Elder and Sister Blattman’s Missionary Weekly Journal
January 3-9, 2011
January 3-9, 2011
Our first trip to the Missionary Training Center for Church Seminary and Institutes Training
We left Winnemucca on our first trip to the MTC in Provo for Seminary and Institutes Training on Sunday after sacrament meeting in our ward. We enjoyed a wonderful Christmas together with everyone. Christmas seemed a bit hurried because we knew we’d have to button everything up in preparation for leaving. I hope we weren’t short with anyone. Everyone helped in one way or another if nothing more than hauling stuff off so we wouldn’t have to pack it. Matt & Kathy were especially kind in helping us clean the refrigerators, mop floors and pack the last few boxes. Many thanks.
Nancy and I talked most of the six hour trip (which always somehow takes us 8 hours), mostly about our children and grandchildren. We proudly hold our own in the senior missionary crowd here at the MTC. After asking where you are from and where you are going, it’s “How many grandchildren do you have?”
Here’s what we looked like in our application photo.
Tuesday evening we attended a devotional where David S. Baxter of the Seventy spoke. His message was one of the basic principles of the church. At the devotional Nancy saw one of her former seminary students, Colton Nielson, who had moved from Winnemucca and is here preparing to go to Bolivia on his mission. She was very pleased to see him.
The CES trainers who taught us through the week were exceptionally good teachers. They were models of good teaching practices as they taught things like lesson planning and classroom techniques. It was one of the best in-service like classes that I have attended.
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