tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83402320602434048292024-03-13T18:32:15.747-07:00My Super Awesome Mission AdventuresI am serving a two year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Rancagua, Chile. This is what I'm up too!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824245833553822190noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340232060243404829.post-12411973842083166202015-05-07T07:22:00.003-07:002015-05-07T07:22:55.394-07:00Wow!! So amazing.<br />
Best week of my life!!<br />
This was the last week in my wonderful mission in Rancagua, Chile.<br />
What an adventure! Its interesting when everyone asks me: "How was it down there?" and then I am supposed to respond like it was last nights dinner! haha. How can I possibly even put into words what a 2 year, full-time devoted, serving the Lord mission is like??<br />
Of course I could say, It was amazing with all the energy I could muster in my voice. Or I could even sit you down and show you all my pictures and explain it for 2 hours, but I still don't think I would be able to convey the wonderful feelings I felt down there. It was a 2 year period of CHANGE. I am just such a different person with such a different perspective on life.<br />
I lost myself in the service of the Lord.<br />
And now Im supposed to come back to this world of selfish pleasures and a get rich, take over the world attitude.<br />
Its been a huge change trying to get adjusted this past week. I mean the 2 cultures are incredibly different! I will say as I arrived in Atlanta, I bought my self the biggest Bacon and egg bagel from einsteins! Woo!<br />
Im ready for this new challenge to survive in this new world!<br />
But I definitely learned and experienced things that I can not put into words. Especially that moment after 2 years of not seeing your family when you see them in the airport. Priceless.<br />
I tell you what, thanks for all the support that you guys gave me out there, It was felt.<br />
I think the best way I could possibly put an end to such an adventure would be by sharing the wonderful truths I came to know.<br />
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1: We are eternal. We will be living in 500 or 1000 years, and we need to prepare now. God gives us so much love to speak through a living prophet to allow us to know his plan. Sometimes it takes a little bit of humility to accept something like this!<br />
2: The Lord Jesus Christ lives. He is our savior and is at the head of this wonderful work. I felt that I had a special opportunity to get to know him over these past 2 years. Its amazing how a servant can truly know his master as he serves him.<br />
3: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the restored church upon the earth today. I Know it. There is no other path or way. This is it. I invite you to know what the restored church means if you don't already know.<br />
4: There are more good people in the world than bad people! I know this because I witnessed this as I talked to thousands and thousands of people throughout the course of those 2 years.<br />
5: God is very real. He is our Heavenly Father. He wants us to have success and loves us so much, but when we disobey there will be justice just like a Father and his Son! We as offspring of God will one day become like him and become perfect. Its all part of his plan.<br />
6: The book of mormon is the coolest book ever written. It contains everything we need in this life to be able to make it back to our Heavenly Father. It contains the truths on how to resist temptation and the truths of eternal life. It even teaches us simple things like the correct way to baptize. AMAZING BOOK. If you haven't read it, hit up Mormon.org and find the number of the missionaries or just let me know and Ill get you a copy. (: It teaches how to have harmony in our families and how to know our purpose in life. Amazing.<br />
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Really I could go on and on about all the many things Ive learned int these past 2 years, but Ill keep in to those couple of things.<br />
So let me know if you wanna know more about what I was doing down in Chile!<br />
I loved the country and the people there. And ohhh especially the food! Now its time to move on and take over the world with some crazy ideas. I plan on studying international business and doing something with photography or film!<br />
I hope you enjoyed my 2 year experiance as I ventured into the unknown and became familiar with it! It truly was a life changing experience that I will never forget, that changed me, and something I won't even be able to share completely because of all the wonderful experiences I had!<br />
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So good to be back in America with my loving family!!<br />
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For the last time,<br />
Elder Jordan Alexander McGee<br />
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<br />Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04947552370179256382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340232060243404829.post-859860297666316892015-05-01T04:23:00.001-07:002015-05-01T04:23:22.722-07:00Good afternoon!<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This past week has been a crazy one! Sometimes the Lord has different things in mind than we do! But we just have to sit back, smile, and obey!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br />
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<br />We had special changes and I am now in another ward of 150 people! Woo! Its called Rengo. About 45 mins south of Rancagua.<br />Sometimes you just have to trust in the Lord and follow your heart. Im not with another peruvian, Elder Soto and a mexican named Elder Montoya. We are in a trio just like Lauren! Woo haha. Trios are fun. Its my third one. And we are already having a blast here. Its awesome because I felt a strong impression that I wasnt needed any more where I was, that I had done enough there and I was needed here. Its awesome how our spirits communicate by feeling.</div>
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Im old now... 20 years old! Im entering my third decade! Wowww. Its funny because Im still young to be a missionary! haha.</div>
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This week was awesome. We brought a whole family of less actives to church, and it was so cool to see them there nice and happy. They are preparing to go to the temple, and little by little they have progressed. It all starting my just giving the dad a big ole hug and showing him some real love!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had some good progress with a guy we play soccer with. He really opened his heart, and let out alot of his feelings. One thing that Ive learned is that everything I really want is on the other side of fear. Ive also learned that God is more powerful than any large man with lots of money. His wife explained to us that he worked for the U.S. embassy for years and has very little confidence in other people. She said that we were the first people he let into his house in a long time. The Lord is powerful and gets things done.</div>
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Its so crazy how in the beginning of the mission, it was so hard to get used to the language, the food, and the way of life here. Now it is my life, its my language, and I love the food. I dont know what its gonna be like going home. I have the same bitter sweet feeling that I did 2 months before I left home, 2 years ago.</div>
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Today we played soccer with the zone, and it was funny because there were like 20 elders, and 4 sisters. We played to where the sisters had to make the goals. It was funny! They all sang to me and it was a good moment. Tonight we have 3 family home evenings to attend. So itll be a good birthday in all. Thanks for all the birthday wishes. I was stoked to see all the emails today (: I have the best family and friends!</div>
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This week our relief society president told us that the sisters were getting mad, because they couldnt give us food during the week because all the other sisters already reserved it. It was a nice compliment for me and my companion that everyone wants to eat with us.</div>
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Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04947552370179256382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340232060243404829.post-65228445484991888962015-04-20T17:00:00.000-07:002015-04-20T17:00:18.774-07:00Well hellllo!<div class="gmail_default" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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These weeks are just so great, fun, and filled of happiness!</div>
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I feel like Im just really becoming a Chilean. I dont remember the differences between home and chile anymore.</div>
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We gave the best zone training presentation Ive ever done! It was powerful, spiritual, and fun! I feel like Im definitely the best missionary Ive ever been.</div>
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The members here are soooo loving! Its awesome. We come by and they go buy a coke or sandwiches or whatever it may be! I hope you guys take care of the missionaries at home as well (: Especially if you see them on the side of the road, pick them up and take them where they need to go! For the amount of times that I have hitch hiked here in the mission, Im gonna owe it to the missionaries at home (:</div>
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I got to go on divisiones with Elder Hynes who is from Kansas City! Wooo. I didnt know that missouri has a professional soccer team at home. Totally gonna do temple sessions and go to soccer games now (: We had a good time.</div>
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Here we go into another change! Im still here in Buin with my awesome Peruvian comp!</div>
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General Conference was so inspiring. I absolutely loved it. Elder Zeballos, one of the ones who spoke in spanish, is from chile and was just with us a few weeks ago! Awesome. Here in chile there is always another room in english for all the gringo missionaries and others who wanna learn. As the spanish speakers got up to speak, it was funny because we all ran into the room because its easier to understand when there arent translators!</div>
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Its amazing to be able to look back 6 months ago and think we were just having conference. Its awesome because I dont feel like I progress much every day, but after 2 years of study in the scriptures and talks, I have made it a long way to who I was and what I did 2 years ago! Life is such a wonderful gift given from God, and its amazing that we all chose to be here!</div>
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We are still looking for an awesome family to teach. This place needs lots of help with the members, so we have been focusing on them. The mission is changing and the Lord is hastening his work here in the South America South area of the world. We are now going to stop recording how many new poeple we find each week and how many lessons we teach, rather how many people we helped make it to the temple. We are focusing alot more of the family. Its amazing. I could truly feel the power behind President Warnes words as we attended the Leaderhsip meeting this last thursday. So many things are going on, and the work is picking up speed. The work of the Lord cannot be frustrated by man. We either take part in it and see the amazing fruits of it, or we sit back relaxed and miss the amazing oppurtunities. We know so many people who dont have knowledge of the temples, let alone the gospel! Lets go to work. Sheep need to be found and feed.</div>
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Life is good here in the outskirts of santiago, chile!</div>
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Not too much happened this week, everything tranqi like the chileans say.</div>
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We had kinda a rough week because noone showed up to church. But its all good! I got to go on divisiones with one of my good buddies from arizona, Elder Benavides. We had a blast, and found one of the new familes!</div>
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My comp and I are having a blast. We made corn bread this week, and spent time with so many wonderful people. I am so blessed to be here doing the Lords work. Im super excited this week to be able to hear all the living prophets and apostles speak. I cant believe that its been another 6 months already. I know that many of our personal questions and concerns will be answered and solved as we tune into what the Lord has to say to the world through his servants here in the earth.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">An elder got back from his mission this past week, and gave an awesome testimony. We usuyally have like 85 people come to church, and this week we had 113 in church! We brought an hermano to church this week after many years of not wanting anything to do with the church. We walked into his house, gave him a huge hug and showed him some true charity and christlike love, explained a little bit of the catholic churches history and american history and explained how it all intertwined into the restoration of the church today! He was stoked, and we talked about an eternal family, temple sealing and everything. He is ready to start progressing baby! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This week Elder Zeballos came to speak to the mission. What an incredible man. He spoke to us about how sometimes we have to climb one moutain before we see the next mountain we have to climb. Sometimes, we as humans have to be in a certain situation or place to be able to see that there is another mountain hiding behind the one we just climbed! haha awesome talk!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today my companion and I went running about 5 miles to the neareest mountain. We climbed it, and found a cave. We read the scriptures up there, and I felt like Enos or Nephi! haha. It was powerful. We were above the clouds (:</span></div>
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This week was awesome. The amount of inspiration one recieves on a mission is incredible. I love it. I dont know what Im gonna do when Im not a missionary.. haha.</div>
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Life here in buin is great! This district has a high velocity. Lots of activities, lots of missionaries, lots of energy. Itll be a stake soon!</div>
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I think the coolest thing that happened this week was that our investigador, Sebastian, has had a hard time following some of the commandments. He has been struggling for a while. He wants to get baptized, and he comes to church every week. We didnt know what to do with him to help him, cause weve tried everything! We decided to pass by every day this week and read a little bit of the book of mormon. Finally the other day, something caught his attention. We started talking about the 3 major sins. He felt pretty bad, and we went outside with him and he told us everything. We explained how sometimes sin is what makes us confused and why we are low of energy sometimes. We explained the power of repentance, and boom. It all changed. He wants to drop everything and go head strong towards a baptism!! Im excited. (:<b><i> The spirit is power.</i></b></div>
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Life is good here in buin. MY vans that I bought in the beginning of my mission have oficially died... which means that Ive had them a long time.. which means that Ive been here in Chile a long time.. but that doesnt mean anything! (: We gotta keep baptizing!!</div>
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Well, Im officially down to 3 changes left. Cant believe the time is coming so fast! It only makes me wanna work harder! We had interviews this week, and President was telling me how sometimes missionaries come into his office and tell him they are tired and cant work anymore. He says Youre only 20! How can you be tired? haha It made me laugh!</div>
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Big news of the week is that Im getting transfered from the farthest zone south: Talca, to the farthest zone north: Buin. Ill be in a branch called Los Jardines. Im super excited. My new companion will be from Peru! My first latin comp in 5 months! haha. Im ready to swing it back into to spanish 24/7.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our patience then can turn into hope. Hope in who? Hope in Christ that he will reedem our sins. Coming unto Christ can only bring us to something bigger. God. Its a big circle of Gods love for us.</div>
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Today we explored the mountains in a place called Vilches. About 2 hours towards the mountains. It only takes 4 hours to cross chiles width. Awesome.</div>
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We have been finding so many awesome people! Im so excited to continue working with all of them. I am in my favorite sector Ive had for my whole mission!! This ward is awesome, and I feel like Im doing my best to make sure there is more unity! </div>
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We have been teaching the Valdez family this whole week. Ive never met someone who was so prepared in my life. They are what we call: Una familia de Oro.</div>
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Today we played some good ole futbol. I was prideful to wear my new US soccer jersey! I get prideful about our country alot. (:</div>
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Today Im on divisones with my best buddy from the mission Elder Horsely. Were gonna be millionaires after the mission. Our companions are both ending their missions so they went up to rancagua for a special meeting.</div>
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I took some great pictures with Bishops brother and other stuff this week... but I forgot my camera in the house. Until next week (: but here is a picture from the temple in mexico! almost 2 years ago...</div>
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We have so many people to teach in this sector, but no one has really showed forth the effort to want to progress. I was pretty fed up with it one day, so I just got down on my knees and just let my heart go. I expressed my feelings to want to find a wonderful family to find. I was so determined to find them because I felt such a peace in my heart that we would be able to find them that we cancelled all plans for 3 hours and just went looking for a family who was waiting for us. We entered houses, and talked to everyone and after like 3 hours of rejection, lo and behold, we found a marvelous family! WOO! They said they were waiting for us because they had wanted to change the course of their lives. I was almost in tears staring at this family that is now going to be able to come unto the gospel in its fullness. I thanked our Creator that night and went to sleep peacefully. awesome. awesome. awesome.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Soooo we taught a new less active, brought him to tears reminding him of his glory days in the church, and arrived at the house of 2 people who were in need who thanked us with tears. The second house we got into was a member who hadnt come in a while. Her nonmember son was sick that week. We gave him a powerful blessing pulling down the powers of heaven. He lives in a city about an hour north of here in Curico. We got news from the elders up there that he went to church yesterday. Pretty cool experiance. I wrote him a list of questions that the book of mormon answers.</div>
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Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04947552370179256382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340232060243404829.post-35682497112568955602015-01-19T10:46:00.002-08:002015-01-19T10:46:47.965-08:00Elder McGee Creative Extraodinaire Independencia, Talca<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week was pretty cool! We had changes. I am staying here in Independencia, Talca. I have a new companion named Elder Spriggs from bountiful utah! We have already become good friends and we are having tons of fun! Today we had a big sprite pong contest between all the 40 missionaries in the two zones of talca. It was a lot of fun!</span><br />
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She was so filled with joy like 20 and 21 decribe to us. I too have passed through this process and it is so sweet to the soul. Its like vomiting. Whenever we have something bad in us, we must vomit it all out, and as soon as its all out we can usually fall back asleep in the night. Just as your stomach becomes clean and realxed after vomiting, our souls too can become clean and relaxed as we use the healing powers of the atoning sacrifice of Christ to HEAL US. (: DO it!</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">One day we werent having much success, and we were being like the children of Israel again. We decided to say a prayer and we found an AWESOME less active member named Felix. He was baptized years ago. We entered into his house, and sat him down. He had 2 questions. 1. How did we find him and 2. What do we expect from him. We said that God had managed to put us in his path because we didnt know he lived in the random house we contacted. We then continued to describe what we expected from him. We told him he would stop smoking now, that he would stop drinking, and that he would become a faithful member of the church and recieve a calling. He agreed. We then invited him to a big family home evening that we were having in the house of a member. Without excuses, he put on his sunglasses and we rolled over to the family home evening on a tricicle. He came to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_204778939" 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 sunday</span></span> and is ready to go. AWESOME guy! We taught him "I will never go back," in english.</span></div>
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I want to get all the way through doctrine and conventants in these next 6 months. Bythe way doctrine and covenants 20 is an amazing section all the way through. It explains really all the necesary things to know about the gospel and what we must do here in our lives! (:</div>
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We had a pretty sucessful week. Its amazing how quickly we forget the tender mercies of the Lord just as the children of Israel. We have had just tons of sucess these past couple of months, and we finally made it to a little brick in the wall where we didnt feel like we were having much success one afternoon. We were going around a little bit low on animo, and we decided to say a prayer. Of course, the Lord is powerful in his work and quickly guided us a to a family of 4. We were quick to give thanks to him.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">oh I buzzed my hair, and this is a typical chilean dish called porotos (:</span></div>
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We had to run home to be home on time, and we were so stuffed!</div>
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Christmas morning, we had a lovely gift exchange and ate breakfast all together. We invited our bishop to come speak to us. He gave an excellent talk about how we dont have the right in this life to be unfocused on obtianing the celestial kingdom!</div>
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We had tons of success in the sector this week as everyone was in the wondeful Christmas spirit! We found tons of great families to start working with!</div>
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We found one family who weeped as we explained their eternal identities to them. They imediately put family prayer into practice and are very hungry for the gospel!</div>
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Yesterday we taught probably the best lesson my comp and I have taught. We had a member there. The spirit was present, and undestanding was made very easy by the spirit. The hippie couple is now ready to get rolling in the gospel.</div>
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We also got the oppurtunity to participate in a steak wide primary event of preparing for the mission. All the primary kids came dressed up as missionaries, and we got to show them what is was all like! As the other missionaries showed them how to dress, and what a normal day was like, my comp and I had the chance to do practices with all the parents (: We did small practices with them on how to teach the restoration of the gospel in 5 minutes! Amazing oppurtunity!</div>
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I cant begin to explain through a skype call of a weekly letter how much I have learned here in the mission, but I have found my self. I have learned about my eteral identity. I have learned that my greatest passion is helping others fulfil their dreams. I have learned that I only want to focus on exaltation. As my time in the mission winds down, I can only hope to increase my diligence and work harder and harder. My greatest fear is to pass one day without doing something that will help me progress to the celestial kingdom. I love the mission and wouldnt change it for anything. Jesus is the Christ. Only by him and through him do we have the chance to become perfect as the Father as commanded us to do. To recieve true happiness, all we have to do is keep the commandments, repent every day, and to share what we have. No one will receive the celestial kingdom doing the minimum.</div>
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God has already spoked alot. We need to inform ourselves on what he has said through the sciptures.</div>
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I cant believe how fast this year has gone by! I never thought i would be capable of becoming the person I am today! I seriously have changed so much, and I love it!</div>
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This past week we had our christmas activity as a mission. It was wonderful to play sports all day and hangout with tons of awesome other missionaries! Some of the senior missionaries here are so great! We missed a chunk of the activity because my comp and I were just conversing it up with the Ditlevsens! haha</div>
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We have 3 people who we are working with pretty tightly. Its so great to be able to share what we have with them.</div>
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Last night we went out with a member who just had no fear. He just testifies to the people and is super direct. He called someone out for having a heard heart. It was awesome.</div>
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We had tons of fun this week and met tons of great people! I have discovered that one of my passions is to help other fulfil their dreams. We are just rolling as missionaries!</div>
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Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04947552370179256382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340232060243404829.post-34151933283316588482014-12-15T08:04:00.000-08:002014-12-15T08:16:51.630-08:00Hey! familia! <div class="gmail_default" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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Im so stoked for this Christmas, as it will be the last one here in chile! Theres something eccentric about spending christmas with people you barely even know. Its so amazing how this church works out. As members we all treat each other with such high respect. You can ask any other member for anything you need, and or become friends with them so quiclky by just finding out they are members. You can even decide alot of times what people are members! Its incredible here in the mission, because we as missionaries work on the power of discernment alot, and so many times, we are able to just boldly ask someone if they are a member already knowing that they are. Many times it has resulted in tears, as the inactive person wants to come closer to Christ. I love it.</div>
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I went on divisiones with an Elder Marshall this past week, he is super awesome and reminds me alot of myself whenever I was just starting in this long journey. We went to his sector in Constitution, along the beach. It was a beautiful city set among the mountains overlooking the powerful ocean. We strolled through mountainess paths arriving to find wonderful people hidden among their houses. It was beautiful! I loved it.</div>
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Yesterday our neighbor passed away. As we were leaving to our sector the grandson asked if we could help bring his granpa iin. We thought we were just gonna help a young boy bring is granpa in on his wheelchair or something. Little did we know, we brought in a casket and set it in his house. It was a great oppurtunity to bring peace to the grandchildren who seemed to be slightly shaken up, by sharing our testimony of the plan of salvation. Wonderful. I loved it.</div>
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I have truly found a passion in finding peoples ideas and dreams and making them bigger! We did a contact with a guy who wanted to open up a mechanic shop this past week, we had a good talk about dreaming and fulfilling with our potencial. We inspired him with Jacob 2:17-19 to go big and open up 20 shops in chile (:</div>
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So this past week we taught a couple married in the temple who dont come to church. They are young, and we taught them the doctrine of why we come to church and the importance of the sacrament. Which was AWESOME. The sisters little brother who is a convert of a little more than 2 months got the priesthood this past week and gave her his first blessing after our lesson. The spirit was so thick you could grab it! We taught them the story of 3 nephi 11 whenever Christ came to the americas. The multitud fell to the ground twice. The second time they cried hosanna because they had all had a personal experiance with Christ and realized he was their savior. Its a really deep topic to study if you wanna study the importance of the Sacrament. Anyways, the people realized he was their savior by having an experiance with him. We do that each week in the sacrament. It should shock us! It should be the most important part of our week! (:</div>
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Anyways, that couple didnt come to church this week. So we went back yesterday and started with an opening prayer and sat in silence for 20 minutes. We said a closing prayer and asked they they might feel the spirit confirming to them that they know what they need to do and get our of bed on sundays and GO. We left. It was probably the coolest lesson Ive ever taught. A lesson of straight silence. Elder Uchtdorf used a quote once that said we should preach the gospel at all times, and when necisarry, use words. We did that this week!</div>
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We preach repentence unto all these people each and every day, and it makes me so sad whenever the people we teach are not humble enough to recieve a message from God. They do not understand that this is the time to repent. We need to understand Gods will more, and we need to repent each and every day or else we are not using Christs atonement for us. If we dont repent, we will have to take upon ourselves the sins we have commited. Would it not be easier to use the atonement. We need to trust in God more, for he is someone that we can whole-heartedly trust!</div>
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Thats my words for this week, because there are too many prideful people in this world, and ignorance is not bliss.</div>
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We had an amazing week and we are seeing many people change their lives. We are so excited and love these people. I went on divisones for 2 days last week. One with Elder Lazerson who has really helped me become a better missionary! We got a little sad as we finished our day and realized how much we love these chilean people. Its so great to just run and hug a guy you dont even know. We have so much fun flipping peoples hats backwords, putting on taxi drivers seat belts, tickling old men, giving people ties, and talking on peoples little microphones that sell stuff in the street. I fear no men. I only fear God. So we have been practicing fearing no one, because the answer will always be no if we dont ask!</div>
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A member came up to us at church and ask me if we have been giving out ties because one of his friends got a tie from some missionaries. I smiled and sayed Yes.</div>
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I also traded ties with a Jehovas Witness. We came to a happy agreement that we need to prepare ourselves for Christs second coming, and we exchanged ties. Missionary work!</div>
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We have also been having alot of fun making people do good things in the street. Like making one man we contact hug another man in the street and say "Te qiuero" haha. We have been trying lots of multiple contacts where we have people contact themselves and we just host the event. For example: We contact someone at their gate, they come out and want nothing to do with us. We make them laugh by trying to hug them or tickle them or something, and then they say no, so we make a guy walking buy give them a hug. Or we make youth talk to grandmas about youthful problems and the grandmas give advice. Its so fun!</div>
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We also ended up having a bbq with someone we contacted. We planned out the lunch and came and barbicued meat! His name is papi lucho! haha</div>
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We are having a blast being creators of our own circumstances (:</div>
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INCREDIBLE WEEK.</div>
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Tueday we had Lidership Council in presidents house like 2 hours to the north in Rancagua. Boy, was that amazing or what! I learned so many great things (:</div>
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On the way home, we got a call saying we would be in a trio with another elder, so now we are 3! We are now companions with Elder Welker from Idaho. He goes home in 3 weeks! We are having a blast in with 3. Because we can work alot with members and go out with them and have one group of missionaries finding new people and a missionary and a member teaching all the people we find. Its like the coolest was to hasten the work!</div>
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We teach a gradnma and grandpa named Teresa and Domingo. They are less active members and are striving to come back. One of the main challenges of the hermana is smoking. We went in to their house and sat down and and tried to get her to tell us her challenges, and why she cant progress. We already knew she smoked but it was important that she told us. So after finding that out, we taught an awesome scripture from corrinthians about the obedience that a chile has for its parents and the obedience and discipline with our father in heaven. We taught with such a thick spirit that she immediately felt such remorse and in such debt with her father in heaven that she went and got her last cigarrete and broke it in front of us. Im pretty sure you couldve caught the spirit in a fishing net it was so thick. I learned so much about how important it is to teach with the spirit because it makes people do things that they need to to progress in this world!</div>
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We have been taking alot of pictures with random people here in Talca, and we are finding out how to never get rejected. We are having so much success that we have to stop talking to people so that we can teach the lessons we have planned! They is so much work to do and so little time each day!!!</div>
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We found a lady this week who is a very free spirit and paints super well! We are gonna try to cultivate her talents and have her paint temples and pictures of christ for people in the church and of course we wanna baptize her. We showed her all the pictures of like Jospeph smiths house and all those old time houses in the back of the triple of scriptures and she wants to paint them!</div>
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Yesterday we didnt get to write because the whole mission met together in Rancagua( 2 hours to the north) and we had Elder Craig Christensen speak to us from the 70. Can I just say WOW. Such an incredible talk and the presecence of the spirit was so immense that I couldnt help from tearing up a little here and there. It was the first time the whole mission has gathered together since I have been out. When President Warne gave his testimony, I was just awed. My mouth was wide open and I just cant explain what I felt and saw in words. INCREDIBLE.</div>
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The work is truly being hastened and we need more help! Go out with the missionaries, invite people to church and invite the missionaries to teach your friends.</div>
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I love you all</div>
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