Hunter Mission January 21-27 2025

 Heyyyyy hows everyone been doing this week????

This week for me was kinda just a blur, so I couldn't tell you if it was long short, but I can definitely tell you I loved it.

We'll just get right to it. The goal for this week was to start progressing some new people because we've been having some really good success with Lucas's family (they all got confirmed yesterday!!!) But after them, we just have a lot of friends that are listening and now we gotta to help them progress. So we found a lot and had cualquier lessson with the members. 

Anyway that was the theme of the week. Something fun we had happen was that we got to go to Viña del Mar one morning and feel the cool breeze from the sea. Elder Wilson had a doctors appointment and good news guys... he's not gonna die! But just to be sure we're going to go back another day to make sure the best companion ever is going to be able to make it to the end of his mission. I got the faith and from what the doctor said, he's going to be ok so that's awesome. But the best part is the fact we got some pizza and ate it in the Plaza in Viña which was super fun. We both got our own pizza and like what else do you need in life besides a whole peperoni pizza to your self?

Last cool story thatll I'll share before I top it off with the best spiritual thought of my life, is about Felipe and Ana again. At this point they are a part of our family both as a ward and just in spirit. They have some much energy to help out the ward and do all they can. Recently they got called to be missionaries of the ward and they are doing amazing with this calling. Their first week on the job they planned a whole activity. They lead a deep cleaning of the church because they realized that it's something that we needed to do. And it was actually amazing. They were determined to do it, even if no one else showed up. Over all the activity was awesome and a lot of members showed up and we got it done. We gotta to be more like these members that have all the energy and want to help God's church. We can learn from their example 

Anyway for the spiritual thought today I wanted to share a quote from Elder Patrick Kearon. He said:

"Whether your baptism was yesterday or years ago, whether you meet in a large multiward Church building or under a thatched canopy, whether you receive the sacrament in remembrance of the Savior in Thai or Swahili, I would like to say to you, welcome to the church of joy!" 

I want you guys to think about this. Think about all the blessings that we get from the church that you can't find anywhere else. Living prophets, covenants that tie us to God, God's sacred power on the earth, the knowledge of what happens after this life and the knowledge of how to change our personal journey to live with God again. You can't find any of this anywhere else and when we recognize these blessings we will find the church of joy in the midst of them. The true church that God personally runs throughout the entire world today. We really do have this blessing of being happy and having purpose we just have to look for it. So that's the invitation for you guys, look for the church of joy.

Love you guys have a good week!

Elder Nelson (Hunter)