The MTC is a
terrible place. I totally hate being here.
Don’t get me
wrong, I love the other elders in my district, and I love the food, but this
place is a freaking prison!
What I hate
is the crowd. Growing up in Wyoming conditions you for very uncrowded places,
and every meal stresses me out.
But like I
said, I love the elders in my district. We have 12 missionaries, all either
going to the Las Vegas West Mission, or the California Rancho Cucamonga
Mission.
There’s
Elders J and S, O and C, myself and Elder W in my room. In the room right next
to us is Elders S and C, J and P, and H and C.
There was a
day in class where we were working on teaching about the Restoration in 30
seconds. Chaos. Don’t let that ever happen. We weren’t focused on anything.
But
eventually, Elder S suggested we say a prayer to get focused, and so we did.
Let me tell
you, seminary teachers, Sunday School teachers, parents, or even legit anybody,
a prayer is a terrific way to get back focused. But that ain’t the point.
After the
prayer, we started talking about how we can improve the quick lesson.
We thought of
things, like, keep it focused on Christ, how we should connect the points,
things like that.
Eventually we threw out that they need to be
in our own words, not the words in Preach My Gospel.
I then said
how important I feel it is to speak in our own words. How we all have specific
talents and ideas that God needs in our specific mission.
There will be
at least one person in Vegas who needs to hear what Elder Sorensen says, how
Elder Sorensen says it.
We came up
with the saying U.B.U., the title of this post. U.B.U., as in “I’ll be me and
you be you”, shows pretty well how we should be as not just missionaries, but
as members of the church.
Don’t worry
if someone else is better at something than you are. You’re good at things that
you’re good at because God needs you to be good at those things. And trust me,
you’re good at things.
U.B.U. Don’t
be anyone else.
If God needed
you to be somebody else, He would have made you that person.
So find your
strengths, improve your weaknesses, and U.B.U.
I’ll be
chatting with you later. Please write me! I love hearing from people!
- Elder
Sorensen
P.S. Don't worry, Elder Sorensen is not accessing the internet to post this blog. He mails it to his mother and she types it up and posts it. If you are interested in writing to him, you can send mail to him at:
Elder Nathaniel Arza Sorensen
4455 Allen Ln Ste 140
North Las Vegas NV 89031-2229
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