Hunter Mission February 18-24 2025

 Another awesome week here in Villa Alemana. It's definitely a different sector then Quillota, but I love it already. First off, we have the entire ward to ourselves. This is awesome because now we have so many more people to work with for lessons with members, references, and just growing connections with the entire ward. The only problem with this is that now I have to memorize a lot more names than before, but I'm super excited to be here. (Just so you know, the missionaries really appreciate help from the members ) however I have learned one big principle about being a member of the church that I hadn't thought about before, and that is that we have to be more than just an example to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ.

I guess I'll just give my spiritual thought early on in the email while I'm on the topic. What I mean is that when we make covenants with the Lord (such as baptism) we are promising to be his disciple. We need to do so much more then just be an example. We'll use the life of Jesus Christ to explain this, when he would perform his miracles, such as making the lame man walk, he would just walk in front of him showing him how to walk and just waiting from him follow his "example," he invited him to take up his bed and walk. After that is was the man's choice to even try, and because he had the faith he did try and saw the miracles from it. The main point of all this is to say that as disciples of Jesus Christ we have this chance to share the gospel and being a good example is definitely a big part of sharing but if we never invite our loved ones to come to Christ and be a part of this gospel they won't know that they are missing. So anyway my invitation is to share your testimony with someone and invite them to come to this joy.

Back to the week, overall super successful. Me and my comp had to go to Viña twice this week. Once to have an interview with Brother Littlefield, who goes throughout all of South and Central America to help the missions be better and more successful. So I was able to learn a bunch from him. Definitely a really awesome experience. Then we went again for a conference with brother Littlefield where we could listen to how we can help our Zones have more success and have more confidence in our purpose as missionaries. And after all that we put a baptismal date with our friend names Simon. So over all a pretty successful week. 

Anyway that's the main jist of things over here, love you all have a good week.

Elder Nelson (Hunter)