Highlight of the week: we took a field trip to meet with the consulate!! Guess where the consulate is? The judge building in downtown salt lake. Right by 222 Main where my dad works. It was so crazy. We took the frontrunner downtown, then met with the consulate and then wandered around temple square and got lunch in city creek. It felt so weird being outside the MTC as a missionary.
Another highlight: for our devotional last Tuesday we got to hear from Gary E. Stevenson. His message was about developing Christ like attributes, which was amazing because we had just talked about that as a district the day before. For our Sunday devotional we heard from the president of UVU. He gave such a powerful talk about allowing ourselves to be perfected through Christ. He talked about the Provo Tabernacle and how beautiful a building it was and how content everyone was with it's purpose. When if burned down it was difficult for the people in the city and it seemed like such a tragedy that God had allowed this beautiful building to burn. But when it was announced that the Provo Tabernacle would become Provos 2nd temple, it was clear that God had that plan from the beginning for the building to become even more beautiful and sacred. Then he shared a quote from C.S. Lewis that went something like this (and if anyone could find the exact quote and send it to me I would be so grateful :) We're like cottages that God needs to fix up. At first he comes and changes the pipes and fixes the leaks, things we knew we needed. But then he starts tearing down walls and ripping up carpet. And it's painful. A lot of it we can't understand. But when he's finished we realized that he's turned us into a beautiful mansion rather than the small house we were expecting. Something to that effect. Anyway, that message really stuck out to me, and I'm working on trusting God's plan for me and I'm ready to see how He changes me!
MTC humor is weird. Really weird. Things that normally would be funny for maybe 10 seconds are funny for days. For example, Sorella Dean told us that lots of people in Willard say "hullo" rather than "hello". And we have being laughing hysterically about that for four days. Four days of laughter at "hullo". It's a really fun environment though everyone is just so happy, I love it. The Romanian sisters left on Monday and gave us their box of fruit snacks and Pringles, which we were very grateful for. There's something about the MTG food. It feels like we're always eating, but then somehow we're always hungry. Non ha senso.
Sorella Dean (the opera singer) asked me to accompany her in an audition to perform at the Sunday night devotional, and they loved her! So now not only are we playing for the whole MTG on Sunday, but they also put my name on the accompanist list... which is all good and fine but now people keep leaving notes on my door and I don't know if I have time to learn new songs everyday and learn Italian. It'll work out haha.
Everything is going well here, I'm having fun and loving learning Italian!!
Love and miss you all!
Sorella Maxfield
Sister Maren Irene Maxfield
NOV29 ITA-ROM
Provo UT 84602
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| Lunch at City Creek |
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| Downtown SLC in front of Dad's Office |
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| MTC Companion |
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| MTC District Happy Sisters |
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| MTC Serious District |
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