Movie Mania - MTC Week 3

In Lynne's letter to Brett this week, she mentioned that we have seen a few movies lately. I guess it got him thinking and put a theme to his reply -

Its funny that you called it movie mania, because Elder Elzey is going to be a film major, so I've been hearing a lot about movies. It doesn't really bother me that I'm missing all these movies, I'm actually doing pretty well at this whole 'focusing on the mission' thing. I'm surprised I'm not homesick or anything.

So I have been eating healthy. I haven't had soda in days, and most days I eat the salads/wraps. It has helped me stay awake, and I feel better about myself now that I'm eating healthy and running during gym.

Things are pretty sweet here at the MTC. One of my teachers, Hermano Rapp, really vamped things up this past week. We had 2 back to back "Lets Go" lessons that were beyond words in their amazingness. The first one was about greatness. We talked about how in Satan's Plan there was 100% passing, but everyone would be mediocre. It's human nature to be mediocre, but Heavenly Father in his infinite wisdom provided a way for us to be GREAT! We can be Gods, and it's a disgrace to ourselves if we don't be the greatest we can be. I am on the quest for greatness, and I will not settle for being normal. In the words of Dumbledore "The time has come for us to choose to do that which is easy or that which is right" (that might not exactly be the words he said, but it's the general gist of it) 

The other cool experience he shared with us was actually a talk by Jeffery R Holland given at the MTC a few years back (I highly recommend watching it) Its called "The Miracle of a Mission" I don't think I can give it justice, but something that really stuck out to me is that when you study, study. When you pray, pray. I know that the MTC can get repetitive, but if we dedicate ourselves to our studies, our missions will be the greatest and most significant time of our life.  

Something cool that I thought you guys might find interesting is how I've learned to find peace in my scriptures, more specifically the Book of Mormon. I'm not sure if you guys are aware of this, but at the MTC you have 16 hour days of almost constant studying. As you can probably imagine, it gets rather intense and its easy to burn out and get frustrated. I found that whenever I get frustrated, I can always turn to my scriptures and find peace in there. It calms my soul. I have really gained a new love for the scriptures and I know that they are inspired of God.

I love you guys, and I love the Gospel of Christ.

I went looking for a link to Elder Holland's talk, and can only find references to it. Hopefully I will be able to post a link to the actual talk soon.