Hey everyone how are things going? This past week there were quite a few things that went on. First of all, on Monday evening, we received a new focus for the mission. The goal for contacts was dropped. They will not be counted anymore….well for now anyways. This past Friday, we had a mission conference with Elder Corbridge. We learned about the importance of having the Holy Ghost with us in our lives and how it outweighs any other thing here on earth. It was a really good talk that he gave that really helped us to understand or to learn more how we can increase the unity in the wards that we are serving in. That is our focus. We need to help get the members to do their own missionary work. They need to be trained how to do it and how go about it.Right after the conference, we went to one of our investigator’s houses and taught him about the importance of the Holy Ghost in our lives and how if we don’t have it, we can’t progress in our lives. It was a pretty strong lesson. All we did was bear our testimonies and shared a couple scriptures but he seemed to really get it as he ended up coming to church yesterday. We showed up to his house on Sunday morning and he was all ready in his suit ready to go. He really liked it and participated in the classes and everything. In Sacrament meeting, our bishop shared about the importance of Unity in the ward and talked about those who choose to be offended. It was the talk that I gave him when we started our big re activation project in the ward. That was pretty much all anyone said when we passed by to visit- that they were offended.
Later on Friday, we had to be inside the pension early because it was September 11. On that day, the military overtook the Chilean Government in like the year 1973 or something and there would be protestors. With that, as well as what happened in our history, we were instructed to be inside at 5:30.
Well that is all that is really going on with us now. We are trying to take care of the investigators that we have and finding more. This change is now over. Training really makes the change go by quick. Elder Tensmeyer has progressed so much these past 6 weeks. It has been a really fun change. We will find out what happens tonight with changes. One thing I do know is that I am headed to the zone called Achupaillas. The mission president called me last night to tell me. Today we are having a BBQ as missionaries to celebrate the 18th of September which is the Chilean Independence Day. This weekend we should be eating pretty good haha. They celebrate it for 4 days! Crazy! Hello empanadas haha!
Okay, take care everyone and i´ll be sure to let you all know how things go this weekend and my first week in a new sector. Chao, Elder Nelson
