2nd & 3rd Day at the MTC

I screwed up the first time on this so I am trying again, I don't want to let this go or I'll forget it.

Tuesday Bob and I had a great day of learning the first discussion of the Restoration of the Gospel, and in the afternoon each couple was sent to a private area and we had a volunteer come and play an investigator, she was an older sister and Dad really thought she was a non-member and at the end of the discussion he was ready to set up a time to take her to church and have the missionaries visit her, she had to convince him that she was not a non-member.

At lunch yesterday I saw an older gentleman sitting alone so I thought he was waiting for his wife, so I sat across from him and asked he if he was a missionary, because I noticed that his name tag was different, and he said that he worked at the MTC. Soon another man came and sat on the other side of me and Dad on my left with another man next to him. We had a nice conversation and after they left Dad asked if I knew who they were and I told him that they worked at the MTC and he informed me that they were the MTC Presidency and the President sat next to him.

We didn't go home after dinner last night because there was a devotional with Brother Kikuchi from the Quorum of the 70's, we sat in the foyer and read our assignment for today, just before we left to go to the auditorium Bob went to the men's room and saw Brother Kikuchi there and had a very nice visit with him, what a day for meeting people.

The devotional was wonderful, we as seniors have seats in the front and all around are over 1,000 young missionaries; when we all sang "Called to Serve Him", I was overcome with the power of the spirit and cried as did so many of the other seniors. Brother Kikuchi gave a powerful talk and touched every one there by the Spirit. Our Mark knows him and the man that converted him. What a small world.

Today we learned the 2nd disucssion on the Atonement and again this afternoon we had another "investigator", this time he was a lawyer from Provo and he played a Baptist and he was very good and asked questions that a real investigator would ask; Iwas so proud of Dad, he answered every question with a scripture and did it in such a loving and powerful way that the man was touced also. He took our picture and is going to e-mail it to us and we will try and figure out how to post it so you can see us.

I love these senior couples, I am in awe of the far away places that they are going in the world and even though they are a little frightened they have faith that our Heavenly Father will protect them and they are putting their faith in Him.

Today was ice cream day and Dad and I really enjoyed it. The hot fudge is out of this world!

The new missionaries came today, it brought back all the memories of the times we took our boys there, I could feel the ever present tears coming again so we didn't stay to watch.

More teaching tomorrow, what a wonderful, true church we belong to.