This week was full and very spiritual! We watched two apostles speak televised from the Provo MTC! I gave a talk completely in spanish! I stood up during one of the devotionals with the whole CCM and bore my testimony about the light of christ and how I have seen it in my friends and families lifes! Hahaha both of those were pretty terrifying! When I bore my testimony I received a prompting that I needed to share something and I emediately pushed that thought away cause I was thinking ´´no way i´m going to bear my testimony right now in front of 100s of people´´ but the thought kept coming to me. So I said all right heavenly father I trust you and I raised my hand and did it! Faith in Jesus Christ pushes you to do things you other wise would or could not do! With out faith in Christ I wouldnt be out on a mission! With out faith in christ the sons of mosiah could have never had the courage to go teach the people of the lamanites. With out faith in Christ Joseph Smith could have never restored the gospel to the earth! Think about it! Every time you have a prompting to do something good that comes from a heavenly source! Sometimes that good thing is completely out of your confort zone but you just need to follow it because god will never let you fail and you will grow so much from it. Even Gordon B. Hinckley, who would become a prophet, was terrified on his mission to preach to a crowd, he wrote a letter after telling his father he didn´t want to be on a mission. His dad then told him to forget himself and get to work. I know if we forget our self we will be able to find the person with in us that god wants us to be. In the MTC you notice this growth tremendously! When you follow Christ you grow exponentialy, not by ones and twos, but by tens, hundreds and thousands. Its a powerful powerful thing. The blessing is true that Christ will bless you 10 fold.
I had and experience the other day where I was able to help an Elder in my district who is struggling with some mental illness. Know one really noticed until one night after we finished studying he opened up to me and said ´´elder fuller how do you deal with stress in your life.´´ I could see that he was distraught and he had watery eye trying to hold back crying. I was prompted to tell him ´´I deal with stress by talking to others and praying´´ then he walked off back to the Casa. I then went and told my district leader what happened and we went back to the Casa and found him in the living room praying and crying. My companion, my district leader and I then say down and started talking with him in which he opened up and said he had been struggling with thoughts of beating him self up for years. When ever he does even little things wrong he feels like it is the end of the world. We all expressed our love for him and how much our savior loves him and I was able to tell him that he is doing the right thing by coming out in the open with this. Also that by doing this he is inviting heavens help into his life. We walked with him to President Eves and president emediately calmed him down. The next day he was able to get a blessing of confort from President Lyons. We also were able to get him and appointment with the counselor and he is doing so much better! The reason he was scared to tell people is because he didn´t to get sent home. However that was Satan tempting him to feel alone. The mission and the MTC will always do everything they can to keep an Elder out on a mission.
Mental illness is a real thing! I know that for a fact! If anyone every is struggling with painful mental things they need to come out in the open and talk about it! They are loved and that is the saviors path to healing.
I love you all and would love to hear from each of you!
Con Amor Elder Fuller
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