Attitude of Gratitude

The weeks keep going and going here in Santiago. I am amazed at how my mission is now to when I thought of it as a boy. I look around me and it’s cold now and there are the Andes with snow cover on them. Half the time, I cant see them because of smog that I am sure may give me health problems one day, but the mission is really cool!

 President and Sister William had all of the 'Southern Missionaries" over for BBQ. It was amazing!

Our Investigator Quenne has really been progressing in the gospel and has been coming to church weekly now. She is set for her baptism on the 1st of July and is really progressing. She is so cool.

One day this week, I had a moment of gratitude for what I have in my life. As we were going from house to house and visiting another family, I had overwhelming feelings of gratefulness for what I have. I get to bring people happiness, I get to help people make changes in their lives to have a purpose. I have a family that loves me, I have incredible missionaries around me that are great people, I have Chilean families and people here to teach. 

Everything in life is a gift from our Heavenly Father. Our existence and opportunity to live is a precious gift. I think when we stop every once in a while, and just soak it in, it makes it all worth it. There are so many enjoyable things in this life!

Biking Adventures in San Bernardo

Junior, Quenne and P-Day

Wow, What a week it has been here in Santiago. To start, I will do a little bit of a recap from my week last week.

We had a conference with Elder Clayton from the Seventy. He was able to come down to San Bernardo and we had such a great conference!! On Saturday, we were able to bring Junior, our recent convert, to his conference and it was so good!! He did a question and answer for the whole time and had some leaders answer questions. Overall, it was such a spiritual conference and I loved it!

At the end he went around and shook everyones hand. When he got to Junior, he talked with him for a minute or two and expressed his gratitude for him!! Elder Clayton is incredible!!

 As for this week, Today we had a really awesome p-day. 100 missionaries joined together at a stake center and we had a fun get together. there was a blow up slide and everything!

Our week was really good. With our investigator, Quenne, we were able to have some really spiritual lessons with her! Literally, one of our lessons with her was answering her questions that she wrote down after reading and highlighting a gospel principles book! She loves to read! 

Other than that, our week was solid. As missionaries, we are trying to find more people to teach and to share the gospel with.