Dear Family, Here we are October 16 about ready to head off for england. We just experienced a wonderful week at the MTC. I felt I was in the world but not of the world. It was great to be with people who have all the same goals as ourselves.
We leared so much. They tried to teach us how to share the gospel and invite people to come unto Christ.

They have a new building that they just finished where they have the senior missionaries stay. We were the first ones to stay in our room. The building is located on the north end of the MTC campus. Our floor was the third floor. It also houses the book store, postoffice, cleaners, etc. They even have an excercise room there with a few exercise machines in it. In the basement they have a whole room full of excercise machines.

We would get up at 6 am each morning and go exercise for a half hour. Then we would get showered and dressed and head off for the cafeteria for breakfast. I had forgotten how much food 19 year old boys can eat. It is amazing how much they can get on a small tray. We were never hungry while we were there. There are tons of choices and lots of yummy food. Dad gained a couple of pounds in a week.

We usually met for a big meeting at 8:00 for about an hour and then we were divided up in zones and met in classes with newly returned missionaries as teachers. The teachers were awesome and taught us a lot. After a few classes we returned to the cafeteria for lunch. After lunch we sometimes had a big meeting or we returned to our classes. They have volunteers come in and pretend to be nonmembers or inactives and we were supposed to teach them. First we were supposed to find out their needs and fit a lesson around that. We learned that we teach people not lessons. It was a little scary at times trying to figure out what and how to teach. Our
teachers always told us we did a good job. Hopefully we did. After class it was back to the cafeteria for dinner. The rest of the evening we were supposed to study for the next day. We found that we were ready to go to bed pretty early.

It was a wonderful experience and as the time drew near for us to leave we just didn't want to go. The spirit is so strong there. We arrived home after visited with Brittany and Stuart. Congratulations to the two of you. We are sad we won't be here for the happy day. We arrived home and began to pack and get ready for the journey to England.

When we think about leaving all of you and missing all the good things that will be happening while we are gone we get sad, but we know we and all of you will be blessed because we are serving our Heavenly Father.