I absolutely love it here at the MTC! The food portions here are so so so big and I am never hungry.
When
we first got here, we didn't do much, my suitcase was lost for a little
bit because they had put it in the wrong room, but I eventually found
it. I took a nap for an hour or so and then we had devotional with the
area 70 for our area and his wife. Their names are Elder and Sister
Ternicliff, Sister Ternicliff talked about how we should be the
missionaries that our mothers think we are. Elder Ternicliff talked
about the metaphor of walking and that as missionaries we need to walk
confident and collected.
Our
first official day at the MTC we met our teacher. My companion is
Sister Bair and she is from Seattle, but her family moved to Oregon
while she was at college, she went to BYUI. My district is the Abinadi
district and we have 6 sisters and 2 elders. Sister Taylor (Bournemouth,
England), Sister Perkins (Mountain Green, Utah), Sister Kearns (Denver,
Colorado), Sister Freeman (Port Talbot in South Wales), Sister Bair
(Umatilla, Oregon), Elder Skelton (Lake Havasue, Arizona), Elder Rowlan
(Morgan, Utah). Brother Wilford is my teacher and he is probably my
favorite teacher ever. He is from South Africa, but his family lives in
Scotland now in a town called Alloa. He is the lead teacher and so he
usually doesn't teach a normal class, he usually only teaches the group
ones where all the districts get together, but since a lot of the
teachers are gone because it is close to Christmas he teaches us. Our
other teacher is Sister Harkness, but she was sick last week, so we had a
sub and his name is Brother Robertson. He is also a great teacher, he
really know how to invite the spirit, he talks really quiet, but
everything he says is really profound.
We
finished teaching our first investigators yesterday, we taught them 4
times, Sister Bair and I and the Elders in our district only go to teach
ours for 3 and then we had a different one for our last lesson. Our
teachers were our "investigators," but that doesn't mean it wasn't a
real conversion story, it seems like they all have split personalities. I
had Brother Robertson as my "investigator" he was playing a guy named
Eron. We taught him and then the last time, we weren't going to ask him
to be baptized because we didn't think he was going to be ready, because
he hadn't kept our last commitment, but while I was reading the Plan of
Salvation pamphlet I wasn't even reading about baptism at all, but I
heard this voice in my head say "Ask him to be baptized." I immediately
looked up and told my companion that we needed to ask him to be
baptized. When we went into our lesson, he was so happy, he said he had
done the commitments we had set, so we asked him to be baptized and he
said yes!! I know it was only a practice, but it felt so real. I was
really surprised at the love I felt for him, even just the first lesson!
I didn't really feel like a missionary yet until I taught that first
lesson, I felt like we were only at a camp, but after that lesson, I was
so excited to get into the field and actually do it to a real investigator!!
Yesterday
we got to go out to Manchester and proselyte in Piccadily Square, we
didn't get any referrals, but other companionships did get some, but
that's okay, we still had a really great experience and I just loved
talking to all the different people. We were talking to this one lady
and a guy walked up and was smoking weed and was yelling at us and
getting in our faces and saying that we were Jehovah Witnesses, but we
kept saying no and that we were LDS missionaries, but we didn't want to
fight with him because he was clearly not in the right mind, and then he
grabbed my arm and said "come with me," but I just said "no, I can't I
have to stay with her" and I pointed to my companion. Obviously we were
being watched out for because the missionaries from that area came and
we started talking to them instead and that guy ended up leaving. I
reeked like weed the rest of the day.
Today
we are also going to the temple and one of the sisters is going through
for the first time, because she lives in Zimbabwe and the closest
temple is 14 hours away from her house, I am so excited for her!!
p.s. I'm sorry if this was mumbled I was in a hurry.
Love you guys!!
Sister Edholm
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