First I'd like to wish all of you guys a merry Christmas! And I'm very excited to experience this Christmas at the MTC we will be visited by a general authority. My guess is Elder Eyering but after the messages I received from Elder Bednar, he is my new favorite apostle and I wouldn't mind him coming!
But onto this week. At the beginning of this week one of the district presidents in charge of the MTC called me aside during a class. (Proir to this I had a vaccine interview thing where I was asked if I got any vaccines of which I did not. And I didn't want to get any and I thought getting the vaccines was recommended and not required) and he told me that I may receive a reassignments to serve because I didn't get any and I got a little depressed not gonna lie. But after hearing from my mom and dad with their support and love I decided to get my vaccines as soon as possible. So I could go to Canada at the same time as the others leaving (which will be on the 1st of January at 5 AM on a 9 hour flight. yay. Haha) anyeay at this time my companion didn't quite help me out like I knew that I wanted to serve in Canada. Like a had a dream about it. But Elder Hicks told me that I was called to serve and not to the place. And I knew he was right but i was really sad. So i prayed and thought "you know I dont want the general authorities to look at my face and be like "ah this guy again? Oh and he can't get the vaccines..." so instead of getting a reassignment I got the vaccines the next day. And here is were it gets crazy. So part of the duty of the branch president is to communicate with the general authorities about missionaries in case any missionary needs a reassignment quickly so they can get out in the field as soon as possible. So he was already talking with them about me. and during this time I was called down to his office. When I got there he told me that the general authorities thought I should get the vaccines if I would be okay with it or something like that. And then the branch president told me to schedule my vaccines, but I got them that morning! And that's when he said "great we will try to get you on the same flight as the others departing missionaries" and so it was done. It was a spooky time and made me question certain rules, but if they are there, they must be important. And from that point I have tried my very best to keep the rules and be obedient. And I have been blessed because of it!
One last really neat experience I had was in class and a film our district saw after. But a little background first. In the buildings there are different murals on each floor and an exercise we did was we would look at them ponder, read scripture, and write thoughts. The mural we went to was about Saul and how he was evil, had a change of heart and was good (basically) When our district had a discussion, they could all relate to Saul and the change of heart he had. (Much if not all the district were in a dark place because of the choices they made or others made prior to deciding to serve) but me being born and raised and taught to be a (my words here) "good boy" and their experiences with the faults of others made there testimony really strong and I felt that I needed to feel that darkness to return to the light. But sister Hindman told me that I could be one who lifts people from the darkness just like Sauls friends brought him to his feet after his change of heart. And I was like 0.0 holy ____.(I'll let you get creative) and then if the tender mercies couldn't get any more plentiful, we where able to watch another talk by Elder Bednar called recognizing the spirit. And he shared experiences that directly relate to my patriarical blessing. And it got me a little scared and freaking excited for the future! But on to how we can recognize the spirit (it ties more to missionaries) is that Elder Bednar told us that we should not worry about it. If it's our thoughts or the spirit, don't worry about it. "Be a good boy, keep the commandments, and your covenants, and get going. The lord will put people in your path just do what your are told and be a GOOD BOY". My own words which I said no more then 3 hours prior of which I was worried about because i was raised in the church and i didn't have dark experiences to turn to light to add to my testimony and motivate me like the others. And Elder Bednar just told me to not worry about it. Man was that Sunday for me or what.
I hope that all of you had an awesome Sunday like me. Keep your eye out for those tender mercies they are pretty much everywhere. Sorry for any run on sentences or confusing language I'm writing these emails on a phone so it's a struggle haha. Anyway Merry Christmas! Love you all! Feel free to email me!
Elder Dahl 2.0
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