Love & The Real Honest To Goodness Cookie Monster

I got a letter from Linda today.  It was a pretty good one.  I am getting a little worried about her though.  It seems to me as though she is getting it cemented into her head and that I am the only one for her.  I am afraid that I will have to write her a letter to try and shift her to a slower speed.  It is scary dealing with a young lady's state of mind.  Especially in these circumstances.  I hope she will take what I have to say and not read in between the lines and think that some horrible change is coming over me.  I really do love that redhead with the gap in her teeth!

Tonight in our branch meeting during the prelude music I felt really close to our Heavenly Father.  There is a certain elder in our branch who has composed some beautiful music.  I really had to struggle to hold back tears.  I don't consider myself a crybaby in the least sense of the word but here at the MTC with the spirit that is here it is just impossible not to find yourself crying now and then.

The kind of love that I felt from my Heavenly Father tonight was very special.  It wasn't the excited joyful feeling that you receive after working with all your might, doing what's right and succeeding.  The love I felt tonight was the love of charity like the kind a boy feels from his father even after he has been slothful or done something wrong.  I could say that it was love that accompanies our Heavenly Father's forgiveness.  Even when we don't deserve it.

I know that the Lord loves us because I have felt that love.  I think that I might even have a minuscule amount of it.  At least at times, like when I think of telling my family goodbye, or looking at the elders in my district in the temple and wanting to hug the lot of them.

On a lighter note, it is really amazing to me to watch Elder Brown when I offer him one of my cookies.  His face really lights up.  He reminds me of a little kid at Christmas.  I told him that and he even agreed with me.  I think that I have found the real honest to goodness cookie monster!