Week 1- Home MTC!!!

Hi everybody!

 

 

 And so it begins! Home MTC started for me Monday last week(8/29) and it's been wild. I was 15 minutes late to my district's first ever zoom meeting purely because there was a password that I was never told about! After finally being let into our call however I got to meet my MTC district and they're all super cool girls and guys!

 

 

There's twelve of us in total, eight of us being elders and four sisters. Four of the elders, including me and my companion, are going to the Yakima Washington mission! Almost everyone's from Utah too which has been a total pain for me. I have to wake up and go to bed an hour earlier to follow Utah's MTC schedule. With me being practically nocturnal that's made things tough to adjust too, but God Is definitely has had my back this past week.

 

 

I've had so many blessings this past week alone. The night before the start of MTC I had a panic attack as I was trying to fall asleep. I decided to pray to Heavenly Father and let out all of my concerns and anxieties as I began my mission. This whole last week I've felt protected due to this. There's been a few harder times this week where I had every right to be sad or anxious, but I felt shielded from it. Having God's hand so powerfully in my life's been wonderful and has assisted me in building up my morale and confidence throughout this first week.

 

 

I now cannot wait to fly out to Provo to begin in-person MTC. But that doesn't mean that I'll forget about all of you. I've had multiple promptings this week to reach out to people with scriptures and words of comfort. It's truly already been life changing for me and I cannot wait to see my spirit be grown in new ways!

 

 

Here's a verse that's inspired me this past week! It's from my favorite chapter in the Book of Mormon, it being 3 Nephi 11:39-41. This awesome couple of verses says:

 

 

"39 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that this is my doctrine, and whoso buildeth upon this buildeth upon my rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against them.

40 And whoso shall declare more or less than this, and establish it for my doctrine, the same cometh of evil, and is not built upon my rock; but he buildeth upon a sandy foundation, and the gates of hell stand open to receive such when the floods come and the winds beat upon them.

41 Therefore, go forth unto this people, and declare the words which I have spoken, unto the ends of the earth."