Elder Braden Taylor

MTC week #4

Hey everybody the past few days have been really great and hard all at the same time. Spanish is coming along but I am still not ready at all. I actually forgot how to say true English for a second the other day so I think Spanish is frying my brain.

A few cool things happened this week. We got to go to a devotional from Elder Neil Anderson and it was super cool and ill talk about it more later. My roomates mom sent our room a tiny guitar becasue his comp and I play so its been nice to have a guitar again. And we've been playing church songs on it every night. On Sunday all the guys from mesquite got together and took a photo and it was super cool to see everybody and talk about how wild the MTC can be.

I miss all you guys and I love all the responses I get they really do help me to get through the week.

Spiritual thoguht: Elder Andersons devotional was definitely the highlight of the week. He talked about how important the missionary work is and about how the adversary will give everything to stop it. And he was taling about how even if we're trying to do good, things can still get in the way. And just a few seconds after he said that the mics went out so none of us could hear him and it was really ironic. But what I noticed was how he responded to the situation he didn't just sit back down or wait for the mics to go back on or even just give up. He had the choir sing their song again and then half way through it had all of us stand up to sing it and it was amazing to see how he responded to opposition. They never got the mics back on and working but he stood up and yelled out some more words for us and then after his talk he went around and shook hands with and talked to a bunch of people. His example was so amazing to see. Even when things go wrong or don't work out the way you think it will you can still make the best out of the situation and your additude decides how things turn out.