Fun and Frenzy

Wednesday is new missionary day at the MTC. What fun. Luggage is piled along the walkways while the missionaries eat lunch and receive instructions. Yesterday this is what we found on our way to lunch.

After I had taken these three, I found one more smaller bunch. These do not account for the group of senior missionaries --a very large group--who arrived on Monday.
The new missionaries wear a small orange sticker on their name tags so that you can help them. Now think of cereal--every kind of cereal you can buy in the big bags. These guys consume cereal (I swear) by the ton! You will see big, husky kids carrying 5 bowls of cereal stacked one on the other. They inhale food. The meals here are wonderful--3 full meals a day. So far we haven't gained any weight, but not because we haven't been trying!

Here is Elder Gunter at work. Well, sort of. He was shutting down equipment when I took the picture. Usually, I'm the one sitting at the computer and he's standing at the black board where the materials to be imaged are placed. You can see an old (1896-1907) ledger book of which we have imaged half. We're a little like a comedy act when we're doing this, but we're getting better. It's very exacting work, but we're loving it.

Today is the last day of our training here in Provo. We have enjoyed our instructor although he's full of the gift of gab, but he's let us fumble our way through. Tomorrow we go to Salt Lake City to meet some of the staff at the Family History Center. On Saturday early morning we'll leave for Vermont. We'll be working in Middlesex, Vermont, but we're homeless there at the moment. After class today we're going to the Provo Temple which is actually considered to be on the MTC grounds and we're going to the Creamery. I've missed the BYU brownies and am hoping you can buy them at the Creamery. The temple is very pretty nestled against the mountains.
One of the senior missionaries said: "This place vibrates with the Spirit." This small army of missionaries is fun to be around. They are enthusiastic and have boundless energy, but they are respectful and kind to we seniors. The Lord has an important errand for every missionary and we are anxious to begin ours.