Elder Parker Enger Mission Letters

Dear subscribers, Well, I survived the second week of the MTC....I need to think of another way to open these emails. Anyway, this week has been pretty good. In my classes, we mainly studied Lessons 1-3 (The Restoration, The Plan of Salvation, The Gospel of Jesus Christ), and we did more teaching practices. This week was the last week before my classes are completely in Tagalog, so next week should be interesting haha. On Monday, my companionship taught one of my teachers about doing temple/family history work in order to be a missionary for the dead, and he said it genuinely answered some of his prayers about how he can be a better missionary outside of serving a mission, so that was pretty neat. On Tuesday, I was able to hang out with my best friend that evening for a little bit. I went to his farewell earlier that week, so we just hung out as Elders. I also had a district meeting before that, and we were guessing each other's heights; it turns out that I'm tied for short...

To my adoring fans, Well, I survived the first week of the MTC, so that's exciting. It sort of feels like school except that I actually have a good sleep schedule haha. On Monday, I woke up and had a large group meeting from 8 to 9 with all of the incoming missionaries (I think there's over 400 of us), and we just talked about our purpose, gave us an overview of our missionary experience, and got us excited for the work. We had one of these meetings each morning for this first week. My first district class is from 9 to 12, and my second class is from 1:30 to 4:30. There are 4 other Elders in my district, and we were all assigned to different areas of the Philippines. It was during this time when I also met my companions: Elder McClellan and Elder Blauer (with an odd number in our district, my companionship is a trio). They seem like pretty cool guys, and it seems to be going well with us so far. I don't have much to say about the classes; they mainly helped us to get to ...