Tuesday, July 17, 2012

We are almost done with the MTC experience.  We have both really enjoyed the last several days.  Associating with the other couples and with the young elders and sisters has been a real highlight.  The classes have been very informative and inspiring.  But tomorrow we go home and begin to pack to leave for Russia on Monday.

A typical day for us here is to get up around 5:30 a.m. and go exercise.  We then get to breakfast about 7:30 a.m. and classes start at 8:00 a.m. We have been studying primarily “Preach My Gospel”.  We have done a lot of role playing with the other couples.  The last couple of days have been mostly CES training-learning how to make a lesson plan for a seminary or institute class.  We have classes until 4:30 (with short breaks and a break for lunch) and then do language training from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  So they are long 12 hour days and we are pretty tired by the end of the day.   We've been able to see Chase Noel a couple of times.  He looks great and seems to be enjoying the experience.

Chase and Frank (Elder Noel x 2)

These are the other missionaries in our District and a couple of our trainers.