Mission Training Center (MTC)

After a relaxed drive to Orem and a pleasant stay with Sid and Lousie overnight, we entered the Mission Training Center on time the morning of September 9, 2013.  They are efficient with check-in proceedures so it wasn't long until we knew the agenda.  There was an extra large group of Seniors Missionaries checking in that day 84, so we lucked out when we were place at the Marriott Courtyard in Orem. After lunch we assembled for a group meeting at the LDS Meetinghouse next door where all of our training was held that week. We were divided into Districts with 3 other couples. Our trainer in the mornings was Brother Zundell a young RM now a BYU student and in the afternoon were Sisters Anderson and Sister Sanford also young cute BYU studens. They were all delightful.

L-R: Our trainers Sisters Anderson and Sanford; Elder and Sister Talley from Star Valley going to Lima, Peru in Humanitarian; Elder and Sister Talley from Logan serving from home as medical advisors; Elder and Sister Johnson from May, Idaho going to the Marshall Island in Perpetual Ed. program and us.

Meal time comes around very often at the MTC especially when you are not use to eating 3 times a day.  The choices are many and the desserts irresistible.

This is for you Seth.  I spoke to a table full of Korean sisters.  They were impressed with my Korean greeting, and thank you spoken in their language.  Cute girls, huh!

We attended many devotionals with fabulous speakers.  This one was our Departing Devotional where instructions on traveling were also given.  Some applied to us and some didn't as we were driving to our Mission area.

Our Second week at the MTC was for Humanitarian training.  Everyone in our group were going to some far away place,The Talleyare going to Peru,the Singleys to Laos, the Greers to Ecuador,and the Woodruffs to Sir Lanka. People chuckled when we responded that we were going to Montana on a humanitarian assignment.

The week of Humanitarian training we were moved back to the MTC and housed in the usual Senior Missionaries accomodations. We were on the 3rd. floor of the same building as the Bookstore and Post Office. It was no Marriott, but the accomodations were fine.

We were anxious to meet with the people from the Missionary Dept. in Salt Lake and finally had the meeting on Wednesday.  We met with Elder and Sister Kimball who are Service Missionaries sent on special assignments anywhere in the world, and Brother Ferrin Squires who is working directly with the committee formed for the Native American Inititive.  They told us much about the kinds of problems in Wolf Point and Poplar Montana which are part of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.