Challenging week for Elder
McAlister. Looking for a new place to
live and a companion ready to go home makes it tough to keep focus and be
successful with missionary work, but it’s all part of the “Best Two Years”.
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Hey Everyone,
This last week sounds like everyone
had a good week and sounds like Brain Regan was really funny and a good time
for parents. I am guessing he has a lot more jokes now that I haven't heard and
I´m sure he is better live. Derek and Todd what going on with your team??? You
guys should have won a game now! How is Brooke’s volleyball team doing? Jessica
how’s things at work and I need you to cut my hair soon (HaHa)! Sabrina is
still a big bum and sounds like she is just getting smarter every day! Dad I
really liked the picture of the car (HaHa) that is really funny!
This last week was an okay week! We
started the week off with a noche de hogar and we got permission to watch
Saints and Soldiers, which was really fun to see again, I think I was the only
one that understood everything that was happening in the movie and I still
don't like how the movie ends. The movie was in Spanish and it was weird to
hear Spanish-Spanish and not Spanish from Chile. So I could understand the
Spanish really well and I was really happy to see the movie again.
We spent three days last week
looking for a new house and we found nothing. So right now we are looking at
apartments that are about 10 minutes from our sector, which I don't want to
live outside our sector. We have to find one this week and it’s really hard to
get my companion to focus on this. He keeps on saying I won’t be living here, so
I don't need to search for a house, and I only say it’s not our house it’s a
house for the work of the Lord. I say it like that because one it’s true and
two the assistants are calling us every day and asking about the house and I
always have to talk to them. So it’s been really hard to find a house, but we
will be finding one in this week because there is no other option. We might try
to stay in the house we are in but it would be a really tight fit for 4 missionary´s
but it is an option! You guys will hear about what happens next week!
This week was really hard to work
with the investigators and we ended up having none of them in the church. I
have been really pushing us to work with members in lessons and to use our time
better than spending most of time in the same member’s houses. I am really
thinking my companion is ready to go home! Only this week and then we have
cambios and I get a new companion. So you can say it’s been a challenging week
for me with my patience which has been getting better as time goes on in the
mission! Elder Coronado ends his mission this Sunday so I get to work with the
Zone Leaders for a day this week, which is going to be so much fun!
Today was really cool, because we
got to go to the zoo!!! It was really fun to go see some animals, but i have to
say the zoo here is pretty sad, it’s not very big and some of the displays are
pretty sad looking. I do have to say I have never been so close to a tiger and
only a really weak fence is holding it back (HaHa). The lions and tigers were
chasing us in there cage and I felt like they hadn't eaten for a while because
they looked like they wanted to eat us. Also the monkeys were super funny and
they ended up stealing one of the missionary's gum from his hand when he went
to put it in his mouth! I got some pictures and some videos of the lion chasing
us in his cage. The zoos in America are so much better and there are so many
more animals there! But it was still super fun to go to the zoo!!!
Well that's what happened this week!
I hope you guys have a good week and everything goes well. Thanks for writing
me this week and I love to hear from you guys. I love you guys and read the
scriptures because I have really focused in the doctrines and the principles of
the scriptures and wow are they amazing, so this is my challenge for you guys
this week!
I love you guys and you guys are the
best family ever!
Elder McAlister
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I shared the following from Russell M. Nelson with Sean
this week. He said:
"Too often we tend to split the Lord’s work into
parts that seem unrelated. Whether it is preaching the gospel to nonmembers,
serving with new converts, reactivating less-active members, teaching and
strengthening active members, or performing family history and temple work, the
work really is indivisible. These efforts are not separate. They are all part
of the work of salvation."
Isn't that so true? I often break things up like I
am doing something different depending on the task or setting, but ultimately
it is all the same work of bringing ourselves, Brothers and Sisters back to our
Heavenly Father through the Plan of Salvation.
Until next week enjoy some pictures for Sean’s visit to
the zoo today…
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| The District |
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| The District on P-day at the Concepcion zoo |
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