Week 2: Holy Cow Pt. 2

This week at the MTC was a little better than last week. There has been a lot going on here in the MTC.  The MTC in Provo just completed an expansion and so they have opened it up for the public to come and tour.  There are tours that will be taking place in the old building and the new ones. The tours will even go through a corner of the gym.  It is funny because even though the tours just go through the corner of the gym, none of the missionaries can play volleyball for 6 weeks.  The tours don’t even start until 4pm but they still won’t let us play from 12:20-1:20. Volleyball is how most elders in the MTC get through this place.  So I don’t know what I am going to do with my time now.  We are talking about starting a petition to get some volleyball back in action, but who knows how far that will even go! 

The Sundays in the MTC are quite different than at home.  And honestly, I am not a big fan because its church and then 8 more hours of class and then a 2 hour devotional and you get to go and watch a hour long conference talk.  I am adjusting to that slowly.  And the number of lessons we have taught are insane…both in Russian and English. 

Cole told me last week that my friend Josh will be spending all his time in the Provo MTC and I have been excited ever since (He is going to Ukraine and was originally going to the Spain MTC). We get new Russian missionaries every 3 weeks so next week we will get a big group and then 4 weeks, Josh’s group, will be about 40 new people in our zone and only 20 are leaving. Haha.  It’s going to be cool being the older guys and being able to help them out because the older guys right now have been helping us new elders out so much. Of course we are almost at their level by now but that first week and a half was insane. 

The Russian language is coming along very slowly.  We are just now starting to learn the grammar.

We have already memorized Our Missionary Purpose, The Baptismal Invitation, Moroni 10:4-5, and the First vision in Russian.  Only 7 more weeks to go and I will still barely know anything.  Wow!  Hope you all had a good week.  I'm doing good!

Elder Franckowiak