I am called of God. My authority is above that of kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him--to stand in His place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts; my doctrine is His doctrine. My Commission is to do what He wants done; To say what He wants said; to be a living modern witness in word and in deed of the divinity of his great and marvelous Latter-day work. How great is my calling! • My Missionary Commission • Elder Bruce R. McConkie •

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • January 11th, 2011

Subject: Si yo tuviera un millón de dólares, yo le compraría un mono

ok so it sounds like i should start off appologyzing to everybody out there jaja lo siento por todos haha but so i have even better news today than last week and i´ll be straight up with you so i dont lose any fans this week like i´m sure i did last time haha so today in 1 hour i am going to go to the travel office here at the MTC from there we will drive up to Salt Lake City and once we are there i will sign my visa we will come back to the MTC and leave either Thursday of Friday depending on when Presidente Angulo wants us there!!!! Isn´t that awesome!!! i can´t find the question mark on this keyboard cuz its in spanish so just go ahead and forgive me for that throughout haha so the next time i partake of the sacrament (la santa cena) i will be in México!! i wish you could see how big the smile is on my face right meow for real!! haha i´m so excited!! but i want to tell you a super spiritual story that happened this week:
ok so we´ve been teaching one of our teachers and he has been acting as someone else and his name has been Jorge. so we´ve been teaching Jorge for a good 2 weeks every day. now Hermano Escobar is so good at becoming Jorge he is completely a different person and it truely feels like we are teaching Jorge not Hermano Escobar. so Jorge is a catholic and he prays everyday and he has such a great amount of faith in Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father and we´ve been teaching him for so long and i truely came to love him like i prayed for Jorge all the time and i would pray that Jorge would follow through on the invitations we gave him and everything. but it´s been really hard for Jorge to accept José Smith. anything about him. which has been so frustrating because i know how much happier Jorge will become once the fullness of the Gospel would take effect in his life. and he has so much faith that he would be such a great member. but Jorge tells us everytime that he feels so good when we are at his house and even though we tell him it´s the spirit he doesn´t think it is. Jorge is completely content with everything in his religion and wont accept anything else. even when we pray he says Sí Señor at everything he agrees with haha(which is actually hilarious and it´s hard for me not to laugh still) but we´ve talked to him so many times and the last couple times we just haven´t been going anywhere with him and we had to put him back in the Lords hands until he is ready to be taught again.....we dropped him and we wont be teaching him for a while anymore. this was honestly so hard for us! like we love Jorge so much and we´re just trying to help him out by finding out how he can receive salvation and he isn´t ready to hear it. when we came back into the classroom and i saw hermano Escobar aka Jorge... i was like so dissappointed in him haha it was so crazy like i will never forget this and it was so cool to see how much these people will mean to me because i was studying so many things throughout the day For Jorge so that we could teach more simple and clear. so that was super sad but spiritual this week i´m so glad he was tough on us and didn´t commit to baptism like everyone else here haha it was really good for us.

oh so yeah kim sent me these six oober rich cupcakes and just eating one made me feel absolutely terrible haha so after i gave two to my companions and a friend we gave the cupcakes to our investigators the next couple days in our lessons haha!!! it was so funny to see the looks on their faces when i whipped that out oh my gosh but yeah it was delicious but i´drather share those puppies than eat them all for my self haha tell her thanks for me.

so i have the picture of the family you gave me over my desk in the room and i looked up at it one day and i saw amoray and i just started thinking about how goofy she is haha and i just busted up giggling haha thanks amoray for all those silly things you do! like throwing a snorkel at my HEAD haha ya little punk! haha and mom i just wanna give you a big hug every month and then come back to the mission field :) but yeah i´m doing great out here i am truely so blessed if you read 2 nefi chapter 9 thats how i feel like all the time. like nefi is writing this chapter right and you know when you are just so excited about something you can´t stop saying how much you love it and you just kinda get lost in the moment and have this huge grin on your face... that´s how i imagine nefi writing this chapter.. there´s like 90 times when he just puts Oh the greatness and the Glory of our Lord!! haha that´s truely how i feel. this gospel is so amazing and can bring so much joy into our lives!! it talks about it all the time in the BoM but yeah i owe so much to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ i am trying to give more and more of my time to them every day and the more i sacrifice the more blessed i feel. it´s funny how that works out :) so there is a good chance the next email i write will be from méxico but if i dont leave til later in the day thursday i will be able to write you again i love all of you!!
Elder Nunley
oh yeah the title is ....If i had a million dollars i would buy you a monkey haha it is actually tricky figuring out how to conjugate that so it was practice for my spanish not just a random sentence :) seriously

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