Hey Everyone!
The MTC is amazing! I love it so much. I have two companions and truly amazing district. I was called to be the Coordinating Sister for the zone and we are getting new sisters this week. It is basically the Relief Society President for the MTC. The spirit is so strong here. You can feel it all the time. There have been some great things I have been learning. President Packer said about Preach My Gospel that it was written on the other side of the veil and we (meaning the 12 Apostles) were able to bring it forth. I am apart of a pilot program for the MTC, the entire way of teaching is completely changing. We are completely focusing on the investigators almost to the point that we are not hardly using Preach My Gospel. Everything is done by the Spirit. We get to know an investigator, find out what their needs are, teach them the doctrine and then commit them. I am learning how to tell when someone wants to be commited to baptism and am learning how even on the first lesson. Something funny, the Oklahoma Tulsa Mission (OTM) has a saying around here that it is the "Only True Mission" (OTM). I have a timer at the top of my screen and it is kind of stressing me out, so I think I will go back to my room and send you a letter. Next week I'll be more prepared with the good stuff. Spiritual experience: we have been doing a lot of role playing and one of them is to put yourself in the investigators shoes and someone else in your district teaches you one-on-one. This is so you can get experience and feel truly how the investigators feels and so that the "missionary" can get experience teaching by the Spirit. This one-on-one teaching is probably my favorite thing (we haven't done much companionship teaching yet) because the Spirit really is the one that teaches and it is all from the heart and testimony, not too much scripture and pushy-ness. I have found that I am able to communicate well with people and really ask them thought-provoking questions. I got an atheist to pray :) (or another missionary role playing as his atheist friend who apparently was really argumentative) We also get to teach our teachers the discussions. They role play someone from their mission and we need to teach them. The elders had a hard time with one of the investigators, but us sisters were able to get him to open up (after testimony bearing and questions on his part). I love being a missionary. I miss you all so much but please don't worry one bit about me. I haven't had any trouble with homesickness and actually the 10:30 to 6:30 sleep schedule is too much for me. I am usually waking up around 5 (its kind of a pain). I think I am losing weight and the food is really good. Jessie Williams lives on my hall and Mandy's classroom is right down the hall from mine so I get to see them pretty regularly. We went to the temple this morning and it was amazing. I love you and I got to go!!!! Tons of love, Sister Knutson
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