My MTC Elders

In the MTC my intake took only 3 missionaries. Me, Elder Yacktman and Elder Deru (both from USA). So I spent 3 months, everyday from 730am until 930pm with these two Elders. I don't think I have to explain that being around someone for that long does kinda of get old after a while. Most of the time we got along fairly well, as for other times.... well.... we argued, we got on each others nerves and I just wanted to kill them basically. 

Being in the MTC with two Elders and only one sister meant that, they (the two elders) were my companion. I was a 'solo' sister, which mean I didn't need a companion as in a sister, but I had to have at least two Elders with me at all times. 

this made the times when having no teacher in the classroom very difficult..

If one of the Elders wanted to go to the bathroom, the other would have to go to because he wasn't allowed to stay in the classroom alone with a Sister, so he had to go, but so did I because I wasn't allowed to stay in the classroom by myself... so, off we went to the bathroom (i stood in the hall of course).. Then, if I wanted to go to the bathroom, i had to ask them to come with me, I wasn't allowed to go on my own, and just one of them couldn't come, so we ALL had to go. It was an experience and a half if I do say so myself!!

This photo couldn't sum all three of us more perfectly.

Theres me... I always got mad and threatened to throw stuff - especially on Thursdays (will get to the reason why later).

Elder Yacktman, he's the one studying his cards - he pretty much knew fluent finnish by the time we left MTC, he was the smart one, and loved to study (hard). He was VERY good to have around and helped me alot (but I will also admit that we did used to have quite a few arguments from time to time....).

Then theres Elder Deru - he's the one swinging from the door frame. He was always out to have a good time, make us laugh and keep us entertained. He didn't always stuff around though, he knew when to be 'normal'.

I guess you could say that our we gave our MTC teachers a fairly hard time... and also we were all at completel different learning levels we were probably near impossible to teach.

there was me who still couldn't figure out how to say 'I HAVE something'

Then there was Elder Yacktman who was onto all sorts of Crazy grammar before any of us could say.... what? We don't get it..

And then there was Elder Deru, he was smack bang in the middle, he could say "I HAVE something' but he wasn't quite up to where Elder Yacktman was on his grammar. 

I guess you could say we gave our teachers are fairly hard time. We made sure they earnt the 'small' amount of pay they recieved and we certainly made sure to tell them what we thought of them from time to time. 

We played a few tricks here and there, one included putting a banana on top of the door and then have it land on our teacher when he walked in, I think another time we didn't show up to class on time and I am sure there are many more memories I should probably not 'blog' about.