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Hey Everyone,
I am super happy to hear that
everyone is doing really well. I would like to say that the tile is a lot
smaller here in Chile but I think that I am the same height and I haven't
changed at all. I don't think! I’m doing really well and Elder Ponce
is working pretty hard! He is still very shy, but that's something
that he will change in the mission. We are working really well but
our ward seems to be shrinking a lot more everyday which is bad! I think it’s
for the vacations.
This week was amazing and awesome!
We ended up finding a new investigator that wants to be baptized. Her name is
Nancy and she was taught once by my companion from the MTC, Elder Barnes. Before
her husband didn't want the missionary's to teach his wife, but when we found
her she told us that her husband died about 4 days ago and she wants to get
baptized. So she now has fecha for the 14 of March and she went to church and loved
it. I am really happy for her and she is very excited about the church. Also we
are teaching Cristina, but we had to do a live or die lesson to see if she
wanted to be taught a little bit more or not. She ended up not going to church
and that was a little sad. The rest of our investigators are all on vacations
and we are waiting for everyone to come back to Concepcion. We are working
really hard and we have had some days that have been good. We are working on
find more people to find to teach and that's all we need!
I had a mini cambio with an Elder Bryan
who’s in my district, and we had a party. It was so much fun!! I met Elder Bryan
here in this zone and we have become really good friends ever since. So I had a
mini cambio with him, and we passed by some of his investigators that have
fecha and I was seeing how well they work. It was so fun and we ended up buying
Papa Johns, which I have not done for so much time and it was so good!
On Thursday we had a conference with
one of the Seventy which was Elder Di Giovanni. He is from Argentina and it was
a really good conference and I really did learn a lot about the faith to find
people to teach. It was really good and I am really pumped to keep on working
after we had the conference. We learned a lot and then he said that he was
going to come check the houses and see if they were clean and to see the conditions
of the houses. So Elder Ponce and I cleaned our house like crazy and guess what
happened. He ended up not coming to the house because he wanted to go visit a
bridge in San Pedro.
My district is doing really
good, we had 10 people with fecha and everyone is doing really good! They are
progressing and I am really pumped to keep on working with them. We had a
really good district class and I am happy with the work that they are
doing!
Today we ended up playing some dodge
ball and it was pretty fun. It started off really good and then ii kind of went
downhill from that. We couldn't play with our zones like last time
and our team was a little weak. So we got killed in the games, but that's okay
because there is always next time. I was hoping that we could play basketball
or something different because I really want to play some basketball. But I can’t
do anything about it!
Well thank you guys for everything,
and I can’t wait to hear from you next week! Have fun and stay classy! I love
you and have a good and safe week. Miss you guys!
Elder McAlister
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Spiritual thought time! This week I was reading from President Dieter F.
Uchtdorf's, April 2013 General Conference talk "You Can Do It Now!" He
was talking about faith when he said: "There will be times when
you think you cannot continue on. Trust the Savior and His love. With
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the power and hope of the restored
gospel, you will be able to walk tall and continue on."
Then during the same conference, President Uchtdorf in his talk "Come, Join with Us", said "Please, first doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."
Faith is so important for each individual within the gospel. We can rely on others testimonies when we are young, but at some point in each persons life they need to develop the faith to believe in God and our Savior if we really want to learn and grow as we need to in the earthly mortal test.
Then during the same conference, President Uchtdorf in his talk "Come, Join with Us", said "Please, first doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."
Faith is so important for each individual within the gospel. We can rely on others testimonies when we are young, but at some point in each persons life they need to develop the faith to believe in God and our Savior if we really want to learn and grow as we need to in the earthly mortal test.
Although Sean sent no pictures this week, I did find the one below on the Concepcion mission blog from the recent Mission Conference he mentioned in his email, Sean is in the upper left picture...
Update.... I just found a few more pictures from the Mission Conference on the Mission Blog!
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| Elder McAlister is way at the back on the left standing up at this Mission Conference lunch. |
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| Elders Ponce, McAlister, Moura, ?, and Byan and the Mission Conference |
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| February 2015 Mission Conference with Elder Nicolas L. Di Giovanni (Area Seventy), Sister Di Giovanni, Sister Arrington and President Arrington |
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| Some of the Mission at the February 2015 Mission Conference with Elder Di Giovanni. Elder McAlister is in the very back row, 6th from the left. |
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