Como esta? Thank you for the email! I always look forward to Thursday to hear how things are going out there, since I don't hear anything during the rest of the week! We pretty much live in our own little world, and it doesn't even feel like Provo except for when we leave to go to the temple. I'm glad everything is going well at home!
Everything here in the MTC is the sameold. Class, eat, sit in class, eat, sit in class, eat, class, then go to bed. Sleep for what feels like 4 hours and wake up again. Life of a missionary! It is SO worth it though! You learn so much! I have really progressed with my testimony with being a missionary. Your eyes are opened to a whole new perspective of the Church, this work, and just how much for granted we take the Church in our lives. You really feel a love for the people that you serve and teach, and especially for the people you serve with. Our district is the coolest group of guys. We all have different backgrounds, personalities, and strengths and weaknesses, yet we have grown to be some of the best of friends. A couple are older, like 23 or 25, and a lot of us are 19. Some are fresh out of high school and a lot of us have had a year or two of school. It's really cool how with each of our strengths we lift and strengthen each other, and are able teach each other. I have learned a lot from the example of others here. Way more than I can stuff in an email in 10 min!
On Sunday after the devotional we watched a film of a talk given here 2-3 years ago by Elder Holland about mission work and it blew us out of our chairs with the classic Elder Holland style: Bold and Powerful!! He talked about the noble and great calling of a missionary, how if his calling was Apostle with a capital A, ours was apostle with lowercase a. He pleaded with us not to waste a day of our missions, the impact and blessings it would forever have, and how much we will be changed and forever greatful for the great blessing it was for us for the Lord to allow us to participate in His work, make it OUR work, purpose, and glory, and be instruments in His hands. He bore the most powerful testimony I have ever heard from him, which is pretty darn powerful, and I know that the call of a missionary is greater than I or any of us could ever be, but the Lord will qualify us and bless us with His help and blessing.
Also, guess who was our Tuesday devotional speaker?! Elder Neil L. Andersen! It was great! We were all hoping and excited to hopefully hear from an Apostle, since the last to speak was at the Mission President Training Seminar. And we got our wish! Since it was President Monson's birthday that day, he talked about President Monson, some things he has learned from working with him every day, and what he would say to us if he were here. It was so powerful! You could almost hear president Monson's voice as Elder Andersen would quote his favorite scriptures and sayings. We were very blessed.
Love you all! Nos vemos!
Elder Coombs
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