I am leaving the MTC in a couple of hours. Wow.
I have a ton to write about, and I may not cover everything in this week's letter. I am the second person from our whole zone to leave since the Taiwan missionaries still do not have their visas. Anyway, on Thanksgiving I got to see one of my favorite speakers speak; Elder Bednar. He passed out cellphones and did a huge Q and A session. I summarized some of the questions:
Why would God give Adam and Eve contradictory commandments?
He didn't, he gave them a choice.
How do members of the 12 have so much energy?
This work is energizing
What is the best way to get through trials without losing faith?
you receive witness after trials.
Why was the missionary age changed?
People in some other countries have had the choice to go at 18 for awhile due to different schooling schedules. So they just decided to let everyone have that choice.
I will try to write more of my spiritual impressions in my next email. They are in another notebook.
A few people in my district and I joined the choir and we got to sing for Elder Bednar. That was one of the best moments I have ever had in the MTC. We sang the mormon tabernacle chior version of Come Thou Fount. It was amazing. Then we did a service project which was making microwavable soup for the Utah food bank. Our district did about 2000 bags I believe. I saw Elder Bednar as I was leaving the project, and I got to shake hands with him. Then we watched Meet the Mormons! It was pretty good. The young man in the movie gets his missionary clothes from the same exact place as me, and the same exact employee was helping him out. Then we had a devotional, which was quite different from our other devotionals. The missionaries did a skit, and we got to see an amazing harp performance.
It was very odd at the end when everyone at the end stood up and applauded. Apparently we can do that if it is not church music. We also saw some other performances. Then after dark we went outside, and there were tons of lights, and a little nativity.
On Sunday we got to see Vocal Point perform for a devotional. It was super cool. They sing acapella and mix in some comedy.
And then we had to say goodbye to our teachers. Our teachers were so cool. Most of them were college students and returned missionaries.
I will try to write more as soon as possible, but I have to leave the MTC in an hour now. Until next time.
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Elder Jordan Andersen
DEC01 AST-MEL
2007 N 900 E Unit 19
Provo UT 84602
(This is Evelyn. I wasn't able to open up any of Elder Andersens pictures that he had included with this blog entry. Hopefully he will be able to resend them to me so I can insert them in. I will also hopefully get his new address soon in Melbourne for those that wish to send him a letter although emails work great too. For those of you that have written him so far, thank you.)
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