MTC

 We entered the MTC (Missionary Training Center) in Provo, Utah on February 9, 2014.  Young missionaries met us at the drop off area and took us and our luggage to our room in 2M.  Cute Paige Newman greeted us in our building and gave us a hug.  She works at the MTC.  Before unpacking, we met in a conference room along with the 64 other senior missionary couples to be oriented and find out where everyone was assigned to serve.  We discovered another couple that would be working in St. George with us, the Fullers from Idaho.  Some of the more exotic places were Kiev Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Mongolia, and the Cook Islands.  We even found the couple going to Paris to take the place of our neighbors, the Walls, who will be home in March. 

 In the lobby of the MTC are some architectural drawings of the new buildings and changes being made to the missionary training center.  Three new five story buildings and a square grassy area where missionaries can say goodbye to their families are some of the additions being made.

    This is a photo of a First Edition Book of Mormon that is on display under glass in the MTC lobby.

 Everyone gets their picture taken by the big world map in the MTC hallway.  Elder and Sister Burt are pointing to St. George, Utah.  Our wonderful sons, Nathan and B.J. set the example by going to the Dominican Republic and Argentina. 

                                                                     Our MTC Trainers

 








                                             Sister Sharp,              
Brother Zundel, and Brother Gubler were great!
We did lots of role playing and learned concepts from Preach My Gospel.

                                       Some of the senior couple missionaries in our group.


Our Purpose

Invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end.

Kate just before being baptized by her father, Rob.

                                         Provo Utah Temple ~ right across from the MTC

                                                   VISITOR'S CENTER TRAINING

Our missionary training included two and half days about visitor centers.  To start out our experience, we drove to the Salt Lake City Temple Visitor's Center and took a tour with the young sister missionaries on Temple Square.

                                                              

                                                             The Salt Lake City Temple

 The sister missionaries were enthusiastic and bore testimony of their faith and love for Jesus Christ.

                                                               Salt Lake Tabernacle
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

                               Assembly Hall by Seagull Monument at Temple Square SLC

After our tour we went back to the Provo MTC to do more role playing and practice talking to guests that come to our historic sites.  On Wednesday morning, our final time eating at the cafeteria,  I had the most perfect breakfast!  This is what I had:  one BYU maple bar, two pieces of bacon, a bowl of cracked wheat, one hard boiled egg, some hash browned potatoes, and milk.

     
Our MTC room with suitcases being packed to leave for home to pack up more stuff to drive to our mission tomorrow.  Ready or not, St. George Visitor's Center Mission, here we come!