The Missionary Training Center

Elder Kinghorn

Sister Kinghorn

One of my favorite things about the Missionary Training Center is that very special moment when they hand you your little black name tag and you get to pin it on your lapel. It is such an honor to be a representative of Jesus Christ.

 

 The first week here was awesome.  We have met wonderful couples who will be serving all over the world. This is just half of the group that we were with the first week. We spent Monday thru Friday in classes that were taught by returned missionaries who were A LOT younger than the rest of us, but they were excellent teachers.  

 

 

Two nights a week we went to a devotional where we joined the younger missionaries for a very inspirational talk and beautiful spiritual music. We were in a huge auditorium that was filled with missionaries young and old and when we sang the hymns the spirit in the room was so strong. One of my favorite hymns that we sang during the opening exercises was "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing "

During our first Sunday Sacrament Meeting I learned three important things.

1. Two people can do anything as long as one of them is THE LORD
2. You and THE LORD make a majority
3. Whom THE LORD calls, THE LORD QUALIFIES


This Sunday when we went to the Devotional we were told that our speakers would be Brother Richard Elliott who is the principle organist with the MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR AND DAVID ARCHULETA. For those of you who have never heard of David Archuleta, he is a young man who was on American Idol. He is also LDS and recently returned from a mission in Chili. He has only been home for one week but was honored to be given the opportunity to address missionaries at the missionary training center. He spoke about his mission and his mothers conversion to the church. One thing he told us that was very interesting was that his mother and grandmother were both converts to the church and on the first day his grandmother was preparing to attend church she said that she heard a choir of angels singing. She didn't recognize the song but when she got to the church she heard it again. That song was "Come Come ye Saints".
 I am so grateful to be here and to have had such wonderful spiritual experiences this week. I know with all my heart that we are truly called to this mission to do the Lord's work and I can hardly wait to meet the people of South Africa.