The title of his blog has been updated to one of his favorite quotes from President Hinckley: Forget yourself and go to work! This came at a time when then Elder Hinckley was discouraged. He had written a letter to his father, who then replied those words; Forget yourself and go to work. I think that's a great motto for any of us.
He is doing great...
Nothing really big this week.
Sunday: Sundays are either a lot of fun and you get into some deep doctrine that is amazing to listen to and it grows your testimony a ton! Or you just have six straight meetings/devotionals where you are so tired and just wanna close your eyes for a few seconds... pero most the time they are good, on Sunday our devotional speaker was president of the 70 (cant remember his name) but he has a British accent and he is really fun to listen to. He shared his conversion story when he was 20 and it was amazing, really good guy with a great testimony of the Gospel, I would love if he spoke in General Conference too.
Monday: Someone in our district had this idea to put a rubber band on your wrist and when ever you did something rude you had to snap yourself, it helps to become more Christ like which is everyone's goal in life.
Tuesday: These are probably my favorite days because they are kinda like a Friday where we only have half class and then we get to do some personal study and then another devotional this time it was Chad Lewis! He is such a good speaker, he just shared some personal trials of his life and things in his football career from BYU to NFL he was really fun to listen to, he has had a great life and is just a great guy!
Wednesday: In class we were learning some new tools for more effective studying and how to get more out of what you study, I liked this because I took a lot of notes for more effective studying which everyone could use.
Thursday: Pretty chill day we watched a lot of the district videos this day and we just would pause and have comments on what we liked or didn't like/ what would we change if we were in their shoes as a missionary. It was really nice and everyone had great comment that really brought the meeting alive.
Friday: It was an Elders birthday today and his mom sent him FOUR BOXES OF DONUTS and they were krispy creme! So someone in our zone had these party hats and we had a big birthday party and we sang to him! Everyone brought some food/candy and it was just a big party, It was awesome, its gonna be really hard to say good bye to these guys when I leave, when you bond with someone over the gospel you get really close with them.
It was a good week thou, about 90% of the people in our zone were supposed to go to another MTC so everyone was really nervous on if their Visas would come or if we would need to go some where else for a transfer, everyone was on edge and just wanted to go to their mission so when I got that email for my flight plans I was so happy and thanked my Heavenly Father.
This zone was really made up out of nowhere so everyone was really nervous and its the largest branch in the whole MTC which I think is really funny too. its gonna be hard to see everyone go but I'm really excited. All is Well
- Elder Clayton
I was able to go back and forth with him a couple of times. Here's what he said to me:
Elder Coleman is in my zone my room is right next to him, out of the 80 kids in my zone 4 went to WX with me ha ha way funny!
Yeah I leave next Monday so this will be my last package, all I really want is that music, my black japan jacket, can you send me some pictures of Christ, like some small ones 2 or 3 maybe by Greg Olsen I don't know where you would get them but that would be awesome ha ha! thank you sorry for asking a lot!
Everyone loved the package for the game, it was sweet! and I love the peanut butter bars I only share them with few lucky people!
love you mom! (this melts my heart)
- Elder Clayton
Elder Morris from Arizona, loves country music, great guy
Elder Fillmore; it was his b-day on Friday and his mom sent doughnuts to celebrate
Elder Davies
Eating cookies from home
B-day celebrations at the MTC complete with hates and horn blowers
Elder Fisher sent this pic he took of Elder Clayton! Love that smile of his!
In the classroom
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