Our Zone
a unique pic: elder bastian, elder tensmeyer, elder filoteo, elder molina, and me is one of two mtc companions and their "kids" in the mission. my kid is elder tensmeyer (far left) and elder bastians kids are elder filoteo (by me) and elder molina. pretty rare that you will find that in the same zone haha
my awesome agenda for this change! laminated with sweet pics of the slc temple and the fam.Hey everyone how are things going? This week was a busy one for us. On Saturday, we had a mission conference up in La Serena. There is a new zone in the mission. It is Coquimbo. It is a district and had the missionaries there be part of the La Serena zone. Now there are more missionaries there and zone leaders. In the conference, we learned about the importance of time management and the importance of setting goals. Elder Millar and I taught three workshops. Two were on daily planning but focusing on different parts of it and the other one was about ODORPAL. If there is a problem, ODORPAL it! its actually a problem solving technique that can really be applied to just about anything, but really helps visualize what your goal is, what is stopping you from reaching your goal, and how you are going to accomplish it.. Each letter stands for the following...O ObjectiveD DateO ObstaclesR ResourcesP PlanA ActionL Leverage (Benefits)It works really well in figuring out how to help investigators progress by targetting what is impeding them from progressing. This week we had a neat experience in finding someone. We were doing contacts in this richer neighborhood that we had never been in and this younger girl came out. she was in probably her earlier 20´s and we thought that it was going to be one of those girls that tried to flirt and that we would just invite her to church or something but she was really interested in what we were saying. She invited us in and her dad was there so we went in. Her name is Ximena Perez and during the year she studies in Santiago and is going to be a veterinarian but during the summer, she is at her parent's home. She actually lived in New York (Albany) for 4 months a year or so ago and loved it there. Anyways, we had a great lesson about the Restoration and she knew where Palmyra, NY was which made it that much easier for her to picture what happened. She totally understood the need for a prophet in these latter days and that in order to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet, she would have to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. She gave the most sincere prayer at the end of the lesson. She prayed specifically to know if what we had said was true. Afterwards, we asked her how she felt. She said that she felt really good and that she believed that whatever we told her would be true. I immediately thought of a part of Preach my Gospel that we need to be prepared to teach the gospel in a way that the people can receive an answer from the Holy Ghost that we are messengers of God. It was a really neat moment for us. This week we have interviews with President Gillespie and his wife. Other than that it is just trying to get our investigators to progress.
Well everyone have a great week. chaoelder nelson
