Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Today, I did the devotional talk in our morning class.  I talked about faith being the opposite of fear.  In class today, we did Finance, introduction to Mission Organization, Missionary Transfers, beginning of Housing, and we did Outlook—email, calendar, contacts, and something else, can’t remember right off.

After dinner tonight, we headed to the Marriott Center for the fireside/devotional.  We walked over…the weather was great.  They never tell ahead of time who the speaker is, so we don’t learn till we get there.  They have monitors that tell different things to the missionaries there, some are things about Preach My Gospel, and how they need to stay seated during the meeting, and last week they had the name of the person speaking.  This week, there was nothing said about who was speaking, so we were beginning to think it was someone high up (the lady next to me who was Sister Turner and I were talking together about this). 

It was Elder Neil L. Anderson and his wife.  It was a great meeting, about Love and Sacrifice.  Towards the end of the meeting, I noticed a security man quietly go up to someone on the podium, so I thought “something’s up”.  After the meeting concluded, then the person conducting got up and said it was a severe storm outside now, with not only rain but thunder and lightning, so we had to wait for awhile to leave till it was safer.  All the young missionaries walk over to the Marriott Center.  Seniors can take a shuttle bus, but we wanted to walk.  Well, we rode the bus home!  It was still pouring when they let us leave, but no more lightning.  We probably sat in the Center singing songs for 15 to 20 minutes while we waited for the all clear.

So, got here later than we had planned.  If we had walked we would have been faster.  The shuttle bus always takes the seniors to the Marriott Hotel first before coming back to the MTC.  Now time to get ready for bed!