2/14/16 The MTC

     First chance I've had to sit down with my laptop (hard to blog on my phone).  This mission thing is taking more time than I figured (and we're not even in NY yet).

     We were at the MTC (Missionary Training Center in Provo) from Monday the 8th till Friday.  For those of you who are planning a mission, here's how the schedule goes:

-Breakfast each morning at about 7:00

-Classes (large group of about 140, or in districts of 4 couples)

-Lunch about noon

-Classes

-Dinner at about 5:00

-Back to our rooms to study, plan, workout or whatever.

     At check-in the first day, they gave us our name-tags.  I got choked up and cried (happy tears).  The sister checking us in tried asking me questions and Marc had to answer for me.  They are probably used to that.

     We loved our districts.  Generally, we practiced teaching each other, or on 2 days we taught pretend investigators.  We did have to work hard but loved it.  We became especially close to the 3 other couples we were with.  Both Marc and I felt it was worth it to serve a mission just for the MTC.

     On Thursday and Friday we had some mini classes on how to use the Gospel Library App..  About 20 20-somethings teaching about 100 old people how to use technology.  It was quite comical.

     Our rooms were very nice--very much like hotel rooms.  They even had "nap areas" in case we needed them between classes. (Like we had time for naps...)

     We were fortunate to be in the building with the workout room (about 1/3 the size of 24 hour fitness.  The first night I had the whole place to myself.  Then never had time to workout again.

     We are in Indiana now.  It's cold and for a minute I wanted to go home.  But I'm over it now.