Reflections of a True Millennial

Hola! I hope you have all had a great week. Things are going well here in Las Cabras, and we took advantage of the Semana Santa (as they say here in Chile) to teach as many people as possible about Easter and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was a long holiday weekend for Easter, so we were able to find lots of people in their houses.  We have several investigators who we are working with, and one super great couple is Gonzalo y Rosa. They have had a lot of doubts about getting involved with any religion. When we passed by the other day Gonzalo came out and told us he didnt want to involve himself with any religion, but we talked him through it and he let us in to teach. We taught about the Restoration and they both seemed much calmer and very interested in hearing more. This Gospel is for literally everyone, and there will always be obstacles to following it. Each of us needs to have the courage to follow what we know is right. Also, this upcoming weekend is General Conference! Th...

Hola! Hope that you are all doing well. Here in Las Cabras, everything is good. This week we Zone Conference, Zone training, and this weekend was the San Fernando District conference. So we have been traveling a lot again, and stayed in the Pichidegua house on Friday night and the San Fernando house on Saturday night. But all the conferences and events were really great and inspiring to help us work better. The work has been moving along in Las Cabras. We have found a few new solid investigators and are excited to work with them. One is named Jose Luis and accepted to be baptised on April 16th. His wife died about a year ago, so the Gospel can really bless him. Also this week we have been sharing a new video that the Church made for Easter: #Aleluya (or #Hallelujah in English). Its really powerful and talks about the new life we can find through Jesus Christ. We showed it to one new investigator named Gonzalo and he was really touched by the Spirit. He had seen false things online abou...

Hola Familia! It has been a good first week in Las Cabras! Unfortunately, I have yet to see any actual goats... But all is well. My new companion is Elder Llavilla from Peru. He only has about 4 months in the mission, and it has been great to be with such a young missionary. I have had a lot of opportunities to help him, and it has forced me to take the lead on some things that I am not always comfortable with. Speaking of things that I am not always comfortable with, this week we have done a lot of contacting. Seriously, a lot. I feel like I have talked to more people this week than in my entire life before. But I have basically (almost) lost my fear of knocking on someones door and starting a converastion with them. I know that the message we are sharing can bless every person, so its worth the occasional discomfort.  Also this week, I feel like I have taken more busses than ever before in my life. LasCabras is kind of far from everything. To get to San Fernando for district and zone...

Hola! This week we have seen that God works in mysterious ways. First of all, Karina. I´ve written a lot about her. Last week she couldn´t go to church, and we thought she was just out late the night before, but it turns out she had to go to the hospital on Saturday night. And this week, she found out that she has been pregnant for about 2-3 months. (She separated from her husband about two months ago.)  Definitely a surprise. But she previously thought that she couldn´t have any more children, so it´s a miracle. And because she is pregnant, she has stopped drinking, smoking, and drinking tea and coffee AKA she is living the Word of Wisdom. It´s sad that her future daughter won´t have a dad in the picture, but this week we gave her "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" to help her see the value of raising children in the Gospel. She is progressing well, and should be able to be baptised in the next transfer. Second, Luis. Another investigator who has desires to change, bu...

Also I don´t know how I forgot to write about it, but we had an awesome broadcast from Elder Bednar from Buenos Aires for all the missionaries in Argentina, CHile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. He told us to get a pen and paper, but to not write down anything he said, rather write the ideas and thoughts that the Holy Ghost brought to our mind. The broadcast was 2 and a half hours and he used the whole time asking questions to missionaries or letting them ask questions. The whole thing was a pattern of how we can use inspired questions to help our investigators learn and progress. He said a lot of the time we play "Guess what´s in my head" and ask questions with a specific answer, but to help others learn we should ask things that make them think and be better. It was a really great meeting, and I learned a lot. This Church is guided by Apostles and Prophets, just like the Church of Jesus Christ in the times of Christ. Elder Richards

Hola familia y amigos! Espero que hayan tenido una buena semana. Everything in Molina is great. This week Karina didn´t progress as much as we hoped and we are going to have to move her baptismal date until the end of the month. She didn´t make it to church yesterday, but we´ll get her there next week! But yesterday we had another investigator named Hector attend Church, which was an awesome miracle! Hector is an investigator from about a year ago, but he went to live in Concepcion for a while and lost contact. But two members went and knocked on his door the other day, found him, and then brought us on Thursday. We taught a little bit and he said he would definitely be in Church this week. He doesnt seem to have any major problems, so we are going to try to teach him everything and help him towards a baptism at the end of this month. When the members help in missionary work, miracles happen! Apart from that everything else is good. This week flew by and this Saturday we are going to h...

Hola hola, It´s been a great week here in Molina. The weeks have really been flying by this transfer, and in just two more weeks we´ll have another change. Wow. But we are working hard and trying to get things done here in Molina. This week we worked especially hard with our investigator Karina and everything lead up to her attending church with a friend yesterday!! We were super excited to have her at church and she really enjoyed it. In preparation for that we introduced her to members and taught about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the word of wisdom, and the law of chastity. Karina is only 27 years old, but has a lot of trials in her life and has been going trhough a lot of difficult things. Just recently she separated from her husband, and is trying to support her and her 11 year old son with the store that she owns. The Gospel has helped her a lot so far, and she has the faith to keep learning. She is on track for baptism March 6th, and we hope she can keep that date. We do...