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¿Hola Hola Cómo estáis?

The first week in my new sector was amazingly long! I am going to love the new area, but there is a lot of work do to, but that is why am I here right, to work! Keeping it short this week, not to much to say. Remember Jesus this week, in all that he did for us!

A little message to leave, as we all know. As General Conference is coming, we ought to prepare to listen to the words of the Lord, right? In the old days they fasted and prayed to help them recieve revelation. One little thing that we ought to do, is make a list of 5-10 questions that we have that we would like the prophets to answer! And they will be answered and we will find miracles in the conference!

Hasta la vista,

Elder Siaosi

Nuevo Sector: Valle Hermoso Penco

Some of my friends that I miss and love in La Pradera!

Hay cualquier cerro aquí cierto!

Attitude

Hey everyone, been a while right. Well, I am heading out. Going to a little beach town called Penco. Just in time for the rainy season, but I will see if I can´t have a few nice long walks on the beach right. The President called me last night too, getting bumped up to be a District Leader over 3 sectors. Four elders, one of them getting trained, and a trio of sisters. My new companion is called

Elder Stallings, he has been out for about 9 months or so. Should be a blast. 

Today I want to talk a little about Attitude. It is what I am going to be teaching in my first district class, a little nervous. In our lives how many time are we just thinking about all the hard times in our lives, even when we are receiving so many blessings. The difference between a bad day and a good day is our attitude. We cannot change the circumstances in our lives but we can change the attitude. There is a great talk called It Is Better to Look Up. Read it, learn it, apply it. 

Got to go now, but I just want everyone to know how much I miss them all. Today should be another sad day of saying goodbye to everyone here in Chiguyante. Love you and miss you all! 

Love, 

Elder Siaosi

You become what you think about. If you think great things, you become that which is great.

Nuevo Compañero vs Viejo Compañero

Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

We have had such a fantastic last few weeks that it makes me sad to think about the cambios in a few days. After working so hard in your sector and then having to leave makes you really miss the area, but who knows if I am leaving yet, I might just be that missionary that has 4 sectors his whole mission, 8 companions, with 6 months in each sector! I always feel like all the great miracles that happen in a transfer, happen at the end right!

SECRET SERVICE

Everyone has always wanted to work for the secret service right, it sounds like a pretty cool job. Well we started doing this thing every week called Service Thursday, or secret service, where every Thursday we are going to do unplanned service with the members, and the investigators, and the neighbors, and who ever needs it! This past Thursday we paid a visit to three members houses. 

Familia Moncada Pino: We passed by their house first, the Mom and her kid were sick, as well as the Dad but he had to go to work anyways. Well we showed up, and cleaned the whole kitchen, mopped the floors, and vaccumed. Latter that night, the Dad called us when he found out thanking us telling us that if there was anything that we needed, he was a phone call away.

Familia Alarcon Cecares: All we did there was cut the lawn and trim the shrubs, not much but at least it allowed the Mom to stop working in the yard and help her little girl get out the door for school!

Familia Caceres Bustamante: We stopped by their house and the Mom was chopping wood haha, and she had a lot more to chop. We relieved her of that job and also helped her to clean up the downstairs to make it look nice for when her relatives come later. We now have a planned Noche de Hogar with the whole family including the dad that is not a member. Let´s see if we cannot get him into the waters!

Overall, a really good result of some secret service. We will see how long it will last, it makes one feel good about the work, when we know that it is coming out of the hearts of oneself and not from having to be asked. We all ought to look for ways to offer secret service to those around us, it just might make someones day a whole lot better!

https://www.lds.org/new-era/2003/02/idea-list-secret-service?lang=eng

With a lot of love,

Elder Siaosi

Trust in your Leaders

I would say, if I could best sum up the last few days efforts, would be following the guidance and instructions of our leaders. It is a subject that sometimes is overlooked, or under spoken of. As missionaries, we have been focusing more on what our mission leaders are teaching, or following the focus of just the mission, and we forget, or choose not to focus on the needs of the ward that you preside in. We have never had more success in getting into houses of members that do not attend church, some for years have not attended. And the manner in which we had success was through the following of our leaders. The bishopric gave us a list of ten names of families that he wanted us to visit. Well, we found a way to pass by them all, and many were houses that I knew, were never going to let us in. We got into every single house, I was amazed. 

Along with that we have found another family that is going to be baptized. Marveloussss. I will send pictures of the baptism that we had this Sunday next week when I get the pics! I found a quote that I found inspiring,

“Trust leads to growth, and growth leads to becoming. May we all allow each other to grow, to become like our Heavenly Father, and to be exalted.”

 

We need to learn how to become obedient through following our leaders!

No more time!!!!

Love you alll

Elder Siaosi

The conversation every Missionary hates, but every Investigator deserves...

Yet another fantastic week with Elder Call. We ought to have a baptism or two at the end of this week! I would write a good ammount today, I really do have a lot to say, however I must wait till next week, there are things that need to be done before 2:00, aka get my new visa before I get caught as an illegal haha. I will send one quote that I loved when I read it, here in Chile sometimes I get a little mad when it comes to the parenting, they often times are more afraid of offending their children than helping them make good choices. It applies to adults as well, sometimes we are too scared or not in the mood to tell others that they are in the wayward and need to come back.

There should [not] be any of us so unwisely indulgent, so thoughtless and so shallow in our affection for our children that we dare not check them in a wayward course, in wrongdoing and in their foolish love for the things of the world more than the things of righteousnsess, for fear of offending them.

-Jospeh F Smith

Love you all!

Elder Siaosi