Week 1: "Home MTC Life"

 Jambo! (Hello!)

It is the first week of my exciting life as a missionary. All my fancy name tags came last week, I'm supposed to only take them off for bed, so I'll be spending quite a lot of time with them over the next 18 months

I've had many, many online classes this week. I'm still at home, but I'll be flying out Wednesday morning to Provo, Utah. Apparently "online MTC" is a new thing, and it's supposed to make people less stressed about getting to the Missionary Training Center (MTC) because they'll know people in their group. But honestly it's just so much sitting, and so much staring at a zoom screen, and so much triple checking that I'm muted when I need to cough lol.

There's been quite a bit of classes about dress standards at the MTC, how to set goals, how best to use personal study time, etc. This was one of the prompts for the breakout room portion of one of my classes:

My 8 classmates are all Swahili learners as well. We'll all go to the same classes at the Missionary Training Center for the next 6 weeks. It's crazy to me that they're sending Swahili missionaries all over the US. Some are being sent to Washington, Iowa, Pennsylvania, one is even being sent to Wisconsin!

Here is my insane schedule. I'm booked pretty much from 8AM to 8PM with only half an hour food breaks.

It almost makes me excited to go to Provo just so that we can have in person classes instead of whatever this is.

Thursdays at the MTC will be my "preparation-day" (P-day for short). So this is the day I will have time and be allowed to send emails to people. If you want to message me, here is my new email! sylvia.mcmullin@missionary.org

I had a lot of fun yesterday because I got to go to Madison's Finale Forte competition with my family. It was so awesome to watch a live concert one last time before I leave. 

I think it's unfortunate that we as missionaries don't really go to many concerts because I feel like live music can be so uplifting. BUT I do get to bring my violin, so that will be great.

Favorite scripture of the week: 2 Nephi chapter 32, verse 3 "Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherfore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ;  for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do."

Anyways, I'll send an update weekly-ish probably.

Have an awesome week!

Sister McMullin