Connor leaves the MTC tomorrow 8/24/2016 and is headed to Denver. There he will meet his Mission President and wife. He will also meet his new companion and be assigned to an area in the Mission. I pray his companion is organized and strong. I also pray that he ends up being assigned to a members home for his first area. A mother could only hope! Connor will call us from the airport in the morning so We get to hear his voice one more time before Christmas. I cry a lot less now and love to hear from him on Tuesdays. It hurts that he is gone but I know he is exactly where he should be doing the things that he is doing. My mothers heart is full! His Personal day will now be on Mondays and I look forward to each and every Monday for the next 2 years. This is when the mission gets real.
Hey Mom & Dad! This week has flown by so fast and the MTC in general has just gone by to fast! You blink and then its three weeks already. let me start off by telling cool things that have happened while I was here, then what happened this week. So my companion was sick for three days! One of those days I had to stay with him in bed all day, then the next two days I did companionship exchanges so I didn't have to be with him and so I could go to class haha. I got sick because of that but I went to class everyday with a sore throat and a super stuffy nose. This place is like a zoo everyone is sick and I feel like a caged animal. Only time we leave this "zoo" is when we see the Temple. I'm sick and tired of the cafeteria. I guess that means it's time to leave. Anyway other than that things have been awesome. I play basketball everyday so I have been having a lot of fun during exercise time. I have met the craziest elders and funniest elders ever. Its literally like college here.
Sunday I got to sing with the Nashville Tribute band which was the coolest experience ever. Anyway he sang a song about him leaving for a mission and he wrote it on the plane on the way home after his mission. Its about him leaving and kissing his mom on the cheek and I cried my eyes out and then after it was over he made us all sing with him and then I cried even more. I decided to write a song and I will send it to you next week when its done.
I want to tell a story of what happened this week in my TRC's which are real investigators sent to the MTC because their friends insist they go. So there is this girl Janie that we taught. she is Catholic and had no belief in anything. We taught her 3 times. The first lesson went nowhere. The second lesson we gave her a copy of the book of Mormon with our testimonies in it and explained the restoration talked about having faith. I shared her my conversion story and the spirit was so strong. she excepted an invitation to church and prayed to close the meeting. Then the next time we met with herr which was on Saturday she said she was going to church with our MTC instructor in our classroom. Turns out they are best friends. Our third lesson was the best lesson ever. I said things and brought up things and made references and I know it wasn't me thinking of those things. The spirit guided me in everything I had to say and at the end of the lesson we committed her to baptism. We told her to go to the office and tell them you want to be baptized and the missionaries in the Provo mission will take care of the rest. I never would of thought I could do that. It was such an awesome feeling its hard to explain you just feel so excited and the Love I have for her is honestly so much. she is the greatest and I know she will be baptized.
I'm so excited to leave and nervous haha. My organization skills are still bad, except I packed my suitcase perfectly and I used moms method. I guess she taught me something, love you mom. Anyway I miss home I miss hearing whats going on. Its crazy I leave and then home becomes more interesting. haha I miss everyone I love you Mom and Dad like so much. My testimony of my purpose has increased so much and if I were to give any advice it would be this...Faith with out works is dead... serve the Lord with all your heart might mind and strength that you may stand blameless before God in the last days. Faith repentance and the atonement, that's it, it is so simple. Love you all best of wishes and I'll talk to you from the airport and Denver.
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