Mi amoroso MAMA!
All is well at the MTC. I have learned alot in the past month (can you believe I've already been gone a month??) haha! Thanks for your many dearelder letter and packages! haha I'm by far the most loved by the mail room. I get a lot of packages. It is very fun! We devour the cookies, I soak up the pictures and thanks for sending my list of demands.
I am not the first be find out that missions are hard. Sometimes I think about what I would be doing if I wasn't here --but nothing is more important than this no matter how badly I want to golf, swim, work, take a nap, or take the day off. I thought about you guys while you were at the wedding dinner, in the sealing room Thursday morning and at the wedding reception. I bet it was a lot of fun to gave the whole family together--MY FAVORITE THING! I still have a month of sitting at a tiny desk in a white brick room for 9=10 hours a day until I'm get to go to Mexico. I am very grateful for the MTC--without it would make learning the lessons and language very hard. But I can't wait to get to Mexico. It's also convenient to be so close to you so you can send me all the things I forgot at much cheaper freight and so fast! Plus fresh cooked goodies and desserts.
That is fun that Paige came over. She told me she got the honor of cutting out my head to paste on the manikin. haha. And she got to see Kate and Aldon@ And that's fun she sent you some stuff from her letter from me. She told me she would. I have become alot more relaxed about what may happen when I get home--about what to study, marriage, work, etc. I have studied alot about the will of the Lord and I am really not worried about the future. I am promised in Matt 19:29 that if I serve like I should in D and C 4, sacrifice for Jesus Christs' name sake--that I will receive an hundred fold. And I know that the Lord has blessed our family as a whole from the service of Dad and our five brothers. I have chilled out alot since I have gotten here. I teach my investigators and lessons every day that "God has a plan for you--he loves you..." and it just recently hit my head that he has a plan for me and I really don't need to worry about stuff like that during my mission. "EVERY LITTLE THING IS GONNA BE ALRIGHT." Bob Marley--haha, I know you don't love Bob Marley, but I had to say it.
I gotta do my part for sure, I can't just go through the motions. I need to put my whole heart, mind, might and strength into it in order to receive God's promises. D and C 82:10. I am learning as much as my investigatiors are learning! I have changed for the better.
So how was the wedding? Girls trip? news at home? haha! I have heard through the grape vine that gay marriage is now legalized in New York. Don't ask how I knew that--at the MTC, outside world news travels faster than wildfire.
How is FICTIONIST doing? How is baby Hudson? I still haven't seen a picture--I got a cool letter from TJ--he is going to be such a great DAD. I have heard from EM, Robbie, TJ and Ray. I still need to write some thank yous to some people--I am knocking a few out every P-DAY.
I am so happy I got my Associates degree from SLCC. Thanks for following up on that! I am 95% sure that i will be going to BYU when I get back. It is P day today--and probably my most pr9oductive one yet. We woke up at 6:30, did laundry, ate breakfast, got stuff done, wrote home. The temple is closed, so no temple today. I better be off--got a few more thank- yous to take care of before dinner. Thanks for all you have done for me MOM. Alma 56:47-48--talks about the kind of mother y9ou have been. You are the best mom ever. I love you with all my heart.
HOORAY FOR ISRAEL!
Elder Connolly
PS Thanks for sending Grandpa's clock--it is cool, but every 24 hours it gets 15 minutes ahead of what it should be. I have to reset the clock back 15 minutes every night. I just got back from emailing. I took a picture of the screen so I just read it. Sounded like the wedding was good. Bummer that Dad got sick. Thanks for the update. I bet it was fun. Wish I could have been there. Have a good week.
Now a snippet from Dad's letter:
Papa!
How is the golf handicap? I miss golfing alot! I think they should make a new rule that once a week, they give all the golfers at the MTC one round of golf to keep us sane! I can't wait to get to Mexico! I am excited to teach – I have the first three lessons down pretty well in Spanish—it is so hard to know what to teach because every person is different. They emphasize, we are not teaching lessons, we are teaching people. That is what Preach my Gospel is all about!
Thanks for the letters—and the advice—Missions are hard and I have counted that days down, but it is crazy that I have been gone one month already! It went by fast! The best is yet to come. The Spanish coming along great and teaching is getting better. Send a picture of us golfing or fishing.
Love, Elder Connolly
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