April 20, 2012

Hello Mommie :)

Thank you for your thoughts!! I love the scriptures!! Moroni 7 is one of my all time favorites :).  We had the opportunity to go to  a seminar on the atonement. I loved it. I love the atonement. I love it's enabling power to help us love. Especially in companionships, haha. I love you mom, and am eternally grateful for your example and inspiration to me. I gave a talk on Sunday about faith.... this is how they choose who gives talks here: they ask everyone to prepare a 5 minute shpeal on the subject they choose and then after sacrament they announce who will be giving the talk.... the first time our branch has non-fasting sacrament meeting guess who goes first? Haha - this guy! I bore my testimony about what it means to rely on god, and on the accomplishing power of faith. :) I felt the spirit and hope that others did as well. I felt prompted to bear about Ely and how I knew that things were going to work out. Everyone hopes that she is okay :) I pray for her always.

But that will be wierd!! I hope they (Bret and Ian) will get to see each other! I'm still peeing my pants about how awesome it will be for both of us to be in the Philippines!!

I will leave the MTC on the 14th of May - we have a lay over flight in Tokyo Japan, and then on to the Philippines!!

We get to go to the temple, but that is  about as far away as it gets , but we do get to chill outside alot. The weather is gorgeous. it's been overcast the last couple of days, but still absolutely beautiful. There are zero sisters in our district... which is nice because I can fart whenever I want! Haha. It kind of stinks though because there are sisters in our zone and one day I farted really stinky like and a sister walked in... I had to explain to her that she might want to leave haha. It was funny. Favorite part of the MTC is probably how much it's kicking my butt - I'm learning that you can do so much in one day if you'll just take the time to plan it out and stick to that plan!

Thank you So much for that package :) It totally made my day! If I could ask for anything else it would be maybe to stop by ross and pick up a like a 15$ bottle of cologne.... ummm, I had something else but i forgot haha. I hope that everthing is going great for you.  If you could send me no bake cookies, that would be the best. haha but no pressures!

Everything is going amazing though I'm finally able to construct simple sentences in the language with the limited vocabulary that I have. It's awesome.

Alam ko po na totoo po ang ebanghelyo ni Jesu Cristo. Buhay si Jesu Cristo. Mahalaga ang pagbabayad-Sala ni Jesu Cristo!! Sa pangalan ni Jesu Cristo, amen :).

i love you mom, and always look forward to being able to talk to you. Give my love to the family. :)
p.s. David archuletta sang The spirit of God the night before he left... it was so sick! He's got a good voice.... Also, it might be hard to find - but if you could find a talk called "Character of Christ" by David A. Bednar, your life will be so blessed!!

I love this gospel and the enabling power of the atonement!!! Keep the Faith, and Know that He is.
 Love,

Elder Blackham