Volunteers at the MTC

This past Sunday Holly and I had the opportunity to volunteer our time at the MTC. Every Sunday the missionaries have a devotional , so they take volunteers to work at the referral center while the missionaries are gone. The referral center is the station within the Missionary Training Center that coordinates all of the call-ins to the church hotlines. Whenever someone across the world sees a commercial from the church where they can call in to get a free Book of Mormon, Bible, or Finding Faith in Christ video, they call into the referral center. They also make outbound calls to follow up with those who have ordered items, just to make sure they received the item they requested.

It was really neat to be able to serve with my spouse, and be able to bear my testimony to strangers with her about the gospel. It was like she was my companion! We had the opportunity to speak with one man who lived in NYC. He was originally from India, but was now living in NYC. He had requested a Bible a few months earlier, and Holly and I called him to see if he had received it. We ended up speaking to him for a while, and had the opportunity to bare testimony that the Bible was the word of God. I invited him to continue to read it. Later in our conversation, I invited him to study with missionaries and he accepted. It was a pretty neat experience.

I hope that Badu (the man we spoke to) really goes through with what he promised us. His life will forever be changed. I was so glad that Holly and I had that experience together, and that we could share testimony. It really brought me back to the mission days. It was fun!