The Last Melon ~

This Email is my last one from the MTC, and that's a very exciting thing to write.

Not much happened this week, we did a lot of training and preparation for the field, and Elder Royal and I made a hackysack for P-Day's with Elder Hatch's old sock and popcorn kernels. In Elder Royals words: "It's a little buttery." 

I think that like a lot of people, I have a tendency to get completely wrapped up in something I'm worrying about, or something I think a lot about, and this week I kind of got sick of it so I decided to make a change. I bought this little leather journal in the store here and when something comes up I just write about it until I can't think anything more about it, and then I can move on. It started when I got the Beach Boys stuck in my head way bad so I just wrote out the lyrics and then it stopped, and it works with any bothersome thought. And that was a massive tender mercy. It's becoming increasingly apparent to me that the adversary has no reservations when it comes to making us miserable, but ultimately we get to decide whether or not to let him. It's not easy but it's surely possible. Do what you can to be happy, whatever that is. Right now for me it helps a lot to get everything I'm worrying about onto a paper, and then it becomes apparent how small it is. Every one of us is lucky enough to be on the receiving end of massively strong love. In Romans 8:38-39 it says "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our Lord." His love is always there, and we can always have it. Next to God's love for all of you, mine is near insignificant but I love you all a lot as well.