We called David and Ann to have them deliver our big suitcases. They had been so kind to take our bags to Provo on an earlier to trip to Idaho. This saved us $120 in baggage fees. We had a nice visit as we prepared to start this new experience.
Senior housing is on the third floor of the S2 building - Services including the mail room, MTC bookstore, copy center, medical clinic, etc. Our room is like a nice hotel room with a queen bed, full closet and dresser, table with two soft chairs, private bathroom, exercise room just across the hall (which we haven't used yet), and beautiful artwork.
We got settled in, unpacked a bit, and went to bed. It had been a long day!
Typical day: Get up about 6:15 and down to breakfast at 7:15. Classes start at 8:00. Lunch break from 11:30 to 1:00 with afternoon classes going from 1:00 to 4:30. Dinner hour is until 6:00. Evenings include firesides, devotionals, family home evenings, and some personal time. We learned that the "young" missionaries start their day at 6:00 and go until 9:00.
Monday morning was official check-in and a tour of the facilities. Our paperwork was tagged with a message that we needed to report to the medical center; there was a question on our immunizations which was determined to be just a typo in the end. . . we were very happy to escape without getting more shots.
Senior missionaries were welcomed by the MTC presidency in a morning devotional. There are 57 senior missionaries that entered today, 26 couples and 5 single sisters, compared with 110 last week. Several couples will be serving in their home areas in a variety of callings, several more going to areas in the U.S., and a few more going to foreign countries (Portugal, India, Guatemala, Australia, South Africa, Taipai).
The groups were organized into districts with Elder Egbert appointed by the MTC president to be the District Leader of our group: (Gary and Cynthia Lippincott called to serve in a dental clinic in a Guatemala orphanage, Bill and Melissa Ridenour called to serve in St. George area, Merl and Kathlyn Egbert going to Portugal, and Joseph and Pat Decastro serving in their home stake in Midway. Sister Johnson, one of our afternoon teachers, is seated in the middle.
Our first afternoon group training was focused on the Missionary Purpose: "To invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end."
Family Home Evening included an amazing video of Elder Bednar's discourse at the MTC on the character of Christ.
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