HEY EVERYBODY :-D Howzit going?! :-D How`re things in the United States of A? :-D Thanks for the heads up with whats up in the states mom. As well for that other thing :-) Sam, I couldn`t hear the soundon this computer but I did see it and that was gross. I bet it`s funnier with sound :-D Next week :-D Grace I saw your video too :-) Yoor teeth are all coming out :-D
So I don`t have a lot of time today because we`re doing the emails really late. Honestly there isn`t really a limit but I feel better with less time on the computer on mondays. I feel more . . . ready for lack of a better word. This week was basically the same except that we kind of tanked on lessons taught :-P It`s starting to get difficult to complete with the goals :-P But no worries America :-D We Get Better Every Day! :-D
Things that were different, A convert of ours went back home to Viña Del Mar. She was here in the sector for vacation and got baptized instead :-D She`s actually one of the best converts that I`ve ever seen. She never had problems with the commitments, never a problem with the doctrine, and she studies the book of mormon better than some missionaries that I know. She has a journal at her side whenever she reads so she can write whatever comes to her mind. And something that she said that made me feel that she was progressing really well is that whenever we taught something new she would say that it all makes since and every new thing you guys teach me makes everything you`ve already taught me even more real. Really cool. Her name`s Makarena fernanda tejos and if you guys to send her messages occasionally that`d be cool. As well if you could have Tyson Cook see if he knows anyone where she lives, that`d be great .-)
Yesterday we had a really cool meeting. It was a stake conference but our speakers were an Elder Mayne from the Seventy, Sis Elaine S Dalton, Elder D Todd Christofferson and Pres Packer. (It was a transmission by the way to all of the stakes in Chile) Pres Packer and Sis Dalton had interpreters and the other two spoke spanish. It was really cool because Elder Christofferson speaks really well and it was really cool to here him speak. Pres Packer tried speaking spanish for the first part of his talk but he speaks spanish the same way he speaks english so it was kind of funny :-D They all gave really good talks :-) I don`t know if there is a way to get copies :-D
A spiritual thought and then I go. I had a thought come to me the other day, something that I learned from another missionary and I used it for our inverstigatot family (who are good bytheway). It goes like this. There is a circle. Just a circle and in it, it has the things that we know. For example the sky is blue, grass is green, etc. Other things, Heavenly Father loves us. He wants us to be happy. Jesus Christ completed the Atonement for us. There are others but thats enough. Now unfortunately we don`t know everything and we don`t know can make it hard to be happy and optimistic in this life. Why do bad things happen to good people, Cant i find a job, Am I capable of finding happiness in this world? A thing that I have too many times, Can marriages last, happily? Now these things are things that assalt us daily, there is no way of avoiding them. There are unfortunately more things that we don`t know and that perhaps we can`t answer right now or even ever, BUT whatever the thing is outside of the circle, it cannot change a thing that is inside of the circle. Doubt has no power over truth. Fear is nothing in the light of Faith. If we remember what we know, what we don`t know won`t matter and we`ll be happy :-) I said that all in spanish by the way PERFECTLY. I`m a magician :-D
I gotta go but I love you all and I hope the best for you. Don`t stop praying and never forget who we represent, because we can`t lose if we do.
So mom dad sam meri grace sophie and dani I love you all and BE HAPPY
As always sincerely
Elder Jamie McConnell