MTC -- Aug. 24-26

[NOTE:   ALL POSTS ON THIS PAGE ARE IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.]

WE'RE READY TO GO!



After just four days, we are better prepared than we came. (Full-time missionaries spend several weeks before leaving.) While Elders travel on bikes, we will go on foot and by car--after arriving in Jerusalem on Sept. 1




A grand highlight was the evening Devotional with Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, attended by 2,200 missionaries.




Food was excellent--3 meals per day plus 3 nights lodging for a total of $60 each!

New missionaries practiced with us on their lessons and door approaches. These elders did it in French, with translation.

In our spare time, we had plenty of home work--and computer training.

We also studied the 5 Major Initiatives for Humanitarian Service -- Clean water, food production, vision, neo-natal resuscitation and wheelchairs--as well as Area initiatives like hygiene and newborn kits. All projects and budgets are locally planned but centrally approved.

A steady parade of superb speakers from the Welfare Dept. presented and conducted role plays on the 4 Basic Principles of Humanitarian Service:  Self-reliance, local participation and work, using local leaders/partners and sustainability.

This is the same entry to the MTC we used when our son Mark came in 1999. The new building for senior couples was still under construction. So we stayed off campus, at the Super 8 Motel, commuting by MTC shuttle.