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 •

Thursday, January 6, 2011

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • January 6th, 2011

Subject: ARIZONA WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh my heck haha so we went to the travel office yesterday and i told the lady that we are going to mexico but we should have our temp assignments in and she looked at me with an excited face and said ok hold on. so she went into the back and then came back and was like what mission in mexico are you going to and i told her chihuahua and so she said ok wait just a minute and came back again... ok so the suspense was killing me like for real i was so scared i was gonna go to utah haha. but then she said.. Elder Nunley? and i said Si. then she said i'm sorry but your temp assingment was canceled!!!!!!! Can you believe it?!?! but then like after an eternity of silence she said the mexican concelate called us and told us to cancle your temp assingment and they are going to be processing your visa this week! haha oh my heck i was so stoked i just started jumpin around and giving hugs to all the elders in the room haha so i will be in chihuahua in less than two weeks! she said that they'll call me down to the office when they get called and then i will travel up to salt lake and sign some papers and the boom the next day i'm off to mexico!!! haha oh my gosh you have no idea how awesome it was to hear that! cuz now we only have teachers every once in a while cuz we aren't supposed to be here and so i have a ton of personal study time which is SO effective i love it. but yeah i'm so pumped. but it must have just been for chihuahua that the visas are going through this week cuz like 25 other elders got temporary assignments to like ogden and salt lake south so i am so blessed!! oh my heck family you have no idea!! oh yeah so you've probably figured out by now that the arizona title is to throw you off :) but yeah i will get to call home again once i get my travel itinerary (or however you spell that) oh i forgot to anounce in my last email that i have finally hit one hundred poops in the MTC right now i'm sitting at a strong 110 and 111 is well on the way! oh my heck you have no idea how good this news is i will be in Chihuahua Mexico in less than two weeks! so Stoked!! i'd so much rather wait in the MTC for another 2 weeks than get a new call for like 2 months or something. :) so how is everything at home? i love getting your weekly letter its so nice getting mail thank you. lets see i always wanna tell you about the fun stuff that happens here but everything seems like one huge day and i never remember anything specificly. i'll try to start writing in my planner some of the things you may want to hear about :) oh yeah the reading the book of mormon and highlighting all the scriptures that mention Christ. i've found that when i do that i'm focusing a lot more on what each individual scripture is talking about cuz sometimes it refers to Jesus as him or he or sometimes other things that you have to think about. especially in the isiah chapters in nephi. oh yeah crazy story so when we went to go get my wart taken off i was highlighting the scriptures that talk about Christ in my pocket size book of mormon ( which is so awesome by the way!!) so yeah we got out of the shuttle and i put the BoM in my chest pocket and we had to walk down this like little alley thing which was way weird and creepy cuz we are in provo not downtown new york haha but this short latino man comes out from around the corner and says he is going to shoot me if we dont give him our money. so i threw my wallet to him and elder cluff just took off running. so i saw him pull out his gun and shoot at elder cluff. so me being the completely selfless person i am ;) jumped in the way of the bullet to take one for elder cluff and i could tell i got hit cuz my chest hurt but i wasnt bleeding or anything so i stood up and the latino was gone and elder cluff came back and i took out my book of mormon and it had taken the hit for me!! and guess where it stopped... right at the Isiah Chapters!!!!!!!!! haha ok so yeah i didn't get shot or anything that was all a joke sorry mom :) but i guess elder oaks tells that joke a lot of the time which is pretty funny cuz he always seems so dang serious all the time :)
que le vaya bien,
Elder Nunley
ps my all time favorite word in spanish is ojalá (ok so you put emphasis on the last ¨a¨) but it means like i hope, you hope, we hope, all that. and you use it like if someone asked me Hey elder nunley does your visa come this week i would say Ojalá que sí! which means like i hope that yes!! but yeah it just feels good rolling off the tounge so try it out lemme know what you think :)

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