HMTC And flight to Utah

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 I started writing a personal journal for myself so I can look back at my week and tell you guys about it more effectively. So here’s the highlights:


Goose and Rooster were in my room a lot this week and it felt like a tender mercy to me because I wouldn’t have gotten any time with them considering they are typically downstairs and I was upstairs all week. It felt a little lonely being upstairs but being downstairs also meant that my mom and brother heard my very word while in classes lol.


People have asked me “oh how do you like home mtc?” And my answer has been it’s pretty boring but it started to pick up! We started basically acting out scenarios of how we would teach lessons based on the amount of time we had and to different kinds of people. It was definitely weird doing this with my companion but when you jump over that hurdle, it was highly effective. I feel a lot more confident than last week in my abilities, alongside with the holy ghosts help, to teach lessons that won’t bore someone and will actually help them learn and feel the spirit.


The structure of meeting with the missionaries is like this:

Meet each other/ greet

Start with a prayer

Ask about them, their background, their needs

Summarize the lesson you will teach them in like a sentence

Teach them

Ask if they will either go to church, read a passage from the Book of Mormon on their own, or pray on their own.

If they say yes, give them promises of the things that will happen to them that will benefit their lives

Say “I know…” which is your testimony

End with a prayer.

Also the lessons should be 25 minutes max


My goal in showing you all that is that the lessons aren’t scary and they’re quite simple. Learning this structure gave me confidence, and I can use it for all 4 lessons covered in preach my gospel.


And finally, today was my last day with my whole family for almost 3 years. It was so hard to leave them, it felt so foreign to do so. I cried a lot the few nights before, the morning of, and especially at the airport. After I went through the tsa line and waved my final goodbye, I basically continuously cried for 45 minutes until I had no more tears left to cry. After that I was still very sad, and I still am, but at least my face isn’t puffy.


Tomorrow, hopefully I’ll be able to do an endowment session or initiatories with my aunt Amy before she drops me off at the mtc. I’m staying the night with her and it was so nice to hangout with her and her kids + my cousin Zayne and Stetson’s friend.


Also tomorrow, I’m looking forward to meeting my companion and my district! We’ve been in plenty of breakout rooms in zoom so I honestly feel like it won’t be awkward in person. I heard the chocolate milk and the ice-cream are really good at the mtc so I will report back my thoughts on those.


I love you all,

Sister Moghimi

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