Crazy P-Day!! (10/30/12)

Dear Family and Friends,

 

Today has been a crazy day. This week has been a crazy actually! What has made today so crazy is that we have had so much to do, way more than a normal P-Day. Elder B had to go to dermatologist at the Rivrewoods Medical area for a odd spot of skin on his knee. Turns out is was just a cut that is having trouble healing due to the dryness of Utah and became a bit infected. So we then went to a pharmacy and got some lotion the Doctor perscribed. The people there were super nice and even gave us each a free gormet cupcake. It's super weird being outside of the MTC grounds. Everyone says Hi and askes what mission your going to. Because of this we had about two less hours do the rest of our preparation and have been running around trying to get everything done before choir. It looks like all the essentials are going to get finished but I'll unfortunately have to put of some of the other things I wanted to do, but I'll find time to do them.

 

So our zone is now just two districts and we are now the "oldest" distrcit. I'm afraid I gave you some false information last week about new districts. We are getting one this week of seven missionaries, three sisters and four elders. That will still be only  25 missionaries in our district though, which compared to when we first arrived is barely anything. But that really doesn't change anything about the MTC experience except making it easier to get a shower. And there is only three weeks left for my district. We get our travle plans next Friday. AH! Time has flown by in here. It feels like I just barely got here when it almost time to leave.

 

So the devotional speaker last tuesday was Elder Larry Echo Hawk of the Seventy. He told us the story about his conversion and the first time that he really read the Book of Mormon.  It was awesome! I loved his talk in conference too, about how testimony can spurn any attack on the Church or the Book of Mormon or Joseph Smith or Jesus Christ or anything.  One of the things that I have learned here at the MTC is how important it is to bear testimony. We need to live our lives as a testimony of Jesus Christ.  We also need to be converted to Christ, not simply have a testimony of Him or the church. Conversion is what provides for us to endure to the end.

 

So this week has been pretty good so far as teaching goes. We taught Ro on Friday and invited him to be baptized. He asked if he had to be baptized twice since he had been baptized as a baby in the Catholic church. We read parts of Moroni 8 with him and he seemed to understand. Whjn we invited him again, he said he wasn't making any promises but that he would think about it. When we visited M on Monday, he said that he hadn't beenable to attend church because his brother visited him on Sunday. We talked about his brother and he said that he has been sick for a while and he is worried about him. We talked about eternal families and asked if he would like for his brother to hear the gospel. He said he would and we are arragning to have missionaries meet with him. I think that this is really the biggest sign of how M is progressing. Now that he has felt the truth bless his life he wants his family to hear it too.

 

Sorry that is letter is so scattered. I'm still running at full speed to try and get everything done that I need to and my mind is a little frazzeled right now. I'm hoping the devotional will help bring me back to normal. I love you all! Thank you for your prayers and faith! Mahal Kita!

 

Elder RWood

 

"We need to offer salvation to those we teach, not simply share information with them." Elder D. Todd Christoffersen (Did I spell that right?)