Hi Everyone!!! I love you and miss you all so much! I can't believe I've almost been in the MTC for the last 4 weeks! Time really does fly by and guess what I HEAD OUT TO NAUVOO ONT TUESDAY YAY!!!!! I seriously cannot wait to go to Nauvoo. Conference in the MTC is absolutely amazing and especially as a missionary. I didn't realize how much they testified of Christ in almost every single talk that they had and they talked A LOT ABOUT FAMILIES!  It was really weird when in the middle of the prayer they prayed for the missionaries! I looked down at my nametag and I was like OH MY GOSH I GET TO WEAR JESUS CHRIST NAME ON MY TAG FOR THE NEXT 18 MONTHS WOOHOO!!!!! I think that it is absolutely extraordinary that I get to testify of Jesus Christ. I hope we always remember him throughout our day because I'm sure he thinks of each and everyone of us individually every day. Our elders left on Monday and it was an interesting day without them! It was actually very quite and study time was a lot more affective, but we sure do miss them and their funny quirks that they have. :) We had the best teachers that were full of so much energy and love for the savior Jesus Christ and his church! The spirit touches you in such a way while you're in the MTC. Maybe I'm just weird, but It's like crying tears that you've never shed before. They are the happiest and most joyful tears I have ever shed. All you have to do is mention Jesus Christ and I'll start crying hahaha!! :) We started Visitor Center Training this week and It is amazing!!! I cannot believe I have the privilege to serve in a Visitors Center! It's just amazing how everyones call is so personal and Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father know us soooo well! Like there is no accident wherever we get called to. This weeks practices are different because our purpose is still the same, but we just do it in a different way and when we study for lessons we can't really just study for one specific thing. There are tons of paintings and pictures in the MTC so we had the opportunity to walk through the MTC and give a tour to our companion. We ask the investigator (companion) what she thinks of that specific painting or what it means to her. It's interesting because you start off asking them about the painting, but we are able to focus on what they need to hear and the spirit just works wonders. Heavenly Father just seriously amazes me! Yesterday my tiredness finally caught up with me and I could feel how tired I really was. It was like a a bag of bricks just hit me and I was exhausted! The power of Prayer is a real thing though! It truly is! All I had to do was ask heavenly father for help and as soon as I told him I would work my little tale fanny off it worked. Not kidding we walked into class and like five minutes later I just had this wave of energy come over me! Heavenly Father really does answer our prayers! We just have to be humble enough to ask for his help! :) He is so gracious and so kind. We've only had two days of training and than today we get to go to the temple yay!!! Pday seriously comes so fast! It honestly blows my mind! You can do sooo much in such a short amount of time its ridiculous. Oh and tomorrow we get to go to temple square for our visior center training woohoo!!! SO EXCITED!!!!!!! Seriously I cannot express how cool Visitor Centers are LIKE FOREAL THEY ARE SO COOL!!!!!!! Oh and I got a Dr.Pepper in the Mail woohoo!! Something that will is delicious and will help me stay awake! Only four more days and we get to have real food!! the only thing is we have to go a whole different state when we get to nauvoo to go get our groceries! Now that should be interesting, but an adventure awaits!! :)))) Wish us luck! Apparently our mission president invites us over our first day and watches how we eat! How scary, but he seems like a teddy bear! I hope so :) I love my companion! She seriously can lighten anyones day up with her jokes. There was literally a time we had to have a thumb war to decide who was going to say the prayer! Prayer is beautiful :D Anyways I gotta get going! I love you all and hope you enjoyed your easter! Make sure to keep the faith and to always trust in the Savior Jesus Christ. He really does understand everything that we've been through and he will never fail us. JESUS CHRIST LIVES!!!!!! And there are so many tender mercies in our lives! We just have to open our eyes to see them :) I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU AND HOPE YOURE ALL DOING GOOD AND GOING ON FUN ADVENTURES AND YOU ARE ALL IN MY PRAYERS!! mwah :)))))

Love Sister Chapman 

***Sister Chapman is leaving for the mission field on Tuesday morning. She asked me to let y'all know that she can only respond by letter in the mission field! So please be a little patient. Paper letters are always super fun to get because she is able to read those on the actual day they come and not just once a week. 

Please send any letters, treats, or packages to the following address:

Sister Katie Chapman

PO Box 215 

Nauvoo, IL 62354-0215

WEEK TWO :)

HI EVERYONE :)

All I can say is wow! Well it's weeks two and I'm here in the MTC till April 12th! The spirit is sooo strong it's amazing! On Sunday Elder Ballard came and spoke to us!!! We were able to sing Praise to the Man and all I could think of was WOW what an honor it is to be able to serve a mission in Nauvoo! Joseph Smith was a selfless man who was willing to sacrifice everything for something he knew to be true!!! There isn't to much I can expand on because honestly we just study sooo much at the MTC And eat food! The weeks fly by! The elders in our district will be leaving next tuesday and we will be left alone for a whole new week, but that is when we start are VISITOR CENTER TRAINING!!! YAYYYY!!!!! I'm soooo excited to start! Our teachers are amazing!! They are seriously just so inspired and they teach us  ALOT!!! We have these things called TRCs and that is when we teach people who may or may not be investigators! It's basically practice for the missionaries who are learning so that we don't actually mess up when we have REAL INVESTIGATORS! We had one this week named Ku-Gin She is soooo sweet! She's form Korea and I swear shes a real investigator! We finished our last visit the other day because we only had two due to general conference, but my companion and I just had to go see her one last time! I love her :) We focus all of our lessons on Jesus Christ and It is soo beautiful because I've just really come to realize that Jesus Christ makes everything possible! As missionaries we have the sacred opportunity to be part of his work! That's the thing though! This is the lords work not ours and we just have such a privilege to be part of it in this short amount of time! I seriously feel like I'm so lucky to have Jesus Christ on my nametag for 18 months!!!!! YAY!!!!! Today we went to the temple! It was so refreshing! and now we are not the new missionaries anymore yay!!!!!!!!!!! I do miss Dr. Pepper though! It's crazy how we can seriously only sleep like 6 hours and than study for 16 hours!!! It's amazing though! I hope everyone enjoys general conference and with yummies to munch on :D we have chocolate and popcorn and yummy stuff and we get to hear the prophet talk WOOHOO!!! thank you so much for all that you have done for me! You are truly all amazing and beautiful sons and daughters of god :) You are in my prayers! I love you all so myuch! Don't forget to keep the faith and rely on the savior :)

Love Sister Chapman :)))) <3