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, March 17, 2011

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • March 17th, 2011

Subject: Guess who is breaking the rules and emailing his family on a saturday!!!!

hahah so remember how i said last week that Presidente Angulo wants the missionaries to stay in their area for about six months and how i said i thought i would be in delicias for a good while yet because everything was going way good with me and Elder Martinez haha well thursday morning i got a call saying that i had transfers haha yeah so i had no idea where i was headed or anything they just told me to pack my bags and come to Chihuahua for a training (we have them pretty frequently its awesome, President teaches us exactly what he expects from us) but yeah so after the training he was sending my district back home to delicias and he told me to stay and then he put the companion of Elder Espana in my place and delicias and then me and elder espana were like no way you have got to be kidding me how sweet would that be.

haha so president told both of us to come back to his offices with him. (The offices is where the president has his office and the two assistants and the financial secretary and then the secretary to the president) but yeah so i was totally expecting to be elder espanas companion but everyone left except for me and the secretaries here at the offices haha and then the president called me into the office and asked me if i knew where i was going and if anyone had told me haha i laughed and said no one knows haha he laughed and then i asked him if he knew where i was going and then he was like yeah yeah i think i do. you're gonna stay here in the offices and be my secretary haha.

so yeah now im here in chihuahua and i help president with everything! it is so sweet. ill be doing like paper work and stuff up until lunch and then i get to go out and do work for the rest of the day.... sometimes, haha the president will have us come with him to trainings and stuff in other parts of the mission but its so cool. at first like before i got called to serve in the offices i really did not want to have to do this but now im actually super pumped. right now the old secretary is still here and he will be training me for about 8 weeks but then after that i have to know spanish and everything else haha i have so much to learn.

but my companion is way cool his name is Elder Soffe and when i first arrived here like in january we both looked really familiar to each other and we couldnt figure out from where and so i told him.... welp that means we are gonna be companions in the future haha BOOM guessed it haha.

but yeah im so pumped to be working with the president so much. He said he has us in the office so he can train us really well and have us do things the way he wants them done so when we go out after the offices we can be good leaders and stuff like that. but since im the new secretary now i more than likely be here for a good 6 months just because of all the training and stuff that comes along with this. but yeah so he told us that our p day is saturday because like all the other people that work for the church they work monday through friday so he wants us to start doin that while we are here. im seriously so pumped to learn so much from president himself and i work with the hermana Angulo also a lot and she is soo cool. but yeah so from now on until i leave the offices my p day will be saturdays.

oh i recieved packages today!! haha thanks for the valentines day stuff! i like how you wrote the other kiss was for Elder Burgener and i have had two companions since him haha but thanks so much for the fruit snacks oh my gosh i am so excited for them haha.

But yeah there is so many things i have to learn and fast too haha but im super pumped haha oh yeah i have my own stinkin office haha it is ridiculously big too. like the size of the theatre room in our house haha. oh yeah the house we live in here is like a castle haha not even kidding we live in the neighborhood with all the rich people. but there are 5 of us that live here right now and then the presidents office, my office, then if there are missionaries that get sick or something come and live here for a while. but for real its ginormous haha i find i new bathroom everyday!! haha jk. but yeah just so you know i will be having my pdays on saturdays so i dont know when you are gonna write me but i wont be able to read your letter until next saturday but its all good i got your letters and packages and stuff. Thanks to everyone who sent something!!! oh my gosh im gonna get so fat while im here though for real i predict im gonna gain 15 pounds in the offices not even kidding im gonna try not to of course buti really think its gonna happen. but president wants us to do contacting in groceries stores and stuff now haha because he says people arent in their turf in grocery stores and they cant hide from us haha tons of elders have had success doing that already. but an other elder and i went last night and we didnt find any "chosen ones" haha but its all good Elder Soffe and i are gonna do work in our new area. but i actually gotta go now there is exchanges and i gotta go pick em up and stuff haha
love you tons!
Elder Nunley

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