Tuesday, January 15
How is everyone? What's new? I'm
sorry if I haven't written you a letter back yet, I'm only supposed to
on my P day which is today (Tuesday) so I will be working on those
today! If anyone happens to be at the Provo Temple at 10 you just might
happen to see me... So GUESS WHAT. This morning, the fire alarm went of
AGAIN. At 12:15. (We checked the time before we left this time). But
there's a story that goes along with this one too. So, the girls in my
dorm room are really good at going to bed on time. We always have the
lights off at 10:30 every night. But last night, we just kept talking
and talking and laughing and just having great bonding time so the
lights didn't go out until 11:30. So then, the fire alarm goes off not
too much longer after at 12:15 and my companion (Sister Patchett) was
like "Is that the fire alarm?" and I was like "No it's fine we don't
need to get up it's not real." Ya... don't ask me questions when I'm
half asleep. And then after about a minute of the alarm going off I
realized that other girls were leaving their rooms and running down the
hall and I was like Oh actually I think we should get up. So all six of
us girls were rushing for our coats and shoes and everything and were
directed to go to the gym again but this time we knew exactly what to
do. So we grabbed a yoga mat from the closet and went up to the track
where it's super warm and fell asleep. We got to go back like a half
hour later but it was just another pipe that burst. Moral of the
story... don't ask me important questions when I'm barely awake.
So, on Sunday we had a fireside by Michael Hemingsway or
something like that. He is over all the media and computer stuff of the
MTC and the church also I think? Anyway, so he starts out his talk by
telling who Joseph Smith converted to the church and then who those
people converted to the church and who those people converted to the
church and so on and the stories of their conversions along the way. So
as he was doing this, a chart of their names showed up on the projector
screen so in the end it was like a big family tree looking thing with
Joseph Smith in the middle and then lines leading to who converted who.
Then, after that he highlited 4 lines from probably 50-60 lines
or converted people on the chart and those 4 lines were people who were
converted from basically door to door contacting and all the others were
converted from people they knew and giving references. So the whole
point of it was to not only talk about how not really successful door to
door is but how helpful our social connections are not only in person
but online as well. Apparently a lot of people convert to the church
online. But it was really cool to see the chart and just the message
that went along with it! Also, he said he's working on letting
missionaries have facebook on their missions - pretty cool huh!
So I don't know if I told you but I play 4 square a lot during
gym time. It is seriously so fun! The line gets so long it almost
wraps around the four square but it's fun because we got almost
our whole district to play with us. I'm seriously so grateful for my
district. We are all super close and we have so much fun. We will walk
past other districts and either the girls don't even talk to the boys
or they are all super serious. Anyway, I dominate at 4 square here too
just like I did at home.
Every day during the week we have "investigators". People
actually come to the MTC and either get paid or volunteer to be an
investigator but some people that do it are really non members - but
most of them are members. I like it way better than pretending our
teacher is an investigator. Anyway, so Sister Patchett and I teach
really well together and we are good at planning lessons that are simple
but still teach doctrine and if we need to go off that subject and talk
about something else it still works. A couple days ago we had this
lady come in. She was probably 80. We started our lesson
and she was super nice and was listening to everything. She kept
telling us about her Swedish Baptist church she would go to a few years
ago and was really interested in what we had to say. So we figured
she was a member when we went in but after our lesson was going for a
while we really think she was a non member. Like really. Just the
questions she asked were a lot different then the ones that are already
members who are just pretending to not be members and she had no garment
lines and she was wearing a cross. Anyway, we like to think she was a
non member and that she really like what we had to say but I guess we
will never know!
Tonight we have a devotional and we heard a guy in line at
dinner that was old (so we figured he knew what he was talking about)
say that it's going to be one of the members of the 12 tonight! So we're
getting there like an hour early so we can have good seats. I'm trying
out to play the piano at a fireside or devotional on Thursday so we'll
see how that goes!
I can't believe I
only have 1 week left here! I'm so sad to leave but I'm so excited to go
to Missouri!!
I miss you and
can't wait to hear from you again soon!!!! HAVE A SUPER GREAT
DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Taylor
"Roughing it" during the fire alarm
Laundry!
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