Well we have completed our stay at the Missionary
Training Center
located in Provo, UT. The experience has been very rewarding.
Not only did we learn a lot about what we will be doing after we reach out
destination in South Africa
but the accommodations, food, etc were much beyond what I/we anticipated.
In short, we mainly learned what the Lord meant when he
instructed us to take care of the poor and the needy. Often what comes to our
mind when we hear this commandment is that we must open up our wallets and see
that they have food and other necessities of life. While, at times this is
required, it was/is not the fundamental intent of the Lord. Rather, He is more
desirous that people be taught how to become self-reliant, that is take care of
themselves. Dominantly, people want to take care of themselves and their family
but do not always have the skills nor training to do so; it will be our job to
give them this training. It was never the Lord’s intention that anyone should
be on the dole system, i.e., everyone should work and provide for their own
needs not profit from other’s labor. Welfare as we know it in the United States,
allows people to be in a state of dependency which develops within them a sense
of entitlement. There is an old adage that says, “Give a man fish and he will
have food for a day, teach him how to fish and he will have food forever.” –
That is what we will be doing, teaching the poverty-stricken how to fish.
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900 new missionaries arriving at MTC
MTC Cafeteria
Returning to MTC from a devotional
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