Email #2

Hello family and friends,

Week 2 was a lot better than week one, and now I only have one week to go! This past week was awesome, me and Elder Lemon committed 2 of our investigators to baptism, the days here are pretty routine, eat, sit, eat, sit, eat, sit. So not much to report on, however in the new MTC buildings there are rooms with 2 way glass mirrors like interrogation rooms from tv shows, me and Elder Lemon were teaching our investigator Sam, who if you remember had distanced himself from the gospel right before he was about to be baptized. Anyway our whole class and our teacher was behind the glass watching us teach, and in that lesson we committed him to baptism. it was awesome we reminded him that the Saviors atonement makes up for everything and that as we come closer to Christ, Christ will come closer to us. He is just waiting for us to show forth some faith and come unto him. When we were done our whole district was super pumped and our teacher told us that it was the most purpose centered lesson he'd ever seen at the MTC, we felt pretty good after that. Sunday night we watched an old MTC devotional by Elder Holland called missions are forever. It is such a good video, Holland talks about how we need to teach with power and authority and we already have the authority because weve been set apart as missionaries, but the power comes from our obedience. Another quote I like he said, "the reason its hard(meaning missions) is because salvation was not a cheap experience." he also said that a lot of missionaries spend too much time thinking about what "real life" will be like when we get home, then he basically yelled that "YOUR MISSION IS REAL LIFE"  gotta love Elder Holland. It was good though, because I had been thinking about that as well and it was a wake up call. I was reading in 3rd Nephi chapter 13 verse 33 and 34 which says.

 "But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient is the day unto the evil thereof."

I really think that scripture pertains to missions, seek the kingdom of God, and the building of the kingdom and all these things shall be added unto you. Elder McArthur

my district

my companion who forgot his nametag, (Elder Lemon)

Anziano Welch and I