Like We Could Forget!

Don't forget, I am calling at around 8:15! Answer!

Love you all!

I Got Flight Plans!!!!!

So I just got my flight plans just now!!! I fly out on Friday in the morning, but I get to call you tonight for like 5 min. I am going to call at 8:15-ish so I will just call your cell phone. Please answer it! Haha, but ya so I leave Salt Lake at 6 am and get to Dallas 9:35. Then I fly out at 12:15 and get to Mexico at 2:45!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I fly American Airlines! I love you all so much. Thank you all so much for all your prayers. This is such an answer to my prayers!! I am so excited and ready to get to Mexico. It's going to be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! So today was good! I went to the temple got to eat real food. It was so great. Then we did sealings and that was amazing. I love the temple so much! So I have been reading the Ensign. Yes, me reading! Haha, don't fall over Haha. But it has really good stories this month. I liked them a lot. Also at our Sunday night fireside, we had these 3 composers talk to us. They all wrote hymns like Press Forward Saints and Families Can Be Together Forever and others. So that was cool to hear them speak! One was like 88 and went 30 min over his time. Haha, it was great. I love old people. They are awesome! So I saw Lucas Bodine! He came in last Wed. and I have seen him a few times, along with others from my high school! So I'm so happy to finally be leaving. I love the MTC but I am very ready to get to Mexico! So we have a devotional in a few minutes and I heard that it is Robert D Hales, so ya that should be great. If it is him, then that will be our fourth apostle since getting here. Haha so ya, nothing else big happened. I am just super pumped to go to Mexico. I bet you can't tell haha! I love you all so much. Thank you for all that you do and thank you for all your prayers! Prayers really are answered. I have seen that here a lot and I know that God knows us all personally and is there to help us at any moment, we just have to ask! I'm so grateful for this gospel in my life! I'm so grateful that I have such great parents, that I had the opportunity to grow up in this great church and to be taught so well about the gospel. All that you have taught me has really helped me here in the MTC! I love you so much! Thank you for everything! So please answer when I call tonight!! Haha, I hope you get this before I call that way you will know that I am calling! I love you all so much and I miss you all so much! So Elder Fotu in my district and Elder Toone, they are getting reassigned because they still haven't got their Visas. I don't know where, but they found out today that they were getting reassigned. I am just really grateful that I am getting to go to Mexico!!! I have learned so much here in the MTC! It has been really great but I am very ready to get out there and be able to share this wonderful message with all the people of Mexico that are waiting to hear it! I know that the Lord will bless me and help me to find those who are ready to hear this great message! I know that my Spanish is not very good but I know that with the Lords help I will be able to share the gospel. I know He will bless me as long as I work my hardest and put my self in the position to serve Him! I am an instrument in His hands and I know as long as I am doing what is right that He will be able to use me to bring people closer to Christ! I know that I have come closer to Christ here at the MTC and I can feel myself coming closer to Him every day! I love the Book of Mormon! I have a testimony that it is the word of God and I know that every time that I read it that my testimony is strengthened. I know that anyone that will read it with real intent will also come to know that it is true! It is truly the word of God! Through reading and praying we can all know what we need to be doing and find answers to all of our questions. There is no greater book on this earth then the Book of Mormon. It is amazing! I know that Christ is my Savior and that He did suffer for me and each one of us personally! I know that He knows us and has gone through what we are going through and if we turn to Him, He can help us through anything! This church is true! This work is real and I love it very much! I love you all so much. Again, thank you for everything you do and for all your letters and prayers. They really do make a difference! I miss you all but I love you!

Love,

Elder Despain

Got It!!!!!!

I got my permiso (permission) on Friday. That is what I was waiting for on my VISA, so that is really good. I went up to the consulate in Salt Lake and signed a bunch of stuff. Now they are just doing the rest of the paperwork so that means I should leave soon, but I don't know when yet. I will email you again at like 4:30 or 5 and tell you more. I just wanted to let you know that I got it and hopefully will be leaving soon. I am pretty sure I get to call you when I get my flight plans so I am looking forward to that. I love you and I will write you more at like 5. Love you!

Love,
Elder Despain

11 Weeks

So this week has been weird but good! We changed into the other district so now there is 6 of us not just 3! It is going good. It is different but good! It is weird having a different schedule! but I like it. It has been good so far! The temple was really good today. I love the temple so much it is so amazing! Thank you for the package. I loved it. It is always nice to have food because the food here is getting really gross haha, but I have a lot of food in my room so it all works out! It was nice to go to the temple and eat there today because it is real food haha and temple breakfast is great!!!!!!!!! Thanks for all your letters and everything! I wasn't able to get any since the last time I emailed because Monday was a holiday, but ya I know that there is letters waiting for me in the mail haha. Thank you for all that all of you do. I love hearing about everything that is going on! So other than me going into the new district nothing has really happened since Friday haha but we are ushers at the devotional tonight so we tell everyone where to sit and stuff. That should be cool. It is someone from the Second Quorm of the 70. I don't know who yet, but I will find out in a little bit ha. Tell Dad thank you so much for the letter! I loved it. It is always great to hear from him! I hope that he is feeling better and that the bee sting is better! That is crazy that he reacts so badly to bees. I wonder if i do. I don't know if I have ever been stung haha. Well, I hope that he is feeling better! Everything else is about the same here just trying to work hard and stay focused. I am just praying that I will get my visa this week! The travel office says that the visas are starting to come in again so I am hoping mine will come soon. I will just keep hoping and praying. Please pray for me and my visa! I know that you do and I can feel everyone's prayers. Thank you so much for them! I am praying for everyone back at home! I miss you all alot but I know that there is no better place that I could be than to be serving the Lord! I am so grateful for this gospel and the joy it brings in my life. I am so grateful for all of you and the great family I have. You all are amazing. I couldn't ask for a better family! Thanks for all that you do for me! So this week I have been reading in Mosiah about the sons of Mosiah. I just love that story how they become better people and turn away from the bad things they were doing against the church. It is just a great story and I loved reading it again! I am growing to love the Book of Mormon more and more every day. It is such an amazing book. I know that it is the word of God! I'm so grateful to have it! It has the answers to everything and it is just so great what we can get from it when we really search them! I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith is and was a true prophet of God! I'm so grateful for all that he sacrificed so that we could have this great gospel in our time! I am very, very grateful for my Savior who made the ultiment sacrifice! Without the Savior none of us could make it back to our Father in Heaven and we could not live as families forever. I know that through Him and because of His sacrifice for each one of us we all can return to our Father in Heaven as long as we follow the teachings of the Savior and His servants. This gospel is amazing and I know it is the only way that we can be truly happy in this life! I know that there is nothing we can do that can bring more happiness than following the Savior! I love my Savior so much and every day I love him more. This work is amazing and I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be a servant and an instrament in the Lord's hand! This church is true!!!!!!! I love you all so much and I miss you all a lot. Thanks for all that you do! Tell all the grand kids that I love them and that I am praying for them. Tell them thank you for all their prayers for me! love you!
Love,
Elder Despain

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