I only have 30 minutes, so I figure I will just email this to everyone! :) I am only allowed to email immediate family members too. Maybe pass that on to others. Anywho. We have laundry at 4pm on Wednesdays (P-days) and they have computers down here so I can email while the wash is going.
I have been here a week, and it feels like an eternity. There is no sense of time here at all. Like none at all. The days last forever, but go by so quickly too! I love it though. Talking about the gospel day in and day out is just AWESOME!!!! I love my Savior and I love learning about him and how to better bring souls unto Him. That is my purpose as a missionary. To invite others to come unto Christ and receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. An awesome and amazing concept. 3 Nephi 27 talks about all of them. It is an awesome chapter. I have it all color coded in my scriptures about the different principles.
We wake up every day at 6:30 (a little earlier most of the time, especially on Mondays when we have service at 6:35) and study, have class, eat (pretty good food, and all that we can eat), teach, study, more class, more food, walk, admire the snow (as of today), attend devotionals (Tuesdays and Sundays), Temple Walks on Sundays, go to the temple on Wednesdays (p-day), service, large group meetings (one of my favorite things so far in the MTC was a LGM on finding people to teach. D&C 29:7- The Lord's elect. Awesome principle and concept), and lots of other things, not all in that order given. Life is awesome! :)
A brief note. If you use "DearElder.com" they print them off everyday so I can read them that night. And it's free. So instead of email, I recommend that for my stay here in the MTC. Though I do love normal letters too!
The other Elders are really awesome and nice. The Elders that flew out this past Monday gave us a bunch of candy and stuff they didn't want to take. And laundry soap. The Elders in my district are pretty good. Fun to be around for the most part. 4 are going to Nashville, TN, 4 to Jackson, MS (including myself), and then the Sisters... 2 to Kirtland, 1 to MS, and 1 to TN. That's our district. My favorite Elder is Elder Heeb, our district leader. He is awesome.
Anywho, I need to get going. Hope all is well! I pray for all of you every night! Always remember that the gospel is true and that Christ lives! Share the gospel with all you meet and help the missionaries around you. They need it. We (missionaries) can't do this work by ourselves.
Love you all!
Love,
Elder Mendenhall
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