so yes I have been super happy on mission. I think I'm
just lucky and blessed to be a super happy person all the time. Before
mission and in the mtc and on mission people have told me about a million times
that it will just suck sometimes or you'll get super homesick or you'll just
hate mission sometimes or it won't be fun or you will be stressed out or
depressed sometimes, but in all honesty I have felt none of that. I guess
I'm just blessed but I haven't felt even the slightest negative mental state
since leaving on mission. I miss you guys a ton for sure but it doesn't
really affect me too much.
So this week we had zone training with the mission
president. It was a super awesome experience. I actually think
mission president will be an apostle. He's a super down to earth and
charismatic guy and his knowledge of the gospel is amazing. Also Sister
Merrill is super awesome. I can tell they really love me and care about
me but what's even cooler is that I can tell they like me. They're super
nice and I am really honestly not looking forward to a different mission president.
So in my interview with Mission President he told me some really interesting
things. First of all he really made me realize how important families are
in the gospel. More important than anything else. I actually told
him the story about N and he didn't even hesitate. He said
absolutely you need to drop her immediately. He said tell her to keep
reading the Book of Mormon and coming to church and stuff but we shouldn't
teach her until her husband gets home and she can work it out with him.
It was not what I was expecting but it makes sense. I guess even bringing
her into the kingdom and getting her baptized is not as important as keeping
the family together. President also told me some other good advice and he
really built me up and made me feel good about myself. I have a lot of
respect for him and his wife. His mission president on his mission was
actually Elder ballard so he knows all the stories from Our Search for
Happiness and stuff which is super cool.
On Saturday we had a baptism. I'll send you some
pictures. We baptized 5 investigators and 2 child of records. one
of the girls who is only 8 asked me to baptize her and she is absolutely tiny.
she literally only comes up to my waste. The water was really cold
and brown haha apparently they have a problem with the water system or
something. The service was really nice though.
about the food...
we get about 200 dollars a month to buy food. I don't
really know how to cook and it's not enough money to buy all the ingrediants I
need to cook properly. I'm not a very good cook either so I just eat
toast every day. Also I buy lots of juice which is expensive. Sometimes
I cook rice with some butter and salt and sometimes I fry up an egg or make
french toast. Also they have frosted flakes here so I eat them a lot as
well. Also I eat lots of apples and some pineapple. That is the
entirety of my diet though
they said the missionaries are going to start getting more
money which would be sweet.
In answer to your question about why I attended the temple
so much. Basically in the New Testament the savior says the same thing a
couple of times. He says basically to those that have more shall be given
but from those that have not it shall be taken even that they have.
That's not a direct quote but it's basically what he says. For me I think
this really applies to the temple and desire. To those that go to the
temple they will be given even more of a desire to go to the temple. To
those who don't go to the temple even the desire that they do have to go will
be taken from them. I think as soon as you start going regularly, your
desire to go increases and Satan has a more difficult time convincing you to
not go, but if you don't go regularly Satan has an easy time telling you not to
go when you have planned to go.
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