For With God Nothing Shall Be Impossible: Pictures from the MTC!

Serving An 18 Month LDS Mission

In the LDS church, when a girl turns 21 she has the opportunity to choose to serve an 18 month, self-funded mission. I have wanted to go on a mission since I was a little girl. My parents both served a mission in Rome in the 1970's. In 2001-2002, my sister Letty served as a missionary in Hong Kong and my brother Algot in the Philippines. As soon as I turned 21 I submitted my papers. The Prophet and 12 Apostles determine through inspiration which of the more than 300 missions worldwide each missionary will be assigned. I was overjoyed when I opened my mission call and discovered that I was called to Rome, Italy! I feel immensely blessed and I feel that God has been preparing me to serve the Italian people. Each week, while I am on my mission, I will send my sister Letty an email and pictures to post on the blog. I won't see this blog till I come home, so I will be unable to directly respond to your comments until then. However, the sidebar will always have a current street address for me, and I promise I will respond to your letters! If you would rather write via email, just email your letter to my sister and she will print it out and send it me with her weekly snail mail!

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Pictures from the MTC!

Sorella Brown, Sorella Durfee, Sorella Preston

Since there is no time (or method?) to upload pictures at the MTC, Rose sent me her SD card so we can get a look at her first week in the MTC!
These are (probably?) pictures of the other missionaries who are also learning Italian and going to the MTC. She will have been assigned one other sister (Sorella Bradford) as a 'companion,' to be with her at all times. Rose and Sister Bradford with 3 or 4 pairs of Elders will make up one 'District' a group of missionaries that takes all of their courses together, and has meal and gym times together (think of it like a cohort). What she did not send were names, so sorry for the nameless faces of this group of very happy Italy-bound missionaries in the Provo, MTC!