I feel like the last month or so has been a roller coaster for Jason. He's in a pretty tough area, and he says the adversary is working really hard on the investigators and members. A couple of weeks ago, an Elder was tragically killed in the Cali Colombia Mission. We're so impressed with how Jason handled it and his knowledge of the Plan of Salvation. We've been sending lots of prayers to that Elder's family, the Cali Colombia Mission, and all the missionaries in general. We have to have faith in the Lord's work and plan and that He looks out for His missionaries. Jason is doing great and just pushes through all his trials. He's truly an inspiration to all of us.
August 15, 2013
Hola Familia!!
How are you guys
doing?!! Well this week is transfer week and I’m stayin here with my
same companion. I kind of wanted to leave but I’m fine with staying too.
All the other areas in our Zone have transfers so
it’s going to be a little crazy this week with all the changes. And
there’s a few “ify” elders coming into the zone...haha. But I will help
them see the vision haha. The zone did good this week! We had 33
investigators at church in the zone, 9 of which were
from our area. We had 5 baptisms this week as well. We had 3 in our
area and another couple got married and then baptized. The Florez Family
is now an eternal family!! :) They are the ones that got married last
week. There are 2 pics attached from the baptism
and the 3rd is me with a totally awesome kid named Edward. He’s 3 and
he’s the coolest kid ever. In the middle of our lesson yesterday he
threw up and then just started laughing. He talks like hes 10! I’m a
little worried about this transfer because I’m not
sure where we are going to find new investigators but we`re going to do
it! The Lord always provides. I love you guys soo much! Sorry this
letter is so short. Let me know how everyone is doing!!
Con mucho amor!!
August 26, 2013
Hola Familia!!!
How are you guys doing?! Sorry last week´s letter was a little bit sad. I feel like sometimes agency is the worst. haha You do all that you
can to help them and they go and tear it all down.....I guess that’s why they say that enduring to the end is the hardest part. haha This week we didn’t
have our baptism. The kid had some problems that we need to overcome before he can get baptized but
I’m sure in September he will be good to go. Our goal in september is 6 baptisms in our area so keep those prayers coming!!
haha We had a Zone Conference on Friday which was awesome. We learned about Charity, Initiative, and how to work more with the members. There is alot of excitement in the misison right now
we are setting some big goals. This Sunday
the mission goal is to have 1000 investigators in sacrament meeting.
Its about 10 per area. We have a pretty busy week to make it happen. I’m getting
a little fat again. haha I love you guys soo much. Thanks for everything that you do :)
Elder dahlin
Hola Familia!!
Sad news in the
mission this week. On Saturday at 4pm, 4 missionaries in Cali were
sitting at the table in their house eating lunch before a baptismal
service that they had when they heard a gunshot. A stray
bullet entered into the house and hit Elder Encarnacion in the head and
he died instantly. He is from the Domincan Republic and had the same
time in the mission as I do. We were in the MTC together in Bogota.
They are calling it a stray bullet but no one
knows if it’s true or if it was intentional. The police are
investigating and they still haven’t released the body to take him back
to his country. This was a tough week. We had a goal as a mission for
church attendance but our branch didn’t support any of
the activities we did, the investigators arent progressing like we want
them too, and things with the comp didn’t go so well, and we only had 3
investigators at church yesterday putting us in last place as a zone.
We will just have to do better next week.
We learned a big lesson after the death of this Elder. Being here in
the mission is a privilege and is made possible by our families,
faithful members of the church, and by the Lord. I know that the Lord
needed this Elder in the spirit world and that his misisonary
work has just begun.
Elder Christopher
Waddell from the 70 is coming to Cali this week he`ll be here for 3
days. We have a conference with him on wednesday. Im excited it should
be a really good experience.
I love you guys so
much. Thanks for all that you guys do for me and for the prayers to me
and to all missionaries. You guys are the best :)
Con mucho amor
Elder Dahlin
Elder Dahlin
September 9, 2013
Hola Familia!!
This has been a really
good week. The visit from Elder Waddell from the 70 was awesome, we had
a 3 day mission conference with him. We had time to talk with him and
we talked a lot about how we are going to
“rescue” all the inactive members here in Colombia. He said that it’s
time to start baptizing converts and to stop skipping the steps of faith
and repentance. It was really inspiring and this week we have seen some
great progress in our investigators. We have
an investigator, Claudia, that is amazing. We contacted her about 2
weeks ago and she is going to get baptized this Saturday.
It’s truly amazing how the Lord prepares the hearts of his children to
hear our message. Everything we have taught her she’s accpeted
it without problem. We taught the word of wisdom yesterday and she’s a
coffee drinker but she said that if the prophet Joseph Smith felt that
it was necessary, so do I haha. Each week as I look back, it’s crazy how
much we have done. It’s even more crazy how
much more we can do......haha. Yesterday I had the opportunity to
interview David for his baptism on the 21st. His 2 kids are already
baptized and his wife and him are up next. It was a great interview. We
need more people like him. He understands the Power
of the Priesthood and said that if his kids have any chance to succeed
in life he needs to be there as the example. He told me something that I
will never forget. He said that in the Catholic church there is a
priest for every 10,000 members. In a normal Christian
church there is a priest for every 1000 members. In The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints there is a priesthood holder for every
family. I loved that and will always remember that experience with him. I
love you so much family. I am so grateful to
be here on the Lord´s errand. I got all the letters from Tahoe and the
dearelder Thia sent me :). Also, attached is a letter from the Mission
President to our families regarding the Elder that was killed last week.
les quiero mucho!!
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