November 21, 2016
Día de Acción de Gracias
Cómo Estáis mis queridos?
I have now received the emails from Presidente Woodward that I need to start making plans and setting goals for what I’m going to do with my life when I get back home. Needless to say, the trunkiness is trying to set in and I just keep fighting it. The goo
d news is that we have a baptism this weekend and it very well may be one of the best baptisms I've had on the mission. Her na
me is T
amara and she's 19 years old. We found her contacting, but it turns out that the missionar
ies passed by her house earlier this year and then they never came back. It's a shame that they never came back because she is WAY prepared. I've never seen an investigator so prepared in my entire mission. I know I keep saying this, but it never ceases to amaze me the miracles I see everyday! She’s a Chilena that has no issues with anything and is obedient in everything we ask her to do and more. She reads the church website everyday and she loves reading the Book of Mormon. She is already in Mosiah after only 2 weeks of teaching her. It’s amazing how God has just perfectly prepared her to be baptized and she is way excited for this Saturday! I keep praying that this isn’t my last baptism in the mission!
My companion keeps saying that I need to just enjoy this last part of my mission. He’s not exactly here to keep me motivated and inspired. I just want to keep working like crazy up until the very end and live without regret. I pray every
single day that I can live every day without regret! I know that the only way that I'll be happy in this life is by keeping strong in the gospel, continuing to serve and loving everyone, and giving it my all every single day. I've seen a lot of miracles on my missi
on, but the biggest miracle is the change that I've made in myself. I don't want to come back being the same Connor Weaver. I hope that the good attributes that I had before my mission are even better now and I hope that my weaknesses have become strengths. I see life with a whole new perspective, and I honestly just wish the mission would never end. I've come to realize though that it's not going to end. It's going to be hard to take off the missionary name tag, but I know that I can still help a ton of people when I come home and I know that I can keep growing and progressing even more in the real world. In the meantime I plan of magnifying my calling and inviting everyone I see to come unto Christ and be baptized by someone who has the authority to do it!
We had a pretty awesome zone conference this week. A lot of the missionaries cried with a motivational video that I showed them. We talked a lot about the power of our callings and I had a Gringo missionary, Brasilero missionary, and a Latino read their mission calls in their native language and then give their testimonies about how they felt when they first received their callings. The room was silent and the spirit was so strong. It reminded me of when I opened my calling that night that I got back from Canada after competing in my last World Championship triathlon and reading Chile Santiago Oeste! I've come a long, long, long way since that night and I honestly had no idea what I was really getting myself into. It's been an amazing ride and the best part is that it’s still not over! I’ve still got time to make a difference in the life of a Chileno!
I’m running everyday with Elder Villota at 6 it’s basically a fartlek every single day, as I sprint and then turn around to keep him in my sights. It will be quite a change not having a person on my back every second of every day when I get home! Elder Villota is basically dying and I've never seen a missionary sleep so many times in lessons in my whole mission. It's pretty funny how worn out he is after exercise! He sleeps during personal study, comp study, language study, and then he sleeps in almost every lesson during the day. It's unreal. He's a funny, funny dude!
The gospel is true. The book is blue. Saquen la mugre no más!
Les amo! Que tengan una buena semana! 3 Domingos más!
Elder Weaver
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