MTC Week Three

Sister DeBoer and me (Sister Smiley....soon to be on the Square)

Hello again! There are so many things to say and so little time to say it all! So it's going to be a little jumbled.

 

Today is my P-day because tomorrow we start visitor's center training and we needed a day to do laundry or else we would start to stink by the time our stay at the MTC was over. I'm excited to see what visitor's center training is like. I here that there are about 50 sisters that are going to be part of that this week. On one of the days we get to go to Temple Square to practice being a visitor's center missionary. It should be pretty cool. I'm most excited about being able to teach so frequently and people come to me! I don't have to go out and find them.

 

On Sundays, after the fireside, we get to watch a church movie. This week the movie was Legacy. I hadn't seen it in a long time and it wasn't as good as I remembered it. The romantic story line was funny to watch with so many missionaries (we were all in the gym).

 

The fireside on Sunday was a musical fireside. The neatest part about it was when all the missionaries were "coached" on how we should sing "Called to Serve". We started out quite, all 2,000 of us. Then we built towards the end when we were all standing and singing full voice. It was cool to be part of that group that has been "called to know the richness of His blessings", as the hymn says. I love my calling as a missionary.

 

Yesterday Sister DeBoer and I taught three lessons. At the MTC you do a lot of role playing and so none of the people we taught were really investigators, but it's good practice. We taught our Zone Leaders (who are going to the Philippeans), a teacher, and our "progressing investigator" Donna (who is actually our roommate, Donna is the investigator she plays). In those lessons we were teaching principles from the third lesson (The Gospel of Jesus Christ). We taught a lot about the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. The Holy Ghost is such a wonderful gift to have. I know that without the Spirit there we would not be able to teach anything. It's a wonderful way to learn.

 

Anyways, we've been teaching Donna since about the first week we got here and it has been really neat to see how investigators progress and come unto Christ. She had some inital concerns about why she needed to be baptized again and then she was confused when her friends told her wierd things about the church. I really enjoyed being able to address her concerns and to show her that God really does love her. She committed to baptism and was willing to do anything that she needed to do to be ready for that. Last night we taught her and had her bear her testimony about the things that we have been teaching her.

 

This morning Sister DeBoer and I had service. Each week you have "service" which means that you are assigned a building to clean for 75 minutes. Today we were in 1M which is the main building on the MTC campus and our assignment was to clean the entrance windows. That wasn't too hard, but after we were done there were a bunch of hand prints on the glass doors again. We've also done vacuuming and cleaning bathrooms in our residence hall (not quite as fun, there's always a lot of hair in girl's bathrooms, especially in the shower drains...ew).

 

The Elders that were in our district also left today. Six of them are on their way to Hawaii and two are going to Calgary Canada. I'm sure they'll all make great missionaries and definitely learn lots.

 

The food at the MTC is pretty decent...it could be worse. But I suppose feeding 2,000 people three times a day is not an easy task. For lunch today I had maccaroni and cheese with green beans and an apple. It wasn't bad.