This week at the MTC has been a week of learning and
learning and learning, and teaching and teaching and teaching. It's wonderful.
Right now the language is still a moderately significant barrier in teaching;
however, it coming along quickly and enjoyably. For only being two weeks into
the language I think we are doing very excellently.
The weeks are zooming by now. It is amazing to reflect and
know that our group has seen two other groups of new missionaries come in since
we have been here. It's also kind of staggering to think that there will be 5
groups of stateside missionaries entering (and leaving) throughout our stay.
Life here is one continual round of activities centered on our purpose (which
is found on page one of PMG).
Haha! Yes I was in that sea of missionaries going to the
Marriott Center. There we had a devotional where I sang in a 2000 person
missionary choir (we sang called to serve...of course). The devotional was
really great. Most devotionals here are really great. The General Authorities
really enjoy talking to the missionaries! I heard through the grapevine (so
this is not doctrine, but speculation (haha)) that the MTC is going double in
size by the end of August (from what it NOW is)). I am glad I will be
gone...haha, the cafeteria is busy as it is. Yep, many are answering the call
to serve, and as a prophet and Apostle has promised, the Lord is also preparing
the hearts of more people to receive the glad news!
I "found" something in the New Testament that I
had never really realized before. In 2nd Peter, Peter is writing in prospect of
his death. He knows that he is soon going to die, and the Epistle of Second
Peter is what he writes in response to his knowledge that he will soon die.
Read it. Ponder it. Study it. It teaches us how we fulfill the command to build
on the rock of Redeemer, which when we are founded upon, will not fall (ever).
He also gives his personal physical witness of the Savior, followed by a
spiritual testimony of the divinity of His Calling. It is so powerful. Peter,
the rock, one of Christ's most trusted disciples who was in the Garden at the
time of the Atonement, writes what the culmination of his life has taught him
in this epistle. And we have it!
On another note, pray. Pray, pray, pray, when you don't want
to, pray until you do. He is the source of all truth. What would you give to
talk to a prophet of God, or even an Apostle? And yet, we can talk to God
Himself. Cherish it, and realize the sacred nature of it.
Well, another week stares me in the face (luckily mine has a
smile on it!), and I think my laundry is finished. I wish you the best with all
my heart and soul!
Romanized Korean:
Anyounghi Kaseo
Strahl Chongnoneem
Hey, one more thing that I want to tell you.
If you read in John Chapter 15, I'm not sure what verse
number it is, but it is in the second column of the left hand page in the
middle-ish. Anyways it says something along the effects that as we keep the
commandments we will feel of Christ's love, and then He adds, something like "even
as I now abide in the love of my Father".
This is a profound promise. Christ is telling us that we can be as close to Him as He was to the Father. Think about it, and then strive for it! Good luck with the move!
This is a profound promise. Christ is telling us that we can be as close to Him as He was to the Father. Think about it, and then strive for it! Good luck with the move!
Again have a great week with love!
Elder Strahl
See this link for the Sea of Missionaries article from KSL
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=25561483
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