Another week has flown by! I am very happy and much more focused today than the past week. I am not thinking about Markus or Todd and my comp and I are getting along very well. I'm such a grump with PMS. We ARE different, but that's no reason to hate one another. We went to el templo ayer & yo veo Amber Brewer. Ella fue en nuestra sesión de templo. En el cuarto de celestial, ella y yo hablamos por una media hora (approximately). [We went to the temple yesterday and I saw Amber Brewer (a BYU roommate). She was in our Temple session. In the celestial room she and I spoke for about half an hour.] I was so frustrated and angry and lonely and homesick (world-sick), and she let me cry and she gave me reassurance and support and love and advice. She said I could pray for charity and happiness. She has experienced the same things as I have/am. It was nice to talk to someone who is a pre-mission amiga and I could be my pre-mission happy self and release all the anger, resentment and tension through tears. My compañera was muy paciencia and esperó para mi. Entonces, Sis. Brewer and our comps walked a la MTC junto. Since then, I have been 100 times happier and our relationship is muy magnifico.

Last night, Hermana Eastman and Chelsea were talking on the bed/floor below me about their home lives. It was almost frightening to hear how rotten they were raised. Hermana Chelson doesn't remember EVER having anyone home when she got home from school and they both never had FHE or family prayer. Hermana Chelson's father (from what I gathered) cheated on her mother and was arrested for stalking a girl and used to come home in the middle of the night. They were very poor and her parents right now live with her sister. She has awful memories of childhood and dreads going home. Hermana Eastman's father is an alcoholic. She gets up 10 times or so tonight for el baño, falling out of bed, requiring her mom to get up and help him. He frequently makes a mess that her mom has to clean up. Her mom is now diluting his alcohol with water. He was not very supportive and is not a role model for her. Both of their siblings have been very rebellious and not good friends with each other. It makes me feel very grateful for the family that I have and for their righteousness.

Hermana Eastman and I in the middle. I can't remember who the other sisters are.