MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! I hope everyone enjoyed! I mean its still going on but most of the excitement happened this morning! Right now every missionary in the MTC is emailing and everythiing freezing up so this letter is taking forever to write even though I just started. Thank you for the presents! I enjoy candy, pens, and ties! This morning we had the chance to open our presents then got to listen to the christmas program that the tabernacle choir puts on then the apostle that came to speak to us today was......wait for it.......Elder Bednar! We had a two hour sacrament meeting with 2,020 missionaries! It was really cool, we got to listen to Elder Bednar for a whole hour! It was the longest talk ever but it felt very short! It was very very very good. I enjoyed it alot. The main focus of his talk was the characteristics of Christ and that through them the atonement was achieved. He then talked about some moments where christ showed his true nature. He said something that really suprised everyone. He said this mission isnt about you so stop complaining if you dont get everything you want even though you have worked hard enough for it. Which is really true, we are supposed tto be sacrificing our time for others. We neeed to do what christ did and turn outward in our times of trials and help others. The talk was wonderful and I could go on but this computer is really slow and cant finsih. I hope everyone is doingwell! What presents did you get family? Aaron, how do you like your new 360? It must be nice! Dad, you get pistachios and cashews? Laura, you gett reese christmas trees? Mother, did you get thatbox of chocolates with the good chocolarte covered cherries? What did you get brian?
I love you all, I hope all is well.
sinceramente,
Anziano Collins
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