MTC Week 2- My Companion is ...

Hey Everyone,

This week was largely the same as last week. A few interesting things happened though. They introduced something called TRC investigators. TRC stands for Teaching Resource Center. The TRC investigators are people who the MTC pays to come in and be taught by us. We teach each of our assigned investigators a few times a week. Apparently some of them are real investigators and some are church members pretending to be investigators, and we don't get to find out which our assigned people are until we leave the MTC. I kind of suspect that they are all members, because paying investigators to come listen to amateur missionaries seems like a crazy thing for the church to do.

I guess I'll talk about my companion, Elder Barrett. He's an interesting person, to say the least. I haven't said much about him, because I'd intended to let my opinion solidify before I make any statements. But I've decided to go ahead anyway. 

He's obsessed with Broadway musicals, his favorite of which is Hamilton. He's always singing songs from musicals, and he's working on writing his own musical adaptation of the Book of Mormon, which he calls The (Actual) Book of Mormon. He's completely serious about it, and has songs for every major story. For the past few days he's been working on his Abinadi rap. 

He always sanitizes his money with hand sanitizer. And he irons his bills sometimes too. He also is extremely reluctant to split 10 dollar bills (because he loves Hamilton so much, I think), to the point that they essentially worthless to him as actual money. He has over a hundred dollars of them now that he won't spend. 

Every night after lights out, he tells everyone stories about the founding fathers. George Washington is his hero. I actually like listening to the stories. They are pretty interesting. 

He has a ton of different types of medication that were all prescribed by various practitioners at some point, which he now self-administers at his own discretion. Because of this (or at least I'm assuming it's because of that) his personality varies greatly from day to day. So I don't think my opinion of him is ever going to solidify. 

Speaking of things that suddenly change extreemly with no predictability, the nightly rituals have taken a complete 180. After the elder who had been acting as chief of ceremonies left last week, he passed the position on to a new person, who immediately instituted major reforms, ammending or abolishing all the most obscene and blasphemous relics and changing to focus of the meetings to zone unity. Now every relics ceremony begins with scripture reading and ends with testimony sharing. The MTC is a strange place.

Till Next Week,
Elder Wadsworth