I hope everyone has had a wonderful week! How's the world? From the reports of it, because we only hear about the large natural disasters, the world is ending, but I REALLY hope that's not the case. My week here has been great! We honestly haven't done a whole lot differently here, just the same classes and teachers, but it has been awesome :) For all of you that know a little bit of Spanish, we started leaning the Subjunctive tense last week and it is legitimately destroying me. No creo que sea importante... pero esta bien. We had our two devotionals this week and they, as always, were spectacular! President and Sister Livingstone came from the Provo Temple Presidency and, last night, Elder Quentin L. Cook and his wife came! Two amazing devotionals and I can't believe we had another apostle here! Okay, now to the crazy stuff: I leave in less than a week! My time is almost up here and I can't wait to go! I'm in the home stretch! (Not really the home stretch... but you get what I mean. The Bolivia Stretch I guess :) With my MTC time winding up, along with tremendous excitement, I've also been feeling a little bit of anxiousness and stress, and with that I would like to share a small thought with all of you. I was studying (because we legitimately have anywhere from 6-9 hours a day of studying) and I was in a little bit of a panicked mood because the Subjunctive tense was making me scared about Spanish and I just felt I wasn't progressing fast enough and that I wasn't going to be ready to serve only having a little over a week left, but I came upon some verses in the book of Moses that really turned that around for me. I won't type it all out, because I do not have the time, but it's Moses 6:31-34 and Moses 7:13. Basically, Enoch has been called of God to preach to the people, but Enoch feels unbelievably inadequate and expresses this to God. I love the response in verses 32-34 and they have brought me all the peace I've needed while here. The Lord tells him to have Faith, take courage, and trust that because the Lord is with him that all will be well. In Moses 7:13, we see Enoch speaking with power, "and the earth trembled, and the mountains fled, even according to his command." To me, this brings power, knowing that if I trust in God and move forward in him that I can and will have his strength with me. And I make to all of you the same promise. I don't know all the struggles or trials that all of you are having in your life, but I promise that if you rely on the Lord, pushing forward with Faith in Him, you will have the strength to do what you need to do. I love all of you and hope that you all have wonderful weeks! I want you all to know that I'm having a BLAST here and that I have the most amazing district in the world! I could not have made it through without them :) The next time I email you it'll be from Bolivia and I don't know when my P-day is, so it will be longer than a week, but I want you all to know that I can't wait to go out and I can't wait to serve. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me! You're all amazing! Thank you for all that you have done for me!
Elder Wynn
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