October 6, 2015
Don't Ya Just Love Conference?
2 General Conferences down in the mish! I honestly can't even believe that! The time just flies by here in Santiago. I think I'll start out by saying THANKS MOM FOR BEING THE BEST MOM A DORK LIKE ME COULD EVER HAVE! Wow, Elder Holland made us all feel pretty darn trunky after his talk about the love our mothers have for us. I can honestly say his statement that the only love on earth that is equivalent or close to equivalent of the love that our Savior and Heavenly Father have for us is from our Mothers! So true in my case, I wouldn't be who I am today without my Mom! Thanks Mom for getting me where I am today!
I really loved all of conference. I did watch it in English because President told us that all of us should watch the conference in our native tongue. So I was in the English room with all the gringos! The atmosphere of the gringo room is always awesome. Elder Ewell who arrived with me in the CCM and was in my first zone in Peñaflor is also in Ochagavía so we were joking how we are going to be together for every conference we have in the mission. President Monson talk was great, but he was definitely suffering towards the end. But it doesn’t matter because I know without a doubt that he is called of God and he is our living PROPHET today! How cool was it to see 3 new apostles called by God? I have to say that I personally thought the testimony of Dale G. Renlund was clutch stuff. Another heart surgeon in the quorum and man did I love his testimony! I think as missionaries we tend to look at each contact and each lesson just as something we do because we are called to do it. A lot like Elder Renlund does heart surgery just because it's his profession, so he became emotionally detached from his patients. I myself need to focus more on looking at each Chileno or Haitiano as a beloved child of God who needs to hear this message. I need to show them the same love that Christ has for them in each contact and each lesson. Maybe his testimony touched each of you in a different way, but that's what I took from it. I loved President Uchtdorf's talk as well and it really was an answer to my prayers. We become obsessed with all the gospel doctrine as missionaries and we need to, but we need to evaluate how the gospel is working for us and SIMPLIFY! We need to start where we are and just work on progressing. So when anyone asks how the gospel is working for us we can say, "It's working wonderfully thanks for asking! Would you like to learn more about why it's working so well?" Exaltation is our goal discipleship is our journey! I also loved Holland's quote "Our mothers don't just bear us, but they continue to bear with us." Kim B. Clark said, "We don't have to be perfect. But we need to be really good at getting better!" I LOVE CONFERENCE!
I didn't see Priesthood Session, but I'm sure it was steezy as always. I'll have to read it in the upcoming Liahona.
Other than conference…this week was pretty good! We did some service for our prime investigator Rosalia who went to conference! She is so great and has a baptismal date for the 24th! Pray for her because she still has a lot of doubts! I saw some really, really sad things this week as well. We were walking the streets and a 94-year-old lady approached us and told us that she was a member. She lives in the cruddiest conditions I've ever seen and it broke my heart to see her "home." She told us that animals live better than her and I can honestly say that is true. We're going to try our best to just help her out. She even has her tithing from the past 3 months that she wants to give, but she can't walk to church on her own to do it. The stake attendance for conference was not very well attended. We literally only had 220 members in the Sunday sessions. So many members here are basically in-actives and EVERYONE needs the missionaries.
Other than that, we just did a lot of walking and talking as usual here. We need to find more people to teach because a lot of the people we have been working with aren't progressing. It's different here because there are SO MANY IN-ACTIVES. Yesterday I talked to people that were baptized in the 80's and they still live here, but they just have forgotten everything, and have no desires to come back to Church.
I Love the mission, I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to just keep positive in every moment.
Love all you guys, have a great week!
Elder Weavercito
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