WEEK 100

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

Well its my last week and I'm kinda sad.  The mission for me has been way cool!  I have been able to learn a lot of things and I'm so grateful for everything that I have been able to do.  I know that Heavenly Father lives and I truly know that the gospel blesses the lives of others:)  I'm grateful for every experience that I have had while I have been on my mission and I wouldnt trade anything for them.  I remember when I left my family for the first time it was just so hard!  Now  I'm so grateful for the hardships that I've had because it helped me to grow.  I also love all the Chileans.  They are all so nice and its going to be hard to leave them!

Thanks to everyone for all the emails and for everything that you guys have done for me.  I will be seeing you all soon :) 

Elder Colin Eyre

WEEK 99

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

Bueno this week has been pretty cool I am in a new sector in Valparaiso.  I love it because its just a bunch of hills with a really cool view of Viña del Mar and the ocean.  Just walking around everything is really beautiful.  At the same time it makes me grateful for everthing that I have.  

My new Ward is cool and everyone is pretty nice.  I am only going to be here for two more weeks which I am excited and sad all at the same time.

This week we were able to visit some new investigators and actually they were really receptive!  I know that God really does watch out for every one of his children and that he loves us:) I hope everyone has a good week and I will see ya guys real soon!

Elder Colin Eyre

This Week From Elder Colby Eyre in Santiago Chile:

What up family and friends!! This week has been pretty fun. It was funny because last week my Mom emailed me and told me she had to talk in Sacrament meeting and that she needed my to pray for her! I was pretty happy because it was her and not me.  Then on Thursday my Bishop called us and asked if we could speak Sunday in Sacrament Meeting -  I about died! 

Luckily it all turned out pretty good and it wasn't that hard.  The only bummer thing was the guy who talked after me talked about Lightning McQueen from Cars.  He talked about Lightning McQueen's path to becoming a humble car and how we should all humble ourselves before the Lord.  It was way better then mine because he quoted the Cars movie - Haha!   

Everything else here in Chile has been pretty awesome. It has been way fun to be able to be here this last little while and give it all to the Lord.  One thing I've learned is that after we give it our all and really work our hardest we can give it over to the Lord and he will help us out with the rest. 

I love all you guys back home so much have a great week!

Elder Colby Eyre

WEEK 98

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

Well this week was good and crazy!  First we almost had a baptism with a cool little kid on Monday.  We had a signature from his mom that he could be baptized and my comp and I were so pumped.  We passed by his house on Wednesday and this Grandma comes out and tells us she is a Jehovah's Witness.  She was so mad that her grandson was going to get baptized.  She told us her daughter would be excommunicated from the  Jehovah's Witness church if the kid got baptized.  Then on Saturday the grandparents took the kid to a different city so he couldnt get baptized.  Man I couldn't believe how hard core they were.  We aren't going to give up on the family so we will see what happens.  

This week I am getting changed to another sector in Valparaiso.  I am really excited but sad at the same time because I love my sector that I'm in right now.  I will be there for 3 weeks to train an Elder to be a leader in the mission.  I am pretty pumped about that.  It's actually fun helping others.  

I am glad I'm here and I know that God is always blessing us:)

Elder Colin Eyre

This Week From Elder Colby Eyre in Santiago Chile:

Hey family back home! This week has been really good. We got the chance today to visit a really cool lake in the Andes Mountains today. We took a two hour drive up the mountain to get to it but it was really cool.  It was a little cold with all the snow and it being winter time here in Chile!

On a spiritual note its been a great week. I've been studying about the Atonement and the happiness that we receive when we apply it to our lives. This week I read a talk given by Elder Neilson about the Atonement.  It has been awesome to grow my testimony about the power of it.  I think the thing I love most is being able to share my testimony with others.   I love to see others apply it to their lives and also gain a testimony about Christ and His plan he has for us to repent for our sins, to grow, and progress then come back to him, through the atonement. I know that the way for us to obtain happiness in this life is through it. 

Have a Rad week I love you all!

Elder Colby Eyre

WEEK 97

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

Bueno this week was pretty great!  I got to meet Elder Packer's son who is a Seventy and I also had to say a prayer in front of him.  I was kinda scared but it turned out really well! 

We almost had a baptism this week.  We just needed the signature of the kids mom.  We are going to have a lesson this week with her so we can get the signature.  

Other than that eveything is just great here in Chile and we are working hard!  I am so grateful for everything I have here and for the people that I can help!

This Week From Elder Colby Eyre from Santiago Chile:

Hey guys this week has been pretty good. My zone had a conference with our President this week and I loved it.  I will share the focus of it! In the Zone Conference  and for pretty much my whole mission my President has been really focused on the importance of teaching the simplicity of the gospel to our investigators.  That was the focus of this conference.  One thing I've learned on my mission is that sometimes members complicate things and explain them in ways that are crazy long haha.  Really the gospel of Jesus Christ is so simple. Children can even listen and gain testimonies about our Savior Jesus Christ and I love that so much.  My whole mission I've been trying to teach simply with the spirit, with power, and the authority.   I have seen the miracles that have come from teaching like this and also looking at gospel topics and applying them to the basic things in our lives. I've learned that as we learn about the gospel and apply them in the most basic things that we do everyday we will grow to understand the gospel even better and feel the confirmation by the Holy Ghost that these things are true. 

I love you all so much back home. Have a RAD week! Besitos haha!!

Elder Colby Eyre

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