63 days in the MTC!
Dear Mother, Family, and others:
Things are still going great here at the MTC. I'll be a zone leader
probably till the day before I leave because I'm training somebody new
before I leave so that'll be fun. Wow a full year for william soon
that's crazy! Yeah Elder Adamson said that grandpa talked to him. Temple today was really great! We have this older couple
always as the witness couple and we've grown to love them soo much. They
are soo amazing and love the missionaries as well. Next week will be my last week
emailing at the MTC then on monday the 27th I'll get to call you. I'll
give you a couple hour window I'd call when I get my flight plans so
next week's email wil be important. Sunday we got to watch Elder
Bednar's talk from christmas on the character of christ.. It was even
better the second time. I've learned sooo much thai and soo much about
the gospel here it is unreal! Elder Bednar talked about how we need to
be turning outward and we need to not be like the natural man(cookie
monster) and want things for ourselves RIGHT NOW! Anyways, he told a
story of a relief society president that called him (when he was a stake
pres) at like 4-5 in the morning and asked if he would go to the
hospital to check on three young women who had been badly injured and
she needed him to identify one of them that was dead. He could hear that
she was on two phones, one with him, one with a nurse from the
hospital near him. And then he could hear the nurse say. "We've
positively identified the dead young girl as your daughter" And
IMMEDIATELY, the RS pres told Elder Bednar, you need to call the mothers
of the other two daughters and tell them that their children are still
alive so they can be comforted.. She immediately worried about the other
mothers and stuff. This was her only daughter and her only child as
well.. Then when Elder Bednar was speaking with her about the funeral,
she said, you know it's going to be a closed casket but I want you and
your wife to come see my daughter before they close the casket because
they cleaned her up well and I don't want you to have the image of my
daughter all beat up from the car accident. She was worried about the
last image he had of her daughter. Then to top everything of with this
women. The DAY of her daughter's funeral, she receives a phone call from
a sick sister in the ward.. Complaining that nobody had
brought her food yet and she was sick, (this lady did not know that the
RS pres daughter had died but still). Anyways, on the way to her
daughter's funeral, the RS pres dropped of some food that she had just
made for that complaining sister in the ward. That is such an example of
being christ-like and turning outward. I cannot believe that she could
do sooo much for others.. Anyways that stuck out to me a lot. Thank you
for everything you do and for the support. I love you all...
Love Elder Federico
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