tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20353989292704633232024-03-12T17:54:16.227-07:00Elder Weidman - Chile Vina Del Mar MissionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-46370376467314964422014-08-11T16:49:00.000-07:002014-08-11T16:49:03.495-07:00Isaiah 61:1 - My Calling<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">( Let me take a </span><u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">deep</u><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> breath before I start this email).....</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Two years ago to this month I was spending my last few weeks with the family. I was able to make use of every last second before my mission by fishing in Alaska, spending a few days in the Utah House, and best of all spending precious days with the family. Many of my friends already had a few months of their mission experience under their belts and all I wanted to do was follow in their steps. I still remember the anxious feelings that I had as the countdown began winding down. Then without even realizing it, the night arrived of when I would be set apart by a worthy Stake President. I spent the last few moments of that night trying to imagine how the next two years would be. The date of the next morning was the 22nd of August 2012, my assigned day to enter into the MTC. I finished packing the suitcases and then waited with the family. We left the house and shortly arrived to the MTC. The fact that this would be the last time that I would be with most of my family for 2 years began to dawn on me as the last photos were taken, but the excitement to begin my long awaited mission over powered the other feelings. I was dropped off at the curb of the MTC and, after saying a quick goodbye, walked away while fighting off the desire to look back. I didn´t need to see them in order to know that they were there supporting me in every step that I was going to take.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">After spending 2 months in the MTC, I realized that, as I arrived to Chile, my time spent there was meant to easily make the life change. I thought that I had a pretty good grasp on Spanish but once I began talking with the Chileans, I realized two things: 1. There is a Chilean Spanish and 2. They talk SO fast that it seems like they don´t take time to breath! The first area where the Lord needed me to work was in Limarí, Ovalle. My amazing first trainer, Elder King, helped me straight off the bat put my heart into the work. Instead of giving me time to unpack on my first day, we hit the streets and immediately began talking with people. That first experience with my trainer set off the focus of my mission: Spend every minute of the day fulfilling my purpose as missionary. After six weeks, Elder King was sent to Valparaiso and Elder Crist, a missionary who immediately can gain the confidence of anyone, became my second ¨papa¨. We spent the following 3 months underneath the scorching summer sun in Ovalle and it was there where I learned never to complain as Laman and Lemuel always did. There are miracles each and everyday and we decide whether or not to look for them. The Lord then decided that my time was finished in Ovalle and I was sent to Con Con, where Elder Rivera taught me many things about Chile. I was truly blessing to have a Chilean companion because in those 6 weeks I gained a never-ending love for the country of Chile. Through Elder Rivera, I was able to gain a deep understanding of the Chilean culture and understood that the best way to serve these people was by loving them with they same love that they always had for me. I was then able to share all that I had learned with Elder Farnsworth as we spent quite a bit of time in the house as he recovered from the operation he had been given. He also taught me the importance to always put the Lord´s Will before anything else. As he told me all about his life and mission, I seriously thought that Parley P Pratt was sent to be my companion. A converted missionary. The short 3 months in Con Con came to a close as I was called to serve with Elder Yorgason in Parte Alta, Coquimbo. Upon arriving to our sector, I began to realize that I was about to have my first experience with the challenging hills of Chile. I soon learned from my companion that the hills are only challenging if we allow them to discourage us because everyday he would leave with a huge smile and everyone could see how happy he was by the way he walked and talked. I great teaching was left by Elder Yorgason to never let the discouragement dampen my spirits on the mission. Every single door can be shut in our faces or the streets can seem like water slides due to the rain, but if we have a uplifting attitude, we will always be happy. I was able to transmit the same spirit to my next companion Elder Dawson, who was arriving straight from the MTC. We enjoyed our short month together, where he taught me more about repentance than I had learned in my whole life. In that moment I was able to witness the example of a humbled son of God who put the blessing of repentance before his own pride and desires. Elder Morales then replaced my companion and, in the 2 quick weeks together, showed me how one must apply their faith in <u>every single prayer</u> that they offer. I would have loved to have spent 6 more weeks with him, but the Lord had different plans for the second half my mission.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Quillota, the land of the avocados, was calling my name as I arrived to the change meeting. Elder Sosa, a dear friend of mine, and I spent 4 months together and as I think back on the experiences we had together, I begin to understand why I miss that place so much. The members, our converts, the missionaries, and even the sudden trips to other sectors in the zone help me realize how I was changed by focusing on the needs of others. Elder Sosa and I were able to help many people as we truly consecrated ourselves to the work. Elder Brown then replaced him and, through his way of teaching, I saw how the Gospel is the only thing in this world that can truly bring us joy from heaven. My 6 months in Quillota came to a close as I was called to work in my dream area, Valparaiso. Elder Baird introduced me to the amazing city and also left me always looking for the Lord´s Hand in the work. With him we were able to follow the Spirit to God´s children who were waiting for us. Then Elder Bojorquez and I experienced a handful of events that truly changed our perspective on life. Together we were able to help others conquer (sp?) the unexpected trials of this earthly life. Elder Bojorquez also taught me about the importance to deeply think about teachings of Christ so that I can <u>always</u> apply the blessings that come from His sacrifice. Now I find myself in Quilpue and have tried to teach my companion Elder Swindler, all that I have learned in these past 2 years. I don´t think that we were given enough time together but that doesn´t stop me from trying. I don´t feel that I deserve all the blessings that I have received but I know that I must share what I have learned with others.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">The truth is that my two years of the mission will shortly end, but my eternal dedication to consecrate myself to the Lord´s work has just begun. I thank you all for the support and prayers made in my behalf. Soon we will see each other and I will try my hardest to tell about the experiences I´ve had on the mission but I believe that only Jesus Christ will be able to truly understand the full change that I have made. I love you all! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Do you all want to know how I feel right now? Let me tell you then. This morning in our companionship study, Elder Swindler and I read a talk by Elder Tad R. Callister called ¨A Consecrated Missionary¨ (mom you sent me this talk about a year ago and it <u>changed</u> my mission). In that talk, Elder Callister explains the change of nature that a missionary must have in order to become as the missionaries in the Book of Mormon. Near the end his talk, he mentions about Roger Bannister who broke the 4 minute mile. ¨He collapsed at the finish line into the hands of his well-wishers¨. I feel that I am running the same race and that I have now approached the last 100 meters. If I don´t give it my all and keep sprinting even through the finish line, everything will have been in vain. The Lord has set the standards for this mile race and He has said that one must serve with all their heart, might, mind, and strength until the ¨Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.¨ So now to answer the question: I feel great! I have realized that through out my mission, I have always dedicated all my efforts in serving the Lord. My willingness to leave everything behind began the day that I entered the MTC. The difference, however, is that now I have studied Preach My Gospel from cover to cover and know how to apply it in the Work so that the Spirit is the true teacher. I have the same determination and devotion but the big change is that, through deep study and meditation, I can truly say that <u>I love Jesus Christ</u> and I understand what I must do in order to have His Atoning Blood convert me into a consecrated servant. I invite all who read this to consider the blessings that come to each and everyone of us due to the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Let His blood and sacrifice free you from the bonds of the Adversary! It is the one thing that we must do while in this earthy life so that our family can live together forever. I hope that you can feel the testimony and love that I now have of Jesus Christ. I love you all!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The week flew by like always which isnt the most pleasing thing for me. I'm trying to make use of every minute that I have left while trying to make it pass by slow at the same time, but I've come to the conclusion that it is imposible. When you are lost in the work, the time doesn't matter. Every minute is spent giving your all. The continuos effort given out should never decrease from 100%, whether it be 11 in the morning or 930 at night. Your mind should be competely focused on the Lord's work. You should not let <u>anything</u> distract you from your purpose as missionary. In Doctrine and Covenants 4 it says that the eye should be single to the glory of God but I would like to talk about the Spanish translation. In the spanish Doctrine and Covenants the word "eye" is replaced with "mira" which means "scope" in English. Like the scope that is used on a sniper rifle to aim directly at the target. If the scope is used correctly, you can hit exactly where necessary with 0 doubt. Dad has a lot of experience and I´m sure that he would be more than pleased to explain with more detail the benefits of a scope! In Mission Work, you must have your ¨scope¨ pointed with 100% zoom at God´s purpose which is to ¨bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man¨. Once your vision is at that point, nothing will effect you. You won´t even notice the things that are passing around you because the all your efforts, desires, and prayers will be consecrated to Him. Not a single distraction will be able to enter. What an amazing promise.<br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The work here in Quilpue is beginning to explode. We ended the week with 3 bautismal dates: 1 for the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_462854779" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">coming Sunday</span></span> and 2 for the one that will follow. The 2 for the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_462854780" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10th of August</span></span> are a brother and sister. The brother is Lucas, who I talked a little about last week. His schedule is a bit difficult because he is only home at 930 pm during the week, but we have been taking advantage of every second that we have with him. He inicially had a baptismal date for the 3rd but after introducing us to his sister, Cata, and explaining to her about how his view on life has changed in the past 2 weeks, he happily accepted an invitation to be baptized <u>with </u>Cata on the 10th! They both are reading the Book of Mormon together and if one has a doubt or fear of being baptized, the other will comfort them with advice and make sure that they are happy. It´s awesome to be able to teach a brother and sister and see how they are united in this decision. Great examples!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Well the transfers came and now I am working in Quilpue with my new companion, Elder Swindler. He has just started his second transfer in the mission field so Ill be covering his training for the next month. He is from Riverton, Utah and is the youngest of 7 so we have a LOT in common. He understands how hard and stressful it is to be the youngest in a big family :). JOKE! No, we have talked a lot about how blessed we have been in our lives to have older siblings who have been huge role models in our lives. I feel really privileged to have Elder Swindler as my new companion because he came to the mission spiritually pre-trained. You cant even tell that this is his 8th week in the field because he shows his tremendous faith through his comments and actions in the day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The Lord blessed me too much by sending me here to Quilpue. A day has not pasted where we have not found a new investigator. 2 of those investigators now have baptismal dates for the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_834805007" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">3rd of August</span></span> and we are working with 2 others so that our baptismal goal of 4 for our time together can be accomplished. On of the investigators with a baptismal date is named Lucas. He is 18 years old, was in prision last year, and wants to have a complete change in his life. We taught him the plan of salvacion this past week and he understood everything! When we explained about why it was necessary for Adam and Eve to eat the fruit, he practically yelled that it made so much sense. At the end of the lesson he accepted a baptismal date and said that he wanted to do it so that he could live in the Celestial Kingdom! I love when our investigators understand the Plan of Salvation. My favorite moment is when the light bulb clicks, a smile comes on their face, and the Holy Ghost is seen in their eyes. It is an undescribable moment where the investigator usually gains their first testimony of the Restored Gospel. Lucas came with us to Church yesterday and we were able to get to know the members together. We plan on having contact with him everyday this week in order to help him continue progressing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Saying goodbye to Valparaiso was truly a sad moment but once we arrived to the transfers meeting and sang Ill go where you want me to go, I felt a spiritual assurance that I need to be in Quilpue. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-24223399897173236882014-07-21T08:52:00.001-07:002014-07-21T08:52:19.325-07:00DyC 9:7-8<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> We woke up to rain this morning, which ruined our desires to play soccer with the ward members who are on winter break, but that means more time to clean our apartment!! This week we´ll have transfers and I´m pretty sure that I´ll be sent off to a new area to finish off the mission. The truth is that I would <u>love</u> to open up an area or something similar but if I have learned one thing on the mission it is that the Lord usually has something else in mind that will allow me to consecrate even more than what I can imagine. The truth is that I will truly miss the members and friends here in Valparaiso if I am needed in another sector especially due to the life changing experiences we faced together. I never would have thought that experiences so spiritually impacting would have happened to me here in Valparaiso but I have come to understand the purpose behind every experience that I have had and each one has led to me trust more and more in the Atonement of Jesus Christ. After having seen how the Atonement can change peoples lives, I now know what I must continue doing throughout my life in order to accomplish my purpose as a child of God.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-70639226341270837242014-07-10T05:17:00.001-07:002014-07-10T05:17:51.974-07:00Helaman 15:6 - Unwearied Dilligence<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The title of this email has a lot to do with what happened this week. In the moment, we don´t have many investigators so we have been working extra hard on finding news and the zone has also been passing for the same situation. Realizing that the lack of investigators was a problem all over the stake of Valparaiso, the Stake President, High Priest assigned to the Mission Work, and us met together with the Bishops of every ward in one huge meeting in order to develop a Stake level plan of how to involve members more in the work. A stake mission plan was made that consists of two sides: the ward council side and everyday member side. Here is the first part of the plan: First, members of the Ward Council, accompanied by the missionaries, will visit every single active family in the ward and will explain the ward mission plan with great detail. Second, the Bishopric will do divisiones with the missionaries of their ward at least one weekend of every month. Third, all the members of the ward in organized groups will spend one <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1664390869" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> afternoon of every month visiting the less active member families that have at least one person over the age of 7 in their home who is not baptized to encourage the family to return to church. These are the 3 actions that the ward council has the responsibility to bring to pass. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The second part of the stake mission plan is for each member and focuses on helping the members make the participation in missionary work be a natural part of their lives. Every member will be given a Preach My Gospel (fulfilling Elder Ballard´s invitation) and a hard cover Book of Mormon. The families will focus one family home evening of every month on Preach My Gospel so that they can apply the teachings and see the blessings. It will be a family goal (like seen in this video <a href="https://www.lds.org/training/wwlt/2013/hastening/special-broadcast?lang=eng#media=16902107223790014226-eng" target="_blank">https://www.lds.org/training/<wbr></wbr>wwlt/2013/hastening/special-<wbr></wbr>broadcast?lang=eng#media=<wbr></wbr>16902107223790014226-eng</a>) and they will always have a Book of Mormon available to give out. The ward and full time missionaries will pass by often to give brief training and answer any questions had.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> It´s a very spiritually inspired and thought out plan that is difficult to write in an email with the little time that I have. But like I said before, the main purpose of the plan is to have the members develop personal testimonies of the Work of Salvation so that they too can participate. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-39128396656733281352014-07-01T05:29:00.000-07:002014-07-01T05:29:04.651-07:00Mosiah 7:18-19 - Put your trust in God<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Hey family!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> I can´t believe that I am already writing another email again. The days are going by quicker and quicker and I have no way to make it pass by slower. This week I went to the area of one of our missionaries who has been struggling a bit lately with the disobedience. In my time in the mission, I have come to realize that there is always a reason behind the disobedience that is not seen. Some missionaries who see these disobedient missionaries immediately judge them without trying to know nor help them. This is not the way to do it and many time this will cause a missionary to be even more disobedient. The best way to help this type of missionary has two steps (from my own experience): 1. See them in God´s eyes (President Monson´s talk in the October 2012 Conference) and 2. Dig deeper and find the iceberg underneath the disobedience (Preach my Gospel). The iceberg may come from homesickness, lack of faith, frustration, a misunderstanding about the rules, or even at times lack of sleep. Now I will return to the experience that I had with this elder. I went to his area with desires to help him change. I have about 6 months here in the zone and he has 4. When he arrived, there was not even a lick of disobedience (does that make sense?) but through the past months, we noticed that he was changing. I knew and had seen his true potential and was praying, practically begging, that this interchange with him would help him in his conversion process of the mission. I already had a strong relationship with him, so I straight up told him about what we had seen, and how we desired to help him due to the love we felt towards him. While walking in the street, he told me that the disobedience had come from frustration. Frustration in not seeing results, especially from the contacts in the street. Our Mission President always has promised that if we do 20 contacts each day, we would be blessed with results. I helped him realize of the blessings that he had been receiving before when he was happily doing the 20 each day, and of the blessings that he had lost when he stopped. He expected that the blessings would come through more investigators, better numbers, more baptisms etc, but we talked about how he personally had become spiritually strengthened during those contacts. We then offered a prayer so that the Lord would show us even more blessings from the street contacts and then set the goal to do the 20. Let me tell you that our prayer was answered! The Lord seriously placed about 5 people in our path that day that truly were striving to make a spiritual change in their lives. One of the best days of my mission. That was a day when we saw miracles in the street. We must have the faith that those days can happen everyday, and not get discouraged when it doesn´t happen. There is always a reason why!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-20005670883438571222014-06-23T16:27:00.001-07:002014-06-23T16:27:07.444-07:00John 14:26 - Purpose of the Holy Ghost<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey Family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"> Well I spent too much time thinking about my answers for the survey and now I have practically no time at all to write the email. I´ll give you all an update on the recent converts that have been baptized in the past 2 months.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;">Makarena- Remember how she began coming to church after her house burnt down? Well she has been continuing strong and yesterday she had an interview with the Bishop so that she can go to the temple in Santiago on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_872624707" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 5th</span></span> and do baptisms for the dead! She is loving the Young Women´s program.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;">Veronica - One of the best converts of my mission. She has taken everything in and now is working super hard on her Family History so that she can perform the baptism on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_872624708" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 5th</span></span>. A quick miracle: She thought that her mom, who is Baptist, would never give her permission to be baptized for her grandmother, but after a long phone call where she shared her testimony about the family history work, Veronica obtained permission to be baptized for her grandmother! She began crying when she told us that experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;">Camila - She was confirmed member of the Church yesterday and passed her temple interview with the Bishop right after the meetings! Her favorite passage in the Book of Mormon up to this point is the mourning of Nephi in 2 Nephi 4. She printed out the verses and framed them on her wall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"> I have loved being able to be in Valparaiso for 6 months because I have been able to see the personal progression of every single one of my converts. I will be able to apply the examples and teachings that they have left me in my entire life!</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-77868078558957073742014-06-20T12:30:00.001-07:002014-06-20T12:30:26.962-07:00Alma 31:34-35 - Power and Wisdom<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> This past week we had the special privilege to listen to Elder Robbins from the Presidency of the Seventies in a Mission Conference held on Tuesday. Here are some of the notes that I feel the need to share with you:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">1. The missionary agenda has a picture of a compass on the front. We read Alma 37:38-42 and he had us replace the word compass with agenda. He also testified to us that the agenda is a spiritual tool made by the First Presidency to help us truly be led where the Lord <u>needs</u> us to be. My companion and I have put this into practice after the conference by planning more slowly and listen to what the Spirit tells us in our planning sessions and the difference is too obvious.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">2. He spoke to us also about the two different ways to be obedient. Nefi was obedient, but Laman and Lemuel were also obedient. They were obedient to the Lord when they left Jerusalem, went back to get the plates, cross the sea, and in many other things but what was the difference between them and Nefi? They would always murmur while Nefi would obey without delay or complain. That is the difference between an obedient missionary and an exactly obedient missionary.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Well my time has ended, but I hope that those 2 teachings will help you this week and the decisions that need to be made.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-89676734734933542972014-06-09T14:32:00.001-07:002014-06-09T14:32:22.697-07:00Jacob 4:10<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> I´m staying in Valparaiso for another 6 weeks of rain and wind!! This week was super crazy due to transfers and the baptism of Camila. Let me give you a quick summary of the week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_527599982" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Monday</span></span> night, we talked with Camila and spilled the beans that transfers were coming up, which probaby meant that I would be leaving. For the past month, we have been looking for rent for her and her family who live a bit up north from here so that she could leave the house of her ex-boyfriend, live with her parents and siblings, and be baptize. The search for rent for that many people was turning out to be very difficult and a long process, so when Camila found out that transfers were coming, she told us that she would be willing to find a small rent and live alone with her daughter until a bigger apartment was found. She wanted to do this so that I could be present in her baptism. We ended <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_527599983" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday</span></span> night realizing that we only had 24 hours to find a rent, move Camila out of her house, have the baptismal interview, and plan the baptismal service. Just call us the Jack Bauer missionaries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_527599984" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Tuesday</span></span>, we began the day by asking President Kahnlein if Camila could be baptized the day right after moving out of her ex´s house and he asked us why it was necessary so quickly. We told him of our worry that I might leave, and he agreed that it would be a great idea to have the baptism before <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_527599985" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span> afternoon. That comment made us believe that I was gone for sure so we began the search for a smaller apartment. The Lord guided us the whole time because within an hour we had found an apartment that at first was too expensive for Camila, but then when the owner found out that Camila would be a member of the Church, she lowered the price. Blessing #1 - Lowing of the price. Then we realized that we needed a member to help us move everything out of Camila´s old house to her new house. We immediately called a member who has a truck and he said that luckily he was free that night. Blessing #2 - Free night of a member. Camila then had her baptismal interview but then something happened that we weren´t expecting: she needed to have another interview with someone with more experience in the Church. Due to transfers, President Kahnlein had no time that night, so we decided to cancel the baptism for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_527599986" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span> morning yet continue with the apartment move in the night time. The move went excellent and there was no problem with the ex-boyfriend. Blessing #3 - Ex didn´t do anything to stop her from moving. The night ended and we all thought that I wouldn´t be able to be there for the baptism. We all knew that the move had to happen that day so that Camila would be free from her Ex, yet we were a bit sad for how things turned out.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-47241432671742727482014-06-03T10:08:00.000-07:002014-06-03T10:08:01.680-07:00D y C 43:16 - Sanctify Yourself<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey Family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Remember the video chat that we had on Mother´s Day about when I go home and all that jazz? Well after much prayer, thought, and reading of my Patriachal Blessing, I´ve decided to come home 2 weeks early so that I can prepare for the semester that comes in BYU. My original date was to come home on the 27th but now I will be coming home in the middle of the week of the 11th - 17th. I´m still not sure which day it will be but just wanting to give a heads up so that plans can be made and all that. The truth is that it was a hard decision and I wanted to feel 100% sure on my decision therefore I know that it is what the Lord needs me to do so that I can accomplish my true potencial. I really had the need to stay in the mission for 2 years because I felt that my mission wouldn´t be fully complete without that but then I felt the Lord tell me that He is the One who decides whether or not the work done was sufficient. The time spent in the field doesn´t matter nor the number of converts. What matters is the dedication and consecration that you place willingly in the Lord´s Hands. He knows what I must do and I can truly say that this is the decision that will lead me even closer to His presence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Now enough about me. Camila, our investigator who is just dying to be baptized, continues progressing quickly. She can´t be baptized in the moment because she is living with her ex boyfriend and can´t find any rent due to all the victims who are were effected by the fire that are living in rents. We even did a fast with her this week to find an apartment, and we continue looking with faith. The Lord will definitely provide the way because this is a meaningful step so that Camila can enter into His Church. Within in the second of finding rent, she is going to have her baptismal interview and be baptized. We have changes this week, and I really hope to be here in her baptism but that is my personal desire that doesn´t matter in the end. The important thing is that she can make a life changing promise with God that will never be forgotten nor broken.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-55065752597760427272014-05-27T09:05:00.002-07:002014-05-27T09:05:38.793-07:00Moroni 8:9-10 -- Teach to those who are accountable<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Really quickly I got a few seconds to write you all! Veronica got confirmed yesterday and she is one of the best converts I have in the mission! She called us this morning to let us know that she has already started her genealogy without us having to expain anything! We have already set a goal to go to the temple on May 2015 and she is 100% concentrated on accomplishing that goal. She said that her whole life she has had goals but never has she had such a strong desire to complete one until now. It´s crazy to think that if we had not followed the Spirit that day in contacting her in the street, she would still be lost in the world, looking for a way out of her problems. My companion says that she has helped him have for faith in the many contacts that we do in the street because only the Lord can guide us to those who are willing to accept the Gospel just like Veronica did.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-9690193644614401182014-05-23T13:59:00.000-07:002014-05-23T13:59:21.680-07:00Moroni 7:48 - Pray with all heart to receive love<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey Family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"> As you can see from the photo, Veronica was baptized yesterday and it was one of the most spiritual baptisms that I have ever been in! Let me explain why. Veronica arrived to Sacrament Meeting and all of the members were excited to accompany her in her baptism but then the Bishop organized a last second emergency service project in the hills which meant that almost all of the members would need to leave after sacrament and climb the hills to serve. Only the Bishop y 5 other people could stay for the baptism. Veronica said that she understood and didn´t feel bad for not having many people in her baptism but my companion and I still felt a bit let down because we wanted to have her baptism be full of people so that everyone would remember, but the Lord had different plans. The baptism service then began right after the 3rd hour of church and even though a handful of people were there, the Spirit was powerfully present. Veronica had asked me to baptize her so I had the opportunity to be in the baptismal font with her to witness the immediate change she had. She was very nervous when walking into the water but when I took her hand in mine and rose my hand to the square, I felt her take a deep breath and just wait. I offered the prayer and then layed her into the water. Those watching from the other side of the font said that when she came out of the water her face was glowing. Her smile was unforgettable. When the doors were closed, she told me that she was glad that water was dripping down her face so that people couldn´t see the tears streaming down. It reminded me a lot of the new Bible video of Christ´s Baptism. The feeling felt in that baptism was one that every person in the world should have the opportunity to partake of. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Long time no talk! That video chat last night was great just like usual and, even though Taylor, Nina, nor Danny were heard, we could see how much fun they were having and it makes me happy that they are making unforgettable memories in Thailand. I want to share really quickly about two comments that I received last night after the phone call. First was one from my companion who, for a short history update, is the only member in his family and his parents don´t support him too much on the mission. He was listening to the entire call and he admitted to me after that he began crying because of the Spirit that was felt and the strong bong that he saw among our family. He said that he is very excited to raise his own family in the Church because he knows that they will be a happy, loving family just like ours. Also La Familia Risco, the family that you all got to meet, have been having some recent trials in their life that have caused the mom to question the Church a little bit. She said that, even though she couldn´t understand our words, we helped her realize that her family is the most important part of her life and that she must stay in the church for her family. She began remembering all the spiritual experiences that she has shared with her family in the Gospel and the video chat helped her solidify her shaking testimony. I´m sure that none of you had any idea about how much you were spiritually helping those who were in the house with me last night. Even Wyatt, Sam, Gracie, and Lucy had a part in the help!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">* The picture included in the email is one of the baptism of Macarena. She is the niece of the family where I was last night. They are all in the photo.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> A quick update on our investigators. First off is a woman named Veronica. A few months ago we contacted her in the street. The contact was actually very cool because we were contacting another guy when she walked past. Both my companion and I felt the need to talk with her therefore we literally ended the conversation we were having with the man in two seconds and ran quickly to catch up to her. She told us she had been a member of the Catholic Church, but then had stop attending due to a bad experience that left her doubting if God exists. We set up an appointment with her, which she didn´t arrive to, but then like a month later she showed up to General Conference and we had a really spiritual lesson ( I feel like I already explained about it in a past email). Due to the fire of Valparaiso, we lost contact with her until just two weeks ago. She now really wants to be baptized and begin on her path towards the Celestial Kingdom. Satan has tried attacking her with many trials, but she has been able to conquer every single one through the Book of Mormon. Tomorrow night she will have her Baptismal Interview and on Sunday she will be baptized. A great conversion story!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The other investigator, Carolina, who I talked about last week is progressing very well. She has been smoking for 21 years and is in the process of overcoming the addiction. Yesteday she went to church for the 2nd time and her testimony continues to grow. Now the members are supporting her in the tough battle that she has with smoking. We are going to teach about the fast this week so that she can show the Lord that her Spirit is stronger than her body.</span></div>
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As you can see from the photo, Macarena was baptized yesterday by her
uncle, Jesus! She was accompanied by two other 8 year old primary girls.
I´m going to send another photo in the email that follows this of all 3
of them with the people who baptized them. In the middle of the photo is
Ignacia who asked my companion and I to teach her for the past month in order
to prepare her for her baptism. I don´t know if I have mentioned about
her before but she and her little sister remind me exactly of Lucy and Gracie!
Ignacia is always laughing, sharing what she learned in school with
everyone, and trying to be the best example for her sister, while the sister is
in her own little world and making people laugh. I´m sure that Lucy and
Gracie have changed quite a bit in the past 2 years, but they will always be
the same in my mind. The other girl in the picture is a daughter of a
member who recently returned to the church. She along with about 40 other
members have, due to the fire, felt the need to rekindle their relationship
with God and return to His Church. I have never seen such a high number
of asistence in any ward on my mission! Yesterday the Bishop said that
160 members partook of the Sacrament, a new record for the year. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We have another investigator name Carolina who has a baptismal date for
the 18th of this month. She works in a little office that has an open
gate facing the street, and one day while passing her office, we decided to
talk to her through the iron bars even though she was very concentrated in her
computer. Any normal person would have thought that that isn´t the best
way to begin talking with a stranger but when the Spirit prompts us to do
something, we follow the whispering without second thoughts. As we began
talking with her, she kinda looked at us pecularly (sp?) but was very
interested in what we were explaining about how God has revealed what our
purpose is through modern day prophets. She accepted a Book of Mormon and
we set another appointment to return. Well she wasn´t their for the
appointment and we lost contact with her for a few weeks. Then the huge
fire happened and during the same week, we contacted her while yet again
passing her office. This time she was 10X more open with us and began
explaining her personal interests and beliefs. She even admitted that she
didn´t know why she was so open with us, but that she felt very comfortable
talking with us. She has a very hard past that has left her single with 2
children of 22 years and 16 years. She has a hard time trusting in people
but she realized that that shell was broken as we began teaching.
Yesterday she came to church and immediately became best friends with the
woman of the Relief Society! I will expain more in the next email about
the especific details of her conversion because it is yet another amazing story
that I never thought that I would be a part of. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We will be seeing each other next Sunday! Mary knows
everything about the video call, so just contact her at anytime to know more.
She especially loves when people call her in the middle of the night!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hey Family!</span></span></div>
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The life is starting to get back to normal here, well as normal as it can
get with half of the hills burnt away. Studies started up again,
therefore there aren´t quite as many people serving in the hills like before.
Most of the burnt debris has been brought to the bottom and now we are in
the process of constructing little houses called ¨Media Aguas¨, which are one
room homes with enough space to put two three men tents. There is no
bathroom, but it´s mainly there so that the people have an acual roof over
their heads. The reconstruction of the houses will take months and
months, but the people needed shelter for the rain that comes with the winter. Most
of those who lost their houses have gone relative´s houses but there are still
many who won´t give up their land, therefore they have been camping out ever
since the fire. Truly dedicated to recovering their life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I want to share a little story about one family who lost their house.
The mom, Brenda, is a member of the Church but had been inactive for MANY
years. She now has two daughters, one of 12 years and the other of 5.
On the night of the fire, she and her two daughters ran to the only place
of shelter, the chapel. She said that it was pure chaos outside, but once
she entered the building´s doors peace was found. Nothing could be heard
from outside and she and her daughters slept peacefully. The next morning
they stayed for the sacrament meeting and were comforted by all the members.
Her brother and his family, who are strongly active, took them into their
home and cared for them the entire week. During the week, we began
passing by and teaching Macarena, the 12 year old daughter. Now she has a
baptismal date for the 4th of April and her uncle will baptism her. We
also began teaching Brenda more and helping her put her life back together.
She is expecting another baby and plans to be married with her boyfriend
by the end of the year. Even though she literally lost all her physical
possessions in the fire, she says that right now is the happiest time of her
life. She can not remember any other time when she was more happier.
The Lord´s purposes are unimaginable. We can always rely on Him.
There is no trial too tough that will lead us off His path.
Everything depends on our own decisions and how were exercise our agency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Yesterday at 9 p.m, all of the residents of Valparaiso ran out of their
houses clapping their hands in thankfulness for those who sacrificed time and
talents in repairing Valparaiso. A moment that I will never forget.
Shouts of thanks were heard from every single hill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Love
you all!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Photo:
My dirty face after a day of service.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-56765576331809580862014-04-21T20:52:00.000-07:002014-04-21T20:52:31.099-07:00Mosiah 2:17 - Service<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey Family!</span></span></div>
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This week has been full of service and recovery for what happened last
Saturday to Monday. Many days were spent in the hills performing service
for members and citizens effected by the fire. There is A LOT to do up where
the fire destroyed 3 thousand houses and I feel that the process of
reconstructing what was lost will take months if not years. Most of the
families of the ward who are now without houses are still cleaning their
property so that they can begin the reconstruction. People from all parts
of Chile found transportation in order to help in the grand service project.
School was cancelled the entire week because most of the houseless people
are staying in the school buildings. Valparaiso is moving forward, slowly but
surely.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Yesterday for Easter, our Bishop explained the similarity between
Christ´s last week before his death, and the past week that we had here in
Valparaiso. In His last week, Jesus suffered from persecution, betrayal,
loneliness, denial, and everything that we have suffered, suffer right now, and
will suffer. The brief period between His utter pain in the Garden and
His sacrifice on the cross was the hardest moment when He felt the true price
of sin. The Atonement was then completed through his Resurrection on
Sunday morning, when suffering ended and light was illuminated through the
darkness. The week here in Chile started with total darkness due to the
smoke and ashes. Pain was felt by all across Chile as news spread.
Sweat was shed as those who sacrificed days of study and work came
together to repair what was lost. All work ceased on Sunday in
order to celebrate the Resurrection of our great Savior. There is always a
glimpse of hope among the clouds of darkness. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I´m going to try to send some photos really quickly!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;">Love <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;">Elder
Weidman<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;">1.
The smoke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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smoke in front of a church.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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burning houses at around 10:30 PM. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;">Well
the computer is extremely slow so I´ll send one more of how I looked after
working in the hills all day. Just kidding. The time has ended. That´ll
have to wait for the next week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;"> I don´t know if you all remember
but last week the scripture was 3 Nephi 13:25 - Take no thought of
temporal things. Now this week´s message (as you can see above) has to do
with treasures in Heaven. Both of these scriptures repeatedly came to my
mind this weekend as I witnessed the destruction that a natural disaster caused
here in Valparaiso. I´m going to send 2 emails, one with my personal
experience and the other with the story of the fire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;"> On Saturday afternoon, at
around 4:30, my companion and I were in the church waiting for an
investigator to arrive. Through the windows we began to see smoke rising
behind the hills of our ward. We immediately ran to the back of the
church to see better and took some photos (photo 1) of the small stream of
smoke. Our investigator called us to let us know that he was inside the Church,
therefore we returned to teach him. Once finished teaching him, another
investigator came and we taught another lesson. We remained in the Chapel
until around 6:30, waiting for a Matias (the Argentino member that I
mentioned a couple weeks ago) to arrive and come with us. Upon leaving the
church, we looked towards the hills and saw that the smoke was tremendously
bigger. We then called the other 2 missionaries in our ward to tell them
to come down the hill and stay with us in the downtown. President Kahnlein
called us around 7 because he could see the fire from Viña. He instructed
us to stay off the hills and only walk around in the center. We went to
the street entrance of cerro el Litre and were informed by people running down
the hills that houses were burning. We tried helping as many people as
possible without climbing up the hills. At around 830, our Bishop called
us and informed us that he needed the Church to be opened so that the members
who had lost their houses in the fire could take shelter. We ran to the
Church, and began preparing the building for those who were coming. The
rest of the night was spent helping the faithful members who had lost
everything in the fire. As we left the Church at around 10:30 (we
had permission to be out later) we looked towards the hill and could literally
see dozens of houses burning to the ground. In that moment, we knelt down
in the center of the plaza and offered a quick prayer for those who were
suffering. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;"> The next morning at 9 A.M ,
we arrived at church in service clothes. We cleaned up around the
building until 10 when the Sacrament Meeting began. Due to Fast Sunday,
it was a testimony meeting and I will never forget the humble yet powerful
words that were expressed. I wrote down a few quotes from members who,
just the night before, had left everything they owned in a house that now
doesn´t exist. Here are some of their words: ¨I have what I need, my family.¨
¨Brothers of the ward dropped everything to go to the rescue of their fellow
members¨ ¨We are going to continue forward just like the pioneers¨ ¨I am a
Seminary Teacher and I need to be with my class. God will ask me for my
calling, not for the things I lost in the fire¨ ¨I cannot say that I don´t have
a house because all of my loved ones have offered me their own.¨ ¨I am happy!¨
One sister said that she was more thankful than she had every been in her life
because her long lost son finally returned to her in moment of danger.
The family was finally complete and all together in the church.
Those precious testimonies show that these families have placed treasures
in Heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;"> The other 2 meetings were
cancelled and members with desires to serve from all over the Stake began
arriving to our Church. We were divided into groups, each group going to
a distinct hill, in order to make a stop by each house of every member on the
hills. I was assigned to lead my group of 20 elders (members and missionaries)
from the stake to cerro las Cañas. The truth is that once we arrived to
the burnt houses, nothing was recognizable. We began clearing out the debris,
looking for any valuable items that had been saved from the fire with little
success. President Kahnlein even came from Viña to help in the cleaning.
We were up in the hills for 3-4 hours until we were instructed to return
to the Church due to the growth of the fire in cerro Merced. (Read the next
email and it will make more sense) In the end, 26 families of the church lost
their homes in the fire. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;"> The sisters of the Stake began
collecting house supplies (clothes, food, etc) and the ending result was
amazing! The Church turned into a Bishop´s Storehouse! Members who had
nothing had tears in their eyes when they saw the donated items. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;"> I´m very greatful for the
restored truths that we have.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;">Elder Weidman<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;">I´m happy and safe is the main message!</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Elder Weidman's Second Email: Fire in Valparaiso</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">At </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1784215740" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:30 Saturday</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> afternoon, a fire (it is not known how it started) began burning a forest behind the houses that are on the hill La Cruz. (I´m going to call each hill by it´s name so that it´s easier to describe) Around thirty minutes later the wind carried sparks from the fire to the neighboring hill, Las Cañas. Trees on Las Cañas began burning as well. At around </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1784215741" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:30</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, houses began burning on both hills. The wind carried to fire to two more hills, El Litre and Merced. The flames continued burning houses on La Cruz, Las Cañas, and El Litre until </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1784215742" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> in the early morning. Houses continued burning in Merced until </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1784215743" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> in the early morning. Around 1,200 houses were burnt (as of last night). Now the fire is completely put out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;"> It´s been a great week, full of revelation from the heavens. I´ll explain
more in the coming emails but right now I´m going to send some photos. Here´s
the first<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;">1. Doing what Mary does best. Talking on the phone :)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;">3. The awesome sky after a
night of rain.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;">One quick experience.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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We have an investigator who we contacted around 2 weeks ago. We have
been trying and trying to meet with her but it seems that her whole life is
fighting against us. She told us that she could meet with us on
Sunday (yesterday) and we set a plan to meet at 5. I had totally
forgotten that that was when the last session of conference started so when she
arrived, we hurriedly rushed her into the sacrament room with 0 explanation of
what she was going to watch! We left her with a member, and then ran to
the English room to watch it in a native tongue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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After the session, we met with her in a small room in the Church
acompanied by a member. She exclaimed to us that almost every message had
impacted her and that this is what she was looking for. We explained to
her a little about the Restoration of Christ´s Church and tears filled her eyes
as she listened. She had been an active member in another Church before
but due to bad experiences she stopped believing in God. Over the past
month, she has had 3 encounters with the missionaries on the street therefore she
wanted to know why this was happening. We explained to her about the Holy
Ghost and God was reaching out to her again. She accepted a baptismal
date for the 20th of April! She admitted that she had not prayed for
MANY years therefore we invited her to pray in order to start her repentance
process. At first she looked very afraid, but then she took a breath and
beautiful words began flowing out of her mouth. She ended the prayer in
more tears with a new light in her eyes. What a blessing we have to be
able to listen to a prophet of God. This is His Church.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #999999;">Love
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-35265533582187302302014-03-31T17:36:00.002-07:002014-03-31T17:36:29.822-07:00Matthew 11:28-30<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey Family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"> Well today is the fast and short email due to all the forms we have to send after the last Sunday of every month. This will be a quick update on our week. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"> Last Sunday night we found a family, well a couple who aren´t married and the sister of the boyfriend, who received us really well! They have read every chapter that we have left them, and they understand the Gospel. They always have questions for us which is great because when we explain the Restored Truths to them for their answers, they happily accept it because they can feel the Spirit testify the truth to them. They are studying in the college close to here and yesterday we found out that they have plans to get married!!! (I have goal to have one of my investigators get married in order to get baptized) The Lord heard our prayers and saw our efforts. Like I have said many times, this is His work. He is at the head of it all and He asks that we consecrate everything. I love it!</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-86550852593580632862014-03-24T16:53:00.001-07:002014-03-24T16:53:59.449-07:00Ether 12:6 -- Trial of Faith<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey Family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Many things changed with our investigators this week and we focused mainly on finding new investigators through our own efforts and the referrals from the members. Andrea and Willington (the friends of Susana) have kinda fallen off the charts due to the worldly forces that work on them. We tried all we could to stay in contactg with them, but they weren´t putting in their own efforts and in the end we had to stop passing by them because they showed no signs of progression nor interest. We know that they both felt the Spirit at one point in our visits, therefore we have planted a seed that will be harvested in the future. That is the point of the Area Book (a book that has information about each investigator and their progression) that we always keep updated so that future missionaries can return to the investigators in a few months or years when their lives are completely different. In my first sector of the mission, we found one of my converts by using the Area Book. If the missionaries before me had not kept the Area Book updated, we would have never found Camila (the young women that was baptized in my last two weeks of my first area). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Yesterday we found 5 new investigators and we saw the fruit that came from ¨the trial of our faith¨. We returned to the house dead tired every night this past week due to the effort we put in, but we never lost enthusiam nor did we let the lack of success effect us. We tried talking with 20 people in the street everyday and we truly saw miracles each day. Now the Lord has blessed us with many future investigators that we will get to know better this week. I loved returning to the house everyday and being able to say that I gave my best effort that day in preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have felt many times in the past year that the Lord is truly happy with my work yet always expects more. I´m very grateful to be a servant of my Heavenly Father. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-59502903072143094022014-03-17T15:14:00.001-07:002014-03-17T15:14:39.454-07:001 Nephi 13:37 - Seek to Build Zion<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The coldness came from no where and hits us every morning but the afternoon is still full of heat. I have a new companion now named Elder Bojorquez and he´s from La crescenta, California. The mission that he lived in is Arcadia and the mission president is Presidente Besera (for dad). He just began his 5th transfer in the mission and I have a feeling that we will be together for a good number of months. I´ll try to take some photos of him, but he has roots from Puerta Rica in him so he looks Latino. Now if anyone wants to know English, they ask me because I´m the whitest person here in Valparaiso. What a privilege!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> An update on the investigators. Marcela, the pregnant lady that was living with a member, came to church yesterday and her partner met with the Bishop yesterday! Their marriage won´t happen in the near future, but that doesn´t stop her from being super excited for her baptism. That´s the only thing that she wants to do in the moment, but she´ll have to wait until Maonri feels more like doing it. Our other investigators, Andrea and Willington, who are friends of Susana, came to church yesterday and are preparing to be baptized on the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_150584195" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">30th of March</span></span>. This week we will teach all the commandments so that they can feel the power that comes from the restored Gospel. Next week I will have more details about them. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> I love you all. Have a great week!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-22237509795860758362014-03-10T17:06:00.001-07:002014-03-10T17:06:08.954-07:00Helaman 10:4-5 Declarar Infatigablemente<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hey family!</span><br />
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Valparaiso is getting a bit colder every day, but it´s amazing to run in this weather in the morning. The running has paid off because all the other missionaries have told me that my chins are vanishing. Joke, they just said that I look a bit more skinnier in the facial area and you don´t see me complaining. </div>
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Susana got confirmed yesterday and now we are working with one of her friends named Andrea. The world has a greater influence on her so she has struggled with keeping the commitments, but the Lord can perform miracles if we will put our part in. Susana is animating a lot of the members (especially the Relief Society) to participate in the Work of Salvation. It´s great to see how she doesn´t rely on us anymore (actually she never did) in order converse with the members, or keep the commandments. </div>
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We began working with another investigator this week named Marcela. She is living with with her boyfriend who is a member, Maonri, without being married and her boyfriend has been inactive for a few years due to many reasons. Marcela recently got pregnant by her boyfriend and at first was not happy at all. She didn´t want to have children for a long time, but then we helped her realize that having a baby will be a blessing. Throughout the week, she has grown to love the baby that is inside of her, and come to realize that this is a sign that she needs to include the Lord in her life. During one lesson, we were talking about the love God has for us (because she didn´t believe in God before this week) and how we can feel it. A member came with us, and he began bearing his testimony about how God loves her just as much as she loves her future baby. At that point, Marcela began crying due to the Spirit and love of God that she felt in the moment. This experience taught me two things: 1. The love of our Heavenly Father is the greatest and most powerful feeling that we can experience and 2. Members are crucial in lessons in order to have the Spirit testify to the investigators. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08652732102645016721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035398929270463323.post-91501519173652486312014-03-03T16:14:00.000-08:002014-03-03T16:14:02.965-08:00I forgot the scripture..<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hey family!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Susana was baptized yesterday! Her conversion story was amazing. First of all, I don´t know if you remember about my first weekend here in Valparaiso. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_176499956" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Saturday</span></span>, we left from lunch and began heading down to the Chapel to drop some things off. A woman comes out of her house and yells at us ¨Hey you!!¨ in English. Usually people always yell that, but this time was different because she asked for a Book of Mormon. She let us in told us that she had been taking classes with another church, but now she was going to change churches due to one thing: the dream she had with us. In her dream, she saw 4 missionaries who guided her across a bridge. We expained to her that our life is just like her dream. We live with Heavenly Father, then are sent to Earth to obtain a body and be tested, and then we need a bridge back to God. We told her that the bridge was a symbolism to the Gospel and she realized suddenly that she needed to be baptized. She committed to do all the steps necesary to be baptized and excitedly accepted the invitation to go to church the next day. We saw her the next day in church but then lost contact with Susana for a week. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The next week we finally got contact and she told us that family problems had come out of no where. We then set another baptismal date with her for the 2nd of March, which in the end she accomplished. She accepted every commandment with ease and even fasted for almost 3 days to prepare herself for the baptism. We are sharing with her friends now, and she has lots of desires to participate in the Work of Salvation. Yesteday she shared her testimony during the testimony meeting, even before she was a member! The Lord blessed us by giving us the privilege of teaching her. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">A little funny experience. When Susana stopped her fast, she said that she immediately ate chocolate and it made me remember Marsh and Rach´s experience. CHOCOLATE!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Have a good week!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> I don´t have much time to write today but I wanted to send an update about the investigators we have. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Susana is progressing amazingly. She came to Church yesterday, went to a baptism of another ward, and passed her baptismal interview! I´ll explain more about her in the next letter because her conversion story is amazing, but something really awesome is that she left this morning to stay in a place called La Laguna Verde for 3 days. She wants to eliminate all worldly distractions and read the entire Book of Mormon in those three days. Also she will be fasting for those three days, and wants a question answered by God (we don´t know what the question is, but she said that it won´t effect her baptism). She will be baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2117855518" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">next Sunday</span></span> by a ward member and has already begun bringing her friends to church.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The Navarro Family, the familia Argentina that I talked about last week, came to church yesterday and the ward welcomed them with open arms! The son has only one desire in the moment: go on the mission. The parents have only one desire: baptize their daughter. The daughter only has one desire: be baptized. And the littlest daughter has only one desire: sing I am a Child of God everytime that we pass by. The two daughters remind me a lot of Lucy and Gracie. The older one is a little shy but a talker once the ice breaks while the younger is always making everyone laugh by her goofy comments and actions. They will be a huge addition to the ward.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> I hope that everything is great back home! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">P. S. I tried getting a good picture of the stairs of death but I didn´t come out to well. I´ll grab a better one later.</span></div>
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