I just had a fun experience this morning during my commute. When my Trax train stopped at the connection with Frontrunner, a mass of missionaries scrambled on board. They hardly fit with all their luggage. I asked, "Is this transfers? where are you all going?" Come to find out, the MTC is now using Frontrunner and the Airport Trax Line to send out missionaries. I imagine my parents will also be experiencing a sea of smiles and suitcases as they enter the MTC this week. Maybe all I'll have to do to see them off when they leave for the field is to walk down and ride the Trax out with them to the Airport. I told the missionaries next to me that it would be good practice for them for transfers in the field. I couldn't help thinking about the recent comparison of missionaries to a wave. It was fun to have a bunch of them wash on board this morning and join me in my morning ride. Good luck! you're about to have a great adventure.
More missionaries on the train today, this may be a regular thing now. Yesterday many were headed for Albania. Today they were going to Omaha, Las Vegas and Boise.
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ReplyDeleteToday Sept. 4, they said here at the MTC they were expecting several hundred new missionaries and would we "stay out of the way".
This week we are in classes from "Preach My Gospel", learning to be real missionaries. Our group of 127 Senior Missionaries was only one short of the record for the largest group ever.
Last night we attended the regular Tuesday night MTC Devotional. The speaker was David L Evans of the Seventy. He spoke about the amazing expansion of Missionary work and how they arrived at the decision to lower the age requirement. He said in every other dispensation the Prophets asked for more time. In this last dispensation the Prophet asked for more servants because the time is short. And they came! By October Conference they expect to have 85,000 missionaries in the field.
This is a humbling experience to feel the level of excitement and commitment of everyone here. Hope we can live up to the high level of expectations.
Sister Austin
I saw some missionaries again today and they were headed to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. That made me happy. I served in Campinas, Brazil. It's been fun to ride with the missionaries.
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