Buenos Dias a Todos!
This
week was another week of a bunch of working hard without results. But
its alright, it is just the vacation time of year. The whole mission
passes through the same thing every year :) But because of it there
wasn't much passing this week, just a couple experiences.
A Seventy:
Elder
Teixera a Seventy from the first quorum of the Seventy came and gave a
presentation. He first met with all the zone leaders and Sister Training
Leaders and gave us a capacitation saying that if we want the mission
to have more success and achieve more, then we have to have more success
and achieve more. That we have to remind them of their purpose, and
that we have to leave from the house everyday with our purpose in mind.
It was a great capacitation that basically said, work hard, don't
complain, and don't make excuses to not give it all. I really enjoyed it
especially when the Sister Texeira ended her talk with "GO HARD" (In
English) which was hilarious :)
In
the capacitation that was given to all the missionaries we learned new
ways to be more efficient with finding people and getting references.
Afterwards I was thinking (Fetch why did I learn this stuff so late in
the mission?) because it was really good. He taught us about the need of
using the people we have found to find other people. He taught us to
pray with our investigators and ask them for people who might need our
prayers as well, and why we should pray for them. After praying for them
and feeling the spirit, asking if those people could benefit from a
visit from us. It is amazingly effective and shows the love that we
really have for everyone. The next thing he taught us was how to do
contacts that are insanely efficient. A general contact has us stopping
people in the street, presenting ourselves, asking peoples names, making
some funny comments to get them interested, seeing what doctrine we
could teach, teaching them something little, and asking to pass by.
Elder Texeira taught us that we were wasting time by doing that. He
taught us that every contact should be 10 seconds long and if they are
really interested then it can be longer to teach the Book of Mormon or
something. So he showed us that we should walk up to the person, say
hello, and immediately teach a gospel principle of 5 seconds and ask to
pass by. For example:
Hola
amigo! Through The teachings of Jesus Christ your family can live
together forever: When can we pass by to teach more of this message"
I'm
not going to lie, when I heard it I didn't think it was going to work.
But putting in practice my faith I decided to try it. After 2 days of
doing it We had received a bunch of names of people to pass by. It was crazy how well it worked for how little time we
put into each one.
A High Priest... without the priest part.
Here
in the streets of Chile we always see people smoking marijuana or high
on drugs. But this week we talked to a guy and while we were talking to
him he did drugs...
We contacted a guy on a
street corner and started talking to him. After talking to him we found
out that he was a drug addict, but that he had a family and everything
was going well. Just that when he was stressed he did drugs to escape
everything. While we were talking he said
"I probably need
Jesus a little bit more in my life don't I. But I don't think it is that
way. I don't think I need him in my life... But what do you guys think."
I was about to say, Yeah you kinda need him in your life. But before I could say it my companion said.
"You need him a lot."
The drug addict dropped his head and said "I Know..."
We
got his address and we will send the reference to see what happens.
Because he knew that he needed to change. And it was really sad seeing
him smoke Pasta Base (A really crappy form of cocaine). But we will see
what happens with him
That was basically our week! Hopefully this next week I have a little bit more to share! :)
Love you tons! Stay Golden!
Love,
Elder Nielson :)
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