MTC week 2

Finally, I found the infamous MTC map

Elder Moffitt & Elder Powell

He's got the whole world in his hands....or at least the Provo temple!

So my last investigator Jorge... the investigator of my first week at the mtc. So our investigators are actually MTC teachers who are portraying people they knew from their missions. So they're all real people being real people, but we're not actually talking to non-members, see what I'm saying? So we had to drop Jorge because Hermano Snyder (who was being Jorge) became our teacher and told us what we were doing good and bad. He's a super good teacher. So we have 2 teachers I think I already told you. Our other maestra is Hermana Jensen. They are both our investigators now. Their names are Antonio and Sebastiana. You only have to teach 2 investigators the rest of the time at the mtc. But you also have the option of trying to pick up more if you want... so we did.

The Elders in Elder Moffitt's district

Most MTC districts only have about 6-8, Elder Moffitt's has 12

Yesterday when we found that out, Elder Powell and I both said we wanted to try and get another investigator. It's a little more tricky with a third one, because he doesn't have to let you in his door at all. We made it in though. The first lesson is usually short, around 15 minutes or so. It is so important to get to know people, so we spent almost the whole time just connecting with him and really showing him how much we cared for him and how much the Lord cares for him. Oh woops, his name is Ian. Ian is 38, is married and has 3 kids. He moved here from Chile 3 years ago and is trying to get this medical license here like he had in Chile. He doesn't seem to have any big problems and he doesn't want much to do with any religion. That's the problem. We didn't know how to mold a lesson around his needs at all. At the end he told us how we are really nice guys and how the he thinks highly of Mormons, buuuuuuut the church isn't for him. He isn't interested, and he didn't want us to come back. Then Elder Powell bore a super strong testimony to him. Ian said, ok you can come back one more time. We got another chance, so we'll have to bring the super spirit on Saturday.

Yesterday we was busy. Besides teaching Ian and Antonio (and our progress with Antonio is going so great. We have only taught him 2 lessons. I'll tell you about him in a sec) we did something called TRC. That is some crazy stuff. So, what is TRC you are dying to know? We go have two 20 minute lessons/talks with people from the outside world. No more people portraying investigators (who definitely feel real anyway, because they are... somewhere out there). The people we meet in TRC are mostly all members. Some strong. Some inactive. Some non-members though. They are all volunteers who want to come in and feel the spirit by talking to the missionaries... in Spanish. The first man we met was actually the head of the TRC department for like 5 different lanuages including Spanish. After talking to him for 20 minutes we felt really good because he was easy to understand and we felt the spirit in the room for sure. Out next TRC volunteer had served a mission in Argentina. I'll tell you what, they've got some weird accents down there. Argentinians I thin even boast that they don't speak Spanish. They've got their own special dialect of it. So he talked really fast and with his unusual way of pronouncing words Elder Powell and I only caught half of what he said. It was enough though. We still almost always knew WHAT he was talking about, although we missed some of the details. Humbling to go in and be completely out of the loop after understanding out investigators that we've been working with this week.

Elder Powell trying to snag some extra breakfast items!

Study time

Mail time....happy time!

He did always want to be a "Ghost buster"

Fresh Cinnamon Roll.....Thanks Bishop Family!

What missionaries do on "P" day, hope the guy on top doesn't fall!

They must have quite the store and barbershop at the MTC...new suspenders and a comb-over....????

Is that Clark Kent at the MTC?

Elder Kenney, Elder Moffitt, Elder May (zone leaders)

Elder Moffitt left  his room and came back to find this beautiful little Christmas tree at his door.  I wonder how many months  it

has been making the rounds at the MTC,  at least 6 probably!

I have quite a few pictures for you all. Two weeks worth right? ok, I'll try to get them going, if not then I'll just write you some more stuff and try again next time. Love you!

Well, it took me half an hour to get all those pictures, so I'm out of time again already. But I think the time is well spent. The pictures are fun to look at I'm sure, and they help to give you a good idea of what I'm doing here. I skipped like half the pictures I took in total too! It's ok. The ones I skipped are similar to the ones I sent, or just less exciting. So, until next Friday...