MTC

For some reason the travel office didn't schedule our flight so we could arrive at the MTC in time for orientation and registration at 10 am. Instead we arrived at 1 pm and still had instruction until almost 4:30. Whew! Up at 3:30 am and no food for Dad until after 5 pm. A record for him and he was only just beginning to get a little ugly. We were happy to learn that another humanitarian couple is called to Bangalore. She is terrified--literally--and we were asked by the office couple to encourage her all we could. Our district leader is going to Ethiopia andwill also spend time in Uganda. They don't even have electricity half the time and no hot water, and we thought we had it bad! Of course the electricity goes out frequently in India too, we're told.

(This is the little walk we take from our room in the Jacob Hamblin building to the cafeteria and our large meeting room.)

Our reading assignment tonight was huge (three hours and that was without all the scriptural references) which we did but still don't feel all that prepared for tomorrow. We will actually teach the first lesson to someone and we're not supposed to use the book but rather teach from the scriptures. That's easy for Cameron and Billy but I've never taught without days of preparation. We're so-o-o nervous!

I don't know where the idea of no cameras came from because they said we could take all the pix we wanted--just not in certain places like the chapels, etc. There wasn't time today to even think of it but I will try to get a few here as it is beautiful. And the weather is great. Don't think it gets above low 80s during the day.