Week 3 -- Meeting Elder Uchtdorf

Elder Uchtdorf and his wife came into our German class to meet us.  

My comp said it best:

"So this week the MTC held the annual new mission president training thing, which basically means that the MTC presidency cracks down on us about being strictly obedient and making sure everything looks mission perfect. So, for the past 5 days we've had to go around our classroom building to the back entrance so that we wouldn't be disrupting the meetings on the first floor of our building and making a bad impression with because of our existence. It also means that we could almost never use the lobby for our study time and that we instead had to go to the depressing tiny closet rooms we teach investigators in -which basically means a round of PTSD every study period. If I sound angsty, it's because I am slightly biased by thinking that meetings about missionary work shouldn't get in the way of missionary work, but I'm also being overly dramatic just for kicks of trying to be interesting. 

anyways, on Saturday while having our Deutsch grammar lesson, the floor supervisor kept knocking on our door every ten minuets to tell us some other thing we had to be sure to not do. The third time, my companions and I all look at each other and roll our eyes a little, look up, and there's some random, tan, white-haired man and some chick standing in front of us. It took me a full 3 seconds (which is actually a long time) to realize that IT WAS ELDER AND SISTER UCHTDORF!! And then they start speaking to us in German, and we had no idea what he was saying! If you look around the room everyone's smile was so big that it was basically falling of their face. I was so frazzled and amaze. Luckily District Leader Elder Penrod came in clutch and asked for a picture - If this is the only thing he ever does for us, it will all be ok. 

The coolest part is that right as he walked in the room, the entire feeling of the room was different. You could just feel how much authority he had and the power of his faith. The same was true when the entire quorum of the 12 walked onto the stand for our sunday night devotional. The feeling was so powerful that it was almost overwhelming. Having about 900 missionaries, 250 mission presidents, and 12 apostles who have all been called by God in the same room was the most amazing thing. it makes all the crack downs so worth it."

So basically I couldn't have said it better. Also another funny thing that happened that my mom will just love. My district was in class studying super well like we always do. I decided it has been long enough. So I let one of my burps go, everyone jumped out of their chairs like when Elder Uchtdorf walked in lol. So thank you to my parents for teaching me that it is okay to burp. If the people running the mission president thing heard I would have been done for.

Also my comps love yoga...as for me, not so much.

The MTC is just so amazing and I love my district so much. Here are some pics.

Sis Clegg