{"id":1860,"date":"2009-04-24T14:42:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2009-04-24T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:42:21","slug":"what-i-liked-about-the-mtc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2009\/04\/24\/what-i-liked-about-the-mtc\/","title":{"rendered":"What I liked about the MTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fall will be 17 years since I entered the MTC in Provo. While pondering that today, I came up with a list of things I enjoyed the three weeks I was there.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ice cream at every meal<\/li>\n
  2. Unlimited salad at dinner and supper<\/li>\n
  3. Unlimited cereal at breakfast<\/li>\n
  4. Farting<\/li>\n
  5. Singing in the MTC choir<\/li>\n
  6. The bookstore<\/li>\n
  7. Sister missionaries winking at me<\/li>\n
  8. Farting<\/li>\n
  9. Pranks<\/li>\n
  10. Time capsules<\/li>\n
  11. Going to the mall<\/li>\n
  12. Farting<\/li>\n
  13. Going to the temple weekly<\/li>\n
  14. Being on my own<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What did you like about the MTC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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