Hey family! so This week was one of the best weeks of my
mission. It was truly incredible, first things first sorry I forgot to tell you
that yesterday we had a special mission conference, where the area 70,
president of the 70 Elder Rasband, and Elder Ballard, spoke in puerta varas to
all of our mission. All the mission went to puerto varas to see it, BUT punta
arenas and coyhaique are to far so we had to watch it through a program like
skype. ha kinda a bummer but it didnt matter. IT was incredible. life changing
conference. It was so cool because he was talking to our mission, I felt like
he knew me so well, he was a lot more personal it was way cool, its cool how
the apostles are when they talk to a smaller audience, especially missionarys.
At first the skype session was going terrible, we couldnt hear anything. then
us, and punta arenas knelt and prayed to god asking for him to help make it
possible to listen to his apostol, minutes after we could hear perfectly, it
was such a sweet, miracle. This week I have felt the spirit stronger then I
have ever felt in my life. In every moment I can feel the truthfullness of my
calling and of our church.
Ballard talked of the internalizing the simple doctrines and
talking with EVERYONE, in every moment. I think thats great for members to
understand as well, if we internalize the simple truths we believe then if we
ever are faced with a time to talk to someone we can bring it to a gospel
conversation with ease. The teachings of the restored gospel truly apply to
all. in ANY moment.
He also talked about how each member of the church is simply
a member, he mentioned that even apostles talk to people about the church in
all moments, did you know that ballard served in england and stood and a high
stand 720 times in his mission in plazas in front of tons of people. His
daughter said that he talks to everyone about the church be it waitresses, or
drivers. ANYONE. I also loved how he did practices. up at the stand he called
over elder Rasband and they did a small practive of contacting an investigator.
Even apostles like practicing. I loved it. He talked with so much power. As
well he mentioned the power of the first vision, in all moments we should talk
with confidence and tell the world what happened that morning in 1820.
He let president rappleye talk with hna rappleye talk after
and the spirit was so strong, President said, I know this day changed our lives
because it changed mine. He mentioned the principle of never stopping to
progress. That repentance means change, and we either progress or degress.
But too compliment that amazing conference, this week we had
numerous miracles. one was the audio recording of denny, an awesome guy here
that was so prepared. As we testified to him of the first vision our first
visit asking him if he believed it was true, he said before ever talking to the
missionaries he read the book of mormon and felt something he couldnt explain,
but he knew it was convincing evidence to be true. I have never met someone so
prepared, and the funniest thing was that he first told us he was busy at the
door, well the rest of the story of that experience is on the audio but here as
well is the story in spanish, It was long and I had to write it for the history
of the mission so here it is in spanish, maybe have dallan translate it or
something haha.
este sabado, nosotros estabamos tocando puertas en un sector
nueva, ese dia hablamos con tantas personas y hacia mucho calor, tocamos una
puerta y salio un hombre. El nos conto que estaba ocupado en el momento pero
por supuesto sigamos hablando con el. Hablamos de su trabajo y su familia, y de
alli nos permitio pasar, El nos ofrecio jugo y cupcakes, el fue tan amable y
empezamos a preguntarle muchas cosas, el nos conto que tiene muchas biblias y
tiene un libro de mormon pero nunca tenia la oportunidad ni placer de compartir
ni conocer misioneros, dijo su amigo de colegio hace años le dio un libro de
mormon, pero igual su amigo le presto las enseñanzas de jose smith and le
encantó. Empezamos a enseñarle la restauracion y durante le primera vision el
espiritu fue lo mas fuerte que hemos sentido en nuestras misiones. El se acerco
durante la primera vision y le preguntamos si el cree que Dios y jesucristo
visitó a jose smith, El nos conto que hace años atras leyo el libro de mormon y
sintio algo, y de alli no podia explicar lo que ha sentido, pero dijo que fue
bien convencido que fue la verdad. Explicamos que eso fue el espiritu y
invitamos a el para ser bautisado el 22 de marzo, el dijo al aprender mas que
si por supuesto que si. Despues al final de la leccion el descargó la
aplicacion de la iglesia para tener las escrituras en su iphone, el escogio las
traducciones de la biblia por jose smith y estabamos un pocito hesitante porque
esa seria un pocito mas profundo para explicar y al explicar bien sencillo el
dijo, no ya se lo que es este, y yo he querido este por tanto tiempo, y se que
la biblia ha sido cambiado y no es traducida correctamente, este es increible.
No pudimos creer, el tambien quiso mirar un mensaje mormon de los padres. El
acepto para venir a la iglesia, no assistio este domingo pero dijo proxima vez
por supuesto. El espiritu fue increible. sabemos sin duda que el señor esta
preparando sus hijos.
the lord has great things here in coyhaique, and we are
working hard to make things possible, the book of mormon activity went great,
an investigator came with his son and called us the next day and told us he
wanted to watch a video about the book of mormon and said he has to read this
book. He isnt very believing in god but told us he just doesnt understand why
he feels so much peace in our church. We explained thats the spirit.
ha for a funny experience, since we talk to so much people
we meet some awesome people interesting for sure but awesome. One group of
people we contacted were from israel visiting to go camping (so many tourists
here) they didnt speak spanish very well so we talked in english. They spoke
hebrew though. They like matisyahu so we talked about that for a bit, then they
taught me how to say my name is elder carter whats up? in hebrew haha, they
were all so loving, we talked about prophets and how we have one today like
they believe in moses. They got stoked about talking about that and we tried to
schedule a time where we could visit them but they were just passing by. First
time I taught jews on my mission, pretty cool stuff. The coolest part was we
showed the photos that we have in our scriptures of there land and they got way
stoked to see them. ha they then showed the holy land pìcture we have of juruselem
but on there camera that they took because they live by there.
As well a hermano asked if we could help him b
But yep lots of stuff, love you guys a ton, hope all is
well!!
Chaito!
Elder Carter
This is the famous Mate statue here in coyhaique
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