I actually started writing you the first day I got here (I had a few hours of spare time- and I see NONE of that now!) But I still haven't finished the letter (see above!). I wanted to tell you how grateful I am for you and I think the moment we had at the MTC with everyone hugging is one of the most precious moments of my life. Thank you for supporting me and being such great parents. You're wonderful. I know that you love each other a lot and are striving to keep our family gospel-centered. That is so important! We are learning how to teach the first discussion right now, and it really stresses the importance of having a gospel-centered family. You'll receive another letter from me soon! I'm not sure if I can attach pictures to this, so I'm going to mail them to you. I hope you can figure out how to scan them into the computer and upload them to the blog! Most of them are from our temple walking trip on Sunday. It was so much fun! We went with most of our zone and took a picture of our district. I LOVE our district. My companionship makes up a third of it! There are nine missionaries altogether and I have two companions- Sister Hadden and Sister Copeland. It's been an adventure figuring out how to accomplish things when we need to together all the time. Sister Copeland is sick right now with a sinus infection, so we all made a trip to the health clinic. I hope she feels better soon! Sister Hadden and I saw some sister missionaries going French-speaking while we were waiting for her, and happily chatted away in French. It's funny how much more I appreciate what little French I have now that I'm learning Korean!Speaking of Korean, it is a hard language to learn! We started learning it on the second day here, and I thought, "Did I really get myself into this?" Something I've learned here is that the Lord doesn't always bless us with the easy way out, sometimes we are given challenges so that our faith can be strengthened. This is definitely one of those cases. I don't think I've ever studied anything quite so mind-boggling to me as Korean is. Trying to learn this language has really humbled me- it doesn't come quickly and I have to work REALLY hard. Our teachers stress that we won't be able to learn the language on our own. While we still need to put everything we have into it, we need the Lord's hand to gain the language so quickly. Right now, I can stumble through a very simple, short prayer, say hello and goodbye, thank you, say elders and sisters, and some other vocab. We're working on our testimonies. Constructing sentences is interesting! Wow. I can't believe I didn't know ANY Korean 6 days ago!