Sandra's last MTC letter

Hola!
> yep, I´m the know it all at the MTC. :) ...actually I don´t feel like I know all that much, especially since there are so many natives here that speak so quickly. Ah well, today I leave for Uruguay and I am so excited. I have worked hard to learn as much as I could here at the CCM and now it´s finally time to leave my sheltered life here. It´s a little scary, but exciting at the same time. One of my favorite things about the CCM here is the opportunity I´ve had to go tracting for 7-8 hours every Saturday. I started out not even knowing how to ring the doorbells here and now I can hold little conversations with people and share my testimony of the restoration. Since I don´t have much time to write, I´m just going to tell one story... Last Saturday I was with my two companions and we were about to end a good day of tracting and head back to the meeting point. As me and Hna Denzer were knocking at one of the doors, Hna. Bailey stopped a woman coming down the street (which we have become pretty skilled at doing now). This woman ended up being the best contact we had all day. I understood just about every word she said (she spoke slowly and clearly) and I felt really comfortable talking with her (even in my broken spanish). Since I still get nervous speaking spanish, it was miracle that I felt completely comfortable speaking with her and sharing the gospel. I had other experiences the same day that I had talked to people, but every other time I still had those feelings of being very limited in my ability to speak. it was nice to get to know this woman a little bit and I feel like she was really ready to hear the gospel. Other missionaries will get to teach her (since I will be in Uruguay as of tonight), but it will all turn out alright.
> Thank you for all your e-mails. I´m so excited to have a new little niece named Kylie and also to have a younger brother serving the Lord on a mission. It´s fun to imagine Isaac in the MTC right now sitting in class all day, especially since I´ve just finished that part in my mission.
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> I love the gospel. I know that this is the true church, that we have a living prophet on the earth today, and that Jesus Christ lives and is the head of this church.
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> Keep writing me letters and e-mails. I enjoy reading them even if I don´t get to respond to everything that I read about. It´s nice to hear about your lives.
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> Mom- Yes, that girl needs to be taught by the missionaries pronto! :)
> Oh, and be sure not to let the missionaries hang out too long at our house. They are missionaries and need to be doing the Lord´s work. (remember they are on the Lord´s time)
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> I love you all so much. I don´t know when my next P-day is, but I will definitely write some letters and a few e-mails to keep you updated.
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> Oh, happy birthday to Tavian, Abbie, Sherrie, Aaron, Scott, Kylie, and anyone else who recently had a birthday!
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> hna. Grindstaff