I'm a little worried abut your salvation and stuff... Why have you not been baptized? -Nacho Libre/Sister Reynolds
Hello All,
Week one in the MTC has officially come to a close. It has been a crazy 6 days (feels more like 6 months) but I have learned so much and feel so much better about my life after it. I was most worried about my companion coming in but no worries there anymore. The Lord has blessed me with Sister Lonnecker and her amazing ability to make me laugh has gotten me through the last 6 days. She is an amazing study buddy and we teach well together so I could not be more happy to be in the MTC with anyone else (we are also considering recording our own EFY CD one day so look out for those awesome accapella mashups) !!!! The rest of our district is also incredible. We have 8 elders and 4 sisters. Sister Sanchez and Sister Lewis are also going to Columbus Oho with Sister Lonnecker and I and we are having a blast rooming together. Our favorite time of day is gym time where we go crazy on the track and sing primary songs to motivate ourselves and break up the silence.To give you an idea of how much fun we have together I'll tell you about our P Day activities so far. We have written letters to our family, studied a bit, and spent the last 45 minutes before lunch and emails in our room paying bible Go Fish and Bible Trivia Cards that Sister Lonnecker received in a package yesterday. It was really a blast playing with each other and laughing at each other. Sister Sanchez was also very sure to keep score and remind us who won. Her Sass keeps us on our toes and similes on our faces. Life is better with them. Our Elders are amazing. They hold doors for us, and take trays and walk us back to our dorm, and spout pretty much non stop spiritual revelation ;)
This week has mostly been spent in class learning our routines and learning from our spectacular teachers. We've learned all about the first few lessons in Preach My Gospel and have even taught a lot of those lessons to our investigators here in the MTC. Sister Lonnecker and I are teaching two very cool investigators, and its been awesome to start practicing sharing the gospel. Most of our days now will be spent studying, in class, and teaching more investigators. We've learned a lot about different ways to study and different ways to teach. My favorite lesson so far has come from Elder Bednar though. On Sunday nights we get to go to the movies (and by go to the movies I mean we get to pick a devotional/ Meet the Mormons to watch before we go to bed), and this week we went as a district to a devotional Elder Bednar gave on the Character of Christ. He talked about how our goal as missionaries should be to turn outward like Christ did. He gave several examples in the New Testament of times where Christ faced very serious problems but thought of others instead of himself. He reminded us that our missions were not about us. While we will grow and understand the gospel our missions are about others learning to grow. I had been really struggling on Sunday, and that was exactly what I needed to hear. I think it's important for everyone to learn about the Character of Christ and use it in their lives.
My favorite part of the weeks are the Temple Walks on Sunday. It's a great time to get out of our 1 square mile of brick buildings, be near the temple, and see all of the missionaries!!!The hardest thing about the MTC so far has been the time. The first few days were packed full of class, devotionals, and study. Oh and we had to move rooms because the bats invaded our space. that was a fun day ;) But our Branch President said something about time that really puts it into perspective, "The days are long. but the weeks fly by." Everyday feels like at least 72 hours long by the time we return to residence, but sitting here I am halfway through my MTC experience and it feels like time has flown by. I am getting used to the routine more and we are having really exciting classes full of great spiritual stuff so life is good here in Provo.
I'll leave you all with my scripture of the week (which is also our chosen district scripture)
3 Nephi 5:13
It's an awesome scripture reminding us that we are all disciples of Christ and our mission as disciples of Christ.
Love,
Sister Reynolds
Week one in the MTC has officially come to a close. It has been a crazy 6 days (feels more like 6 months) but I have learned so much and feel so much better about my life after it. I was most worried about my companion coming in but no worries there anymore. The Lord has blessed me with Sister Lonnecker and her amazing ability to make me laugh has gotten me through the last 6 days. She is an amazing study buddy and we teach well together so I could not be more happy to be in the MTC with anyone else (we are also considering recording our own EFY CD one day so look out for those awesome accapella mashups) !!!! The rest of our district is also incredible. We have 8 elders and 4 sisters. Sister Sanchez and Sister Lewis are also going to Columbus Oho with Sister Lonnecker and I and we are having a blast rooming together. Our favorite time of day is gym time where we go crazy on the track and sing primary songs to motivate ourselves and break up the silence.To give you an idea of how much fun we have together I'll tell you about our P Day activities so far. We have written letters to our family, studied a bit, and spent the last 45 minutes before lunch and emails in our room paying bible Go Fish and Bible Trivia Cards that Sister Lonnecker received in a package yesterday. It was really a blast playing with each other and laughing at each other. Sister Sanchez was also very sure to keep score and remind us who won. Her Sass keeps us on our toes and similes on our faces. Life is better with them. Our Elders are amazing. They hold doors for us, and take trays and walk us back to our dorm, and spout pretty much non stop spiritual revelation ;)
This week has mostly been spent in class learning our routines and learning from our spectacular teachers. We've learned all about the first few lessons in Preach My Gospel and have even taught a lot of those lessons to our investigators here in the MTC. Sister Lonnecker and I are teaching two very cool investigators, and its been awesome to start practicing sharing the gospel. Most of our days now will be spent studying, in class, and teaching more investigators. We've learned a lot about different ways to study and different ways to teach. My favorite lesson so far has come from Elder Bednar though. On Sunday nights we get to go to the movies (and by go to the movies I mean we get to pick a devotional/ Meet the Mormons to watch before we go to bed), and this week we went as a district to a devotional Elder Bednar gave on the Character of Christ. He talked about how our goal as missionaries should be to turn outward like Christ did. He gave several examples in the New Testament of times where Christ faced very serious problems but thought of others instead of himself. He reminded us that our missions were not about us. While we will grow and understand the gospel our missions are about others learning to grow. I had been really struggling on Sunday, and that was exactly what I needed to hear. I think it's important for everyone to learn about the Character of Christ and use it in their lives.
My favorite part of the weeks are the Temple Walks on Sunday. It's a great time to get out of our 1 square mile of brick buildings, be near the temple, and see all of the missionaries!!!The hardest thing about the MTC so far has been the time. The first few days were packed full of class, devotionals, and study. Oh and we had to move rooms because the bats invaded our space. that was a fun day ;) But our Branch President said something about time that really puts it into perspective, "The days are long. but the weeks fly by." Everyday feels like at least 72 hours long by the time we return to residence, but sitting here I am halfway through my MTC experience and it feels like time has flown by. I am getting used to the routine more and we are having really exciting classes full of great spiritual stuff so life is good here in Provo.
I'll leave you all with my scripture of the week (which is also our chosen district scripture)
3 Nephi 5:13
It's an awesome scripture reminding us that we are all disciples of Christ and our mission as disciples of Christ.
Love,
Sister Reynolds
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