Tuesday, December 2, 2014

December 2, 2014

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR FATHER!
Goodness it’s your birthday again? How the years fly by right? But good think you’re never going to die because you’re talking your vitamins right?? Good dad!
I love you!
What a week. Very busy week. We have been walking and running and talking busses everywhere. We had 3 different conferences/meetings in 3 different locations this week. 1. Interviews with the president in HIS HOUSE! 2. Zone class in the stake building and 3. Conference of the traveling assistants. All were really great.
In the mission now they are focusing a lot of working with the members. And I have learned that it is so much better then working alone. Maybe in the past knocking on doors and working solo was effective but now with the times changing, the way we work needs to adapt as well. And if the prophet said that we need to work with the members… I think it would be Smart to listen. We have some great members here in Collao that are willing and able to help us a lot in the work. Actually this is the first time in my mission that I actually have a useful and functioning mission leader who helps us. We actually has our first activity in the Ward this week. We have a dessert competition. I made a really good cake. An Apple and cinnamon cake but I DIDNT WIN. (I was tempted to vote for myself multiple times but I resisted the urge) it was still really fun and a lot of the people we invited went.
We have more dog Friends in our new sector as well. I don’t know why so many dogs here in Chile follow the missionaries… They are 2 dogs from the Street that follow all the missionaries. Their huge and get crazy excited when they see us.
The jump on us all the time and lick our faces... they have spoiled at least 3 of my White shirts.
I finally this week got the chance to go to the president’s house. It is so nice! I love it so much... we asked them if they were going to put up decorations and they said they are going to do it Monday. We offered to help! And then they offered us breakfast! So this morning after putting up their Christmas light we ate cinnamon rolls and fruit salad. SO DELICIOUS!
Well I hope that all is just going dandy this time of the year for you guys.  It is a great time to be alive and moving... there’s just So many things going on at this time … there’s Thanksgiving, birthdays, pumpkin pie, Christmas decorations and Turkey sandwiches. There’s family time, Secret Santa, Christmas dancing, coupons on everything buyable, Christmas lights Christmas music, debt, forced family fun,  cookie time and vacations… sometimes it’s easy to forget that we are celebrating  Christ’s birth.
I am so excited to be working in the service of our Lord during this time. And I am excited to talk and share this great message of Christ’s restored gospel.
The new message called He is the Gift is so great and we are using it almost every day to find, to teach and uplift the people here.
The church has never done something this big before for Christmas. This video will be on the big screens in New York City, it will be on the home page of YouTube on Dec 7... It will flood Facebook, twitter, and all other types of internet sites with the purpose of helping others focus more on the true meaning of this holiday.
If you have watched this video watch it. If you have not yet shared it with a friend, share it. If you are not a member of this church, pray and ask God if you should be… then do it.
God has given us the greatest of his son and his infinite atonement for us. Our gift to him is to just accept Christ more fully in our lives and follow him.

Christmas.mormon.org
Navidad.mormon.org


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