This past week has been quite different than most, and in such was a little fome(bad) in somesorts but great in others. On Monday we had our reunion in Chillan, so we did not have any time to get any work done. On Tuesday we had a noche de hogar and a reunion con the Branch mission leader so not much to get done there. On Wednesday we had our one full day of work! On Thursday we had a conference with Member of the 70, named Elder Jorge Zeballos.
The Conference was great! One thing that I really enjoy from the conference was a story about Elder Zeballos and his children. He talked about how he lived near the beach, by that nearby were a group of small mountains. Well one week his children asked him to climb the highest of the mountains with them. Well on the Saturday they looked to see which mountain was the highest, and after left on a trial to head to the top. After a few hours they reached the top, and to there surprise they saw a mountain even higher! And so, the kids asked to climb that higher mountain that they had not seen from the base. So the next Saturday off they went, and after the whole day they reached the top, and cound see as far at the horizon went on the side facing the ocean, but once again there was a higher mountain, which they had not seen before on the summit of the other mountain.The story went on but in the end he wrapped it up be describing what we consider to be our best. How we put constrictions, or walls, on what we consider to be ¨our best.¨ However, these restrictions are limited to our own knowledge. The phrase, give your 100 and 10 percent, connects to this story. We can achieve the wall we have set to be our best, but once we reach that point it is then that we see, that we have a little more to give. Just as we could not see the higher mountain on the other side from the base, until we reach for our best, we will not know our own potencial!
After the conference my companion and I worked in one of our districts sectors because we had 2 interviews for peeps about to get baptised. We ended making it back in Quilon around 8:30, just in time to play futbal with the Priesthood Holders at 9! On Friday we spent the whole day preparing for an activity we had, named El Gran Sueno, or The Great Dream.
El Gran Sueño: An activity we had this week that consisted of first of all inviting all of the members into the chapel and opening the activity with hymn and prayer, followed by presenting how we were then going to lead people. one by one, blindfolded down the halls of the church. While they were walking we gave them a tight rope to hold onto as they walked to give them some source of direction. During their walk we had different rooms opened with people playing music, cooking french fries, sounds of a futbol game on tv, dancing and singing, all that good stuff, and people were tempting them to come and particiapte and partake. Well at the end of the rope led to a well lit tree with decorations, and lights, and golden apples, and was just a spectacular vision to see! If the people made it to the end of the rope they were un-blindfolded, and given a fruit (papermade) and told to wait in their seats, which we had set up. Once everyone had gone, we brought them around the tree explained that our activity was the represent the Dream of Lehi. After we had a festival con deserts, we asked every member to bring a desert of their choice, I made s´more and everyone was freaking out because they loved them so much and it was their first time partaking of such glory! Overall, great activity!!
Saturday we had another reunion and finally we hit Sunday, and Sundays are always filled with planning, studying, and contacting. Overall, the week went well, but we only worked about a third of the time that we usually do so our progression wasn´t as high as we had hoped, but! with the new cambioand the line up of investigators the future is looking well! Spend most of the morning helping my companion pack, though often times he did get on my nerves, I am going to miss Elder Miranda! Everytime I wonder how can anyone create a relationship in just a few short months, I remember that I have been with him constantly, always having him within sight, basically. I hope that the next companion is a good one, I see why it is important to have a companion in marriage that you would always like being around, because like on the mission you can not just leave when you aren´t getting along, but it will be a long time if you don´t like your companion!
Hope all is well, I am missing everyone!
Con Cariño.
Elder Jacob Siaosi
A few pictures from the Conference this week with Elder Zeballos.
Love the part about companions and marriage. You had me laughing so hard!! ~Bro. Grow
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