6/13/15

I am on a mission!!! It is finally hitting me. This is the most exciting and best time of my life. I keep trying to grab the days and hold on to them, but they keep slipping away! I never want to do anything else with my life, and I am not even in the feild yet! I. LOVE. GOD. and I know that He loves me. I have no idea why He loves me and I definitely DO NOT deserve it, but I know he does. I also have no idea why He blessed me or even permitted me to go on a mission, but I am FOREVER indebted to Him for this WONDERFUL blessing. I am one lucky elder. I am so glad we live in this day in age! The work is going forth! IT IS THE MOST EXCITING THING I HAVE EVER BEEN A PART OF! It is happening NOW. Our wonderful Heavenly Father called us and saved us for this day and age! WE ARE THE LAST WORKERS IN THE VINEYARD! SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? STOP READING THIS AND SERVE! We can talk when I get home... while we are serving. 

(You are only permitted to continue reading this after you have done something good in this world today) Did you do it? Okay, Good. God is Good. He loves you as well! I didn't really understand the real purpose of families, but now I KNOW that through them is the only way we can receive true happiness! Thank you for HAPPINESS!!! Please, oh please, express to the entire family how much I love them, and how much they mean to me. 

Now for some factual business. During a devotional with the relief-society general president I got to go up to the stage in front of like thousands of missionaries and talk and do some things. I got to put on this massive man's coat for demonstrations and stuff. The zone is doing good! we have an exceptional zone. We had calling changes from the first groups initial callings this week for everyone.... except me. Our lessons with investigators our going great. There is this one actual investigator that we are teaching, and he finally discovered that the church is true, but he has an alcohol problem. So this last lesson I talked about Christine and other stuff, and he is going to really work on it! There is no better  feeling that you can get by sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ! It is Beautiful!!! I also have been playing the piano a lot for big events and stuff, and something REALLY AWESOME is that I got selected out of a thousand people to sing in a choir for every single apostle and prophet in a couple of weeks. I don't know if this is confidential, but at this time every couple of years, all the knew mission presidents come at this time to be trained by every member of the First Presidency and Quorum of the twelve apostles. EVERY ONE OF THEM. Wow, what a blessing! God is good! I appreciate the picture book you got me! It is so exciting! I am such an emotional person here in the MTC it is unbelievable!

 Also, yesterday, a bunch of us were walking to a class when decided to stop and talk to a random guy sitting on a bench. I am convinced He is an angel. He is from Chile and says that he is not a member, but he is a saint. We started to teach him about the first vision and asked what he felt about it, and he said: "Yes, why not? I know that God answers prayers." He then went on to tell us through tears and fluent-really-fast Spanish how when he was younger his mom said: " If you pray for something, God will give you anything you ask for." Later on when he was a small child, his two older brothers were gone for days in Chile, they were young as well. It broke his heart seeing his mom cry so he went and prayed for his brothers to come back so his mom would not be sad. Two minutes later he went outside and they were there. He was shocked. Later on when he was working and he had a son, his son got sick. He was at work and he heard a voice in his head say: "go home your son has cancer." He doesn't know what it was so he ignored it and just thought that he was going crazy. Then. He heard it again. He left work took his son to the hospital, discovered he had cancer, and was told he would die in twenty four hours. He did not die. He is alive and well, and only because his dad listened to that "crazy" voice in his head. This man is an Angel his testimony and faith could move mountains. Weather a member of the church or not, he is a man of God. God lives pray and HE WILL answer.

I KNOW. That God lives. There is not even a particle of doubt in my mind. God is our father. FACT. Jesus Christ is His son and made every good thing obtainable for mankind. FACT. The Holy Ghost is a real thing, not just interesting feelings every once in a while. FACT. You can either believe it or not believe it. BUT THAT DOES NOT CHANGE THE REALITY THAT HE LIVES! He Lives. If you die today. Are you ready to stand in His presence. If not, get that way. Now. You know not the hour when you will be called back to him. Be ready, I need you all to be ready. Every single one of you are far to important to me to lose. I love you all with all my SOUL! With all my HEART! With all my LOVE