WEEK 6- Could you repeat that? I wasn't paying attention.

Jokes. I'm always paying attention. MTC IS ALREADY ALMOST OVER! isn't that just insane? I feel like I just started yesterday. I've learned so much the past six weeks and I'm very sad to say goodbye to my awesome district and my awesome teachers. Those serving in the states will be heading out to the missions this week, while the rest of us serving foreign missions will probably be temporarily released this week until we receive a reassignment or until the mission opens up. So, long story short, I have no idea what's happening BUT I know that the Lord knows I'm here and that I'm being as patient as I possibly can. He's got a plan and (even though He won't tell me what it is) I know it'll be better than anything I could ever plan for. 

Speaking of patience (which is a Christ-like attribute we should all strive to develop because, lets be honest, life would be a whole lot nicer if we all had patience) I listened to this awesome BYU speech from Neal A. Maxwell in 1979 about patience. The whole speech was awesome but my favorite part was this: 
It is so hard for us to have patience because 
"time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves impatiently wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course. Whereas the bird is at home in the air, we are clearly not at home in time—because we belong to eternity. Time, as much as any one thing, whispers to us that we are strangers here. If time were natural to us, why is it that we have so many clocks and wear wristwatches?"
With that in mind, we have to approach patience in a different way. It's not natural for us, we can't just poof have patience. It's something we have to develop (here's the ironic part- we need to have patience in developing patience. That's a bit of a paradox now, isn't it? How can I develop patience if I need patience to develop patience?) BUT let me put it another way: isn't patience just faith and hope? Patience is just trusting in the Lord and in his timing. 
Okay, I'll get off the soapbox now. 
This will probably be my last email for a few weeks until I get either reassigned or sent to Panama. 

"Hey Jonah, what are you doing on that boat?"
"Nineveh business."
-Hannah

PICTURES:
More scripture comics!! (You know you love them) Nephi and the plates, Noah’s Ark, the Rameumptom,  Moroni and Zarahemna, and Jonah
Also my dog with his plastic bottle (you know, the only toy he can’t destroy)
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