To my totally rad and awesome FAMILY. Thank you so much for emailing me!!! It was so good to hear from allyou guys!!! Jerusalem is so amazing And I've only seen it from sunset on. The center is so beautiful and yes mom, you can feel the spirit so strongly here! Even in my jet lagged state, when we had our welcome orientation in the auditorium and sang an opening hymn with the organ I seriously wanted to cry! I am so excited to learn everything about the scriptures and the history of the Holy Land. My roommates are so awesome, they are Ali (Snarr) , Jennifer, and Andrea. We all get along so well, I can tell this is going to be a rockin' room arrangement! I was totally so paranoid the whole time that my luggage might get lost, and I was praying my guts out pretty much the whole 9hour plane ride to Vienna. SO... prayers are answered because both of my suitcases made it to Israel. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you... the crazy Austrian people in DC made me check my carry on bag... I was friggin' out on the inside because that carry on was like my only saving grace if my other one got lost, and then they took it away from me. But thankfully I got both back, which was an answer to prayers, cause some people really did loose their luggage and haven't gotten it back yet. :( So the view from my balcony is AMAZING, I am going to do homework outside every day basically. And good news I found a running buddy, when we were touring the building, one of the guys in the group was talking about trying to find a running group to go in the mornings and I said I was gonna start getting in shape for my marathon in October, so we totally decided to be running pals. Money! Speaking of money, there is a guy in our group named "Ryan Money", so everytime I say "money" he looks over and its really awkward. ha. but I find it hilarious on the inside lol. Well, that's about all for now. I miss you all so much! Flying in airplanes stinks. Markelle, you would be swooning left and right here, everyone has an accent like sayid, and it's so awesome. MADS. the plane rides would have been SO much better if I had someone to pester the WHOLE entire way. HA. so next time I fly anywhere I'm taking you with... :) "bother bother bother bother.." haha. gotta love potter puppet pals. ok enough nonsense from me. Mom, I love you so much! Dad, I love you so much and thank you so much for calling me it made my whole day!! Smash, baby you knowI love you keep staying cool! Mads and Mer, you guys should be here cause you are the bomb... hahaha ok that was a horrible joke:) I love you guys tho. Keep emailing me!!!! Love, Kelsey
