Hello Everybody!!!
So remember last week when I wrote that email saying that nothing exciting had happened and I promised that I would have some exciting things to say this week? Yeah, Listen here...
Last week we are sitting in the Tuesday night devotional and we are just waiting to find out who will be speaking to us... Suddenly in walks, JEFFREY R. HOLLAND! Jeffrey R. Holland! Are you serious!!! I was so excited!!! I leaned over to Elder Nielsen and I reverently whispered "I am pooping my pants right now, I'm so excited! Elder Holland is here!" I was ready for a beat down! You know how excited Elder Holland gets about everything! He said a lot!!! I got 6 pages of notes from him, (well, it is kind of a small journal.) He said, "I COMMAND you to come home from your mission with at least one convert, and it better be you!!!" he also said, "Sometimes I wish I could just get rid of free agency!" ha ha ha. What a hoot! He also told us that if we come home from our mission's and leave the church and grow a beard and have a beer in our hand he said, "Don't see me in a dark alley! I go Crazy!!!" He's one of my favorites!!! It was really neat!!! At the end of his talk he said a dedicatory prayer to rededicate three buildings here on MTC campus! It was pretty spiffy!
Another thing that happened this week is Elder Arnold went home. He hadn't cleared things up so he had to leave. We all bawled when he left. He is an amazing guy! And I am so proud of him for being able to do that! He and I were beatbox buddies. Anyways, I know he is doing the right thing.
I was thinking about that experience and I realized that the Lord needed him to come here to the MTC to learn from all of this and now he is doing what the Lord wants him to do. I am figuring out a bunch! The song "I'll go where you want me to go" has a whole new meaning! I know that as long as we are kneeling every day and night and pouring our hearts out to the Lord and as long as we are feasting on the scriptures with real intent, I know that the Lord will take care of us! No matter what happens!!! In 1 Nephi 3:7 Nephi talks about how the Lord does not give us commandments that he will not provide a way for us to accomplish. I know this is true!
One question arose in class this week, 'Why do we obey commandments?' The only answer I could think of is, 'Because we are told to' But our teacher, Hermano (Brother) Frey helped us learn the 'WHY?' In 1 Corinthians 6:19 it says "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" We obey commandments to protect our Temple, or our Body. The commandments we recieve are to keep our 'temple' worthy to contain the Holy Ghost... Ever wonder why God and Jesus have a body of flesh and bone but the Holy Ghost doesn't? Yeah. Kinda hit me in the face yesterday. He is a spirit so he can reside in our body, If we are worthy of it!
Everything in this life points us to Jesus Christ. If something in your life is not helping you get closer to Christ, then you're doing it wrong. I wish I would have learned all of this before my mission, But I guess God just needed me to get smacked in the face with a realization of these things. Before my mission, I was just lost and confused. I didn't know what to do. I just came on a mission because I was commanded to, not for the real reason. To come closer to Jesus Christ. I was nowhere near ready to go on a mission when I left! So if any of you are questioning whether or not to serve a mission or if you are wondering if your ready, realize this, "You're never ready. But you will be made ready by the spirit and by the savior." - Elder Ferney. If you are worthy and if you have the desire to serve, then the mission is for you! God will take care of you!!! I know he will! And if you are not worthy, get worthy! Get out here!!! The work is hastening, and we need your help!!! He needs your help!!! Don't think your testimony is adequite for missionary service? Well, a common phrase here at the MTC is "Fake it 'til you make it." And I was doing that the first 4 or so weeks.
"My goal in this class is to get you so converted to this gospel that you will NEVER, EVER fall away! It is not to teach you Spanish. The Spanish will come!" - Hermano Frey
Les amo con todo mi corazon!!! I really do!!! You are the best! Thanks for your letters and your prayers!!! The MTC is the greatest! I am so lucky to be here!!!
-Elder Ferney
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