And Then There Was one.: Bobby's First Email

Elder Bob Killpack Will be in the MTC for another 3 weeks.

The England MTC address is

Elder Robert Killpack
Temple way
Chorley
Lancaster PR6 7EQ
United Kingdom

His mission home address is...

Elder Robert Killpack
LommelstraBe 7
81479 Munchen
Germany

Hey everyone!! So the MTC here in England is pretty nice! We are on the temple grounds for the Preston Temple. We go there every week and there is nothing like the temple! So today all the english missionaries left for their mission homes and we are still stuck here. we have four more weeks until we leave, but its all good because we are learning so much here. We are learning a lot about the language, but even more about he gospel and how to teach the investigators or untersuchers. I have had a lot of fun here, because I listened to the tip that Carl gave me. Make friends fast in the MTC. That has helped so much. I feel like I have known everyone here forever, it's kinda weird. All the english missionaries, before they left, had a pranking war with the German Missionaries, and by that i mean all the english missionaries against me. But I want you all to know that I definitely out pranked them. The best prank i had though was with Elder Harman who is going to Scotland/Ireland. One day after we finished for the night we were walking down the hall to our dorm. Elder Harman and I were just talking and he asked me how the german was coming along. I said that it was actually going really well, in fact me and three other missionaries are getting fast tracked and leave next Monday. He was like no way man that is so sweet. Good luck! I am super excited for you guys. So he went into his room. His room is before my room down the hall, and i hear walk into his room and tell all the missionaries in his room "did you guys hear about the fast tracking missionaries going to Munich on Monday?" So I had to take advantage of this opportunity. So every night we have a zone prayer and every missionary in the MTC is in the same zone. But the amazing part is that our zone leader is a german speaking elder. I went to Elder Mourik (our zone leader) ad told him he had to call on elder Harman for the prayer tonight, so at zone prayer he called on Elder Harman and told him to remember the fast tracking missionaries in his prayers. During the prayer one of the supposedly "fast tracking" missionaries Elder Hunt couldn't hold in his laugh. So during the entire prayer Elder Hunt was laughing so hard and everyone could hear him burst while trying to hold it in. But Elder Harman just kept going on with his prayer thinking why are they laughing did i say something dumb? Then Elder Harman finally asked to bless the fast tracking missionaries and our whole district just lost it. Right when we said amen we all bolted to the room and didn't say a word then all the missionaries came into our room and was asking what was going on, then we finally told them that no one in our class was getting fast tracked but thanks for blessing us anyways and all the Enlgish missionaries burst out laughing and starting giving Elder Harman a hard time and i don't think anyone in our room as ever laughed so hard! But ya the pranking life has been super good. Now more about the daily schedule of the life here in the MTC. It's so hard to keep our minds focus for all 12 hours of study time we have a day. Especially when every day has the same schedule. We got so bored one day that we played Vocabulary Battlefield in our District room. But I know that after this 6 weeks I will be super grateful for the hours we spent studying. Well got to go talk to you guys next week and i will try to keep the e-mails as interesting as i can!!

LOVE,

Elder Killpack