The final two emails that we received from Scott before leaving to the Germany Berlin Mission.
March 10, 2011
This week has been pretty cool. I can’t really remember why exactly but I am happy, and that’s what matters right? haha.
I got my travel plans yesterday! I actually stop in Detroit then go straight to Netherlands. My flight on the 22 leaves around 11 if I remember correctly.
So I have grown to LOVE Preach My Gospel. It’s so awesome, the more I read from it the more and more I see how the way it tells us to handle investigators and companions are wonderful ways to hand real life. Its so great and has so many good things to apply to life.
One of the most important things I have been working on and learning more and more about while being out here is how to learn. I used to always think that the best way to learn is to apply what I read to my life so I can be better. I still believe in that for the most part but I have a whole new outlook. We learn best through service.
Another thing that has been pressing on my mind this week has been, "How does being obedient bring us happiness?" I have experienced this in my life, I was asked this though and it really made me think. One of our teachers shared a spiritual thought and it was one of my favorite scriptures. 2 Nephi 5:27. "…and it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness." I am going to have this on a board and hanging over my fireplace or something when I have my own house. I always just interpreted this to mean, "make the decision to be happy." I like that. But in class we dug deeper and talked about what decisions we need to make in order to be happy. Commandments are not there to restrict us, they are there to give us freedom.
One thing that really helped me was Leadership Training. We have two every week for district leaders on Sunday and Tuesday and they rock! We have been reading the last couple verses in DC 121 and they are soo awesome and can be applied to every situation we ever have to deal with, whether it be as a parent, or as a companion, or president of anything. It’s such a good chapter and I suggest to study it.
I love you all so much and I am really enjoying hearing all that is happening back at home. Sky and Tate write me haha. I wanna hear about your lives.
A shorter post here. I edited for length and content.
March 17
I had such a good experience this week. I started praying for opportunities and experiences to prepare me for the field. After doing so I started to feel really lonely haha.
D&C 121 verses 39 till the end (I think...) the last like four or five. They are awesome on how to handle confrontation and concern. When you team this up with Preach My Gospel you get and awesome way to help people do what they need to do. You just have to always remember to do it according to God’s will. Pray ALWAYS every minute of everyday. Whenever we feel down, I know Prayer can lift us back up. I also know that what we pray for we will get. I say that not to scare everyone to be careful while praying, but I challenge you to ask for experiences to help make you better. I do it everyday, and it is really hard sometimes. But my joy after is amazing!! I am going to keep doing so and I hope all of you will too, if you haven’t of course.
Love you all!
Elder Henderson
Scott left for Berlin on Tuesday and we all patiently waited for his phone call from the SLC airport. Since his flight was at 11:05 am, we thought we’d hear something by 10:30 at the latest. At about 10:45 he called from someone’s cell phone (thanks kind stranger) just long enough to tell us that he’d call from Detroit since they arrived late. Arg. So the wait continued.
Finally we all sat in the car after Skylar’s baseball practice at Timpview and passed the phone around for some one-on-one time then closed it out on speaker.
We really thought that we’d get a courtesy email once he arrived, but nothing yet. The only proof that he arrived was a post on the mission blog with a couple of pictures of the new missionaries. Better than nothing.
He's just to the left of the pillar in there.
So, the latest address we have is still the mission home. Send letters there if you can and we’ll update as we hear.
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