MTC Week 3 - Couldn't find the Apostle room, but Found an Apostle!!!

Hey all my favorite people! 

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Sand Volleyball 

This week has been absolutely crazy!! Our district has found our favorite spot on the MTC Campus...The Sand Volley ball pit! We are seriously there at least 4 times a week! Once again, I absolutely love our district!! 

President Uchtdorf

So just starting at the beginning of the week, We went on our temple walk, and the original plan was to go right to lunch, but Sister Edwards had to get something at the residence hall first. So we headed in that direction. We came up on a few sisters, and they said "President Uchtdorf is here!!" I was like, "what really!?!?" but my companion had a different response haha, "Dont even think about joking about that!!!" haha, well they were right, and directly in front of us was president Uchtdorf coming up from the new buildings! We ran to get in line to shake his hand, and when he came up, it was a brief second, but he shook both our hands and said in his awesome accent "thank you for serving". Ahhhh This was the greatest experience ever! 

We also got our whole district to join the choir! Yes! We sang "Be still my soul" and it sounded like a whole choir of 700 angels+. The MTC choir is absolutely the best! I think it is the spirit of music that can just fill a room. Music is incredible! 

MTC Zone

Our 2 new Investigators (TRC's) are 2 of the stonggest sisters I know! Angela is origionaly catholic, and grew up believing in God, but not Jesus Christ. This was our goal, and the spirit testified to her that her savior loves her, and did so much for her. This changed Angela, and along with other testimony strengtheners, she decided to be baptized!!! Chelle (Michelle) has been looking into the Mormon church for a long time. She's a diver at BYU, so she's surrounded by the gospel!  She was hesitant at first that God actually cared about her and answered prayers, but she was touched by her Savior and all he did for her. When we went in for the last lesson we both knew we couldn't ask her to be baptized. She told us that she didnt like when her friends pressured her. Well lets just say that wasn't on the Lords agenda. I had the strongest feeling to ask her, and I guess so did my companion cause she started pulling up a scripture about it. Well i did it! And she said YES!!! Oh my gosh the spirit was so strong in that room! We never know if they are real investigators or not, but I had a super strong feeling she was! The Lord has a plan for each of us, and we should never ignore any promptings. Ive always remembered this from my family, "No random thoughts". I challenge all of you to have "no random thoughts," because "if it is good it cometh from God," and if it is doubts or "evil it cometh from the devil."

My companion and I got to sing "I am a child of God" for sacrament meeting. We sound so good together! Some days we will just burst into song, its so much fun! Because it is our last Sunday the whole zone is singing "I Stand All Amazed" and the Spirit was in the room when we practiced. There is something about music here in the MTC, it just brings so much Spirit, and I believe the angels are all singing with us. 

I have exactly 2 days left here in the MTC, and then I fly to the land "Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains!"  So excited to get to OKC!!!!  In order to go, we had In-field training on Friday, and it was the longest day of my life! Dont get me wrong it was so much fun, and alot of good knowledge gained, but so long, haha:P At the end of the 9 hours, they put on a play for us. It was pretty funny! Well the point to me telling you this was that my companion and I got there early, and Sister Edwards insisted on sitting in the very front row. I was like, no they're going to ask us to do something.  I just gave in...we sure enough were cornered by a teacher, and she asked us to be part of this act...I gave my companion the look in a loving sort of way, haha;) Well I got to be a primary teacher during ward council that gave a gold star to the bishop for being so reverent.  Yeah I never knew I would be acting this much in the MTC...With Role plays and everything. But I guess there's reason to love it! 

Well I wish I could write more, but Gotta get back to packing, and P-day stuff. I love you all!!! and my advice for this week is to Forget you self completely! "Don't be a Cookie Monster," as Elder Bednar would say...but way more bluntly:)

Sister Walker

LOVE Creamery ice cream!