This week was a good week. I feel like I worked my brains out by learning Spanish the last week that Im sort of mentally tired but, thats what P days are for! We dont always rest physically on P days (because we play sports sometimes) but we always rest mentally, and that helps a lot.
Last friday we had mission conference in Concepcion for the inside. The mission is split into two halves, the inside and the outside. The inside is Concepcion and the surrounding cities and the outside ranges from 2 hours to 6 hours aways from Concepcion. Im still on the ¨inside¨ and my whole district from the MTC is on the inside, so I was able to see everyone! I was really excited about that because Im pretty close with a few of them. My first companion in the mission field, Elder Davis, gave his final testimony because he is leaving in February and also Elder Lopez, my zone leader for 18 weeks. They are both awesome so I talked with them for a bit and with other missionaries. Im getting to that point where I know a lot of Elders in the mission because around the year mark, you know almost everyone. After the year mark, people go home that you know and tons of new Elders come in. So, I enjoyed conference a lot. President Humphrey, Sister Humphrey, and the assistants spoke to us on different topics. I really enjoyed what the assistant taught especially. They taught us ¨The Vision¨, which is what we are supossed to teach as we are guided by the Spirit. They basically told us that we are to teach that God is Our Heavenly Father and that Jesus Christ, through the Atonement, is our Savior first and if they dont understand that, then we cant move on because they arent going to know or realize the importance of the Restoration, Plan of Salvation, Doctrine of Christ or anything like that. The assistants that we have now are really good. They arent number pushers like some assistants can be, they just want us to do our best and reach our potential and thats really what its about.
There were two baptisms yesterday. The missionary that I replaced in the sector, Elder Dastrup (who is from my group that came to Chile), came to baptize one of them. When I got to the sector, they were already golden and ready to go for baptism. Baptisms are always really special because you can always see the joy in the convert after they are baptized. Last Tuesday, we attended a setting apart from someone in the ward who is headed to Argentina. It reminded me of mine 8 months ago and how special it is!
I love yall! We are working hard and I love talking to people about the Gospel, that I love!
Chao!
Elder Gregory
