MTC Week 1

My first week in the MTC has been crazy but fun. To start off, I actually got to the MTC a day late. We were flying into JFK but New York had a huge storm so we landed in Virginia instead. Luckily the mission president there let us stay the night in the mission home. We flew to JFK the next morning and stayed the day in the airport because our flight wasn't until 7 pm. Luckily I wasn't the only missionary that was late. Elder Moser was on my flight to JFK too so he missed our original flight to Manchester too. 

Our MTC only has 24 missionaries, which is soooo small. The crazy thing is, 12 of those are going to Manchester. My district is made up of entirely people going to Manchester. Also, shout out to Kevin, 4 people in the MTC are from Canada. As my companion noticed, there are more people from Canada than from Utah. 

My companion is Sister Cook! She is from Moscow, Idaho and she is awesome. She is a great example to me of exact obedience and I'm glad to have her as my companion.

This first week had been a lot of learning. We've closely studied the first two lessons and are getting around to the other 3 this week. We taught "Jeffrey" this week as well. Really his name is Brother Robertson but he was playing our first investigator. We didn't teach perfectly but we learned a lot and know how to improve.

On Sunday, we got to watch the John Tanner movie. Elder Clifton, our district leader, asked me and my companion to share a family history story so I shared his. The MTC president saw the story later and asked to read it. That night we watched it as an MTC and it was so good. The video never fails to make me cry.

We went to Manchester yesterday and talked to REAL people. It is so much more stressful when you know you're teaching someone who isn't a fake investigator. We were there for about 2 hours and Sister Cook and I had about 6 meaningful conversations with people there. Unfortunately, we also had our first experience of being yelled at as a missionary. Thankfully all he did was yell at us so we're totally good.

The food at the MTC is great because we have mash (mashed potatoes) at almost every meal. It feels like a Sunday meal every day. The only thing I didn't like was their bacon, surprisingly.

Also another odd thing is that I am the only one at the MTC who plays piano! So pretty much the missionaries here get a lot of decent piano playing because I did not practice very much before I came.

All in all, this week had been good! We still have two more weeks in the MTC before we head out so it will probably be a lot of the same things for me. I love you all!