Letter we received in the mail from Caden dated 9-6-15

Dear Family, I just wanted to take the time this Sunday to write you a letter and thank all of you so much for literally everything! I also want to say this has been a not so great week! Ha ha, probably not exactly what you want to hear from your son but man, its been hard. But, I should also say just so you know, it has also been one of the best, most spiritual weeks Ive ever had. I promise you I have never made so much growth in the gospel, in life, and in becoming more like unto my savior. I have felt his love in my life, and seen more fully through his eyes how he views others. I think I have lived my life for a very long time thinking that my way is most correct. Also, if I didn't like someone, I could just avoid them, and I'm sad, because I never worked to change those feelings. Here at the MTC, if you dont like your companion, well, your commanded to love him or you will not be able to teach with power and authority. In this letter I want to talk about some blessings and some struggles. I also hope to express how much I love you all, and how much the lessons y'all, Mom and Dad, have helped me here at the MTC. It has been excellent Missionary preparation. So, to start, I want to go back to last Monday. Me and my old companion Elder Sant taught our last lesson together and it was amazing! We taught our teacher, Sister Irma Sandholtz, who was playing the role of an old Investigator she had named Manuela, So she didnt really know how to pray, so we spent an extra lesson teaching her about prayer, why we pray, why its important, things related to that. The Spirit told us what to say, how to say it, and everything helped me just to really feel great, especially since I was kind of down with my companion leaving the next morning. But we taught so well together. We also really got along, he was from TX, I was from TX, we both had a strong desire to work, and honestly, our attributes really complemented each other well. So, anyway, sad to see him go, but he is serving in Ribeirao Preto, so I will see him soon and hopefully I'll get to serve with him. {Caden goes on to talk about his next companion and how it has been difficult but what he has learned} Now, I want to share with you how much I've grown and learned. The Lord truly is the teacher and has his hand in all our lives. This past week, I have prayed night and day for love and charity. I have received it mom and dad. I testify to you, that when we sincerely seek after something, and pray about it, the Lord will answer you. For one, I have never felt his love for me so constantly in my life, Plus, comparatively from how I felt about my companion to yesterday would astound you! What used to bother me no longer does. I have also prayed hard for my thoughts and while I'm not perfect, how have things changed immensely. It's amazing what the Lord has done with me. I've never loved the scriptures more, my family more, or so fully appreciated all you've done to shape me. Like I said in my last email, thank you Dad for being such a huge example to me. I just want you to know I love you all so much and am so grateful. Another blessing has been how strongly I have felt the spirit recently! Actually wait, tell Aunt Marcy what she sent me was truly inspired and helped me out with my attitude and outlook a lot. But anyway, I was with another elder and we were practicing explaining the Book of Mormon, and I was playing the role of the Investigator. So the situation was supposed to be that Elder Flake invited me to be baptized and I said no. Then when he asked why, I was supposed to say because I didn't believe the Book of Mormon was true. He asked if I had prayed about it and I said yes, but that I didn't receive an answer. So, he reads Moroni 10:4 to me, bears testimony of the power of the Book, and then he asked me to pray, right then and there. He later told me that he felt prompted to do that. I started praying then, simply, like an investigator would and really tried to ask with conviction, in my limited portuguese, if it was true. As soon as I started talking, we both felt the spirit so strongly. Elder Flake said stronger that any other time here at the MTC. It was so great to see through the eyes of an investigator, that you can pray and ask, and the spirit would testify of the Book of Mormon, and how amazing that was. I want to bear testimony, that I've always known the Book of Mormon is true, never doubted it, and the spirit has testified to me many times of principles I've read in there, so I absolutely know it to be true. But it was awesome to have that testimony to be true, and to know that the spirit will testify to my investigators. Such a huge blessing here at the MTC is to be able to feel the spirit so strongly. Among so many things, I just have to say, I'm truly blessed to be here. And Mom and Dad, Ive been helped so much by y'all. Why I was so blessed to have y'all as my parents, I don't know. But, I could not have asked for better. I love you all so very much and will continue to remember so much from my childhood the lessons I learned will carry with me always, and I will continue to keep my faith growing. I want to ask you all to look for how everyone in the family has been blessed by me serving a mission? I'm super grateful for all the support back home. I can feel the prayers, and all the concern. I ask that you all please continue to pray for me to have charity. I'm looking forward to my Birthday this week and cant wait to honestly get out of the MTC!! I love it here and all, but I want to get out in the field! Thankfully the Lord is helping me with my patience and I know 2 weeks will go by quickly. It's already gone so fast! I love you all! Love, Caden Wyatt