Dec. 31, 2013
Today was a long day at the MTC, one that was not
only long- but so powerful. They put us in Districts of 4 couples, we
studied Preach my Gospel and had to come up with a lesson plan to teach non-members. We had demonstrations on the correct way, and got oriented on
what goes into these lesson plans, the questions we were to ask and how to
include the scriptures. All day long we had classes on these lesson
plans.
It was New Years Eve so dad and I went to Sizzlers
and had some dinner then headed back to the Assembly Hall of the MTC. The
Seniors were all given reserved seats on the main floor, they are kinda of
pampering us because we are old, kinda funny but also very nice. In class
today they even told us that on the 3rd floor there were places where we could
rest. Anyway, at the devotional Elder Ellis of the 70's was the guest
speaker. He was wonderful and kind of gave us some things to think about
for New Years resolutions. He showed us some clips from the movie Scrooge, how
he turned his life around and learned to help and care for others. We got
home quite late and went straight to bed so we could leave for MTC next morning.
Jan. 1, 2014
Happy New Year! It doesn't even seem like a new years,
we have been in classes all day long. To start it off, I had to play the
piano by third day, so guess that will start my on going calling. Today
we (as a couple) had to meet with an investigator and teach the first
discussion. They were really members of the church who volunteer to come
in and pretend they are non-members. This couple we about our age so it
was easy to relate to them. They said they had moved to Utah and didn't
know much about any church, especially the Mormons. They lived by MOrmons
and wanted to see what they believed. We were suppose to stick to the
first discussion, but they got off on so many subjects it was hard to not just
give them an overview of the whole picture. Anyway we got a pretty good
rating, the one thing that they said to correct was that Dad did most of the
talking, can you believe that, Dad talking more than me?
After the first discussion we meet with our leaders
and they told us more on what we should do, the last part of the day was
talking about who to approach them on the second time we had been together.
The highlights of both days was to be with Dad and
see him as a missionary, he was pretty good at it and has a lot of things that
I can learn from him.
Another highlight was going to the devotional last
night and see the room full of 2000 missionaries. To see how organized
they ran things down there and yet how efficiently it was run. The church
takes on big things, this is certainly one of them!!!!!!
Our 3 days have been so wonderful, the Spirit is very
strong all day long, everyone is so friendly and helpful, we love it down
there.
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