November 29, 2011

Hola Familia!

How was Thanksgiving for everyone?! Thanksgiving was great for me! We started out the day by going to breakfast (the scrabbled eggs they had we the BOMB!) and then we went back to our room for about an hour and 30 mins. It was crazy to have so much "free time" but i made good use to it, i caught up with some writing in my journal and read a conference talk or two. Then we had a fireside at 10. There were a couple missionaries that spoke and also my "mission President" of the MTC, President Gordon Brown, he spoke to us about all the many blessings that the Lord has given to us and what i also learned that we need to be grateful for the sacrifices that we make because "sacrifice brings forth the blessings of Heaven". I learned a lot from President Brown, as a little side note, this past Sunday he came and spoke to us at Relief Society and said that all of us Sisters are "Princess Moroni" and that the Lord loves us missionaries- I am so very thankful to all of my leaders and their examples to me. Ok, so after President Brown spoke, Wendy Watson Nelson spoke- yep- Russell M. Nelson came to speak to us. It was AWESOME! We actually had D. Todd Christofferson come and speak to us Tuesday night! :) SO AWESOME! Ok- back to what Wendy Nelson said and what i learned from her. She talked a lot about the Atonement and how we can be better than we were yesterday because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, that made me feel very good cause i want to be better, I want to change and thru the Atonement of Jesus Christ i can do that. She also talked about living our lives after that manner of the Lord. Jesus Christ really is the perfect example and if we want to change anything about our lives whether it be being more organized, being nice to everyone, using time wisely, studying with real intent the scriptures, all of that we can accomplish thru the Atonement of Jesus Christ and through His great example. Also, she had us write down a quote that i really like it says: "I will serve my mission for the Lord after the way He has shown me and not after the manner of men" I hope that we all can live our lives after the manner of the Lord and not listen to the ways that the world tells us, but after the Lord because He knows the beginning to the end, He knows us better then we know ourselves- we must put our trust in the Lord.

Elder Russell M. Nelson wanted me to make sure to include in my letter home to thank my family for supporting me on a mission. THANK YOU! The next thing i learned from him is to do the best i can and the Lord will make up for the rest, and when He does make up for the rest, thank him! ALLELUIA! Praise the Lord for all He has done in your life. He is great! :) 

Now, after the devotional, we went to have our TURKEY DINNER! WOOT! It was really good, they also had cranberry sauce, green beans (not canned, YAY) sweet potatoes, and yummy peacan chocolate chip pie. :) Then after lunch we went and made little sack dinners for later. Then we had another 1 1/2 between activities so i took a little siesta (nap), dont worry it was only for 15 mins. Then when it was time we went to a little fireside about humanitarian work and then they told us what we were going to do for our service project. We made 8,000 first aide kits that we are going to be sending to Sidan. Isnt that SOO COOL! AH! I love service. I love serving Gods children so much. Then, right after the service project, we went to another fireside that was all about Thanksgiving. It really reminded me of just being with the family. We had a few people that sang songs about thanksgiving like Thankful by Josh Groban, How can i keep from singing, and then we all sang over the river and through the woods. :) then they had 9 missionaries go up on stage and do a little performance about the first thanksgiving, it was a hoot. Then, about 8 missionaries got up and said something that there were thankful for and also said that Hymn reminded them of what they were thankful for and we sang the first verse. It was so much fun! THEN, after the fireside, we watched the movie 17 Miracles. It was such a great thanksgiving for me. I hope it was for you as well.

Love you all, thank you for all the many things you have done for me and all your prayers- they really mean a lot.XOXOXOXO I hope you have a great week

 

Love you, always, forever,

Hermana Wadsworth

 

PS- i only have 2 weeks left in the MTC, SO EXCITING! :)

 

PSS- LOVE YOU!