First day at Provo MTC white water

Monday, June 8th, 2015 was our first day at the Provo MTC.  We had orientation, lunch in the cafeteria with the young Elders and Sisters and more orientation.  We broke into districts of 4 couples.  We will travel back to Cottonwood Heights and sleep at home when we are not at the MTC.  They had our departure day set as the 20 of June but we told them we had already done our medical training and so they are changing it so we will fly our earlier.  That would have been a week here at home doing nothing. 

Whitewater  Story of moving/rolling water to keep from stagnation.

One sister whose husband is a member of the mission presidency at the MTC told us about the counsel her father who was a chemist gave her when she was young girl who would go hiking and camping.  He said that if she ever had to drink from the stream that she should drink from the moving water that was bubbling over the rocks and rushing along the river or stream because it was more pure and clean.  The water that was calm and still that was close to the bank was stagnate and contained more bacteria. The moral of her story was that we should keep busy and active and not become stagnate.  Serving missions was a good way to do this.