Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Tired.  Monday got up at 5:30, the rest of these days at the MTC getting up at 5:45.  It is catching up on all of us.  Everyone is tired.  Hopefully, I can get to bed earlier tonight.  Last night it was about 11……we were working on our assignment for today, then watched the news and went to bed, but I couldn’t fall asleep right away.  Not enough wind down time.

Today I was really nervous……we were working with “investigators”.  We did okay, and I felt okay while it was happening, and relieved when we finished! J   Our investigator was someone who was a member referral, a young man who had been married 9 months.  We visited with him, then taught him about the restoration.  After this exercise, we evaluated ourselves, and we found areas we could improve in, and some we felt we did good at.  So, all in all, it went well.

Then we started working on tomorrow’s task……another “investigator”.  This time, it is someone that had been seen once by the missionaries, but the missionaries were transferred, and we were to take over.  We have to follow up on the invitation that was issued by the previous missionaries, and possibly teach the next lesson, the Plan of Salvation, depending on the needs we find when we meet with the person/people.  Todays classes ended at 4:15, because those who haven’t had all their immunizations had to get them at that time, so we walked around M1, waiting until 5 when we wanted to eat dinner.  Dinner actually starts at 4, but we didn’t want to eat that early.  After dinner, we headed back to the hotel with our car-mates, Elder and Sister Harris.  They are from Santa Rosa, CA, in the Bay area north of where we will be, and heading to Seattle for their mission.

Oh!  Almost forgot!  New young missionaries came in today, and we watched part of the process.  They get dropped off at the curb on the southeastern entrance into M1, walk down a roped off area, into a chapel room where they get their orientation packets, name tags, and are then met with a host missionary (someone who has been here awhile I guess).   The host companion then takes them to the other locations they have to go to to get fully checked in, all the while pulling the luggage of the newby….well, not all of it, I think, because we saw large suitcases sitting in the hall till later in the evening after dinner they were picked up.