A bit of sad news about my companion. Elder Burnham has had a pretty rough spell with his health. First, head thought he had pink eye, so we got to leave the MTC campus to head to the BYU health clinic. Turns out, he doesn't have pink eye, but he does have in ear infection! Yay! He got some antibiotics and that's going fine now. The day after, we were running up the stairs during our service assignment and he had a little spill. So, we got to go the health clinic again, and it turns out he has a sprained ankle, so that's no fun. He's doing fine besides that, and he should have no problem heading out at the end of this week.
Sunday and Tuesday were both sweet, as usual. The devotions were really good and I had some good study time. I read one of my favorite talks of all time, "Beware of Pride" by Ezra Taft Benson. Seriously, it was so amazing and puts a change on my perspective about my life. I would highly recommend reading it if you ever have spare time. On Tuesday evening, Sister Wixom came and spoke. She said a ton of great time, but my favorite was all about Nephi, Sam, Laman, and Lemuel. All four of them could said they served a successful mission, they all returned with the plates. However, it wasn't the doing of the mission that helped them, it was their reliance and faithfulness on the Lord that made the difference. Nephi and Sam did everythign with the right attitude and Spirit, while Laman and Lemuel just did the steps. Their differing attitude made all the difference, and eventually shaped the rest of their lives, with Nephi become on of the most inspriing prophets in the Book of Mormon, while Laman and Lemuel become just the opposite. Don't do this life just by following the steps because you have to. Do everything that Lord asks because you love Him. If you do this, i can testify that it will make you and your families better, happier, and able to return to our Loving Heavenly Father someday.
God loves you and so do I!
Elder Nelson
PS I super duper love all of the amazing rain that we've gotten! So awesome looking out the window and seeing it just dump buckets
PPS If anyone knows Elisa Toma, I got to talk with her on Skype TRC last night. She lives in my mission, so I'll probably be seeing her later in the mission!
PPPS This was the final Wednesday in the MTC, so I pulled out my dork dot and put it on. I got a ton of "Welcome to the MTC" comments, and I just pretended I didn't speak English and spoke Japanese to them. T'was fun indeed
The dope swag name tag!
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