09-15-09

Hello!! How are you all doing? It is so good to get you letters. I love hearing from you. I am doing really really really well. Today is going great. I just got my haircut, again. This is my third haircut since being here. Ha ha. I can get it cut as much as I want because they want the missionaries to look good and it is free here at the MTC for me. I like it! So the last week has gone so well. My district is now only speaking Spanish during day all day because this is how we can learn more Spanish and it is going well. I feel like I am learning a lot. Elder Welling and I are teaching again in Spanish tomorrow at the TRC. That is fun, we also get to pretend to go to a store and have someone help us with that stuff and talk to a family in Spanish. So what my district was doing was keeping track of who spoke the most English during the day and then having that person wear a really ugly tie the next day. It was a hideous tie, but no one wore it because we found that it caused bad feelings in our district to be so picky about when people said one word of English. We stopped that and now are just speaking Spanish because we know it will help and that the Lord wants us to.

So this last week went really well. I had a hard day on Sunday, I was just feeling down for no reason, but then things picked up. Heavenly Father answered my prayers. I had a great interview with my Branch President, and then the fireside that night was really good, and then I got to watch The Testaments. It has been a while since I have seen it, and I know they have changed it a little from the version I have seen before because in this version it shows many scenes from the Finding Faith in Christ video, which I don't think it did before. But I just really felt Heavenly Father's love so powerfully at the end of that movie when Christ comes and visits the people in the Americas. It is so beautiful to see. I just loved it. I am so positively sure that The Book of Mormon is true. I know it with all of my heart. I know that this church is true and that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. It just brings me so much happiness to know these things. They are so true, and to just feel the love of my Heavenly Father here at the MTC, it is great. I am so happy that I can go and share this message with the people of the Earth and that I have a testimony of it. I am so happy because of this church and all that Heavenly Father has given me. It amazes me. I am just so happy to be sharing this message, that I can help bring people to the true church of Jesus Christ, so that they can have the blessings of the atonement in their life. I don't know what I would do without the atonement in my life.

Well everything at the MTC is going great for me. I can't believe that I will be in Chile three weeks from today. I leave three weeks from yesterday! I hope that my trainer is really good. I am just loving being on a mission.

Love,
Elder Brian Sheahan