This is my second P-day! Wow! Time goes really slow at first, but goes by fast later! Time really doesn't make sense in the MTC. It goes by slow, but super fast! Weeks turn into days, days turn into weeks, and all that good fun stuff. It doesn't make any sense until it actually happens to you. And then it begins to make sense.
So, how about that conference!! Wow!!! I already know that a lot of girls I know will be going on missions. Wow. Good luck! I wonder how the outside world reacted. I know that the MTC reacted crazy like! Be we calmed down as soon as the chairs were returned to their upright state, the people climbed down from the rafters, and the knocked out people were revived. ;-) Jk. there was just lots of shouting and lots of loud celebratory noise. :-) Still, we thought it was just about the coolest thing to ever happen, or something. :-)
What were all of your guy's favorite talks? I have a really hard time picking that. I think that E. Holland is always fantastic, and the same goes for the First Presidency, and also for E. Bednar. :-) By the way, he came and spoke to the MTC on Tuesday and talked to us about how better to study and apply the talks from Conference. He gave us this advice. We need to find and listen to the Doctrines in the Talks and the Principles that are found in the talks. Then, we need to look at the Invitations that were given to us in the talks. Finally, we need to look at the promised blessings given to us by the speakers and realize that if we take the invitation to do something, we will receive the promised blessings. So, for example, E. Bednar talked about how we need to put down our weapons of rebellion, and then we will be incredibly blessed. I can't remember exactly the blessing that E. Bednar talked about, but the thing that he mentioned in the address on Tuesday was that we need to pay attention to the spirit more so than the speaker. The spirit is the one that will teach us, not the speaker, even if he is P. Monson.
Just a side note. If your name is Bethany Anne Millet, and you have not yet received a letter from me from last Thursday, then I DO NOT have your address, and my letter did not make it to you. I will not be sending the letter I wrote today until I receive a letter from you with your address on it. DearElder messed it up, so I had to guess at the address. So write me a letter with your address, as you would write it on a letter, otherwise, I can't write you any letters. I don't know your address, so send it to me. I need it like, a week ago. Thank you for your time. :-) Write fast! The same goes for everyone that writes me a letter on Dear Elder.com. Make sure that you include your address in the letter. I know that DearElder puts a return address at the top of the letter, but it is commonly illegible and jumbled. So put your addresses in the body of the letter. :-)
So, my companion's name is E. Reese. I know I said that already, but I'll give some more background. He is from SLC. (Holladay, Utah more specifically). Me and Him are good buddies. He has been a member all his life, just like me, and he is pretty much awesome. :-)
About my investigators:
- Arnold is a volunteer at the TRC. He likes to talk a ton. Like, a ton. He always interrupts with stories about how he was in the wild, with a spoon, and it started to rain... Or something like that. We taught him four times, with yesterday being the last time. We taught him as a group. It can be challenging to teach as a group, because not everyone has the same agenda. Anyways, yesterday, we got Arnold to commit to coming to a baptism and meeting with the missionaries more to get him to be baptized. So that should be good. :-) He is really interesting to talk to, and he has (too) many good stories to tell us. We don't have all the time in the world, but he is a good guy. :-) He worked in jails for a long time, and he can tell when people are lying to him. So he believes that what we are saying is true. His wife and a daughter were killed in a head-on collision a long time ago, and he is interested in knowing more about how he can be with them again. He is interested in the prophet, and he feels like Pres Monson (Moses, as he calls him a lot) really knows that what he is saying is true. He knows the world is in trouble, and he is genuinely concerned about the members of the church, especially with families.
- Sara-Ruth and Alfred- We never got the chance to meet Alfred. But they are both less-active members referred by their bishop. They have gotten a little tired and too lazy to come to church (her words, not mine.) since all her kids grew up and started having their own families. They both know what is right, but they just have gotten to tired to go to their normal ward in Santaquin. they usually just go to a child's ward or stay home. We got her to start praying again with her husband and to go to church. She listened to conference and knows they need to go back to church. She is a great person, and is just an example of how Satan will trick you into giving up small things, but, like was said in conference: "Would you sell your soul for a nickel?" Both her and Alfred's former spouses were killed. Sara-Ruth's was electricuted on the job accidentally, dying painlessly, and Alfred's wife was killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. Sara-Ruth and Alfred met and had a lot in common. Sara-Ruth stood in as a proxy for Alfred's wife so that he could be sealed to her. Sara-Ruth was already sealed to her husband in the SLC temple. The reason she wants to become active again is so that she can go witness her son's marriage. And just to be able to have a temple recommend again.
- Cody is an agnostic college age student. He is engaged and will be married soon to his agnostic girlfriend. He wants God more in his life, but doesn't understand why he needs to be a Mormon to be saved. We have committed him to baptism, because he knows he needs to do it, and he is reading.
- Richie was a Meth addict for 13 years. He has been sober for over 80 days now, and is trying to become stable again so that he can see his son again and be in good standing with his family. He understands that he really needs the atonement in his life, and he responds well to our helping him to understand that the Atonement can make him just like it never happened. Jesus Christ understands all that he has ever done and will ever do. He's possibly my favorite investigator. He has trouble reading, but understand that he can pray for help. He now knows that the spirit is not a big huge experience all the time, so he now knows that he can feel the spirit.
Well, I'm almost confident that I used more time that 30 minutes. There are no timers on the ones in the Laundry Room, So I can't really tell...
I am basically out of stamps, so I will answer some really short letters in here.
Grandma Putnam: Thank you so much for the Honey Caramel things. Everyone loves them, and they are delicious. Thank you so much for the birthday gift. It took me a bit to understand how the card worked, but as soon as I figured it out, it was really cool. :-) Oh, and my roommate says send more. ;-):-D
Kiara: Yup! It's free! So I recommend you sending lots now, because it gets expensive to send them to NZ. The investigators do a really good job of playing the part, and the spirit doesn't care that it's "fake." This is the way the the Lord wanted us to learn to teach, so he makes it feel as real as possible.
Wow! He gets home today! That's crazy! Insane!! I see Jonah all the time. We take lots of pictures together. I'm sure he'll send some home.
Conference was crazy! Wow... Maybe you would've gone on a mission if that announcement had been sooner!
Thanks for the letter! :-)
BYU will be empty. :-) I think it's funny. There are lots of memes, I've heard, that describe it hilariously. :-)
Well, I am severely out of time. Bye!!! Love you all! Hope you all have a fantastic day!! Good luck with life!
Sincerely,
E. Staheli
P.S. Write me. A lot.
P.P.S. Read the first P.S.
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