Its real nice outside and Im wearing short sleeve which is pretty nice. Some days in the afternoon we can wear short sleeves for a few hours but nights and mornings are pretty chilly.
Anyways, the work is going good. We definentely keep busy. This past week we had conference with the President and his wife for two days. We had it at the mission home and ate some amazing lunches. We learned of 8 things, simplified. Like starting a lesson, the basic doctrine of Christ, explaining the Book of Mormon, the importance of asking good questions and things like that. What it all really comes down to is relying on the Spirit once you do all you can to prepare. Elder Davis and I have been working hard to do better in these categories and I've already seen the amazing change when you can ask good questions that make them think. Its easy to run through a lesson but it takes a lot of help from the Spirit to adjust a lesson to the needs of an investigador.
I was reading in Jacob this past week and I can,t even count how many times Jacob gives credit of his ability to speak to the power of the Spirit. This goes exactly with what we learned in conference with our President and I've been thinking about it a lot lately. This is why its so vital for missionaries to be worthy and to be exactly obedient to all the rules. The Spirit wont be with someone who is not keeping the Lord´s commandments and serving all that he can. It's hard sometimes to recognize when the Spirit is present so I was challenged by one of my teachers in the MTC to write of how the Spirit felt that day and it will start to get easier and easier to recognize. This has helped me a lot and if being more Spiritually sensitive is something you desire, this is a suggestion of something that may help.
For P day today we played soccer in the morning. It was going to be our zone playing together but everyone had a reason or another to not come except us and the zone leaders. It was still really fun though. We cleaned up and went to Concepcion after that. We had some huge ¨completos¨ in town. They are pretty much chilleno mayo (which is a little different than American) and other toppings with a bun with a hot dog thrown in there! Ill add some pictures.
Time´s short but I love yall! A little message to close things up...
Con amor!
Elder Gregory
Anyways, the work is going good. We definentely keep busy. This past week we had conference with the President and his wife for two days. We had it at the mission home and ate some amazing lunches. We learned of 8 things, simplified. Like starting a lesson, the basic doctrine of Christ, explaining the Book of Mormon, the importance of asking good questions and things like that. What it all really comes down to is relying on the Spirit once you do all you can to prepare. Elder Davis and I have been working hard to do better in these categories and I've already seen the amazing change when you can ask good questions that make them think. Its easy to run through a lesson but it takes a lot of help from the Spirit to adjust a lesson to the needs of an investigador.
I was reading in Jacob this past week and I can,t even count how many times Jacob gives credit of his ability to speak to the power of the Spirit. This goes exactly with what we learned in conference with our President and I've been thinking about it a lot lately. This is why its so vital for missionaries to be worthy and to be exactly obedient to all the rules. The Spirit wont be with someone who is not keeping the Lord´s commandments and serving all that he can. It's hard sometimes to recognize when the Spirit is present so I was challenged by one of my teachers in the MTC to write of how the Spirit felt that day and it will start to get easier and easier to recognize. This has helped me a lot and if being more Spiritually sensitive is something you desire, this is a suggestion of something that may help.
For P day today we played soccer in the morning. It was going to be our zone playing together but everyone had a reason or another to not come except us and the zone leaders. It was still really fun though. We cleaned up and went to Concepcion after that. We had some huge ¨completos¨ in town. They are pretty much chilleno mayo (which is a little different than American) and other toppings with a bun with a hot dog thrown in there! Ill add some pictures.
Time´s short but I love yall! A little message to close things up...
Con amor!
Elder Gregory
