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The Final Countdown

Nobody ever really rememebrs how they started, but they always remember how they finished. 

If it is with a race, a football game, or the mission, it does not really matter, the phrase works in every way. It is going to be a fun and great week for my companion and I, one of the best that I have in the mission yet! So much happened this week, that I do not even remember it all. We did have a baptism this week, a young kid of 18 years, he will be serving a mission for sure. And he is the first of his family, the rest have accepted fecha, they will be following the son's steps soon into the waters. I was thinking about someting that makes some sense to me, I do not remember where I read or heard the phrase but it is a good one. ¨Nobody ever really rememebrs how they started, but they always remember how they finished¨ Time to finish strong right?

It is getting hard to write home, just thinking about how much I miss all you guys and will see y'all in a bit!

E Siaosi

El Calendario

La Zona Bonita

 And 1

Letter to the President

Glad to have the rain back, it makes the mission a little more interesting. It feels good to be with people that really care about you and love to work hard, el Elder Lozano is a good guy. Thanks for letting us be together. This past week we found a lot of people that are progressing, though we did have a hard time getting the all committed to church. We had one investigator that is just golden, he even went to the temple with his girlfriend, loved it there, but ate something bad and got sick for the next day!  NO HAY QUE COMER MARISCOS RIGHT! Other than that, we are doing great, uniting ourselves with the members, leaving with them, bringing the people to the members houses.

I love the members, we are the best. Well we have to go, thanks for loving us here in Chile.

Elder SIaosi

Zone Conference

Some Free Time

Finally I have some real time to write home! Running back and forth as a zone leader really has made it hard to write a nice long letter home! So I am with my new companion Elder Lozano right, he has 20 months on the mission, from Buenos Aires, and is a really great guy. Elder Copling and a new missionary Elder Holcombe are living with us now in the house. It was a big house for two, and now it is a small house for four ha. I was reading some stuff about finishing strong and came across this great talk. It touched me and I thought I would send it over. We mucst run with the intention to win!

Love Elder Siaosi

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.   1 Corinthians 9:24 

 Thomas S. Monson

"On sunlit days during the noon hour, the streets of Salt Lake City abound with men and women who for a moment leave the confines of the tall office buildings and engage in that universal delight called window shopping. On occasion I, too, am a participant.

"One Wednesday I paused before the elegant show window of a prestigious furniture store. That which caught and held my attention was not the beautifully designed sofa nor the comfortable appearing chair that stood at its side. Neither was it the beautiful chandelier positioned overhead. Rather, my eyes rested on a small sign that had been placed at the bottom right-hand corner of the window. Its message was brief: 'FINISHERS WANTED.'

"The store had need of those persons who possessed the talent and the skill to make ready for final sale the expensive furniture the firm manufactured and sold. 'Finishers Wanted.' The words remained with me as I returned to the pressing activities of the day.

"In life, as in business, there has always been a need for those persons who could be called finishers. Their ranks are few, their opportunities many, their contributions great.

"From the very beginning to the present time, a fundamental question remains to be answered by each who runs the race of life. Shall I falter, or shall I finish? On the answer await the blessings of joy and happiness here in mortality and eternal life in the world to come." ("Finishers Wanted," Ensign, June 1989) be called finishers. Their ranks are few, their opportunities many, their contributions great.

Siaosi men are men of few words...

The Zone Talcahuano Norte

     Service Painting with the Investigators

                                   

    

    The Ward Missionaries

The Catholic Church

The Last Goodbye

My companion is going home so I made him corndogs!

The Suit Burning

Keeping up the tradition.

Flight Itinerary

Not much to tell about this week. I got my flight Itinerary. That is a little big. My companion and I went back to Chillan to buy him some recuerdos before he goes home. That is about it:)

Love and miss my family.

Elder SIaosi

Zone photos/Zone activity

The Work and the Glory

My family and my sweet sweet friends!

I am going to keep it short today. In my sector we have been doing great. Beginning to enjoy every single moment of the day. The hard ones, the walking, going by people that are not even there. The Mission as we know it. But the little things are what keep us going right. 

A good story to share with the kids. Two Sundays ago a family came to church. Two adults and their baby child. Our mission leader told us that the husband was not a member and that we ought to pass by. Well we went by four times that week to find them and we could not. We called them, left notes, nothing. Well the whole week had gone by  and we had failed to find them. On Saturday night we planned for them to come again to church trusting in the Lord. We planned an un fixed cita at 8 in the night. This Sunday they also came to church. Well we fixed the cita al tiro. They said anytime, then said come at 8 without us even saying anything. MIRACLE! That night we talked to the man (Arturo) about baptism. He wants to get baptized in two weeks. It is a lot of work for us to do, but he said we could pass everyday if it would help him get ready faster. Well, the only thing better than a reference is one that has been prepared by God. The family had gotten married 9 days ago and the man had given up smoking and drinking for years. The wife wants nothing more that to be sealed to her family for all eternity. I do not know much but I know that the Lord works in mysterious and miraculous ways:) The work will never stop until it is done.

The zone itself that I am in is doing great! Everyone is baptizing. Every week we have at least one. One experience that I have enjoyed, teaching or helping missionaries to remember what thing they can do and which are against the rules. I do not want them to think that I am better than them or that I think bad about them. But sometimes you just have to say it how it is. Put it on the line and let them accept it or not. Learning more everyday I am.

Take it easy guy:) Stay swanky.

Elder Siaosi

Las Colombianas y massage chair!

Just a little update

Everybody,

Another week bites the dust. I do not know what goes by faster, the time or the rain from the sky. I was just talking to Elder Gonzalez, my companion and it is amazing how fast things go by, and yet every minute counts and needs to be important in our lives, every minute. This week was one filled with miracles and trials. We have both been a little sick, and yet leaving to work everyday some miracles happens. For instance, one day we left and started contacting. We talking to a mother who was returning from school with her daughter. We asked them if we could share a message with them someday. She asked ¨puede ser ahora porque necesitamos ayuda de Dios ahora? ¨ How great right! They both accepted fecha. It is the little things everyday that make the weeks seems so fast. Today we had a zone activity in our church building. We had breakfast and played some sports. It is good to see the zone coming together and having fun. Takes a load off the shoulders a little to see the missionaries having a good time. They are all great and doing fine. A few are sick, but the spirit is still high.

 I thought becoming a zone leader would make me feel this different spirit of power, I have now realized that it is just more responsibility, which is a good thing, but it does make one have a little more stress. Bringing it all together that is. But I am glad that the Lord trust in me, I trust in him too.

I want to let everyone know how much I miss them. I try not the think to much about home, but that is like trying to make a chilean stop talking about futbol, it doesnt happen. Have a great week loved ones:)

Elder Siaosi

         Going to the mall to take an english test for my companion. 

The first donuts I have eaten since the states.

Zone activities

New Leaders, New flaite, Zone Conference