WEEK 96

This Week From Elder Colin Eyre in Vina del Mar Chile:

This week was pretty good we did an activity called the NBA Finals and we had a point system.  You could get a free throw a dunk and 3 points from down town hahah! Also at the end of the day the points were called buzzer beaters and we doubled the points.  It was way fun and as a zone we found 34 new investigators playing the game so we were way pumped!  I love how the Lord is always so willing to bless us in everything that we do in this life! 

We were privileged  to have Elder Teixeira, a General Authority Seventy who is over our area (Chile, Argentina and Paraguay)  come and speak at our Stake Conference.  He was there to re-organize our stake.  It was awesome because I was able to shake hands with him.  It was then I noticed I had made a BIG missionary mistake.  I had forgotten to wear my name tag!!!  I was so embarrassed.  He didn't say anything but I am sure he noticed.  After the meeting I went up to him and apologized and he kind of laughed and said don't worry about it.  It all ended on good terms!

All is well here in Chile.  I love the people and I love serving them.

Elder Colin Eyre

This Week From Elder Colby Eyre in Santiago Chile:

Hey guys this week has been pretty good. I have been reading about the Atonement and Repentance this week so that I can better teach about it and better apply it in my own life.  It has been awesome being able to share it this week with the people that we are teaching here in Chile.  Even better is when we get to see a person apply it in their lives and grow, become better, and be happier through Christ's Atonement.  I really love the Atonement so very much and its so dear to my heart because I know that through it I grow closer to Christ and I am a happier missionary and a happier person.  I am so thankful for all the opportunities that I have to repent for my sins, even the litttle tiny ones that a lot of times we don't even notice. 

I love you all so much back home have an amazing week.

Elder Colby Eyre

WEEK 95

This Week From Elder Colby Eyre in Santiago Chile:

Hey guys this week was pretty awesome with some crazy things that we did. I'll tell you one story that happened.  Well to start you all probably know that my twin and I are terrible with doctor stuff and we drop like flys when we see anything that has anything to do with a hospitals haha. Well this week I was working with another elder in my mission named Elder Rose.  He actually got home from his mission today but in his area there is a huge hospital that was built in like World War II time period it's legit and way sketchy!  Anyway theres a lady that they are teaching that his been in the hospital for two months now.  They had a lesson with her that day and I was like aww man this is gonna be crazy and on the way there I was like hey man I might passout in there so if you turn around and I'm not behind you thats why haha!  When we got there I just looked at my companions feet the whole way to the ladies room.  We got to her room and it was huge with at least ten other people that were pretty messed up.  We started teaching her and I could tell I wasn't going to last long.  I sat down in a chair and we kept teaching and I just kept playing it off that we had ran up the stairs and I was tired but when we finished the lesson I was white as paper.  We chilled there for a while and I coughed in-between my knees to get some blood to my head.  As soon as I could we ran out of there because we were both pretty scared of that place.  That picture of me and the other missionary is of us running down the stairwell to get out of the hospital!

On the spiritual side of things I've been thinking a lot about a talk from Elder Uchtdorf this week that he gave about not looking for the glory of man but of God. It really got me thinking about the importance of not doing good things only to get the praise of other people, and the importance of serving others out of our love for them and for God.  Thats one thing that I have grown to love. Serving others can bring us so much happiness in our lives and even more when we can feel that the Lord has accepted our service.

I love all you guys back home so much and I hope you all get a little laugh from my email haha until next week.

Elder Colby Eyre

This Week From Elder Colin Eyre in Vina del Mar Chile:

This week was good but also a little long my comp and I are working hard to be able to see a lot of miracles and help other people.  I have an awesome companion.  He has this old monkey mask that looks like an old man from far away so sometimes he gets me pretty good with it!

Right now I'm reading in Ether and it's cool because we can realize that just by having faith we can open a gate to see many miracles.  Just like when the Brother of Jared saw the Lord's finger, kinda weird but its super cool! I mean who wouldn't want to see the Lord's finger haha!!!

I love all you guys so much and I'm grateful for all the emails love you guys a ton have a good week!

Elder Colin Eyre

WEEK 94

This Week From Elder Colby Eyre in Santiago Chile:

Hey family and friends! This week has been pretty good!  It was Mother's Day so we got to talk to our families! It was pretty awesome being able to do that. Its so crazy because the 40 minutes that we have to talk with our families always goes by so stinkin fast! 

Everything in the misssion is great and I just feel like time is going by really fast.  Even just the week to week is speeding by.  It feels like I just wrote this email yesterday and here I am doing it again today - haha! I am so grateful for this time I have out here.  

This week I was reading in the Alma about the Anti Nephi Lehies. I love the faith that they had. I think that is one of the biggest things that we can learn from them, and how they hated sin so much that it was better for them to die instead of shedding the  blood of another again. I really love that and I think that we can learn a lot from the faith that they had and apply it to our lives and become a more faithful people and sin less! 

Thanks everyone so much for emailing me and reading this email haha!  I love all you guys!

Elder Colby Eyre

This Week From Elder Colin Eyre in Vina del Mar Chile:

Well this week was the best because I got to talk to my sweet Mom :)  The first thing she said was hey see ya in 6 weeks haha it was funny!

I am so grateful to be a missionary in this time in Chile we are able to recieve so many blessings! My comp Elder Beard is a great comp we always walk around the streets everywhere laughing and happy.  I love it because then other people can really see that the Mormons are happy and maybe they will want to know why!!! 

We are working really hard and we have a lot good investigators so we just need to help them be able to make the decision to be baptized.  Anyways all is well and we are having fun helping and serving others.

Elder Colin Eyre