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Cheryl
March 25
Hola Familia
Esta semana estuvo muy bien.
Hi everyone I am doing great and am glad to hear that all is
well with you guys too. Like I said last week I am writing you on tuesday
because we had a conference with president Kahnlein yesterday. It was such a
great conference. I love it when we have conferences. They really are so
edifying. It was so great to hear from the president about what the general
athorities are saying about the missionary work. Like we all know (or maybe
just me because I am thinking about this all the time) the general athorities
are talking a lot about the missionary work and how we really need to start
doing a lot more missionary work. We talked a lot about what we need to do as
missionaries to accelerate the work. It really is such an awesome time to be a
missionary. I am a member of an army that never has been as big as it is now. I
Love what I am doing and really looking forward to work more and sirve harder
here in chile. The work and investigators are progressing a little. In our area
the work isnt moving very fast right now but we are do what we can to see some
progress. The work is hard but it definately is posible in every part of the
world. We talked a lot about the acceleration of the work and how that means
that we need to be ready and help others be ready for the second coming because
we really are in the last days. It is such a blessing to have this inside look
at the missionary work right now. You all know that I love everything behind
the scenes whether it be in movies, tv, disney, or anything that is good. I
have a great opportunity to be a part of this. But dont forget that you all do
too. Ryan and megan have been telling me a lot the they have been looking for
opportunities to serve and invite others to come to christ. It is all of our
responibility. I can promise you that in general conference they are going to
talk about that so I invite you all to start doing it now so that you can feel
so much better about yourself in two weeks when the prophet says that we need
to do more.
I love what I am doing. I have learned something really
important about the mission and life. Well ok I have leard a lot of things
really important but something specifically is that in order to teach or invite
someone to do something you must have a testimony and act in that testimony. We
talk a lot about the development personally that we have to do as missionaries
and people and the importance of this with helping others. We are in a mission,
or we could also say in life, to change. We have to change that is part of
repentance and coming closer to christ if we arent changing for the better we
arent staying in place we are changing for the worst. That is why we always
need to work to be better missionaries and people. The wife of the president
said that for us the mission is the university of life. I have learned so many
things and I am so grateful for this opportunity that I have to serve others. I
have found that we need to develop ourselves in our mission but we can only do
that through serving others. So do service and invite everyone to come unto
christ. Sorry this is more like a talk but I think that the most important
thing that you can get out of these letters is that I am ok and happy, and that
you can learn something from what I am doing. I love something that an apostle
said. You dont have these experiences for yourself, write them down. haha Sorry
I just keep going. But Know that I love you all so much. I am glad that all is
well.
Les amo muchísimo
Elder Hamilton
March 31
Hola Familia
I hope that your week went well for everyone.
This week went by so fast for me. I think it was because I had
pday on tuesday last week and then the other part of the week went by so fast.
It was a good week. We are happy because we found some new people to teach so
we will see what happens with them. The first two days we were just contacting
people the whole day because no one was in their house when we passed by. So we
talked to a lot of people those days. We were then blessed to find new
investigators so it was really great. In the conference we had our president
told us that Elder Ballard does 20 contacts everyday and that needs to be our
standard too so we are trying to do that. We were really happy because
Patricia, Orlando´s mom (We baptized orlando like 5 weeks ago), is progressing
a little more. This week she prayed in front of us which has always been really
hard for her to do. Also she said something really awesome about the book of
mormon. We have been working with her and inviting her to read the book for
some time. She would always blame it on her daughters that she couldnt read but
she started reading in the nights when they are asleep and she said that she
can feel a difference. She said that when she reads she gets a feeling of peace
and traquility. It is so amazing that we can really receive this power when we
read the book of mormon.
As a mission we just finished reading the book of mormon and I
have learned so much from the book of mormon. I know that really I a power in
the book of mormon. We really can come closer to god through the book of
mormon. I can tell the difference in my day from days that I read and days that
I dont. We can learn so much from the book of mormon. I have realized that it
really was written for our time. I really loved moroni 8 that talks about faith
repentance, baptism, el espiritu santo, and the atonement. Those are the 5
things that we have been focusing on during these three months while we were
reading the book of mormon. I never realized how many times it talks about
these things and the importance of these steps that we make in this life. Also
I loved moroni 10 because he really was talking to us in our day. I know that
really the whole book is talking to us but really this last chapter wasn´t read
by anyone else back then it was just for us. I love the book of mormon and I am
excited to start from the beginning tomorrow as a mission. This time we are
focusing on the names of christ, when christ talks, satan, Obedience and
prayers.
I hope that you all have a great week. Use everyday to get ready
for conference. I love conference. I have realized that if we can prepare
ourselves for conference we can get a lot more out of it. So write down
questions, pray, and I know you will find your answers. I love you all so much.
I cant believe I have already been here for 9 months. I love what I am doing
when I am serving the lord.
Les Amo
Elder
Hamilton
