MY LAST WEEK AT THE MTC!!!

Ok, so I just made this email and then I exited out of my account and then I realized : "Hey! I didn't send that email to anyone!" Sorry. but flight plans are in the room, but i leave SLC at 8ish, from SLC to chicago, to Frankfurt Germany, to Milan Italy. I think I may be able to call home sometime, somewhere on my journey to Italy, I'm not sure when or where, but when i found out I will tell becky and then she can tell those who need to know.

The Temple was great today, we did an Endownment session at 10:30ish, Anziano Hooker, Anziano Morris, and Sorella Jensen and I. Then we had lunch at the temple cafeteria, then we did initatores. after diong initatories i realized the importance of attending the temple often. both for ourselves and also to do the work for the dead so that they may be able to enjoy all the blesssing of God

Thanks to all for you support, love, letters, packages, advice, wisdom, and anything esle. I love you all! I love being a missionary and I am excited to get into the field and invite souls to come unto Christ.

Thanks for everything everyone! You've all been great! Don't be afarid to share this wonderful message of the Restoration with everyone and everyone who does not have it! Don 't be afraid, throw your fears away. I love you all and am so thankful to be a tool in the Hands of the Lord.

God be with you until we meet again

Vi voglio bene!!!

Ciao,
con amore,
Sorella Megan DeVocht

July 29 email

Hey all!
So two exciting things happened today: 1. I saw and talked with Scott Carlson, I used to work with him at Fazoli's in Orem and he's brother, Becky, is Dan, whom I'm good friends with. He has been here for 7 days and he is going to Little Rock,, Arkansas. We had some roommates go there. He looks the same and it was GREAT to see him.

2. Anziano Waktins, Anziano Hyde, Sorella Jensen and I went to the Temple but today we were children proxies for Sealings. I'm really glad I was able to participate in that. Needless to say, I fell asleep, something that seems to be a habit. Anziano Hyde says that I'm just being carried away into visions. IT was quite enjoyable though. Next week, Sorella Jensen and I would like to do intinartories - I know I spelled this wrong. That will be good because I've only done it only one other time, for myself and this will probably be the last time in 2ish years, give or take some months.

I am beginning to love my district more and more, day by day. It's so fun because we really are like a family and we have all these inside jokes and whatnot else.

Thank you all for the letters and packages. They really brighten my day :) Hopefully when I arrive in Italy and get settled and everything that email will be a little more easier. I can print the emails out, but, this is Megan here, and sometimes I'm a little unusal and picky. Anyways, I'm only here for one more preparation day - YIKES!!!

A new district came in on Wednesday: 4 sisters and 1 elder. Emily, I'll have to send you a picture of Sorella Gadd, she reminds me of Luke from Joan of Arcadia. She kind of looks like him. I noticed that last night.

So I saw Dustin a few days ago, it's always so fun to see him. One time I was talking to him and he says, "I have to get back to work." It just cracked me up. Anyways, he told me that he talked to you, Neil, the other day. He said that you, Neil had moved out of your house. Is that true and if so I need your new address, or is Dustin just making things up? Let me know because I want to make sure that you, Neil get my letters and no one else.

Oh yes! I was chosen to give a talk in Sacrament meeting, in Italian. Yeah, you don't know if you're speaking until they call you name and then 1 mintue later you go up to the stand. Anziano Standfield and Anzaino Morris were also chosen. I thought I did pretty good. My Italian sounded good and I wasn't nervous. The only problem I had, which I've struggled with my whole life is looking out into the congeration. But that's ok, all in good time, all in good time.

Mom, how was Oregon and Aunt Debbie? Did you and Aunt Peggy do anything togeher? I'm assuming she was there.


I can't remember if I said this last week or not, but when we go to the airport, we're allowed to call home. We get our flight plans this Thursday or Friday, so I'll let you know what time.ish.

Well, i can't think of what else to say, and i'm not sure why. i'm kind of a space cadet when i'm on the computer tying. you can believe it or not mom.

I love being a missionary and I am so grateful for all the MANY, MANY, MANY, things I have learned.

I love you all!

Love,
Sorella Megan DeVocht

MTC Photos

The photos are pretty self-explanatory, so I won't say much. Her companion, Sorella Jensen, is from Springville and that's about all I know about her, except for that she has a great last name :)

Looks like they got to see the fireworks on the 4th of July.

A good, random picture of Megan's.

These are the sisters in her zone, all going to Italy.

Her district.

Email from June 24

I hope you are all doing well and that you got my last email. Becky, if you could please forward my MTC address and these emails to the list marked Mission friends, or something like that.
Well, Sorealla Jensen and I were writing letters while we were waiting for our laundry and who should come walking down the sidewalk than Elder Jeffrey R. Holland? He walks down the sidewalk and says some things to some of the Elders sitting there. And then he points to Sorella Jensen and I and says, "Sisters, you look great under that tree." And walks on. Then, after I hurriedly pack up all my stuff, we were heading down to the Mail Room and we saw Elder Holland along with Elder L. Tom Perry and some other people, getting a picture by the statue of Joseph Smith. Let me just say that Elder Perry is HUGE!!! He's like a GIANT!!! Anaziano Merrill, Watkins, and Conklin were walking down the sidewalk. They're like, "Ciao Sorelle." And Sorealla Jensen says, "Elder Holland is over there." They're faces lit up too. It was great. Well, we went back to get our laundry and told our Elders, and they're faces lit up and they pretty much bolted out of there. We got our laundry and went back to the mail room and as we did we saw them still getting pictures. It was pretty neat to see them. But at the same time, they're ordinary people. But it was still pretty cool. Tonight is our MTC Devotional. I hope President Monson speaks, that would be fantastic! But whoever it is will have a message just for us.
Everyday I'm liking the MTC more and more. I'm beginning to love my district more too. I think our district is like gorp or a trail mix: we're all pretty much our own person and very, very different from one another. But I'm beginning to love them and I hope that we WILL be friends for life.
We get to go to the Temple today and I am so excited about that. This will be the first time in my life that I've gone 2 weeks in a row! I love being a missionary and I love the people here at the MTC. Becky, I did see Dustin here, but he was eating his lunch and I didn't want to bother him. But I have 7 more weeks to look for him. I would love to talk to him! He's so funny!
It's amazing how much you (can) change when your thrust into a new and different schedule and lifestyle. I go to bed at 10:30, I wake up at 6:30, I get ready for the day, looking nice in 30-40 minutes. I've just seen a lot of change in my ownself. To thine ownself be true. That jsut came to me.
Well, I love being a missionary and am so grateful to be here and to be a part of God 's glorious work: to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. I am learning SO much both in Italian and in the gospel. Going on a mission is the biggest and best decision I've made in my entire life! I KNOW this is what the Lords wants me to do. I have not felt homesick of my old lifestyle and I am very grateful for that. I have learned a lot about myself and others, and love, and service, and becoming like Christ. I know God has many things in store for me, thougth I do now know what they are. The Lord has blessed me very much and I am forever grateful for Him, His love, and His atoning sacrifice for all mankind. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!

Oh, family can email me but I don't think friends can. I can only email to family, but I would like you, Becky, to forward my emails to my friends.

I love my life and I love the time I have here now at the Missionary Training Center, to be trained how to be an effective missionary. I love my Savior Jesus Christ and I know that He lives. I am so, so, so blessed to be here and am feeling a million different things right now.

I'm so glad to be a missionary. This IS what God wants me to be doing right now in my life. Not in 3 years, not in 1 year, but NOW. I am so eteranally grateful for my Saviour Jesus Christ. I love being here.

Well, I don't have much time left on the computer now, so I will say:

Ciao la mia famiglia!

Love,
Sorella Megan DeVocht

Reporting to the MTC

I, Megan's sister Becky, am taking over this blog for the next 18 months or so while Megan serves as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hopefully we will get her digital pictures without too much trouble while she is in the MTC and then later when she is in Italy, but here are some pictures from my camera from today as she entered the MTC. (For those used to Megan's long-winded entries on this blog, please do not be disappointed, but the future entries will probably be mostly pictures since I am not Megan and I have a blog of my own to keep up. But, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I will try my best to keep the photos coming.)

On the way to the MTC.

With her 3 siblings who are here in Utah: Becky, Neil and Jenny.

With her brother-in-law, Daniel and nephew, Spencer.

Amy, This Is For You

Amy, this is the picture I was talking about tonight. I love Annabelle so much and I'm going to miss her so much too!

Recharging Myself

This is one of my most favorite music videos. Enjoy!




I'm sorry I'm not very lively and festive right now. I took about a 2 hour nap and woke up close to 8. Then I ate some dinner, not much, and got started in packing; well, I had started earlier in packing my smaller suitcase but then I got quite tired and had to go to sleep. And then this second packing was for all my "worldly" things that I would not be taking with me on my mission. If you've seen the photos of my room, and the fact that it has taken me this long and it's still not clean, then you can probably guess how horrible it was for me tonight to pack. And it was hot. Oh, I just have too much junk. But that's not true because I don't really have any junk just a lot of papers, and cards, and letters, and all sorts of things. And while I was packing and moving and doing all sorts of things, I was listening to Narnia: The Magicians Nephew. I really do love listening to these books because they are so wondrous and the words they use are quite lovely and the way they are put on paper and the way they are spoken is almost like an enchantment of kind. The words are delicious in your mouth and you just want to eat it all up and never have to eat again. And then after you've listened to these books for awhile, you tend to speak and write differently. But it is a very good differently and very lovely indeed. Well, that was most extraordinary: At the beginning of this post, I did not feel creative or clever or lovely in any way. I felt very draggish and stupid. Amazing how that has changed in accordance to talking about Narnia.





I'm listening to Ashley's music on her blog while I'm trying to upload some self-portraits; and I REALLY like her music. Like it's just what I need right now. Thanks Ashley!





I know I've been spending a lot of time on the computer lately. But I think I'm just trying to get everything ready before I go on my mission, that's all, or at least I think so. I think I may be also trying to find myself and perhaps define who I am. And maybe also, like Ashley and I talked about, to recharge myself and have some me time. I rather like it and am surprised at how much I like to blog. I think it's my new hobby and talent. I think it's also another way to express myself. I am actually really, very grateful for blogs. They're different than journals, much different. For one, no one usually reads anyone else's journal. This is a public journal and it's almost like a journal meant for our friends and family and loved ones to see what truly goes on in our lives and what we think is really important. I am glad that I can have this to sort out all my thoughts and really see me. To be me and to see me and to breathe me. I had talked about earlier what my love language is. They say that you can't love others unless you love yourself. Well, why shouldn't we speak the same love language to ourselves that we wish others would speak to us in order for us to feel loved? We do need to be loved by ourselves. Everyone should love their own self. My love language is quality time and I think I give myself a lot of quality of time, with myself. I need a lot of alone time and I just thought of it now - maybe that's why I like the computer so much: Because then I can focus on whatever I want to on the computer and I am not obligated to speak with anyone else because in a sense I'm 'speaking' to the computer. This is making so much more sense to me now! I am truly blessed and truly happy!!!

I have also noticed that often times, or most times really, I'll start my blog and not mean it to be long at all, just saying a few quick things and then my mind starts turning and I start POURING myself out. I really do like it. And I really do feel most happy; and I feel loved by me. Isn't that amazing? That we can love ourselves that much and not be vain? Because as you can see this blog is a lot about me and it's deep and rich and I hope that you can see that I love myself, and what with all these pictures of myself, one would /might think that I am a very vain woman. But 'tis not so. It helps me to define myself, to discover who I really am, to see that this is who I am and I love this beautiful young woman called Megan DeVocht. Again, you may think I am vain, but I am not and I do not care what you think, no offense meant.



Well, here are some real pictures of me. Self-portraits, this is what I really think of myself and this is who I am and who I want to be.