2/6/2013

Dear Family,
Well, I just sent you pictures, so I hope you have fun with those!! This week at the MTC was interesting, I loved it, but I really, really want to be out in the field!!! This place is definately starting to feel like prison!!! I do have a lot of spiritual moments, but when you spend more time in a small classroom with over 10 people then you do in your actual bedroom, you start to feel like a caged animal!!!! AHHH!!!! But thankfully, I only have 6 days here :) But the negative feelings only happen at the end of the day when I'm tired and want to be eating or sleeping (I guess thats just the 'Natural Man' in me speaking!)

So ya, I should be sending Great Grandpaps name back today, I have forgotten about it until now.... But I remembered because it is on my desk, and we went through the Temple again today. It was super good, I needed some time to just sit and not really think about anything for a while. I really want to do baptisms for the dead, but I think we can only do endowment sessions here. Well, it is what it is. I gave a blessing yesterday, it was a really different experience, but it was really good for me and for Sister Drake. Oh! That reminds me, I have a pretty cool story to tell.

 Sister Drake was feeling really sick, and her back hurt even more, and she hadn't been able to go to class for half the day. When she came back to class, she didn't look very good, and wasn't really studying because she hurt. I felt prompted to ask if she needed a blessing (because we have 7 worthy priesthood holders, all of them willing to give a blessing), and at first she didn't want one; so I went and sat back down. I guess she started to feel worse, because then she asked Elder Campbell and I to give her a blessing for the sick. I anointed her (thats the first time I've ever done that!) and Elder Campbell said the blessing while I ( and some other Elders in our District) stood in the circle. After Elder Campbell said amen, she started crying, and we asked her why, and she said that she instantly felt better!! It was amazing! She was completely healed!! So ya, Faith and the Priesthood are amazing things. I

So that's my story for this week, it was pretty amazing! Oh! You should put my e-mail address on facebook so that people will talk to me! And you should tell people to Dear Elder me, because I need some more communication!!!! And you can tell people that they can send me packages too, because I need more food!!!!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
-Elder Wesly Lemmon