MTC Open-house

Saturday we went to Roodepoort to tour the Missionary Training Center (MTC) for their open house.

 The local missionaries from the Johannesburg Mission conducted the tour. Elder Hunter from Salt Lake City was our tour guide.  We met MTC President & Sister Reber and then toured the facility. There's a nice room set up like a living room where they record the missionaries teaching and then they can watch themselves to look for ways to improve.  

On the walls of the MTC, they have some wonderful pictures of African saints, missionaries teaching the gospel, pictures of the mission presidents, and pictures of Christ.  One picture that we thought was unique, was this picture showing the missions in the Africa Southeast Area – this entire area is the area where we serve.  (Click on it to enlarge)

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 The facility has 38 beds and each missionary stays about 12 days at the MTC.

Debbie with President & Sister Reber

Outside there are some great exercise areas for the missionaries; a soccer field, basketball court, a nice sand volleyball court, and some outdoor barbecues.  

Next to the MTC is the Roodepoort Ward chapel and an an institute building.  It's cool that they have a missionary couple called to facilitate the BYU-Idaho Pathways program which they said is working well.

The church tour was very nice in that they had nice displays in each of the rooms (like the chapel, cultural hall,  RS, Youth, Primary and Nursery etc) describing what they do there and what they teach.  They talked about Family History, Temple marriage, Single Adults & Young Single Adults, employment etc.  Very well done. :)