionally we get homesick or fall asleep because we spend like 7+ hours a day just sitting behind a desk learning how to effectively teach people about the gospel.   However, we all love the Spirit we feel here. Everyone is SO nice and polite and we are all here for the same purpose; to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His atonement, and repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. 

     I love how in just six days I feel like a different and better person. I have had to rely more than ever on developing my relationship with God and Christ, and I am already starting to receive the blessings in my life. I love how I could listen to the "Spoken Word" and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Temple Square, and be taught by Sister Marriott who is in the Young Women's General Presidency during Relief Society. She gave an amazing lesson/talk! Later I was taught by Elder Bednar through an older recorded devotional given a few years ago. 

It just feels good to be here and doing one of the best things that I could ever do over the course of my life. I cant wait to leave for New York soon and start working with real people, and not just role playing and practicing. But as sister A says "Practice makes progress!!" 

I love and miss everyone. To those who wrote me a letter, please be patient and realize that I probably won't be able to read and respond to all of them until after the middle of December. 

I can't wait for what new things will come this next week.  I hopefully will figure out how to upload pictures this next week. The computers where acting up during my short login time. I promise, pictures will be posted soon!!"

PS: I forgot to mention. I love Exercise time!! I won a lightning round of basketball and beat all the guys in my zone and won!! Woop Woop!! I wasn't too humble that day... I'm still learning.

Love Sister Kylie

Denver International Airport - And She's on her way to the MTC !

Packed and ready to go!

After a few hours of packing.... we decided to celebrate Kylie's birthday 2 days early!! Happy early 19th birthday Sister Williams!

Weather Report

Checked the weather channel this morning before Kylie's flight and also saw this....

Winter has decided to hit New York! Especially cities close to the Great Lakes. Watertown (which is in her mission) is expected to get up to 3 ft till Thursday! Burrrrr

Write me please :)

So my main source of contact for the next year and a half will be through letters and email! My mom will be updating this blog every week. However, I WOULD LOVE LETTERS FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!! I even enjoy hand-drawn pictures from the little ones!! If you want my missionary email account just message my facebook account or comment on this post.

But just a few important things:
1) My basic US Post office shipping address can be found on the top of the right column above my picture.

2) For packages sent through Fedex or UPS the shipping address is
Sister Kylie Williams
8439 Clark Mills Rd
Whitesboro, NY 13492

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Less than 7 days!!

One week left!! Ahhhh!! Doesn't feel real yet that by next Wednesday.. I will be in Utah at the MTC (missionary training center), on my first day as a called missionary of the church. Then after 10 days of training, its off to cold New York! Now... I just have to pack (yikes!) but I couldn't be more excited!!! And when I'm excited, I usually dance..

The Final Countdown

Hey everyone!! I have now less than 30 days until I leave everything behind and depart to Upstate New York to serve a mission. Time has flown by... but now that 98% of the preparation is done I can just sit back and enjoy quality time with the family. Its been nice watching tv, relaxing, going mission shopping, studying, babysitting, etc, but soon that will all be over and then it'll be time to get to work. Many of my friends have asked me "What exactly does a LDS missionary do on a mission?" and the answer is simple... SERVE! However, there are two distinct sides of service. There is the basic form of service which includes constantly preforming good deeds for others to make them feel loved and also help them in their time of need. So I am predicting I will be raking a lot of leaves and snow shoveling will play a big part in the future haha! The other service that I will provide is spiritual service. Teaching and bringing people to the knowledge of Christ and that He lived and died for us so that we can return to the presence of God. This form of teaching we call "Proselyting." This will be the focus of my mission, but I will always be on the lookout to help anyone, even those who are not interested in learning my faith. I will be very very busy in the near future, but I see the next year and a half as my time to make the world a better place. It will be hard, but it will be worth it!