This week has been a crazy one, but a good one! On Sunday Dallin H Oaks daughter, who is a world class violinist, came to the MTC to perform some spiritual songs with her family -- each plays a different instrument. She also talked to us about overcoming adversary and relying on the Lord. It was super inspiring! Every Sunday night at the MTC we watch a different spiritual video and on Sunday, we watched "Character of Christ" a Christmas hour long talk that Elder Bednar gave at the Provo MTC a couple years ago. Watching it was life changing for me. Holy cow, never have I ever heard a better talk that struck me as hard as this one. He shared examples of how Christ turned outward to help others in the hardest times of his life when the natural man would undoubtedly turn inward and think about himself. He also shared stories of people who have demonstrated this same Christ like love. I'm not sure if it's on YouTube or anything, but if you get the chance you should listen to at least some of it!
Every Tuesday there's a devotional with a special guest and this week it was the General Relief Society President, Jean B Bingham. She talked about patterns in real life and then compared them to patterns in the scriptures such as the pride cycle. I thought it was a good talk, but then after we had a discussion with our district and it was POWERFUL. Somehow people got talking about why they decided to go on a mission and what they are sacrificing to go. One guy said his friend died a couple weeks before his arrival date and he didn't know if he wanted to go on a mission, but he felt as though his friend told him through the Spirit that he has to go. Another guy, who's actually super funny and chill, said his biggest fear about the mission isn't the language or disease, but that his bulimic sister, who's only 15, might take her life because she suffers with severe depression and has verbally talked about suicide multiple times. We testified to him of the Savior's love for him and his little sister and then when we said the prayer, we prayed for one thing and one thing only, and that was that his little sister would be okay and would feel Christ's love for her.
My district is awesome and everyone has become such good friends with each other. One day I did the thing where you flick your wrist and your finger to make a snapping sound, and then everyone started trying it. Now whenever they see me, they show me how much they've improved (although, usually I hear nothing but the wooshing sound it makes from flicking them so fast and no snapping sound, haha. I'll keep you guys updated on their progress ;)
Alsooo my companion is way cool! He's 6 foot 4, Tongan, and super funny. We get along really well. BUT he still hasn't sent back his phone haha... we both keep forgetting. He took the battery out and it's only a flip phone but still he should send it back!
I miss you all so much! I'm super sad that I don't get to see you guys for the next 2 years, BUT I know without a doubt that the Lord would not want me any other place on Earth! This is the true church and the field is white in the Philippines! I can't wait to testify to them of my love for my Savior.
If you ever want to make my day at the MTC :) my MTC mailing address is:
Elder Trevin Shaun Wolferts
SEP19 PHI-SAN
Or there's also this super cool thing where you can send a letter to me through dearelder.com!
Love and miss you all!
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