We have finished our MTC training and wait to fly to Paris. The MTC experience was filled with great insight, wonderful relationships, and good solid preparation for our assignment in the Visitor's Center.
We started our training with a devotional on Video from Elder Bednar on the Attributes of Christ. He use several powerful scriptural examples to show that His focus, even in the most extreme of circumstances, was on the welfare of others. One example was His temptation experience as He went into the Deseret to be with God and then was "afterwards" tempted of satan with three episodes of "If you really are..." language to goad Him into self-focus.
Yet in each circumstance, whether with stones to bread, an angelic descent into the worshippers at the temple, or the wealth of the world, Christ was consistent in His response to glorify His Father. Then when He should have been ready to accept the well-deserved ministering of angels to recover and prepare, He instead sent those angels to minister to John the Baptist newly in prison. Even on the cross, after enduring Gethsemane, scourging, and the nails, His loving character was sufficiently deeply rooted that He was repeatedly concerned with others: Romans doing the cruxifixction, His mother, the thief suffering next to Him, etc. We spent the week working to see everything through the character of Christ.
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| Jensens, Dellapiana, S. Eams, Kukua, Shakleford, Frogleys |
The young missionary trainers have been so well trained and served as very effective instruments in teaching us how to "Invite others to come to Christ."
Our district was marvelous and so much fun. From such different walks of life we were thrown together to discuss, wonder, study, laugh, and learn together. Sister Dellapiana, Sister Kakua from the Big Island, Sister Shakleford from Lehi, Elder and Sister Jensen from Hooper along with us made of our district. We wended our way through writing lessons that would meet real needs first, with another couple from outside our district, Elder and Sister Klaas from St. George, and then our teacher, then another teacher, and finally a church member volunteer from Highland. Each of us has needs to which we must learn to be sensitive and then through relationships, truth-thoughts from scripture or discourses, invitations to apply, promises concerning results, and finally a follow-through that enables and supports the individual we found ourselves bonding with each other as we sought to be divine instruments. As companions we discussed, prayed, studied, and wrote together as we sought unity as "two by two" instruments.
The other couple from outside our district became our meal companions as well while we enjoyed living together climbing beyond our vastly different lives and backgrounds. As we each worked to bring each other closer to Christ we grew closer together.
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| THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST |
One of our favorite things was the pondering time with the large murals depicting missionary moments through out time. We spent most of the Sabbath sitting and pondering all twelve murals.
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| Nephi, Not knowing before hand what he should do...Following the Spirit |
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| Ester, Perhaps for just a time such as this were you born... |
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| My priesthood quorum all stood on our last Sunday and shouted together..."Hurrah for Israel" as we left to go gather them |
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| His question to each of us, "Do you love me more than these?" |
On our final days we went to the Salt Lake Visitor's Center to experience a tour as if we were the visitors. The two sisters, one from Being China and the other from the Phillipines bore such a humble and spirit filled testimony with personal conversion experiences that moved us to tears. They were so cute as they demonstrated the acoustics of the Tabernacle.
As we close this chapter I have to to give thanks for my companion from whom I never will have a transfer to a new one. I love her...she completes me!! We are off into the world to gather Israel before that last great and terrible day!!
The Book of Mormon is our trumpet to call all that will hear and know the voice of the Master. It furnishes answers to the great questions that occupy the thoughts of all men and women.
We have finished our MTC training and wait to fly to Paris. The MTC experience was filled with great insight, wonderful relationships, and good solid preparation for our assignment in the Visitor's Center. 
Yet in each circumstance, whether with stones to bread, an angelic descent into the worshippers at the temple, or the wealth of the world, Christ was consistent in His response to glorify His Father. Then when He should have been ready to accept the well-deserved ministering of angels to recover and prepare, He instead sent those angels to minister to John the Baptist newly in prison. Even on the cross, after enduring Gethsemane, scourging, and the nails, His loving character was sufficiently deeply rooted that He was repeatedly concerned with others: Romans doing the cruxifixction, His mother, the thief suffering next to Him, etc. We spent the week working to see everything through the character of Christ.
The young missionary trainers have been so well trained and served as very effective instruments in teaching us how to "Invite others to come to Christ."
Our district was marvelous and so much fun. From such different walks of life we were thrown together to discuss, wonder, study, laugh, and learn together. Sister Dellapiana, Sister Kakua from the Big Island, Sister Shakleford from Lehi, Elder and Sister Jensen from Hooper along with us made of our district. We wended our way through writing lessons that would meet real needs first, with another couple from outside our district, Elder and Sister Klaas from St. George, and then our teacher, then another teacher, and finally a church member volunteer from Highland. Each of us has needs to which we must learn to be sensitive and then through relationships, truth-thoughts from scripture or discourses, invitations to apply, promises concerning results, and finally a follow-through that enables and supports the individual we found ourselves bonding with each other as we sought to be divine instruments. As companions we discussed, prayed, studied, and wrote together as we sought unity as "two by two" instruments. 
The other couple from outside our district became our meal companions as well while we enjoyed living together climbing beyond our vastly different lives and backgrounds. As we each worked to bring each other closer to Christ we grew closer together.
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