20 More Days....

Hello y'all! I'm getting to the end of my MTC stay and I'm so excited to get out into the real world! So, not much has happened here since last week. More class. More devotionals. More fun. So, here's some cool news. THEY'RE MOVING ALL THE RUSSIAN SPEAKERS BACK TO MAIN CAMPUS!! Most likely next week. This is strange, because the day before I got here they moved Russians from Main Campus to West. So most likely, next p-day, I will be packing up all my belongings and heading up to Main Campus. I guess they want to make West Campus a haven for Spanish speakers. So I'll get to do two intense packing sessions in the next three weeks. It'll be good practice. On Saturday, for General Conference, all of the missionaries went up to Main Campus. We all watched it together, it was awesome. I got to see my pal of a few weeks Elder Buonocore! That was cool, he just sat down right next to me without looking at me and then we noticed each other at the same time. Super cool. Same deal for Sunday conference, all of us together feasting on the words. I met a Sister from Latvia at lunch there. She started spitting Russian at me, and I was able to understand a lot of it. Our teacher served in her area, and he knew who she was. He said "She's the short, blonde, pretty one, right?". He was really excited that she's here now. She's serving on Temple Square. On Sunday Night, our devotional was by none other than Vocal Point of BYU! It was pretty crazy. I rolled my eyes when the sisters in my district ran to the front to get seats, but it was actually a really good meeting. Speaking of devotionals, tonight is a special devotional. Our Branch President (President Peer) married the sister of the MTC President's wife, so he usually knows what's up here at the MTC. He knows the cool stuff, the dirty deets of the MTC. So a few zones from the West Campus get to walk up to Main Campus to watch the devotionals live, and it's usually every few months. There are lots of West Campus missionaries. So we went up a few weeks ago, and it was awesome. Our Branch President told us that he pulled some strings to let us come up to the devotional tonight, and he said it would be super awesome. So I'm excited for that. It's gonna be awesome. General Conference was awesome. It was insane how everything applied to missionary work. EVERYTHING. I'll never watch another session of conference the same again! I'll be paying more attention, taking better notes, and hopefully learning more. General Conference is such a blessing and I'm glad I was able to experience it here in the MTC. An experience I will never forget.

Well, until next week,

Elder Gwilliam