In the MTC and "so happy"

Dear family,

Hello from the MTC!! :D That makes me so happy to say...it's wonderful to be doing something that I've been dreaming about for so long! The MTC is wonderful!! I love life here...I will admit the first day was difficult and I had to fight back tears several times throughout the day and especially that night when I was going to sleep, but since Thursday morning I've been amazing wonderful and so so happy! The spirit here is amazing and everyone here is so excited about missionary work...the teachers, the missionaries, the leaders...it's very contagious!

So there are about 20 other missionaries here that are waiting for visas to Brazil. My district has 12 missionaries in it and we're all Brazil-bound :) My companion, Sister Robson from Mesa, Arizona is so wonderful. We are the only sister missionaries in our district so we're getting very close. Sister Robson has a strong testimony that she shares with me often and she is so sweet and fun. We are loving being companions! I believe she is a big part of the reason that it was so easy to transition to MTC life...I'm so grateful that Heavenly Father loves us and knows us and send us just the people that we need...at every time in our lives! We run together and do yoga every morning with all the other sister missionaries...it's been so fun!

Back to the visa situation...the other 8 Brazilian missionaries, outside of my district, have been here at the Provo MTC for 6 weeks. Their district also had 12 at the beginning, but their visas came and they left the next day. Yup! We were wrong about me being here for 8 weeks...apparently your flight to Brazil is scheduled the morning after your visa arrives! One sister was telling me that her companion got notice that her visa had come just 2 days after she had arrived to the MTC and she was on a plane to Brazil 8 hours later!!! Crazy... But there is also another story about an Elder who waited here in the Provo MTC for 15 weeks with no word of his visa...and then was finally reassigned to Atlanta, Georgia. So basically I have no idea what will happen the next 8 weeks...but I know the Lord does and I'm sure it will be wonderful! That's the cool thing about the Elder that I was telling you about, that was here for 15 weeks.... I've heard from Everyone that he was such a good example to all the new missionaries and really changed the MTC experience for a lot of them. So I think it was part of his mission to be here, and he was a great missionary no matter where he was...that is cool to me. So wherever I am I know it's where the Lord wants me to be and I can make a difference anywhere. As President Mckay loved to say "Where'er thou art, act well thy part!"

Well family I love you all and have so much to say but time is running out! I love you all so very much and I miss you. Thank you for the letters...reading them yesterday made my whole day and it made me so happy. Thank you for always being loving and showing your support for me. I will write more in a letter later today! Keep reading the Book of Mormon as a family and individually! Love you!!

Love,

Sister Jamie Gee

PS... For my plaque scripture I would like D&C 123:17. LOVE YOU!

D&C 123:17 Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.