Pictures from the MTC

I just received pictures from Katie (she signs her letters Sister Katherine Fager) at the MTC. The pictures are in no particular order. The first picture is of the Provo temple. Katie goes to the temple once a week and I have a few pictures of her studying on the front lawn of the temple (on Sundays). Katie's mission president requests that all shirts be tucked in. Katie says that is quite the chore to keep everything tucked, but she is so obedient.

Here is a picture of her companions, Sister Barratt from Arizona and Sister Peterson from Utah. She seems to enjoy her companions and what they have to teach her.





This is a picture of her District. Elder Ellison is the district leader and as you can guess loves basketball. Elder Craft and Katie seem to be the ones understanding the language the best so far, I think they have a little competition going, Elder Harris has quite the sense of humor and keeps thing light to break the intense studying.


Armenia is a long ways away....

This is my personal favorite picture of Katie All her letters say she loves a mission and the gospel.


This picture is a little fuzzy, but if you enlarge it and look at her name tag you will get a sample of Armenian. There are 39 characters in the alphabet. She says the hardest thing about the language is the pronunciation because some of the characters are very similar in pronunciation, for instance the "t" "tz" "dz" "d" - are similar but oh so different and those are not the hard ones which she couldn't describe. She calls herself a nerd because she carries around cards to memorize during exercise. Her teacher describes her as intense. He suggested in their last interview that she help others in her district know what she knows.

I included this picture to show that Katie is having a lot of fun on her mission and hasn't lost her sense of fun.