MTC Life

I still havent figured out how to send pictures yet but I am working on that. You probably wont see any pictures until I get to the field. Speaking of the field, I have received my travel plans. I leave tuesday september 6th. depart from SLC at 1125 am and arrive in Pasco WA at 107 pm (MST). Its a short flight. 

 

Last week I didnt organize my thoughts very well. I probably still haven't but I wrote some things down that I wanted to share with you. Last night was the coolest night ever. We had sunday devotional and President McKif spoke. But the best part was the closing hymn. We sang called to serve and it was the coolest arangement. We sang the first verse and chorus quietly. the next verse medium loud. the chorus loud. and then we stood up and repeated the chorus one last time and we sang at full strength. 2000 elders and sisters in this room singing called to serve. I get goosebumps just thinking about it. If you ever have 2000 people at your disposal I would that ye should have them sing called to serve really really loud.

 

Mason, I exhort you to spend five minutes and dear elder me. Send me a sports update for heavens sake!!! I have been disconected for two weeks and I need some information. You're my man, so do it. cool, cool cool cool.

 

We watch films on sunday's after the devotionals. Last week we watched legacy, this week was the Joseph Smith film. It's hilarious when people kiss in the film because you get a bunch of whistling and clapping from the elders. I don't participate in such tom-foolery but I do appreciate it.

 

Fun story. Elder Wakefield in my district is the chubby little elder and he is hilarious. Perhaps I've mentioned him before... He has a girl at home waiting for him and he told us a story about her. You know how you put your mouth on a baby's belly and blow and they think its the funniest thing ever. Well Elder Wakefield's girl, Cathy, was doing this on his mouth. He thought it would be funny to blow back. So when she started to blow, he unexpectedly blew back and it caught her off guard and snot flew out of her nose all over him. And thats disgusting so he threw up all over the couch. That is the funniest story ever so stop shaking your head at me in disgust. I laughed extremely hard.

 

I do some things here that I probably should have done at home but didn't. One of those is making my bed. I make my bed right when I wake up. Its the first thing I do. Also, I make everyone else's bed in my room. My companion's and Elder Wakefield and Elder Palmers bed's too. Today we woke up really early so I didn't have the energy to make their beds for them... I felt really bad. We went to the temple this morning and had to wake up at 5:30 to get there on time. Another thing I do here that I should have done at home is I have made a goal to do 100 push-ups or 300 crunches each day. Or both. And thats pretty easy so I might make it more. Elder Wakefield and I have commited to do this and I have been doing it every day but he sucks and I usually end up doing like 40 push-ups for him so that he gets to 100.

 

On a more spiritual note I have been learning so much here. I have really developed my faith in the past two weeks. I have seen how trusting in the lord makes all the difference. Trusting in the lord can mean so many things and recognizing those things is one of the ways that I have grown closer to him. Faith Patience and Humility are the three big things that I have developed. I would be nothing without my Heavenly Father and Savior. I realize that and its amazing how reading the scriptures, praying, and devoting yourself to Him can make the such a huge difference in your life. It is my testimony that God can change our human nature. We can become new beings in Him if we allow ourselves to change. I hope to gain a greater testimony of that not only through myself, but also by seeing other people change in Washington.