Week #3 - TRC and LOTS of Pictures

Collin by the flags in on the MTC grounds. 

This week was a fun week. The biggest change that we encountered was the beginning of TRC (Training Resource Center) lessons. A TRC lesson is an assigned investigator that you get who is hired by the MTC to be a fake, or real investigator. I'm pretty sure that most of them start out as fake investigators but then switch to being members shortly after because they take 6 or 7 missionary lessons a day.

The person that we are teaching is named Gabriella. She's really cool, she's from Peru and has a lot of personality. It's been fun getting to know her a lot and teaching her. We taught her three lessons this week, and we learned a lot from them. The second lesson was one that my companion and I learned a lot from. We tried teaching her the Restoration Lesson in chapter 3 of Preach my Gospel, but then she wasn't very interested in that. She gave us a list of questions that she had and then when we answered them in our next meeting, it was probably the best lesson that we had ever given. We teach people, not lessons.

During workout time on Monday, Elder Hobbs rolled his ankle really bad, but luckily didn't break any bones. I will link a picture below of it, don't look at it if you don't like looking at injuries.

I saw Elder Johnathan Meyers, this week which was really cool. If you're from Idaho and Utah, you see a lot of people from your school and stake around, but being from Oregon it's a little bit less common. We didn't get a picture; we will try this week if I see him.

Thanks for listening to my experiences on a mission. I love it here!

-Elder Collin Murphy

 

Here is a picture of Collin and Elder Hobbs

"Here is a picture with the head of our zone, Hermano Savage.  He's going on vacation to Fiji and we won't see him again in the MTC." 

"This is Elder Missledine.  He left this week."

"Here is a sign that's in the new T4 building of the MTC."

"We see these two guys everywhere, probably 4 times a day for no reason.  They're cool."  

Collin by the fountain and buildings T3 and T4

"My classroom and view every day."

"Elder Hales wondering why I am taking a picture of him."

"Some people in my zone/district took my camera and took this pic"

"2 pictures of me and Elder Flowers, one of the coolest dudes in my zone." 

Collin on Pday. (Posing with statues......a family tradition)

"A few people from my district right before I sent this email to you"