Our Missionary Training Center (MTC) online training at home last week was impactful. We studied various sections of the missionary training book Preach My Gospel. It is prepared by Church leaders to give new missionaries, old missionaries, members of the Church, and anyone who wants, member or not, training on how to be a better tool in God's hands to bring people to Jesus Christ and His gospel. If you're curious about Preach My Gospel and would like to read it or just take a look, go to www.churchofjesuschrist.org, click on the "Libraries" button, then the "Gospel Library" button, then the "Sharing the Gospel" button. The Preach My Gospel book will be there to review or download or whatever you want. It's a cool book. It does not take the place of the Scriptures or General Conference talks but it's right up there, a great book.
Our online training included four other couples who will be serving senior missions. Four of us five couples total are staying in the U.S., but one of the couples is going to Rome, Italy, for their mission. We had an instructor who managed the Zoom meeting and trained us. We had some great discussions since we could see and interact with each other the whole training. It started Monday, Nov. 8, and ended Thursday, Nov. 11, four days of spiritual growth and fun. The instructor was a returned missionary and college student at BYU. He gave us great training, made the hours go by fast and fun.
Our daughter Julie snapped this photo of us concentrating on the training. It's not posed, we actually concentrated during this training and grew a lot!
While the training was welcomed and most needed, we still need the direction from God through the Holy Ghost to be effective missionaries, to accomplish what Heavenly Father sent us here to do. There will be many people in New Mexico to continue our training and preparation and to give us direction, but, in the end, it's God and Jesus Christ, through prompting of the Holy Ghost, that directs us. We pray each day that we can be worthy of that Direction.
We packed up the car with whatever we thought we needed. John thought we might need to rent a U-Haul trailer, but Shelley never doubted. With Julie's help in packing we got everything in with room to spare! We aren't Packs for nothing!
In our garage at home in Arvada, the car packed, loaded to the hilt!
Saturday morning, November 13, 2021, we jumped in the car headed to the next phase of our great adventure. Guided and protected by God, we slipped the surly bonds of our Arvada home of 24 years and headed into the unknown (at least to us) "Land of Enchantment," New Mexico.
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