Arriving at the 

The MTC -The Fun Begins

Finally on January 8th, we entered the Provo Missionary Training Center (MTC).  We arrived at 6:40 PM on Sunday evening.  At the reception desk, we were told we could go to our room and get settled in or we could leave our suitcases at the front desk and go to Building 19 for a Devotional. Who would want to miss out on a devotional? We went to the Devotional and it was super.  They reserved a section down in the front area for the senior missionary couples. They truly treat the senior couples nicely.  The speaker that night was the head of all missionary training for the Church. He showed pictures of the 15 MTC's around the world. We had no idea there were so many or how large some of them are.

After the Devotional we went to our room and got settled in.

Our Home Away From Home

After some in-processing the next morning we started with some group training.  We then had group pictures and were assigned to different Districts for classroom training.  The Trainers are young 21-22 year old return missionaries.  The training was all centered on Christ, the Doctrine of Christ and bringing people unto Christ.  It was amazing how much these young people had learned on their missions and how effective they were as instructors.  You really grew to love them quickly. Our district was one of two larger districts. We actually felt very fortunate to be in the district we were in as it enabled us to get to know more missionaries and learn from our interactions with them. They were each great!




There were 1200 missionaries at the MTC when we were there.  Of those, 99 were senior missionaries.  48 couples and three single sisters.  It was amazing to us to learn how many of the couples were on their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or more missions.  It was also amazing how they were able to feed that many people so quickly at meal times.  The entire organization of the MTC is truly remarkable.

Our District and Two of our Trainers

Sister Richens
Brother Zufelt

Elder & Sister Mower  (St Louis, MO)
Elder & Sister Pike  (Hawaii)
Elder & Sister Horsely  (Canada)
Elder & Sister Wall  (Hawaii)
Elder & Sister Smith  (Baton Rouge, LA)
Elder & Sister Mathews  (Alpine German)
Elder & Sister Savage  (New Zealand)
Elder & Sister Whyte  (Johannesburg, SA)