Our First Sunday..then Monday

Kent (Brent's cousin)  and Peggy Woffinden, Pam and Brent

We attended Sacrament Meeting at the MTC with the missionaries in Kent's Missionary Branch; he is a counselor in the Branch.  The youth are called on to bear testimony/speak as called from the audience; then the other counselor and his wife spoke.  It was fun to be there and  to visit with Kent and Peggy afterwards.

From there we went to a Departing Missionary Fireside; there were 410 of us leaving this week.  It was special to hear from the MTC Presidency, hear phenomenal musical numbers by missionaries and just by so uplifted and edified.

Sister Hayli Kennedy found us after the Fireside (why blue?)

The final treasure of the evening was a Fireside (a special evening meeting) with Richard Heaton, Administrative Director for the MTC.  He taught with such power on the Doctrine of Christ and that the reason people should want to be baptised is to receive the gift and blessings of the Holy Ghost.  I'm so grateful for the opportunities we have had this week.

We were excited to see Sr. Kennedy (Jim and Julia's daughter), she is so excited, enthusiastic and has also had amazing experiences in the MTC.

Monday started off with the 24 of us assigned to Office service in our missions learning basics about computers. We progressed to word processing (Micrsoft Word), introduction to the Church's iMOS, Mission Organization system and finished the day with spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel). My mind was overstuffed with information I couldn't process all at once.  It was amazing and with some practice, I'll probably catch on.  This was all review for Brent and I appreciated his support.

We found 2 sisters from our Washington DC North Mission --  Megan Allen Hunter was a young missionary and Gloria Shick was a senior and super sharp sister, it was so good to see both of them, like a friend from home.