September 19 email

Hey my wonderful family!

I hope everyone is doing excellent.

So i decided a lot of things this week. First off, i really could get used to this whole missionary thing. For instance, yesterday M RUSSELL BALLARD spoke at our devotional. It was incredable! He said a phrase in his talk that stuck out to me so much! He said "Capture the moment." and then he exponded on how we only get this one chance in our lives to let go and serve, dont think about yesterday, dont think about tomorrow, think and do something, in fact everything you can do, TODAY. After the devotional, my district sat and talked about all we had learned, and that was probably just as amazing. Everyone bore their testimonies and talked about what stuck out to them. So many Elders are just full of wisdom, and i am constantly amazed at what i pick up from my district. I am more and more convinced that when someone speaks with the spirit, you can choose whether or not you want to feel it. But if you do choose to feel it, you can find life changing messages in what they say.

It will be sad to leave my district, i have gained a lot of good friends, and we are all like brothers! But in TWO DAYS i get my flight plans. Yes mother, i do get to call home. I dont know when, i dont know what time, but i do. I should be leaving on the 2nd, but that is not for sure, i will know on friday.

Yesterday me and my comp taught lesson 2 in espanol. MOnday night we reviewed the lesson, and i knew absolutely nothing. I was so scared going into this lesson. The next morning, i studied for the little time i was given, and i was constantly praying. When it came time to do the lesson, we did really good. I only forgot a few words, and i bore a very powerful testimony of the atonement. It was great. When i left the TRC room, i remember feeling on top of the world, and then i looked up at the ceiling and said a little prayer, because i KNOW i would have gotten no words out if it wasnt for the heavenly help i was given.

I spent about 4 hours in the temple today! I went through a normal session and then i did some sealings for the first time ever. It was incredable, the spirit was so strong.

This monday, the older district left, and that officially makes my district the oldest. That is so weird. I am actually the next to go! I am so excited to go, i want to help people! I am so excited to share this gospel with the people of Tally florida. I am slowly but surely beginning to realize how blessed i am. We are so blessed to live in a day when the gospel is here, and all we have to do is accept it with all our hearts.

This gospel just makes sense. I want you all to know that i know, WITHOUT a doubt that this gospel is true. God loves us so much, He wants us to know His will. He has always called prophets, since the beginning of time to reveal that will to His people, and after the death of Jesus Christ, that authority, that right to act in God's name was taken from the earth. But, God loves us so much, and the moment He could, He called another prophet, named Joseph Smith. I know that to be true. It just makes sense. The heavens are not sealed. God still comminicates through a prophet. I love that knowledge, to me it makes God even closer to me.

Family, i love you. Dont ever forget it. Thank you so much for giving me the chance to be out here. I am doing my best!

Send my love to everyone else please! Have a wonderful week, and know that i and praying and thinking about you all.

Love you

Elder Kenck