I can't believe that it's been a month and 4 days! Crazy! The MTC's
been great, but we're all anxious to leave and to go to Mexico!
On Sunday, we got to go to main campus for a devotiional and afterwards, we
always go and watch a movie of either a devotional or something about Joseph
Smith's life. This time, they were offering a talk by Elder Holland given at the
MTC a few years back and it was fantastic. It had a bunch of great advice for
the mission field. I took a ton of notes. Then we got to hear from Elder Russell
Ballard on tuesday. He had some great advice too. He talked quite a bit about
setting goals and that we'll be able to teach if we keep a journal that talks
about what works and doesn't.
My mom asked me what the best part of the MTC has been. Besides hanging
with 12 Elders all day every day, and being told that we're a lot better behaved
that the last 12 elder district because the teachers literally had to put their
noses in the corner, the best thing overall was probably having so much
inspiration from so many people. Honestly. Our teacher, Hermano Holman, Is
FANTASTIC. He is such an inspiration for all of the Elders in the district.
Before his mission, he wanted to be an artist and a hippie kinda guy. Within the
first month of being out in the field he wanted to go home. He had packed up and
everything, but something happened. He didn't tell us, but he stayed and got
transferred to a place with Miskito people in Nicaragua. He had learned and
adapted to how they teach, and he set a goal of 30 baptisms a month and he did
it for 3 months and then the mission pres. talked to him and told him that he
wants him to set up and organize the priesthood there. So he did that. Then,
when he got back, he was asked to translate the Book of Mormon into Miskito. So
he's translated portions of it. And now he's studying Bio-med and he has goals
to cure diseases and it's awesome to see how he's changed. It great to see how
he's changed because of his mission. I couldn't be more excited to get out to
Veracruz.
Love you all!
Elder Neal
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| We may or may not have found the Pillow room. It is absolutely the most
comfortable room I've ever been in |
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| The pillow room is awesome! |
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| Our district at the temple today |
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