Reflections of a True Millennial

Hola hola, Its been a pretty good week here in Recreo, and this next week should be interesting. We have a few investigators progressing really well, and we are excited to work with them. Last week I talked about Belen who went to Church for the first time. She couldnt go this week because he son was sick, but she did go to a ward activity on Saturday (where us missionaries sung a very embarassing arrangement), and loved it. All the members are befriending her and offering to bring her to church, etc. Her husband works a lot in a gym and for O´Higgins FC (the soccer team here), so we dont know him yet, but he is interested in hearing our message and we are going to start teaching him too. We are really excited for their family and their potential. Tomorrow our mission president, President Warne, finishes his mission and heads back home. President Harris will be our new mission president. It should be interesting to see what changes will happen. This Saturday we will have a conference a...

Hola hola, Its been a great week in Recreo. This week we were able to have a lot more lessions and help a few of our investigators really move along. We have also really increased our work with the members and had more lessons with members than without. Having a local member of the Church in a lesson is great because then the investigators can have a friend in the Church who is a normal person (not a missionary) and who wont be leaving in a few more months (like the missionaries). The title of my email is "The Day of Rest" which refers to what we call the Sabbath Day in english, or Sunday. Yesterday was a really great Sunday and I definitely enjoyed Church. In Isaiah 58:13-14 it says: If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, fromdoing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath adelight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:  Then shalt thou delight thyself in t...

Hola hola, Its been an interesting week here in Recreo. We have spent a lot of time, but really a LOT of time, contacting this week, trying to find new people. We have a few solid investigators, but by some reason or another, we only ended up teaching 3 lessons this whole week (when about 10 is average). I dont know if it was a lack of planning or just the way things had to work out, but we didnt get a lot of teaching in this week. Strangely enough, the week still went by pretty quickly. Elder Silva is a great missionary, and we had a good attitude the whole week, and worked hard. In all aspects of our lives, God blesses us  after  the trial of our faith. We are already seeing blessings, as we had a great lesson with an investigator yesterday, and have three solid lessons planned for tonight.  In the Book of Mormon in Ether 12:6 it says I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see no...

Hola hola de Rancagua, Hope that you have all had a great week. I am enjoying my new sector and being with my new companion, Elder Silva. He only has about 2 months in the mission, but already is a great missionary. He is super humble and always asking me for advice and how he is doing with teaching and other things, and I am happy to be able to help him out. He is from Brazil so sometimes the spanish and the portuguese mix up a bit, but thats okay haha. Since we are in training, we have an extra hour in the morning to study where I can help teach Elder Silva from a program for new missionaries. I have enjoyed teaching him, and hope that it helps. As for our sector, its pretty great too. It is way different than all my other sectors, because we are in the heart of the city. That means that a lot of people have tougher attitudes and tell us straight up that they dont want anything (and often not too nicely..) But as it says in DyC 4:4 "the field is white already to harvest." S...