we
had a good week here in the bay. lots of fun times, lots of things
happened, but i dont really have that great of a memory... but anyway
this week we had our own personal zone conferences! so president came to
coquimbo and did interviews with everyone while his wife and the
assistants did some good presentations. the interview was... different. i
felt a lot less intimidation from president diaz compared to president
kahnlein haha! but it was really good and the guy has so much love for
everyone especially considering teh fact that for 2 weeks straight he
was traveling to all of the zones and conducted over 200 interviews! and
if it is anything like a baptismal interview i know that it really
takes it out of you! president diaz also gave a presentation on the holy
ghost that was incredible! i seriously learned so much from it and he
told us how he came to know the gospel was true... when he was 21 he
heard the missionaries and after like 3 or 4 months of not knowing he
climbed to the top of a volcano in santiago and prayed.. he said he
practically ran down the volcano after and called the elders to get
baptized the next day. good guy.
the espejo family took some ups and downs this week. it was a crazy week with them! on monday
we had the plan to teach the word of wisdom because we knew that they
drink tea and smoke a little. so we brought some herbal tea to give to
them that night but right as we were about to get to it in the lesson
this guy from javiers work came in and talked with him for so long! so
we finished up and planned ot do it the next day.. the next day we get
to the same part... and the same fetching guy yells outside their door!
it was serisouly amazing its like satan has perfect timing always! i
cant tell you how many times in my mission i have been interrupted while
telling the first vision! but yeah anyway long story short we didnt
teach it till saturday
and we figured out that javier drinks 8 cups of coffe a day, they both
smoke like 5 cigarrettes, and they both drink like 2 cups of tea a
day... and in spite of the fact that they couldnt go to church yesterday
they improved a ton! in one day they cut everything in half so that was
awesome! theyre advancing in the book of mormon and looking for an
answer, now we just need a baptism goal! but a couple days a go we
passed by to see monica and she started telling us about all the
problems that she has had with her son martin.. and then she started
thanking us for the friendship weve developed with them and the help
weve given their family and she just started balling! thats one of those
times that you realize the mission is the best thing in the world
a
quote by elder pearson that i loved from the last gen conference is
taht casual obedience and luke warm committment weakens faith. pretty
profound right? if a missionary gets home from his mission and jsut
starts to coast he makes it pretty hard to progress and be happy... ill
be honest that quote hit me hard. it applies in everything. we can never
be complacent with giving a half hearted effort. in the mission, after
the mission, and for the rest of our lives. in 1 nefi 22:2 it says that
the prophet receives all direction for us and knows all the things that
are going to occur. i dont think it is any coincidence that this last
conference about 80 percent of the talks were about families and
marriage. its obviously something that the world could work on.
in
my interview president diaz challenged me to start learning a new
language... so yeah there is that. in a couple months i have to give a
talk in a language that isnt english or spanish. das coo pres.
sepan que les queremos muchisimo. que tengan una buena semana todos. chauito!
-elder allred - chilean street raptor
so my camera got another virus. i hate chilean computers.
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