Provo MTC Week 1

Hello everyone! It has been the longest, most insane week of my life. Not actually but it has been crazy. It has been hard and a big adjustment but I'm figuring it out.

Last Wednesday I got dropped off at the mtc. Said goodbye to the fam. And let me tell you they get you right into things at the mtc. No time to spare. And everyone is so nice it's a little freaky. But it's a good thing. My comp is so awesome. We laugh all the time and definitely distract each other in classes.

An average day at the mtc goes something like 6:30 wake up then comp study and get ready then breakfast. Then we have a class from 8:30-11:30. Then lunch and then personal and language study wherever we can work it in every day. Then we have either one hour of Spanish tutoring or an hour-long workshop every day. Then we workout and or study and then dinner and then another 3 hour evening class. Then district prayer and a spiritual thought then get ready for bed and journal and then lights out at 10:30. There's some quote from someone that's like "I didn't even know there were this many hours in a day until I became a missionary" it's so true. We always got something to do or somewhere to be.

The mtc campus is super pretty and one of my favorite times of the day is when we walk out of our evening class and get to see the sunset over the mountains! 

My district is so nice and everyone has such unique and strong testimonies. Our district councils are so good and we are constantly laughing in our classes. Especially in our  spanish tutoring lol. We start immersion on Friday which means we will no longer have an hour of language tutoring every day and instead both of our 3 hour classes that we have every day will be entirely in spanish. I don't know any Spanish so it will be awesome.

The food is not great but it's not awful. The first night we got there the dinner was chicken fried steak. That was not good guys. I thought it was game over from there but it has gotten a little better since then. The salad bar is always a reliable option when nothing else looks good. But breakfast is definitely the best meal of the day.

Tuesdays and Sundays we always have devotionals. Tuesday it is with a general authority so we had our first one of those last night. The choir sang beautifully (I did not participate) but they sounded nice. Elder and Sister Sabin both talked and I couldn't write fast enough. I literally took 6 full pages of notes and everything they said was so good.

Quotes from Elder Sabin:

"more than being good is wanting to be good"

"without hard work, nothing grows but weeds"

"isn't it great that a perfect person has a perfect plan for me"

"what if you woke up with only the things you were grateful for in your prayers the night before?" 

During our debrief afterwards as a district I was bearing my testimony and I felt the spirit so strong and it felt like I could talk so easily and my words flowed so well it was super cool. Anyways it was a great devo!

I have gotten to see so many friends from college which has been so good! I've gotten to see Elder Koshar, Sister Debry, Elder Rowan, Sister Crittenden and a couple of other familiar faces. It's been so fun! Sorry for the long email. Love you all!

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MTC address

Sister Avery Christine Dyer
08-06 | AZ-MES
2005 N 900 East, Unit #171 Provo UT 84602 United States

- Hermana Dyer




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