A great week! It’s really hot here in Santiago
but I am loving it! This week has been a good one and with lots of cool
experiences to share!!
To start, last Thursday,
I had to go to the downtown area to renew my Visa for the second and LAST TIME
here in Chile! It was the worst. 6 hours of waiting in line...... Such a long
day. We got up at 6 to head to downtown and from there we had to go to Migracions
and then to a police check in thing that took 6 hours of waiting outside in the
sun! but as always, I got to meet some cool people. A Venezuelan man that wants
to learn English, and many other cool people that have migrated to Chile for
work!
On Friday, I had
divisions with the other zone leaders in my sector and I left to go to their
sector for the day and it was really cool! Learned a lot of good things and we
were able to play soccer for their activity with their ward!
On Friday, we also had a
transmission from the Area which incorporates Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
The area authority talked about the importance of the Temple, Sharing the Gospel,
and observing the Sabbath Day and invited everyone to put goals down! Really cool
transmission
Saturday, we had a cool
transmission with our stake leaders and we talked about upcoming ward events,
missionary work with members, and other missionary events coming up.
On Monday, we had
missionary divisions again with the Assistants and it was great! I stayed and
we talked with some new people and one guy in particular whose name is Eduardo.
He had told us that he had spoken with Missionaries and had even come to church
for 6 months but never got baptized! He was really good friends with the
missionaries and then after they had left, he stopped going to church. We got
to talking with him and we set up a return lesson. He was a really cool guy and
we had a great conversation about religion and life!
This week, in my personal
studies I have been studying about the importance of the plan of salvation. I’m
trying to complete the invitation that Elder Christofferson gave us which was
to write a one page summary of it! As I read a lot and studied, I would like to
share some of my personal feeling and thoughts on it. The cool thing about this
plan is that it gives us more knowledge about what happens after this life as
well as what happens before and what we should do during this life! Thanks to
modern day revelation of prophets and apostles as well as The Bible and the
Book of Mormon we know more specifics as to the things that will happen and
that already have occurred. We came here to be able to return to live with him
and by living the principles that Christ taught us, we can do just that (faith,
repentance, baptism, receiving the holy ghost, enduring to the end) The
happiness that God wants us to have eternally can be attained through that!
Completing his will here on earth and through righteous living allows us to
have that. That’s why righteousness and obedience to the Gospel are so
important because it’s just that that allows us to be with
him.
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