Mutual, Elder McKane Dancing and Consistency

It has been a good week yet again in the Santiago Urban Jungle!! I kind of forgot but I complete a year in the mission today interestingly enough...that year went by pretty fast for me..haha. Its crazy how fast time flies on the mission. 

As for my week, it was really good. We had a lot of administrative things to do which made the dynamics of the week a little different. We had a leadership conference in San Bernardo, and we were able to learn a lot during it. We had a lot of talk on the fundamentals and the importance of them in our work as missionaries. We also talked about the doctrine of Christ, and looking for other sources of scriptures outside of the normal missionary prototype scriptures that we normally use. Hermana Gwilliam talked about love and how we need to show it to ourselves and for the people we serve. We learned a lot during the conference and will be bringing it back to our Districts!

As a ward, we haven't really had mutual, but right before I got here, we started picking it up and helping it. We now have lots of kids attending and bringing lots of there friends that are nonmembers. It is great! We had almost 20 kids here for Mutual this past Friday which is our record so far!

On Saturday, we had our ward talent show! We had such a blast! Lots of people performed their talents. One of our investigators who is 9 played the piano really well!! His name is Benjamin!

Elder McKane is a really good dancer and danced to a funk song! Everyone was amazed and going crazy when he danced! hahaha. He got the whole crowd going. At the end, we saw a Cueca dance which is a traditional Chilean dance that they do here in Chile! This group is from a different ward in our stake. They did a really good job and put on a great show! We had 80 people show up to the show and about 12 were investigators between us and the other elders. considering that our ward has 40 people coming each week, we were stoked and so happy!

Our Investigator named Victor is progressing lots too!! He is doing really well and progressing towards baptism! We had a lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he loved it! He expressed his testimony and love for this gospel and how much he has loved the church since coming to know it in such a short span of time! He already has a testimony and is growing it each week!

 As I was cleaning this week, I came across one of my old letters from my mom while I was in the MTC or training center back in Mexico. It was a good letter. My mom talked about her time in Brazil learning Portuguese and the challenges that came with that. Also, she referenced a talk that talked about Consistency in all that we do. It made me go back to the good old days in the MTC where there was a desperation that I felt to be consistent to be able  to learn everything! Looking back now, and not to bag on myself persay, but I dont think I have that same tenacious desire and desperation to learn everything as much as the day I started. Thats not to say that I am lazy or layed back, and maybe that's something about the new freshness of the missionary, but God expects us to be consistent in what we do! Consistent in our love for him, our obedience to his commandments, and consistent in other aspects of our lives. As we try to maintain ourselves at that consistent level (knowing that it is hard and that we will dip) we really come to know Christ who is the most consistent above all other men!

A quote I love from John Wooden is ¨All of life is peaks and valleys. dont let the peaks get to high and the valleys too low¨

Or that as we maintain ourselves  disciplined where we know that God wants us to be, we will see results. 

Have a great week.