Only At the MTC

Hi Mom,                                                         April 4, 2013
So my companion, Lindsey Lockheart, is AWESOME and she wrote this from our experiences:

Well, it's official. This is my last P-day - I get shipped out on Monday. We leave the MTC at 3am. And then go to TEXAS! Yahoo!!! Am I excited? Absolutely. Nervous? You betcha. But this is going to be spectacular. I can tell. Texas is stupendous. Definitely the cooliest place ever, probably. As was well stated by my companion, "Ev'rythang's biggah en Texas. Encludin' my testimonay." For the record, she doesn't usually talk like that. Just when she is practicing her Texas accent. [Hahaha that was me]

So, with this being my last email from the MTC, I figured it would be appropriate to share with y'all some of the fun little things I have noticed about this fantastic little place:

ONLY AT THE MTC:

- There are 3,000 college students go to bed at 10:30pm.

- You can find teenagers singing the First Vision. In Spanish.

- Sometimes people will walk up to you and say, "I have to bear my testimony to you before I am allowed to use my email." Then they will proceed to do so.

- You might get asked on a date for two years in the future.

- There are backwards peepholes on all the doors that look into the rooms instead of out.

- Some of the boys here like to sniff old envelopes that smell like their girlfriends.

- A shower is a musical experience, during which you will treated to the vocal harmonies of all the girls in the surrounding stalls. And don't be alarmed if it is off-key, or if it is the same hymn over and over again. This is quite normal. At times you may be lucky enough to encounter someone country-fying "Secret Prayer."

- Water bottles in the gym present a fire hazard.

- Backpacks in the cafeteria are also a fire hazard. You are, however, allowed to bring the entire contents of said backpack, as long there is no actual bag around these items. This is entirely safe.

- It is possible you will happen upon the following conversation:

"Where did you serve your mission?"

"Hawaii."

"Oh, that's so cool!"

"Yeah, it was great. I would highly recommend it. Apparently the Lord didn't."

There's nothing quite like the MTC.

A spiritual thought for y'all: we are here fighting a war. A war between good and evil. But we have already fought this same war once before - we all fought together on the same side; we had the same Allies, and the same foe. And we won. We will win again.