11-30-10
This week was packed full of stuff so I feel like I have a lot to write (:
For last Tuesdays Devo, Per G. Malm from the Seventy came. If you remember he actually spoke in GC and gave a really good talk. Well when he came, he was totally funny. Oh wow, everyone was laughing but we also learned a lot too off course. He had a wicked Swedish accent and poked fun IKEA being a swedish store. Hahaha. He is a very funny and powerful speaker.
I got my travel plans!!! Which for you back home means I get to call you. Here is all the info you should need from me (:
My Flights
December 06: Delta Air Lines Flight #1406 from SLC 12:00 PM to Atlanta, GA and I arrive at 5:33 PM.
Delta Air Lines Flight # 101 from Atlanta, GA 7:45 PM to Buenos Aires, Argentina and I arrive there at 7:50 AM on Dec 07.
Oh yeah, then the 14 hour bus ride from BA ARG to Mendoza...lucky me. Hahaha. I don't know exactly the calling will work with you guys but I think that I will call you at the Atlanta Airport if anything. I also don't know how to convert Georgia time to Idaho time. So you folks will have to figure that out yourself and then you can figure it out that way. I hope that is all the things you need as far as my flight plans. Less than one week!!!
Thanksgiving.
It was great! Wow! Food sucked, but what do you expect? It was still nonetheless terrible fun. Us missionaries get so creative. We all brought different things to the Thanksgiving meal. Like for myself I brought the pepper, someone else brought pie sent from home and so forth. It was pretty cool and we had fun. It wasn't horrible but it was just fun (: Our service porject included making packbacks for kids who don't have some. My job, and my station was to cut out big squares of fabric. When you get a bunch of missionaries together who eagerly do service you get A LOT done. We made 33,400 backpacks on Thanksgiving day. Crazy huh? It was super well organized and we went super fast. It was really satistfying to stop thinking about yourself on Thanksgiving day, and It's the only Thanksgiving where I truly focused the whole day on what I was gratefull for. The devotional was.....bomb. To say the least. Jeffery R. Holland. Enough said. I don't know if you knew, but he is like the Super Star Apostle for missionaries. He gives POWERFUL talks, and the one last Thanksgiving was incredible!!!!!! His whole family came too, and that was super nice of them to donate their time like that. But It was a great experience, and I beyond blessed to have seen 5 Apostles in my time here at the MTC. Elder Holland was incredible!
Mom, thanks for your blog post! That was so sweet, and I wanted to cry but not really at the same time. Hahaha, cute. So thanks Madre.
Has anyone ever read Chapter 10 of Preach My Gospel?? Wow. It's so funny because me and my district always talk about..."Wow, where has this sripture been this whole time?" or "Wow, no one told me that PMG was THIS good!" Hahaha. For some reason, the Old Testamant becomes better than Harry Potter...and best yet, it was TRUE! Ahhhhh. Something about being a missionary that gives you energy and motive to do a lot more. I love it. A lot.
Well it started to snow enormously over here in Provo. My companion from Souther Nevada can't get enough of it. I don't really like and I don't really hate it either but it does get cold, and it makes temple walks hard too, but its all good.
Thanks to Erin for sending back the SD card. I hope that you guys were able to take picture of that. Sorry if I look fat in all of them. It probably because I am. hahaha.
Ahhhhh! Less than one week! Crazy! I'm nervous obviously, like every missionary is, but then again I'm so excited to begin to teach REAL people. It's going to be fantastic. I love being a DL. I have made a lot of new friends and a ton of friends on my floor in the my class building. Right before my mission I can't remember how social I was, but one thing for sure, I'm way more social now. Not that I'm more obnoxious, just more social and what not.
Hey Marie, Ana, want a good laugh? Go read Judges 3:16-22. You are welcome.
Last night I had the oppurtunity to give my "first" blessing. An Hermana came up to me after class and wanted me to give her a blessing for comfort and what not. I of course said yes and it went super well. I loved being directed by the Spirit. I loved being able to give the blessing and being able to help someone out. That's what missionary service is about.
I kinda missed everyone at Thanksgiving, but mostly just for the newspaper tradition. But I have the rest of my life to be with you, so no worries. I'm out here to help other peoples families be together for eternity. I already have that. So, I'm not worried. (:
Well I still have time left today, so, If there is a question or two I left out, I might be able to get back on later today answer them.
Love you guys, Hope you had a great week!!!! This will be my last e-mail I think from the MTC. Next week we will replace it with a phone call.
With Love,
Elder Valle.
11-23-10
Hey Everybody! Last week went by unbelievably fast. I don't know how much I have to write about this week but here we go (:
So last Tuesday ended the streak of our record of consequitive Apostle setting devotional streak. :( I'm too selfish I guess. Hahaha. But Kevin Pearson of the Seventy came and his talk was upmost fantastic! He said some superpowerful stuff and it was great!
District leader is keeping me busy! Meetings, interviews, meetings, mail. Ag. It's all for the district but its all for the Lord too. I love it.
I was able to "Host" Earlier this week at the MTC. Which means you take missionaries out of the car and from their family. No one told me you could say goodbyes for 20 minutes outside of the car and take pictures! But it's ok. The Elder I hosted was from Boise ID, loves marching band and went to Centennial. Go figure. What's even more crazy is the next Hermana I Hosted was Hermana. Danes from Nampa, in our Stake! Crazy huh. It's good to see familiar faces and what not.
I am still reading about the life of Christ. Especially Matthew Chapter 7. WOW. It's better in Spanish to.....and I don't really know why to be honest.
So I can't remember if I told you about this or not. But on the columns of cereal, there is obviouslu the name of the cereal and so there is Cheerios etc. On top of the column of Life, someone wrote with a piece of paper, "ETERNAL". Eternal Life. It was so funny....hahaha. I love the snese of humor and how msisionaries entertain themselves in the mtc with they have. Hahaha.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
In the MTC we don't really have Thanksgiving. Just Sack dinners but it's all good. We get to do service projects and I am actually really excited. We are also have a fireside....who's going to come?!?!?!? Haha. For my "Thanksgiving" present, here are some fantastic scriptures.
Mosiah 24:21-22
Mosiah 25:1-11 (Wow.)
DyC 46: 7
You should all go check out the LDS website. LDS.org or new. LDS.org. It's so so gorgeous. It's way cool!
So This week in sacrament meeteing I had the oppurtunity to play a musical number. I can't remember if I told you this, that I was preparing one. Well, I was and I performed for the Sacrament Meeting. It's a version on the piano of "A Poor Wayfarying Man of Grief" (Mom, you can delete this next little part before sending it out to everyone, because I brag here...haha). I think I recieved the most compliments I ever have in my life that Sunday. Everyone liked it. Zone leaders wanted to hear it two more times and then once the next day. I had 4 people ask me for the arrangment of that piece, and almost everyone asked "Who wrote that??" Yours truly. Haha, jk. It was really good, and My companion was annoyed because we kept getting stopped by people asking me to play it or say good job. That was a highlight this week in the MTC (: I wish I could record it for you!
I can finally now use the voice with my district. I remember joking about that with Melissa and the Family about using the voice on this mission....Hahahaha. But I actually did and they actually thought it was funny...sooo....hahaha. yeah. Like I said, we do a lot of silly things to try to entertain our selves in the MTC. Like my branch President said. "The MTC is like a prison, except in the MTC, you don't get visitors." hahaha.
We taught a TRC appt. this week to a guy who didn't believe in God. We went in there planning on just teaching all about God and Jesus Christ and this purpose. But when we were in there, we followed the Spirit and just talked about Joseph Smith and testified of the Restoration the whole time. By the end of the lesson he thought the figure of God and the Restoration was "logical". We taught him to pray and told him to pray. The Spirit was so strong! It was amazing. I hope we have simliar experiences like we had with Brad, in Argentina.
Ha, so, I found a scripture about American Idol. In the book of 1 John Chapter 5:21 it talks about how American Idol is bad. Haha. Sorry I'm all joking around in this letter today.
OK. So mom, about the Christmas Picture. There is No way possible to send pictures electornically. The computers are so locked down on, here. Ha. So, I took some pictures on my card and I am sending the card to Erin where she can upload to Costco.com. And you can choose (: Hopefully that works. Send the card back as soon as possible! Thanks!
So it looks like the church is making a new video or movie or something because I came out of class and there were lights and camera people in the hallways going into classroom. I probably wont be in the video but it's all good, it was a pretty cool thing to see the works of it all though.
So TWO WEEKS my friends. So send all you packag....I mean...hahaha. No but seriously, this is probably my second to last tiem e-mailing you in the MTC and I'm off. I'm pretty sure I get to call you for five mintues in the MTC before I go, and unlimited when I get to the air port. So have your phone on at all times and don't get anywhere where you can't answer it. Hahaha. I'm excited and nervous. As everything I say. Hahaha.
Well I got Dallans letter and it sounds like he is doing great. Whats funny is that I have Backstreet Boys songs stuck in my head too. Which leads me to my next item of business.
My District is starting a mormon boy band when we all get back. We we will be all cheesy and where cool but casual clothes, sing about the truth and do cheesy dance moves and tight harmonies. We will be..."The Tract-Street Boys". We will be the biggest (Mormon) Pop sensation of 2012. Watch out. hahaha.
Well Happy Thanks giving to all. I'm thankful for the oppurtunity god has given me to serve this mission and to be blessed into such a wonderful strong family who supports me the whole way. I love you guys!
Elder Valle
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