It was a productive week this week.
On Tuesday we has a special meeting as a zone with our mission president. On Monday at 10:40pm I was called and asked to give a training for 20min. My assigned topic was "How can asking inspired questions help someone fulfill a promise." I was pretty nervous because I also had to finish up another training I gave in our district council. My district is 6 missionaries and my zone is 20 missionaries. I was a lot more nervous for the zone training. But both ended up going super well. And I learned a lot of things from my mission president.
One of the main things I learned from president Gutiérrez was about Christ like attributes. If you want to study those, the Preach My Gospel has it it in chapter 6. My president taught that if we have faith in Christ, we will be naturally motivated to be 1. obedient and 2. diligent. And if we are obedient and diligent we will have integrity. He then mentioned 3 things on both obedience and diligence that we are struggling with as a mission. One of those things is problems with technology. This was a problem in my district. But this week I had the chance to minister to the missionaries in my district and help us to refocus on our purpose. And I saw the blessings come from it in their goals that they set.
Now, one more thing I should mention, last week I needed to get a hair cut, so I planned on doing it. Then one of the sister missionaries was like "I cut hair" and I thought, oh sweet, free haircut, I can eat this week! So it turns out she was just kidding, and told me that this was legit her first time cutting hair... aand she had already started. She had seen 1 or 2 videos haha and full sent it. She did an alright job, for her first time. But here is the funny part, I didn't have any time to get it fixed up for when I had to do a training in front of the zone and president! So I went up there, with my hair all uneven, patchy and partially bald in some parts, looked a bit shaggy and messy. I got some comments, some weird looks and went and got it recut afterwards. I should've learned from the past 2 times a missionary cut my hair haha. The first time was a buzz cut over a year ago and the second time my ear got cut.
I got to give two baptismal interviews this week. Which is my favourite part of being a district leader. It helps me connect with the person, I am given an opportunity to see how effectively my missionaries teach. I get the opportunity to bare my testimony and hear their testimony and how they have come to know Christ and the miracles they've seen. It is really special.
On our volleyball night we normally have 15 people show up. But this time we had over 40!!!! It was insane! And a lot of fun!! I'm surprised at how well it went.
Spiritual thought: A quote by Elder Kyle S. McKay
"I have learned that Jesus Christ truly is “of a forgiving disposition.” It is neither His mission nor His nature to condemn. He came to save."
This is so true. Many people I've met are to afraid to repent, thinking it's a punishment. Or the God doesn't love them because of the things they've done. But really that's all a lie thay Satan tells us. Because in reality God sent His son Jesus Christ to die for us. To save us from our condemnation! Not the opposite.
Question of the week: How have you shown your love to God this week?
Love you all!!
Elder Spencer
volleyball (lots of people went home before the picture was taken)
the moon over Santiago
this mornings hike
dug a grave for a cat
snowman vibes
the training with the zone
sunset photos
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