MTC Companions: Elder Sibbett and Elder Mitchell
These two get along great! They both love sports, music, and preaching the gospel!
Elder Mitchell's email Sept. 22: Hey guys! The MTC is really awesome in case you were wondering. They
don't give you any time to adjust tho, we have already taught 3
different investigators and probably 10 lessons. My companion's name is
Elder Sibbett and he is from Arkansas. You would all love him, he is so
cool. we have been practicing an a capella of "Mary Did You Know" that
is actually really good (according to us) He sings and I beatbox as we
walk from building to building. our mixtape will be on soundcloud in
about 2 weeks. haha just kidding!! The spirit is so strong here! We had a
devotional and the speaker told us that we are in a flower shop and we
need to remember to smell the roses! But it is so nice to have, and
completely different from anything I have ever known. It was not what I
expected either. We have class all day, but most of the time there are
no teachers. We have to do the learning ourselves, and if we don't its
our fault. we mostly are studying for our lessons with investigators,
but when the teachers are there we get to learn how to teach better. Its
so easy to not be shy too. I have learned so much that I didn't even
know I needed to learn, and its only week 1. I saw Jaden Yesterday and
Today and that was really cool, and I was glad to see a familiar face.
He looked really happy excited to be here and I was happy for that. I
got called as the District leader which is way cool, and the best part
about that is I get to be the mailman!! Its so fun to hand out everyones
letters and see how happy it makes them. I'm sorry I havent really said
anything, I just dont know what to write, hopefully I get better at
emails. Until then, goodluck everyone, I love you all. Thanks for all
the love, prayers and especially letters! those are great!
Elder Mitchell
When Elder Mitchell arrived at the MTC, he was called to be the District Leader. This is his district. He met and made so many great friends within his district.
Sept. 29: Hey everyone!! First of all thanks so much for everything that you've
all sent me! Its so awesome! I love hearing from everyone, I love to
know whats going on and how everyone is. So here is a story: Last week
on Friday everyone in my district got their flight plans... Except Elder
Sibbett, Sister Hartley, and myself. We are all going to Sydney North.
So we just thought that we'd have to wait a couple days because our
flight plans were different than the others. We waited and waited and
finally YESTERDAY we decided to go to the travel office and ask about
it. We then learned that they had forgotten about us, but luckily they
gave us our flight plans right there. so we now know that we will be
flying to San Fran, then to Auckland New Zealand, then to Sydney. We
leave on Monday!
Elder Sibbett and I learned a lesson about
teaching. We were teaching an investigator and it was going good, then
at the end of the lesson he said, "I'm sorry guys, you're just so
boring." So the next lesson with him we changed up a bit and long story
short he agreed to baptism. Hopefully we can find some "MTC"
investigators in the field! But the moral of the story is that the
person we are teaching is important, not the lesson we are teaching, so
focus on them. He took a picture with us at the end of our meetings i'll
try to send. He ended up liking us because "you aren't like other white
boys."
We got to listen to a talk by Elder Bednar a while
ago, and he said something I'd like to share with you all (especially
you Mom). He said that he gets a blue BoM when he has something he wants
to study and reads the entire book, highlighting the relevant verses,
and then by the end he has the best answer he could've asked for. Then
he thinks of a new question and starts over. He now has a whole
bookshelf and whenever he needs to reflect on a question he can just
open the corresponding BoM! He invited us to try to do our scripture
study like that and I thought it was really awesome!
also want
to say how awesome my District is. It's honestly the best district in
the whole MTC. My companion is the best in the MTC also. Its going to be
sad to say goodbye to all of them on Monday!
Oh I just
remembered something. Last night Elder Sibbett what telling our district
a story about a boat apocalypse where all of the boats in the world got
flipped upside down and they couldn't be turned over. It was the
funniest thing because he was making it up on the spot. We ended up
confirming that it was Illuminati. And we also confirmed that it was
related to missionary work. So, Upside down boats is illuminati is
missionary work confirmed haha! Ok it was funny you'll just have to
trust me.
My next email will be from Australia, so drive safe
kids. I Love you all! Can't wait to tell you about it! Thank you for
all your prayers and support, I can definitely feel it!
Love
Elder Mitchell
